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Post by limegas » Tue Jun 05, 2018 5:11 pm

Tommo wrote:Image

Good to see you there Tommo.

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Post by The Thorn » Tue Jun 05, 2018 5:36 pm

limegas wrote:
Tommo wrote:Image

Good to see you there Tommo.
Is Tommo Duzza?
Mind you, that'd explain his taste in women
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Post by The Ginge Reaper » Tue Jun 05, 2018 5:38 pm

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Way out of line Oche, no more. MH
Ooh missed this! What did he say? :D
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Post by M H » Tue Jun 05, 2018 6:05 pm

Nothing that warrants repeating. Does it again he's gone
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Post by Tommo » Tue Jun 05, 2018 7:04 pm

What the fuck is he on about now?
They're all here!

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Post by M H » Tue Jun 05, 2018 7:09 pm

Will be on about how he was wrongly banned soon
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Post by Tommo » Tue Jun 05, 2018 7:36 pm

The Thorn wrote:
limegas wrote:
Tommo wrote:Image

Good to see you there Tommo.
Is Tommo Duzza?
Mind you, that'd explain his taste in women
That is a fucking slur on my character, I have no taste when it comes to women.
They're all here!

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Post by The Ginge Reaper » Tue Jun 05, 2018 9:28 pm

Big changes on the way ! We've heard it before but it's different this time !!!! , I believe Bdo gonna grow x

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Post by Fiss Plaps » Tue Jun 05, 2018 9:31 pm

"When I was walking around Preston I didn't see one poster. I saw posters for Roy Chubby Brown and other events coming up, but none for the darts. I got a taxi to the event and the driver asked me where I was going. When I told him I was a darts player he didn't know the event was on."
:pointing:

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Post by The Ginge Reaper » Tue Jun 05, 2018 9:32 pm

Fiss Plaps wrote:
"When I was walking around Preston I didn't see one poster. I saw posters for Roy Chubby Brown and other events coming up, but none for the darts. I got a taxi to the event and the driver asked me where I was going. When I told him I was a darts player he didn't know the event was on."
:pointing:

Bed, Glen. Lie in it.
I've just said exactly the same elsewhere.
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Post by Zeyes » Tue Jun 05, 2018 9:37 pm

Fiss Plaps wrote:
"When I was walking around Preston I didn't see one poster. I saw posters for Roy Chubby Brown and other events coming up, but none for the darts. I got a taxi to the event and the driver asked me where I was going. When I told him I was a darts player he didn't know the event was on."
:pointing:

Bed, Glen. Lie in it.
The part right before was even worse:
"Our marketing is not good enough. If you're getting 22,000 people turning up at the PDC events, the interest is clearly there."
What is it with everybody in the BDO being incapable of understanding that the difference between the two orgs is much more than just "PDC = darts marketed well / BDO = darts marketed badly"?

Even Hearn would struggle to promote the BDO's remnants of a product successfully.

Top to bottom, from the BDO leadership to the players to the "Fanatics", none of them seem to have the slightest understanding of how pro sport works.

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Post by Fiss Plaps » Tue Jun 05, 2018 9:55 pm

Zeyes wrote:Top to bottom, from the BDO leadership to the players to the "Fanatics", none of them seem to have the slightest understanding of how pro sport works.
Their refusal to accept they are no longer the top dog in darts could be part of the problem.

The BDO "product" doesn't attract people because it's making out it's one thing (professional) when it's entirely another (amateur).

It'd be like a Sunday pub league in football claiming it's the Premier League.
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Post by Rogg » Tue Jun 05, 2018 10:08 pm

Simply the consequences of the decision he made Jim Williams make for him in January. Why does he sound surprised?

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Post by Zeyes » Tue Jun 05, 2018 10:16 pm

Fiss Plaps wrote:Their refusal to accept they are no longer the top dog in darts could be part of the problem.
True, though I think it goes deeper than that. Even when the BDO was still on top and the Lakeside had a legitimate claim as the professional world championship in darts, the people in the organisation never really grasped the fundamentals of professional sport. Maybe that's to be excused for the 1980s and early 90s which had a completely different media landscape (and to be fair, the BDO was still a young organisation at the time), but it's now 25 years later altogether, plus they've had 15+ years of the PDC under Hearn to see how a proper sports promoter does his thing. There are no excuses for their ignorance anymore. Of course, if they weren't so ignorant of everything, they would immediately recognize that there's 0% chance of a revival for them at this point.

The BDO has been likened to a cult before, but in some ways they appear to be more like some superstitious nature folk, untouched by reason and civilization, as far as anything related to pro sport goes.
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Post by Zeyes » Tue Jun 05, 2018 10:16 pm

Rogg wrote:
Simply the consequences of the decision he made Jim Williams make for him in January. Why does he sound surprised?

If he's laying the foundations there for another q-school saga I will bury my laptop.
...in his skull?

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Post by tungsten tossers » Tue Jun 05, 2018 10:46 pm

Zeyes wrote:
Fiss Plaps wrote:Their refusal to accept they are no longer the top dog in darts could be part of the problem.
True, though I think it goes deeper than that. Even when the BDO was still on top and the Lakeshite had a legitimate claim as the professional world championship in darts, the people in the organisation never really grasped the fundamentals of professional sport. Maybe that's to be excused for the 1980s and early 90s which had a completely different media landscape (and to be fair, the BDO was still a young organisation at the time), but it's now 25 years later altogether, plus they've had 15+ years of the PDC under Hearn to see how a proper sports promoter does his thing. There are no excuses for their ignorance anymore. Of course, if they weren't so ignorant of everything, they would immediately recognize that there's 0% chance of a revival for them at this point.

The BDO has been likened to a cult before, but in some ways they appear to be more like some superstitious nature folk, untouched by reason and civilization, as far as anything related to pro sport goes.
They are still in the stone age! Maybe we should suggest the Flintstones take over rather than the Jackin's
The board remind me of the fossils that run the regional FA's in football. They just refuse change as they fear being replaced. Sadly for any young player with ambition, they will just come up against a brick wall of bureaucracy. I have never understood why the fanatics have refused to accept that the BDO have an inferior product to the PDC. I understand loyalty but not stupidity and you are right when you say the product they have is no longer able to be salvaged.

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Post by Rogg » Wed Jun 06, 2018 8:35 am

Zeyes wrote:superstitious nature folk, untouched by reason and civilization
Lol.
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Post by cannibal » Wed Jun 06, 2018 12:27 pm

It was the same situation last year, Catastrophy was a failure, year before it was the failure of the new era. The long decline was evident, while the PDC was advancing year on year. so if Durrant was stupid enough to make his choice to stay in the stagnant cesspool of excrement that is the BDO then let him wallow in his own stupidity.
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Post by The Ginge Reaper » Mon Jun 11, 2018 9:43 pm

Top 10 rates programmes on Freesports the week of the WDT


RUGBY AM (WED 1801) 50k
SWEDISH SPEEDWAY 2018 (TUE 2230) 36k
NATIONAL CONFERENCE LEAGUE (SAT 1601) 30k
POLISH SPEEDWAY 2018 (TUE 2030) 24k
TOULON TOURNAMENT (WED 2308) 24k
TOULON TOURNAMENT (TUE 1825) 21k
DTM (GERMANY TOURING CARS) (SUN 1605) 12k
DTM (GERMANY TOURING CARS) (SUN 1622) 11k
BDO DARTS (WED 1900) 10k
RUGBY LEAGUE BACKCHAT 2018 (THU 1800) 9k

So the only night it appears in the top 10 is the only night it didn't clash with proper darts on Sky.

So all other sessions 9k or less.

Oh dear.
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Post by Randall » Mon Jun 11, 2018 9:58 pm

Goddam all those illegal streams
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