northernscum

If memory serves, the Larbert turf accountants took a bit of a shoeing that day also!!

I am not disputing that the average standard of the BDO compared to the PDC is less, but to call it "pub darts" is just stupid, if it is so shit why are you even interested about when it is on? BTW don't forget where the vast majority of the PDC players came from, they didn't just turn into great players as soon as they switched to the PDC.

Pretty impressive pub teams you know then mate, if that's how they play. There are no pub players i know who could turn that standard in on a regular basis.

Ice cold Stella Cidre

At £195.00 that is a bit of a pisstake to be honest, a third of that would be a bit nearer the mark, and even then. Shame that some people are trying to cash in on the nostalgia factor, i can't see anyone meeting that price.

Hankey would be a dream ticket for the PDC, he is the type of character they would thrive on. He constantly looks as if he is ready to explode with the crowd, which in turn makes them try to wind him up more. Depending on what becomes of this regime change in the BDO it would be good to see Hankey switching, but i can't see it happening any time soon. I hope Adams being on the board now is not going to throw a spanner in the works of any progress because he seems to be as stuck in the past as Croft was with a major dislike of all things PDC.

So this is who has taken over from Croft? Hopefully this will open things up within the BDO and they can drag themselves into the 21st century, it would be good if we had a decent second force in darts, continuing the county & youth scene's and hopefully getting more TV interest for the BDO. The next couple of years should be interesting.

That's a fair shout, i had forgotton all about that, and i don't even work for SKY!

Anyone seen this before......

There is loyalty & then there is blind loyalty, neither he nor the BDO are gaining anything from him not attending, quite the opposite really. If Adams was to win the Grand Slam, (he is the world champ after all), then that would be major kudos for the BDO, as he has stated he has no intention of leaving them they don't need to worry about him making a switch. Is it more the fact that he doesn't think he has the game to win it? surely not. The man has huge talent and could have been very comfortable by now if he had switched a few years back. Is he maybe maneouvering himself into position to take over from Croft when he finally pegs it? I cant fathom out any other reason for denying himself and his family the best possible opportunity to earn top dollar from his undoubted skill. I was reading a report from the first year of the grand slam in 2007 and apparently in the build up to that he was initially all for playing in it here is the quote..... Adams told BBC Sport: "My loyalty is to the BDO, but as long as it is happy I don't see why I couldn't take part. "If I did, if shouldn't be construed by anyone as me joining the PDC because that is something I would never do." Sounds to me that Olly squeezed his balls a bit and suddenly it was a shit idea to attend!!

Fair enough, i don't blame them not giving him the opportunity to turn it down due to his undying love for the BDO, (what a guy!) The original point still stands though, he is a fucking bellend (IMO)

Olly Crofts love child, Martin Adams is still playing the martyr then? What a fucking bellend of a man.

Bored so i was looking throught he DRA site to see what the pro's have been up to, mostly quite boring but this one made me chuckle! DRA website "Robert Thornton at the Players Championship, Gibraltar on 7th February 2010 outside the sports centre venue was in possession of a bottle with an optic attached. This behaviour occurred in front of two representatives of tournament sponsors and therefore could be considered to be behaviour likely to bring the game of darts into disrepute". Mr Thornton was issued with a formal warning.

It is kinda moreish, tried a few cans for the first time a couple of weeks ago. But tonight it's back to the standard Stella lager, only a couple mind!!

Thats the very chap Naitch.

I would need to see him do it a bit more regularly to give him that kind of billing, a bit like Antonio Alcinas last year when he seemed to be the next big thing from the continent because of a good performance in the World cup team event, done very little since. Don't get me wrong, it would be great to see some more international faces on a regular basis in the PDC, what about the German guy who was in the worlds a couple of years back and another couple of TV events, looked a decent player, can't remember the name.

I make of it that he needs to give himself a fucking good shake and realise what a talent he has, he won't be handed anything and everyone on the tour is capable of turning him over if he plays half arsed like he seems to be doing at the moment. He has the ability to get to the top of the rankings if he gets his head sorted, he needs to take a leaf out of the book of Taylor, Nicholson, Lewis etc.

That was a great final, both guys played superb darts but Taylor is just phemon, phinom, shit hot!! It looks like he is far from done, and people like Anderson & co need to up their games big time to make inroads to his superiority on the game. What is the score with Anderson recently? Does he just expect the results to materialise without trying?

Paul Nicholson is really confident in front of the cameras, talking really well and making a lot of sense there. Must admit i missed most of this tournament up till the last semi so i'm not too sure how everyone is throwing this week, just saw the slo-mo 9 darter from Lewis, he looked as if it was a down the pub job in the reaction afterwards. Time for the champions choice board to be introduced for these guys in the TV tournaments, the 9 darters are just so last season now!

I thought that winning his first major would have cured the doubling problems but obviously not. Even giving himself more throws at the double than most due to the power throwing on the 60's doesn't seem to help I dont know how he is going to bring his finishing game up to the level of his scoring?

I take it from the stats on the website it was the finishing that fucked it up for Anderson?

Double the maximums to 140's for Anderson, insane!

Get in Hendo! having to follow this on my phone on the live scoreboard on planet darts website which is a pain in the arse

Great darts from Barney, he is tearing Brown a new arsehole.