As things stand I Beleive that England have a great chance to win this with Cross and Smith provisionally being the two to represent the country for the World Cup of Darts.
Will be interesting to see whether the PDC or Sky will find an excuse to boot Barney in for the Dutch now that Wattimena is the second best player from the Netherlands.
Scotland should be represented by Gary and Dufus in any case I guess.
At min more than 1 tour card nations looking like this
Netherlands - Michael van Gerwen - Jermaine Wattimena
England - Rob Cross - Michael Smith
Scotland - Peter Wright - Gary Anderson
Northern Ireland - Daryl Gurney - Brendan Dolan
Wales - Gerwyn Price - Jonny Clayton
Austria - Mensur Suljovic - Zoran Lerchbacher
Australia - Simon Whitlock - Kyle Anderson
Belgium - Kim Huybrechts - Dimitri van den Bergh
Germany - Max Hopp - Martin Schindler
Spain - Cristo Reyes - Toni Alcinas
Ireland - Steve Lennon - William O'Connor
Poland - Krzysztof Ratajski - Tytus Kanik
Safc wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2019 12:02 pm
At min more than 1 tour card nations looking like this
Netherlands - Michael van Gerwen - Jermaine Wattimena
England - Rob Cross - Michael Smith
Scotland - Peter Wright - Gary Anderson
Northern Ireland - Daryl Gurney - Brendan Dolan
Wales - Gerwyn Price - Jonny Clayton
Austria - Mensur Suljovic - Zoran Lerchbacher
Australia - Simon Whitlock - Kyle Anderson
Belgium - Kim Huybrechts - Dimitri van den Bergh
Germany - Max Hopp - Martin Schindler
Spain - Cristo Reyes - Toni Alcinas
Ireland - Steve Lennon - William O'Connor
Poland - Krzysztof Ratajski - Tytus Kanik
Order of Merit rankings by country look pretty set, don't see anyone upsetting the apple cart. Be interesting to see which countries get included, and who will accompany those players who are their nation's sole tour card holder
Hopefully any problems the PDC have had with the Philippines have been solved, got a dangerous looking team there. Maybe Portugal and Lithuania will be included too, though I'm not aware of any other Portuguese player. Would like John Part to have one last swansong, though I guess he may have to play the CDC for that
thegentle wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2019 12:39 pm
Hopefully any problems the PDC have had with the Philippines have been solved, got a dangerous looking team there. Maybe Portugal and Lithuania will be included too, though I'm not aware of any other Portuguese player. Would like John Part to have one last swansong, though I guess he may have to play the CDC for that
Would be good to include Portugal and Lithuania though I'm not sure who you leave out, especially if the Philippines were to return as well. The Swiss have to be dropped I guess
thegentle wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2019 12:39 pm
Hopefully any problems the PDC have had with the Philippines have been solved, got a dangerous looking team there. Maybe Portugal and Lithuania will be included too, though I'm not aware of any other Portuguese player. Would like John Part to have one last swansong, though I guess he may have to play the CDC for that
Would be good to include Portugal and Lithuania though I'm not sure who you leave out, especially if the Philippines were to return as well. The Swiss have to be dropped I guess
thegentle wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2019 12:39 pm
Hopefully any problems the PDC have had with the Philippines have been solved, got a dangerous looking team there. Maybe Portugal and Lithuania will be included too, though I'm not aware of any other Portuguese player. Would like John Part to have one last swansong, though I guess he may have to play the CDC for that
Would be good to include Portugal and Lithuania though I'm not sure who you leave out, especially if the Philippines were to return as well. The Swiss have to be dropped I guess
I remember Switzerland got a late invite in 2017 when Latvia pulled out, I saw Razma post on Twitter that he's not that keen on the World Cup because of family reasons, so I guess we won't see them. Switzerland actually did quite well last year, they beat China and then Alex Fehlman beat Gerwyn Price in the singles so maybe it would be harsh to drop them, but I would like to see Darius or even de Sousa at this event. Unfortunately some of the worst teams there are among the ones most unlikely to be binned for reasons away from the dartboard (China, Gib etc.), but I guess if they were to include the Philippines, they could do a like for like south east Asian swap and take out Thailand?
Yeah I'm not that interested in Thailand. I would think Philippines is a better market and has more darting going on but I've no clue exactly. I think if they exclude a country it would have to be Switzerland, honestly I only recognize Andy Bless and that's solely because they have been parachuted into the World Cup in the first place. And true about Latvia with Razma as well, too many countries to pick lol
The Thorn wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2019 1:53 pm
Yeah I'm not that interested in Thailand. I would think Philippines is a better market and has more darting going on but I've no clue exactly. I think if they exclude a country it would have to be Switzerland, honestly I only recognize Andy Bless and that's solely because they have been parachuted into the World Cup in the first place. And true about Latvia with Razma as well, too many countries to pick lol
If Switzerland play, at least we get to see chizzy..
Swiss Chizzy that is
The Thorn wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2019 1:53 pm
Yeah I'm not that interested in Thailand. I would think Philippines is a better market and has more darting going on but I've no clue exactly. I think if they exclude a country it would have to be Switzerland, honestly I only recognize Andy Bless and that's solely because they have been parachuted into the World Cup in the first place. And true about Latvia with Razma as well, too many countries to pick lol
If Switzerland play, at least we get to see chizzy..
Swiss Chizzy that is
thegentle wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2019 12:39 pm
Maybe Portugal and Lithuania will be included too, though I'm not aware of any other Portuguese player.
José Pinto is more of a soft-tip guy I think, but has played the last three Q Schools. Nothing spectacular (77 average in this year's according to DC), but probably decent enough to not be embarrassing if he's there alongside de Sousa.
