2012 Darts Premier League Thread

Kingp35 · 08-02-2012 3:05pm #1

So the Premier League is back on our screens tomorrow for a new season. i always enjoy the tournament at the start and lose interest near the end.

Anyway here are tomorrows fixtures:

Week One
February 9 - Manchester Arena
Andy Hamilton v James Wade
Simon Whitlock v Raymond van Barneveld
Kevin Painter v Gary Anderson
Adrian Lewis v Phil Taylor

Will be interesting to see how Painter and Hamilton get on.

monkey9 · 08-02-2012 8:16pm

I think Simon Whitock might win this tournament. I'd love to see him do.

It annoys me that Barney is there. He doesn't seem to care at the moment and wants everyone to know it. I get it's good for ratings for the Dutch angle, but you could get Van Der Voort or someone in!

minty16 · 09-02-2012 5:35am

I think Hamilton could cause Wade problems tomorrow night. I'd imagine Wade will still be gutted from the World's, where as Hamilton will be trying very hard to prove himself on his debut. 5/2 is a very good price in this format.

Couldnt call a game involving Barney. He is still capable of hammering most players, and showed some signs of a revival last week. Not going near it.

I think this format is excellent for Anderson. Painter will try hard but Anderson will continuously outscore him and 8-15 is a fair price.

On what we saw last week , bar the last singles game, you would have to favour Lewis over the Power. 15/8 about Lewis is backable.

leggo · 09-02-2012 11:15am

Barney, Painter and Hamilton are going to wreak havoc with my accumulators. I can see it coming a mile off. None of them are going to win, they may not even make the playoffs, but all are good enough to beat any of the field on any given night. There's no clear favourite for the Wayne Mardle Cup this year.

The field is a bit uninspired looking at first glance, nothing we haven't seen plenty of times before and the first-timers probably won't contend, but at the same time it could make for a very tight, unpredictable league.

As for tonight's predictions:

Andy Hamilton 7-7 James Wade
Simon Whitlock 8-3 Raymond van Barneveld
Kevin Painter 5-8 Gary Anderson
Adrian Lewis 4-8 Phil Taylor

Not confident in the slightest about the above picks...

StephenHendry · 09-02-2012 1:07pm

Andy Hamilton 8-5 James Wade
Simon Whitlock 8-6 Raymond van Barneveld
Kevin Painter 7-7 Gary Anderson
Adrian Lewis 5-8 Phil Taylor

kingkev26 · 09-02-2012 6:06pm

ham and wade 7-7 taylor lewis 7-7 barney to win 8-6 and anderson to win 8-4

mr.jingle · 09-02-2012 8:05pm

Wade 8-4 Hamilton
Whitlock 8-5 Barneveld
Anderson 8-5 Painter
Lewis 8-5 Taylor

MoscowFlyer · 09-02-2012 8:17pm

Wade 8-5 Hamilton
Whitlock 8-4 Barney
Anderson 8-3 Painter
Lewis 7-7 Taylor

ctrl-alt-delete · 09-02-2012 8:23pm

Great to have Sid Waddell back!

Some cracking quotes already,

"And there is the waywardness or wadewardness if you like"

dexter647 · 09-02-2012 9:07pm

Holy sh1t barny is smiling:D... Seriously though I hope he puts a bit of effort in tonight and give's whitlock a game...Would be nice to have the old Barny back:)

leggo · 09-02-2012 9:18pm

leggo wrote: »

Barney, Painter and Hamilton are going to wreak havoc with my accumulators.

Andy Hamilton 7-7 James Wade

What'd I say?

Very disheartening to see Wade give up in the last leg, especially when it could have been there for the taking and he had the darts for the final leg. Grr...

monkey9 · 09-02-2012 10:32pm

Gary Anderson's performances within a match tend to be very schizophrenic

mdwexford · 09-02-2012 10:48pm

Good to see Barney go someway towards proving the naysayers wrong, if he can keep averaging 100+ he could go all the way.

Anderson/Painter was a shocking game.

This should be a cracker.

Stevecw · 09-02-2012 10:54pm

C'mon Phil, love to see him hammer Lewis. Shud be great match tho anyway.

Stevecw · 09-02-2012 11:03pm

Wow Lewis playing amazing stuff here, Poor Phil doesn't know what's happenin

leggo · 09-02-2012 11:06pm

This is unreal. Lewis is playing the picture perfect game to beat Taylor here. Beating him at the game Taylor perfected: forcing silly mistakes, hitting doubles when it counts, those 180s at JUST the right times. He's over-powering The Power!

BUT...you still wouldn't put it past Phil. This could finish 8-1 Lewis or 8-6 Taylor yet.

Stevecw · 09-02-2012 11:10pm

leggo wrote: »

This is unreal. Lewis is playing the picture perfect game to beat Taylor here. Beating him at the game Taylor perfected: forcing silly mistakes, hitting doubles when it counts, those 180s at JUST the right times. He's out-powering The Power!

BUT...you still wouldn't put it past Phil. This could finish 8-1 Lewis or 8-6 Taylor yet.

Lewis 100% on doubles! Taylor with a 105 avg 5-1 down!! Amazing standard

mdwexford · 09-02-2012 11:16pm

Insane standard.

Pity its not a World final.

whatawaster · 09-02-2012 11:18pm

This is incredible

whatawaster · 09-02-2012 11:20pm

Wow. This might be the best i've ever seen Taylor play

leggo · 09-02-2012 11:20pm

This is finishing a draw.

monkey9 · 09-02-2012 11:22pm

Jesus, these are some darts from Taylor to come back. What a match!!

Stevecw · 09-02-2012 11:23pm

wow 6-6 with an avg of 113 what a man Taylor is!! Hope he can finish it now with the win

mdwexford · 09-02-2012 11:28pm

Amazing.

Any of that 7/4 Taylor for the League still around

leggo · 09-02-2012 11:29pm

I can't remember a better Premier League game than that since Taylor came from behind to beat Barney to avenge his world final loss. Can anyone else?

Amazing match. Perfect way to end this week in darts.

Will I Amnt · 09-02-2012 11:30pm

Some game.Lewis was brilliant early on but Taylor was absolutely ridiculous the last 7 legs.
Great stuff.

Stevecw · 09-02-2012 11:33pm

That was top class, what a comeback by Taylor. 7-7 a fair result. 113 Avg by Taylor wow.

sc86 · 10-02-2012 1:03am

that game proved that generally taylor is not gettin worse, the rest of the field are gettin better
2 years ago taylor wouldv won 8-3 against anybody playin like that
brilliant game, all i could do was laugh as the 180s went in

Evolution Enter · 10-02-2012 4:52am

Superb night - biggest compliment I can give that last match is that nobody is talking about how good the Whitlock Barney match was - which was awesome - unbelievable - anyone dismisses this tournament as an exhibition is having a laugh!!

stylie · 10-02-2012 11:30am

What I learnt from last night

Wade, shows no sign of winning his mental problems. Body language changed in the game and it looked like he didnt want to be there.

Hammy, has kept his form from the worlds, and is the type of guy to prove the people doubting his wild card wrong.

Barney, one swallow does not a summer make and one game does not make a Barney come back

Whitlock, would love to see him win a major, he has the game but needs that special something to see him over the line

Painter, in my opinion should not be a wild card and did nothing to prove me wrong last night.

Anderson, has brought his BDO game to the PDC, well done sir. Needs a kick up the hole to get going again

Lewis, those first five legs were special, needs a good run in this and a major or two this year to join the pedestal with other greats. His trophy cupboard is a little too bare for a 2 time world champion.

Taylor, rumours of his demise are a little too premature. I think he needs to change his approach to games to peak at the right times, like golfers and tennis players for major events.

StephenHendry · 10-02-2012 1:13pm

Evolution Enter wrote: »

Superb night - biggest compliment I can give that last match is that nobody is talking about how good the Whitlock Barney match was - which was awesome - unbelievable - anyone dismisses this tournament as an exhibition is having a laugh!!

agree with you mate, barney whitlock was a brilliant game. i only get to see the first 2 games but they were both excellent ones. i had a feeling the hammer would win and he proved me right. saw brief of the taylor game. shows he's still producing brilliant darts. as others of said , the rest have upped their game alright but phil isn't dropping his standard

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