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DeepFriedRat wrote: ↑Mon Mar 06, 2023 12:31 am

Atmospheric.

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Emulsfier wrote: ↑Sun Mar 05, 2023 11:50 pm What a man. What a legend.

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The sexiest winner of a major ever.

Beautiful

I won't join the fan club, but thanks.

Well played Mr Gilding. Deserved winner.

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Van Gerwen has left the Gilding.

UK OPEN WINNER 2023 - Andrew Gilding

Goldfinger entered at the 3rd round stage as number 41 on the pdc ranking list. His pathway to glory:

3rd rnd - darren webster 6-2 with 94.75
4th rnd - ricky Evan's 10- 5 with 99.68
5th rnd - Woodhouse 10- 5 with 90.89
6th rnd - Dolan 10-8 with 88.82
1/4 - Schindler 10-4 with 93.90
Semi - Gawlas 11-6 with 95.86
Final - Goblin 11-10 with 95.46

Was impressed by Gilding always thought he was a dangerous player then he fizzled out a bit now back and wins a major great stuff MVG still crackable if you stay with him!

SRW wrote: ↑Mon Mar 06, 2023 10:01 am Was impressed by Gilding always thought he was a dangerous player then he fizzled out a bit now back and wins a major great stuff MVG still crackable if you stay with him!

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SRW wrote: ↑Mon Mar 06, 2023 10:01 am Was impressed by Gilding always thought he was a dangerous player then he fizzled out a bit now back and wins a major great stuff MVG still crackable if you stay with him!

Never rated him. Still don't. But fair fucking play. From Noppert and Ross Smith last year, Dobey and Gilding this year, and of course M. Smith getting over the line in bombastic fashion, we have been in for a lot of madness lately. No one will convince me Cunt Taylor or Van Chemo lapping up all the titles was nearly as exciting as this current era.

SRW wrote: ↑Mon Mar 06, 2023 10:01 am Was impressed by Gilding always thought he was a dangerous player then he fizzled out a bit now back and wins a major great stuff MVG still crackable if you stay with him!

Gilding being a new winner has helped distract from Van Gerwen's failures. 4 darts missed to go 9-6 up. Then after breaking back for 9-7, he was broken in 16, which included scoring 25 on 179.

1205 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 06, 2023 5:54 pm

SRW wrote: ↑Mon Mar 06, 2023 10:01 am Was impressed by Gilding always thought he was a dangerous player then he fizzled out a bit now back and wins a major great stuff MVG still crackable if you stay with him!

Gilding being a new winner has helped distract from Van Gerwen's failures. 4 darts missed to go 9-6 up. Then after breaking back, he was broken in 16, which included scoring 25 on 179.

He's finished.

The Thorn wrote: ↑Mon Mar 06, 2023 3:28 pm

SRW wrote: ↑Mon Mar 06, 2023 10:01 am Was impressed by Gilding always thought he was a dangerous player then he fizzled out a bit now back and wins a major great stuff MVG still crackable if you stay with him!

Never rated him. Still don't. But fair fucking play. From Noppert and Ross Smith last year, Dobey and Gilding this year, and of course M. Smith getting over the line in bombastic fashion, we have been in for a lot of madness lately. No one will convince me Cunt Taylor or Van Chemo lapping up all the titles was nearly as exciting as this current era.

It's hard to be too excited without a real elite.

1205 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 06, 2023 6:02 pm

The Thorn wrote: ↑Mon Mar 06, 2023 3:28 pm

SRW wrote: ↑Mon Mar 06, 2023 10:01 am Was impressed by Gilding always thought he was a dangerous player then he fizzled out a bit now back and wins a major great stuff MVG still crackable if you stay with him!

Never rated him. Still don't. But fair fucking play. From Noppert and Ross Smith last year, Dobey and Gilding this year, and of course M. Smith getting over the line in bombastic fashion, we have been in for a lot of madness lately. No one will convince me Cunt Taylor or Van Chemo lapping up all the titles was nearly as exciting as this current era.

It's hard to be too excited without a real elite.

They can fuck off. 3 of the 4 "elite" players in MVG Wright and Price are complete twats anyway.

Covid broke darts but there are worse beneficiaries than Gilding.

Most of the elite since Philth have been total cunts. Ando is a miserable prick. Wright's an embarassment, a fake scotsman and a twat. Van Gerwen is just a mutant, Price a total cunt who can give it in sticks but can't take it.

As far as I'm concerned I'd much rather lads like Bunty, James Wilson, Gilding winning a pot here and there than one of that mob cleaning up like Philth.

Actually I'll go on record as saying I'd have Ross the boss cleaning up than that lot

Deadshot wrote: ↑Mon Mar 06, 2023 8:18 pm Most of the elite since Philth have been total cunts. Ando is a miserable prick. Wright's an embarassment, a fake scotsman and a twat. Van Gerwen is just a mutant, Price a total cunt who can give it in sticks but can't take it.

As far as I'm concerned I'd much rather lads like Bunty, James Wilson, Gilding winning a pot here and there than one of that mob cleaning up like Philth.

Actually I'll go on record as saying I'd have Ross the boss cleaning up than that lot

Fair point. The Boss does deserve a big title but I fear he might have left it too late

The Thorn wrote: ↑Mon Mar 06, 2023 8:24 pm

Deadshot wrote: ↑Mon Mar 06, 2023 8:18 pm Most of the elite since Philth have been total cunts. Ando is a miserable prick. Wright's an embarassment, a fake scotsman and a twat. Van Gerwen is just a mutant, Price a total cunt who can give it in sticks but can't take it.

As far as I'm concerned I'd much rather lads like Bunty, James Wilson, Gilding winning a pot here and there than one of that mob cleaning up like Philth.

Actually I'll go on record as saying I'd have Ross the boss cleaning up than that lot

Fair point. The Boss does deserve a big title but I fear he might have left it too late

Ross can put on a good game but he was a card carrying BDO loyalty twat, complete with being bezzie m8s with the selectas at one point so I tend to have little love for him. But he like others in the BDO could have done well in the PDC and made themselves a good bit of coin. Waites fucked his shoulder doing his day job and will never play the way he did in that grand slam again. Should have switched immediately. Other folks that should have switched (some sooner) include

- John Walton who was unplayable at that 2001 embassy (one of the worst BDO fields ever assembled mind, but he was head and shoulders better that year or two)
- Merv
- Toplad O'Bottlejob who perpetually suffered from big fish small pond syndrome and fell into the travel club habit.
- Duzza (who did play PDC events before falling for the BDO4Life mentality) who will perpetually be a what if thanks to the coughing disease.
- Fordham

All of the above can put on great performances and most of them can be box office too. Sadly too many of them switched late or didn't switch at all. Wasted their primes, or allowed health issues to impact their game.

Other names but not as notable.
Yozza, Cammy, Wes Harms, Noppy, Veenstra, McGeeney, Geert De Vos.

Not saying they'd have ripped up trees immediately (top 10 PDC easily from Runt springs to mind), but iron sharpens iron, and in the case of De Vos who can put out performances that just blow away other players, you cant help but think he'd have been flying.