Today, the top 16 players were meeting the press ahead of the World Championship and here you can listen to (and watch) what Ronnie had to say 

Plus a few pictures put on facebook by Betfred, Jason Francis and John Skilbeck. Ronnie in his customary jeans …

John Skilbeck tweeted

Ronnie O’Sullivan says his practice form has been “pretty shabby” but “it’d be great to win it”. #snooker

One of the beauties of the long format is that a player can build themself into form, actually they don’t want to peak too early.

Also it has been confirmed by David Hendon that the usual gang – Ronnie, Jimmy White and Collin Murray – will do punditry on Eurosport during the World Championship. This is good as on e thing Ronnie finds hard to cope with is boredom between matches.