Joe

against this 22-year-old kid from China that the home crowd could be forgiven for not really having any strong feelings towards.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And they were really generous in their applause, the woo, which he said afterwards, you know, he was like, geez, they really hate me.

This Chinese takeover is now well and truly on, isn't it?

The last two world champions.

And I was reading 23 events this season and the Chinese players have won seven of the 23.

And I think just over half the field this year in the world championship were Chinese.

So look,

this has been talked about for a long time this is kind of it now fully realised and probably will get even bigger the footprint yeah I think they've got four

And is that like, is that almost like state-led, do you know?

I mean, look, I know China's not the most easy country to kind of get under the fingernails of, but is it like, they almost have like academies or is it just that it's popular?

Because like, you wouldn't say that the Wu Yi is a method of leaving your family at 16 and coming over and sleeping in a, you know, a one bed apartment with your dad.

That's not like the route to success necessarily.

So...

do they have equally academies over there?

Okay.

So in effect, there's just not enough snooker clubs around the country.

Because I mean, I'm from Selbridge, so you would know the quarry, the snooker club there.

Yeah, yeah.

So that was just a thing we did after school in secondary school.