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micko wrote:Eurosport weren't long in pulling the plug there, no waiting about for the presentation.

Aye, get this pish off and get the hurling highlights on.

Or is it bowls or shinty this time....

micko wrote:Eurosport weren't long in pulling the plug there, no waiting about for the presentation.

Not much to present, here is your shitty worthless trophy james. The end

Thank god thats over! Dire

Eric Bristow MBE ‏@ericbristow 31m

How much does the winner get for this rubbish?

from Staffordshire Moorlands, Staffordshire

Team Norris ‏@TeamAlanNorris 29m

@ericbristow A little more respect Eric come on. The PDC has a lot more to offer than the BDO, yes, but the BDO also deserves some respect


Eric Bristow MBE ‏@ericbristow 27m

@TeamAlanNorris up yours

in the gravy wrote:Eric Bristow MBE ‏@ericbristow 31m

How much does the winner get for this rubbish?

from Staffordshire Moorlands, Staffordshire

Team Norris ‏@TeamAlanNorris 29m

@ericbristow A little more respect Eric come on. The PDC has a lot more to offer than the BDO, yes, but the BDO also deserves some respect


Eric Bristow MBE ‏@ericbristow 27m

@TeamAlanNorris up yours

Eric tells it how he sees it! good value on twitter

Bristo on the sauce again!

micko wrote:Bristo on the sauce again!

he must be


Eric Bristow MBE ‏@ericbristow 1h

"I think that John boy Walton is the best commentator he knows everything"

Darts101 wrote:

micko wrote:Bristo on the sauce again!

he must be


Eric Bristow MBE ‏@ericbristow 1h

"I think that John boy Walton is the best commentator he knows everything"

Just read the thread, sounds like it was utter shit

As for Bristow

was it really bad guys

i didnt watch a second of it over the weekend

Yes Noisy it was that bad.

In fact the only positive I can take is to say that by watching it , I can now honestly slate the shit out of it.
My descriptive comments are now based on the shit I witnessed.

I knew it would be a disaster event , and it was

am glad i didnt waste any time on it

sounds horrendous

Lets see...


A schoolkid spotting
An announcer with a speech impediment
Michael J Fox on the camera
Announcers like John Bore Walton living in the last century,and the likes of bobby George going down the tony green route
Jobber performances and averages
Pathetic crowd
A lot of matches not even shown
More Lady darts
Euorsport sucks as a tv channel

Any wonder this fiasco lost the money it did

I think Wilson is the BDO's best player now Bunting has left. But I could name 15 players in the PDC who you could reasonably argue are on his level or better.

The final (which was played over a longer format than the Premier League if I am fair) had two players averaging lower than any of the PDC players did on Thursday for the Premier League (bar Whitlock, who was ill) I like Bobby George, but I could not tell what he was saying at times. Also, there was little atmosphere. Someone I was watching with described it as like watching darts in your local town hall.

I did enjoy the Lakeside this year, at least more than previous years, and I am spoiled by the PDC's production values on SKY/ITV, but from what I viewed the World Trophy was pretty dire.

can safely say it wont be back on tv next year

when i saw an excerpt from it last week i couldnt believe how old fashioned it all looked

how comes even itv4 can produce a decent event but eurosport cant

read that the bdo lost a six figure sum on this horseshit.

excellent news

Noisycrowds wrote:
how comes even itv4 can produce a decent event but eurosport cant

I swear the PDC were on Eurosport when they broadcast that event from Australia last year. I seem to recall the production was not as bad as it was for the BDO over the weekend. To be fair I did not watch either of those tournaments all the way through, but there was a difference in lighting and production clearly, even from a brief glance.

In addition to the faults listed by Justin Incredible above, during the final they would pan to the crowd at times and you could see a load of empty seats around the tables, and some of the seats that were full seemed to be taken by players. No wonder they lost money.

At one stage they panned to Bobby George sitting in shall we say a unflattering position (think gut hanging out) and the cameraman clearly panicked and jolted the camera into the sky, before panning back to action. The camera work was horrible, and not just on a few occasions. I watched a game early on in the tournament that had several errors in the camera work, and these errors were still happening in the final.

The final was actually quite exciting, as despite the standard not being A-1, it was very close. But the production was pretty horrible

thats what i noticed last week when i watched a couple of minutes

lighting poor , camera work poor , atmosphere zero

looked like an old working mans club on a monday night

Noisycrowds wrote:am glad i didnt waste any time on it

sounds horrendous

it wasn't as good as horrendous