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[Randall]

I'm sorry but it cannot carry the weight of any previous version of the matchplay.

No need to apologise Randall. Just fuck off. Sorry Randall.

Are you sure you're not saying 'inferior weight' when you actually just mean 'different weight'? It was certainly a different edition. I'm not aware of evidence that it was inferior in any way.

Different then
Different as it didn't have the same pressures

[Rogg]

This year's Matchplay stats are in this thread by the way: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8804

The tournament average was an entirely regular 95.51.

[Randall]

This year's Matchplay stats are in this thread by the way: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8804

The tournament average was an entirely regular 95.51.

I'd have expected them to be higher in a sterlile environment
The pressure of the money/ranking is still present I guess

[cannibal]

Americans playing Americans (or any country that has a piss poor standard) on the CDC tour isn't going to create players that can compete on the PDC tour. A tour comprised of players playing in the mid to low 80's at their best isn't going to create players who can consistently play in the low 90's. It just creates a few more players who can play in the mid to low 80's. If you want to compete at the top end of the game you have to go where the top end of the game is played.

Yes I know it seems obvious but again over here it causes heads to explode. What is funny if you say the same thing about say basketball or 'merican football every fucker here agrees but nope darts is special for some reason.

Is it's purpose to create players though or as i would argue to a) get/keep players into the game and b) identify those with the potential to make the step you want them to.

I'm sure a lot of high school basketball is rubbish but serves the same purposes, people like competing and playing games and the best are usually (due to the average standard you mention) easily identifiable to then progress to college basketball and so on and so on.

think your missing the point a bit and trying to make an argument where there is none. But thanks for playing and try again at another time.

And for the record the vision of the CDC is to develop the next North American World Darts Champion (and they mean the PDC) This is their words not mine.

[cannibal]

The split in darts was the best thing to happen in darts ever!

[cannibal]

Walk on girls good riddance don't miss them one bit and certainly didn't seem to hurt darts one bit. All the fucking moaning by people are the same ones who ten minutes later had their pants around there knees looking at internet porn totally forgetting who the walk on girls were.

[Randall]

The split in darts was the best thing to happen in darts ever!

We dont owe the players a living pretty accurately summed up ollys interest in getting more darts events on tv.

[cannibal]

World cup of darts is a shit event, shit format, and a lot of shit players. I know fans want to wave their countries flag and root for whatever crap player comes from their little shit hole country for no other reason than their mothers spit them out on the same soil. And this is exactly why I root for Wales a shit place for a shit event lol.

[Randall]

World cup of darts is a shit event, shit format, and a lot of shit players. I know fans want to wave their countries flag and root for whatever crap player comes from their little shit hole country for no other reason than their mothers spit them out on the same soil. And this is exactly why I root for Wales a shit place for a shit event lol.

Didn't it get Barrie bates into the slam once?
Reason enough to dislike it

[Captain Hobo]

World cup of darts is a shit event, shit format, and a lot of shit players. I know fans want to wave their countries flag and root for whatever crap player comes from their little shit hole country for no other reason than their mothers spit them out on the same soil. And this is exactly why I root for Wales a shit place for a shit event lol.

Didn't it get Barrie bates into the slam once?
Reason enough to dislike it

Twice. They invited TV Finalists for 2 years back in those days.

[cannibal]

The idea that darts was "a gentlemens game played between two opponents respecting each other and best of order from the crowd" is a load of donkey bollocks.

Cant stand idiots who romanticize the past. More so idiots that glorify the past and get it wrong. Think about it men drinking competing and gambling. Recipe for a punch up. Bristow antics and running his mouth. Old timers have lots of stories of tactics. Watch the old news of the world video the crowds were crazy. So not much has really changed has it?

[Randall]

With all the smoke in the air at the news of the world I'm amazed they could see the board

[Malanax]

The idea that darts was "a gentlemens game played between two opponents respecting each other and best of order from the crowd" is a load of donkey bollocks.

Cant stand idiots who romanticize the past. More so idiots that glorify the past and get it wrong. Think about it men drinking competing and gambling. Recipe for a punch up. Bristow antics and running his mouth. Old timers have lots of stories of tactics. Watch the old news of the world video the crowds were crazy. So not much has really changed has it?

+1

Ohh noo Gerywn Price shouts a bit whilst playing, fucking good, he's a professional sportsman playing to win hundreds of thousands of pounds, he should play as aggressively as he likes, maybe if a few of the nice lads played like that they'd actually win something for once.

[Potter's Lake]

The idea that darts was "a gentlemens game played between two opponents respecting each other and best of order from the crowd" is a load of donkey bollocks.

Cant stand idiots who romanticize the past. More so idiots that glorify the past and get it wrong. Think about it men drinking competing and gambling. Recipe for a punch up. Bristow antics and running his mouth. Old timers have lots of stories of tactics. Watch the old news of the world video the crowds were crazy. So not much has really changed has it?

+1

Ohh noo Gerywn Price shouts a bit whilst playing, fucking good, he's a professional sportsman playing to win hundreds of thousands of pounds, he should play as aggressively as he likes, maybe if a few of the nice lads played like that they'd actually win something for once.

Shut up and dance with me

[Rogg]

The split in darts was the best thing to happen in darts ever!

Now we're talking. Yes please.

[Wolflanternbumbag]

Phil Taylor was obese

[Rogg]

The idea that darts was "a gentlemens game played between two opponents respecting each other and best of order from the crowd" is a load of donkey bollocks.

Cant stand idiots who romanticize the past. More so idiots that glorify the past and get it wrong. Think about it men drinking competing and gambling. Recipe for a punch up. Bristow antics and running his mouth. Old timers have lots of stories of tactics. Watch the old news of the world video the crowds were crazy. So not much has really changed has it?

+1

Ohh noo Gerywn Price shouts a bit whilst playing, fucking good, he's a professional sportsman playing to win hundreds of thousands of pounds, he should play as aggressively as he likes, maybe if a few of the nice lads played like that they'd actually win something for once.

Remember when Price beat Anderson to win his first Grand Slam and someone pointed out that the trophy is named after Bristow and that "Bristow would be embarrassed" to put his name to Price's title.

I can't find the original but I quoted it at the time, probably the words of some G-Anderson cultist having a fit: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8211&p=808434#p808434

Painting Bristow as an angel is one of the more interesting ways of romanticising the past.

[sennafan24]

World cup of darts is a shit event, shit format, and a lot of shit players.

+1

[SuperSwede]

Not having Dimi top 10, 13-16 i'd say.

[Randall]

Not having Dimi top 10, 13-16 i'd say.

He needs to be a lot more consistent bit to be fair the injury came right after his breakthrough