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Hard to disagree. Baxter effectively had 9 darts from 160 odd to win and fucked it up. 6 pish darts left him still on 67 and then he missed two shots at a double.

Mardle seems to be all about his shirts, walk on music and silly wee dance he does. As far as I am aware he's won next to f**k all in the PDC yet gets the coverage of a 6 times world champion. He embarrassed himself in the Premier League but some people still seem to have him as the next big thing.

Nae idea what garboos is but if you mean he's pish then I agree. Mason's time was a few years ago but jail and several other distractions has seen his game go down the pan. He'd be as well packing it in. The bloke he played only averaged 86 but he still spanked him 3-0.

Is there any reason why a woman shouldn't be as good as a man at darts ?

Roy was pish.

Both players ended up with a three dart average in the 50's !! It was horrific stuff and the amount of times they both missed a big fat single was unbelievable. The Jap bloke even missed the board at one point when he was going for 17. I'm sure your average pub player could have done just as well as these two clowns. The Russian burd would have roasted both 5-0 As for John Part...he's been pish for ages and that was no surprise to me.

Aye....but who cares about the standard ? I'd rather watch an error strewn frame of snooker between Kirk Stevens and Big Bill in a smoke bound arena with Bill supping his 20th pint ahead of two faceless robots pumping in 100 breaks. The higher standard makes it more boring. Snooker has gone in off the pink and is nearly dead. More gimicks needed pronto.

Tell you what isn't rubbish...the fact that there were more characters in the 80's & 90's. Nowadays I'd reckin your average sports watcher would struggle to tell Mark Selby apart from Fergal O'Brien. Every player seems to be young, fresh faced, wears a black shirt and can make centruries for fun. Me, I preferred the likes of Big Bill, Kirk Stevens, Dennis Taylor, Cliff Thorburn, Alex Higgins, Willie Thorne, Joe Johnson and John Virgo. Let them get pissed again while playing. The only "character" we seem to have these days is a petulant nutter who throws the toys out of the pram when the mood takes him. Feeble.

Flintoff doesn't take enough wickets...never has and never will. He is good at keeping the runs down and applying pressure but he's not in the Beefy class of 5+ hauls. England can't afford to rely on him and need others to take wickets after he's dried up the runs. Panesar and Harmison are ok in English conditions but hopeless abroad. As an aside it's interesting to see KP has lost pretty much every match of any significance since leaving the green wickets of England. The true test of any test side is what they do on the road and so far England are drowning in a sea of their own mediocrity.

Why does nobody else do it ? Are you saying Hendry or Davis are/were not perfectionists ?

ie he can't take a beating. Hendry has had some fearful thrashings over the last couple of years but he sits there and takes it. You have to win and lose with dignity. I agree sport needs characters but does it need arseholes

Hate snooker but I thought it worth starting a thread to commemorate the arse that is Ronnie O'Sullivan conceding a frame when he was 23-0 down. The bloke is a disgrace to the sport and the sooner he packs it in the better.

I find ice hockey totally unwatchable on TV..can never see the flaming puck. I assume it's better in real life or do people only go for the fights

I was beginning to think that myself. The bloke needs to start playing singles again or f**k off because he's piss poor at doubles unless he's being carried by a bit of skirt.

Andy Murray should tell the Davis Cup captain to f**k off and find some other players. Andy should stop playing in this shite until we are remotely capable of winning one of the other three rubbers. All Murray is doing is risking injury in a losing cause. British tennis is a joke and it's time for Andy to do his own thing.

I'd suggest this hack needs to get a new job as he clearly knows f**k all about tennis

Thinking about the match more I was surprised at how pish the Jimmy Del Potro serve was. He has the physical tools to bash down plenty of aces but it was actually one the weakest parts of his game. Those who are going on about his big forehand need to face the fact that it takes more than one big shot to win against the top boys. Some of the best forehands you'll see are from guys outside the top 100 (ie Robbie Kendrick) but the rest of their game is shite so they lose. Del Potro needs to get more variety in his game, serve better and get fitter otherwise he'll never be a top 10 regular.

Yer kidding. The Wulliams sisters get it on in 30 minutes...I'm staying on the sofa

Should have won in straight sets but showed great bottle to come back and win it in the fourth. To all those who put money on Del Potro...nae luck

Nadal v Djokovic semi is at midnight. I reckon he could beat Djokovic again but I'd still rather he played Nadal as he needs to get win against him.

Nearly is the word...last time I looked they appeared to have 4 overseas players (Benkenstein - Zim, De Venuto & Thorp - Aus, Morkel - SA) , 3 of whom must somehow qualify as EU or British citizens. With regards to Scotland, the results haven't changed much over the last 20 years and at times we appear to be going backwards. It's an amateur sport up here and probably always will be. We will never be able to mix it with the established sides, not even on one off occasions.

Scottish cricket blew any chance of credibility when we suffered that woeful defeat to the Dutch in the World Cup. The recent mind numbing loss to Namibia when we let their 10th wicket pair get a 50 stand to win a match was almost as bad. The only sides we seem to be capable of beating are Ireland B and Lancashire. Not a recipe for success.

Pathetic. I see it was another magnificient effort from skipper Ryan Watson with a predicably feeble 0, making a superb 0 off 9 balls in 2 innings from Der Kapitan. Jeesh, why do we persist in playing a sport at international level when we are so clearly shite at it. I just hope this bunch of clowns don't get any tax payers dollars....shocking Watson must go