Rout wrote:I've watched Bunting tear apart fields in opens that contain many top PDC (and other top BDO players). I don't need you to tell me about the respective qualities of the Lakeside fields versus masters fields to tell me how good the guy is. I think if you understand the game you can realise how good he is.Murphio wrote:No, we are not in agreement. You think talking about Bunting as a top 16 PDC player is an 'insult'. I see it as a completely fair assessment of his ability at this stage. No doubt a couple of years ago you'd have been describing Mark Webster being labelled a top 16 PDC player as an 'insult'. The quality of the fields at Lakeside and the World Masters is not of sufficient quality or depth to form a competent judgement. And one pro tour win is woefully short. You were engaging in hyperbole based on not very much. As for Ian White - why is that stupid? It is quite easy to guage the standard at which someone performs consistently if you pay attention. Ian White, right now, is every bit as good a player as Bunting - the Lakeside and Masters wins in fairly sub standard fields are blinding you to the reality.Rout wrote:So we are in agreement.Murphio wrote:It is absolutely impossible to prove one way or the other.Rout wrote: Think about that and tell me whether my statement that there are definitely only 2 or 3 players better in the world than Bunting right now.
And your comparison to Ian White really doesn't need me to comment on it at all. The stupidity of it speaks for itself.
So I don't need to keep labouring the same point. If you think Ian White and Stephen Bunting are on a par, you carry on pal. Set a reminder, and in two years time, lets revisit this thread and see which of the two of us looks utterly ridiculous.
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Yes The same adrian lewis that had already won 2 world titlesRout wrote:
Bunting is a world away from being in the same class as MVG and Taylor. I think Lewis has enough experience to put him slightly ahead of Bunty, despite some questionable recent form. After that, I can't see how you can look at these lads above and question what I am saying about how there are only 3 players in the world definitely better than Bunting right now.
oh dear