He has. Dropped out of the top 16. I'm trying not to be TOO gleeful, because one of my friends has decided she likes him, and I feel slightly sad that it has happened because his wife left him and his life fell apart, and I don't hate him as much as I used to because he's not as good as he was, but inside I am DANCING. 16 years he has been there, RUINING SNOOKER. Unfortunately I think he's just the kind of person who might cope with qualifying entirely well, because it's a mental thing, and he is quite disgustingly capable of concentrating. So now all that will actually happen is that he'll be drawn as a qualifier against the people I like that are still in the top sixteen, so it'll be terrible. EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE, everything that happens snooker has a way of making terrible. This is its beauty.

not dreadful

No. Perhaps he will reach YET ANOTHER semi final. Apparently his only ambition in life.