Doug Mountjoy RIP (1942-2021)

[Terry]

Just heard that Doug Mountjoy died...he was one of the welsh pro Snooker players, maybe not quite as known to the public as Ray Reardon and Terry Griffiths.

He sort of already left the main tour when I started following Jimmy White in 1991.

Sad to hear of his passing.

www.BBC.co.uk/sport/snooker/51946334

[jno]

This is sad. I liked Doug Mountjoy.

When I was in school in the late 80s one of my pals said he'd played a frame with Doug Mountjoy.

Nobody believed him, but a few years later we found out that Doug Mountjoy lived in a small place called Mamhilad, which is just around the corner from where I grew up. This is confirmed here: snookerscene.blogspot.com/2008/11/mountjoys-moment-in-time.html?m=1

Being Welsh, it was always nice watching Doug play.

RIP 

[wayne2467]

Very familiar face to those who watched the snooker boom of the 80s

[felixdeburgh]

I can vividly remember watching his 145 break at The Crucible which was the tournament’s highest until Cliff Thorburn’s 147. He was always a steady player, a bit like Eddie Charlton or Perrie Mans, but undoubtedly very talented.

RIP.

[McCann]

Doug was a miner and only turned pro at 34. Many players have their careers over by then, but it was just as the snooker boom took off in 1976. The mining communities in Wales in particular were great hotbeds of Snooker, and I'd say it's still a stronghold of the game with the clubs and leagues still going, even though snooker clubs have been closing at an alarming rate everywhere. I believe that Doug went back and played in his local snooker league in the last few decades.

I'd not quite put him in the same mould as Eddie Charlton, I think he could actually be reasonably attacking for his time, although not quite as attacking as another of that generation of Welsh players Cliff Wilson, who looked like a jolly grandad but would try and pots the lights out on you. Still Doug mixed with it an emerging Stephen Hendry when he won the UK Championship in 1988 and got up to World number 5 in 1990 so he could play with the top players as the game was evolving.

[McCann]

An interesting break off from Pot Black years ago

The other player is John Pullman ex World Champion and ITV commentator