Premier League 2019

[Randall]

Never saw that Wade win coming.... So hats off to The Machine.

Re Barney with all due respect, to lose vs a visibly crippled Smith... No comment....

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Is he due any respect anymore?

[BeppeBergomi]

Never saw that Wade win coming.... So hats off to The Machine.

Re Barney with all due respect, to lose vs a visibly crippled Smith... No comment....

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Is he due any respect anymore?

Who?

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[Randall]

Never saw that Wade win coming.... So hats off to The Machine.

Re Barney with all due respect, to lose vs a visibly crippled Smith... No comment....

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Is he due any respect anymore?

Who?

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Barney

[Zeyes]

I thought you were talking about people who send a one-word comment with a six-word Tapatalk signature.

[Rogg]

It could kill him but how do you leave Aspinall out of the 2020 Premier League?

[Fiss Plaps]

It could kill him but how do you leave Aspinall out of the 2020 Premier League?

Barney and Taylor both unretire. But yeah, there's no way Aspinall can be left out now, even though it's only March.

[thegentle]

It could kill him but how do you leave Aspinall out of the 2020 Premier League?

I know it was only an 8 man event back then, but Nicho didn't get in after winning the Players Championship early in the year. Now Nicho happened to have an awful year after that (and importantly Barney will have fucked off by next year), but Aspinall may still have work to do, especially as the PDC/Sky might not be rushed into including someone still so inexperienced at the top level

[BeppeBergomi]

It could kill him but how do you leave Aspinall out of the 2020 Premier League?

He's definitely in now. Remember that Barney's out so there is a vacant place for sure.

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[bojeru]

It could kill him but how do you leave Aspinall out of the 2020 Premier League?

I know it was only an 8 man event back then, but Nicho didn't get in after winning the Players Championship early in the year. Now Nicho happened to have an awful year after that (and importantly Barney will have fucked off by next year), but Aspinall may still have work to do, especially as the PDC/Sky might not be rushed into including someone still so inexperienced at the top level

One or two more runs to a major quarter final and he's 100% in. Although I believe there's no way he won't be in right now.

[thegentle]

It could kill him but how do you leave Aspinall out of the 2020 Premier League?

I know it was only an 8 man event back then, but Nicho didn't get in after winning the Players Championship early in the year. Now Nicho happened to have an awful year after that (and importantly Barney will have fucked off by next year), but Aspinall may still have work to do, especially as the PDC/Sky might not be rushed into including someone still so inexperienced at the top level

One or two more runs to a major quarter final and he's 100% in. Although I believe there's no way he won't be in right now.

Yeah, I'd go along with that. I really rate Aspinall, he's been very good for a good many months now (and I've been super impressed with how he's been able to kick on from the Worlds where others have failed woefully), but I am still a little conservative when it comes to picking the young guns lol

[thegentle]

This idea of 'contenders' has been turned on its head! Who's the big gun between Aspinall and Smith now, or Hopp and Barney?

[Randall]

With the UK open champ set to play this looks genius now.

[The Ginge Reaper]

With the UK open champ set to play this looks genius now.

It always was a good idea, the only thing letting it down is the points counting for the opponents.

[Randall]

With the UK open champ set to play this looks genius now.

It always was a good idea, the only thing letting it down is the points counting for the opponents.

As it's turned out with all playing well and now aspinall it's been excellent.
Especially with a hendo sighting this week.

[The Ginge Reaper]

Hendo always plays well, he wont disgrace himself.

[The Thorn]

Looking forward to the big man playing. Him playing in the PL is one of the most surreal things you'll see this year.

[thegentle]

With the UK open champ set to play this looks genius now.

It always was a good idea, the only thing letting it down is the points counting for the opponents.

And even that has its benefits, the contender games are proper competitive fixtures rather than exbos that nobody apart from the contenders themselves care about. Unless I'm misremembering, the exbo games they've had in the past in the Premier League definitely didn't have that same big match feel

[PT13]

It's early in the year, and we're talking about next year. If Nathan Aspinall's form goes down in the second half of 2019, I can easily see him NOT being included in the 2020 Premier League, especially with Barry Hearn being so worried about new players being ruined by a Premier League tour. So far, only Paul Nicholson is in that club of winning a PDC TV major since 2005 and not taking part in the Premier League, and I reckon that was largely to do with the Players Championship Finals being in late January back then instead of late November. Aspinall needs to keep up his great form in 2019 to be certain of getting in.

[PT13]

With the UK open champ set to play this looks genius now.

It always was a good idea, the only thing letting it down is the points counting for the opponents.

And even that has its benefits, the contender games are proper competitive fixtures rather than exbos that nobody apart from the contenders themselves care about. Unless I'm misremembering, the exbo games they've had in the past in the Premier League definitely didn't have that same big match feel

You mean in 2009, after Wayne Mardle was pulled out with mumps? Yeah, there was no big match feel, but it was interesting to see new PDC players Mark Webster and Gary Anderson play in those exhibition matches, along with Robert Thornton who had been in the PDC less than a year in those pre-Q School times, and former PL players Dennis Priestley and Adrian Lewis. But there were no points on those matches and the tournament format felt a bit farcical by that point with all of Mardle's previous matches (9 weeks worth) being annulled as far as the table was concerned.

[sennafan24]

Randall and Beppe during this evening's entrances.