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thebronze14 wrote: »

Again, no!

Fran is a decent player, had a good run in the BDO and was ranked in top 10 for a while. Aaron beeney won a card last year with a tournament average of 70.

SketchyPrince

The thoughts of Barney getting back on the tour again irks me.

Should've bowed out like he originally did after the Premier League in Rotterdam, instead decided to keep going and got embarrassed against Darin Young.

Now he's going to Q-School, I can't see any good result from this.
If he doesn't get a card he ruins his legacy even more.
If he does get his tour card I think it's a more drawn out way of embarrassing himself once again. He's down at the very, very bottom of the order of merit and is going to have to graft it out on the Pro Tours to move up the rankings and have any change of qualifying for majors.

How could you have any faith in him actually sticking at it and not throwing his toys out of the pram after what we've most recently seen of him in the PDC?

He was so, so poor on his final year on the tour. I can't imagine it'll be any better after being away for 12 months.

Deeper Blue

SketchyPrince wrote: »

The thoughts of Barney getting back on the tour again irks me.

Should've bowed out like he originally did after the Premier League in Rotterdam, instead decided to keep going and got embarrassed against Darin Young.

Now he's going to Q-School, I can't see any good result from this.
If he doesn't get a card he ruins his legacy even more.
If he does get his tour card I think it's a more drawn out way of embarrassing himself once again. He's down at the very, very bottom of the order of merit and is going to have to graft it out on the Pro Tours to move up the rankings and have any change of qualifying for majors.

How could you have any faith in him actually sticking at it and not throwing his toys out of the pram after what we've most recently seen of him in the PDC?

He was so, so poor on his final year on the tour. I can't imagine it'll be any better after being away for 12 months.

He doesn't have the grittiness or the fight to grind his way back in my opinion. He might get a card but the head shaking will start within a few weeks if things don't go his way.

My prediction is he'll quietly fade back into retirement within a year.

He's the 10th premier league player, They're just waiting for him to get his card. If he fails then it's down to Fallon Sherrock

US2 wrote: »

He's the 10th premier league player, They're just waiting for him to get his card. If he fails then it's down to Fallon Sherrock

No to both there would be uproar.

Deeper Blue

US2 wrote: »

He's the 10th premier league player, They're just waiting for him to get his card. If he fails then it's down to Fallon Sherrock

I'd much rather see Sherrock get it

US2 wrote: »

He's the 10th premier league player, They're just waiting for him to get his card. If he fails then it's down to Fallon Sherrock

no chance she will get it, has to be awarded on merit, and quite simply she doesn't merit it - she's not even a tour card holder

Sherrock has no chance. She is also going to Q-School and I doubt very much she'll get through.

Justin Credible Darts

The PDC Awards were on tonight.....a complete joke

The worst "result" of the night was that comb over simpleton Callan Rydz winning young player of the year. How Keane Barry did not win that was blatant robbery.

SketchyPrince

UK Open being ran with the 128 + 32 qualifiers, better than nothing.

Dillonb3

Bit of a shame no amateur qualifiers this year in uk open. 16 top players who dont get tour card this year from q school are been entered

The PDC don't have any other option really. UK Covid rules don't allow for amateur sport to take place. I think this is the fairest way they could do it.

SketchyPrince

Saw these few questions put to Colin Lloyd and Laura Turner on the Darts Show Podcast, said I'd throw them up here to see what other people are thinking for the year ahead.

Here's my answers

Who'll be World Number 1 at the end of the year - Gerwyn Price.
Young player to watch - Keane Barry.
Surprise star of the Year - Ryan Searle.
Player to fall down the rankings - Rob Cross, Glen Durrant.
Most likely to win their 1st Major - Dave Chisnall, Mervyn King.
Will Wright, Price and MvG dominate again? - Yes.

Who'll be World Number 1 at the end of the year - Gerwyn Price.
Young player to watch - Harry Ward
Surprise star of the Year - Gabriel Clemens
Player to fall down the - Rob Cross, michael Smith
Most likely to win their 1st Major - Joe Cullen
Will Wright, Price and MvG dominate again? - price and MvG yes, Wright no

Who'll be World Number 1 at the end of the year - MvG
Young player to watch - Keane Barry.
Surprise star of the Year - Jose De Sousa
Player to fall down the rankings - Glen Durrant.
Most likely to win their 1st Major - Michael Smith
Will Wright, Price and MvG dominate again? - No

peteeeed

only 33 , hopefully he will change his mind post covid

https://twitter.com/livedarts/status/1358063993785622529?s=20

thebronze14

US2 wrote: »

Fran is a decent player, had a good run in the BDO and was ranked in top 10 for a while. Aaron beeney won a card last year with a tournament average of 70.

He ended up getting two wins over the course of the 3 days. Won't have been too happy with his performances. A couple of glimpses of what he's capable of though

Any Irish suppliers with a quick enough delivery time for steam and flights?

celt262 wrote: »

Any Irish suppliers with a quick enough delivery time for steam and flights?

501 darts. Ie next day delivery always

thebronze14

Yeah, 501 are fantastic

PTH2009

Played 301 and won against the computer. PDC I'm coming for you haha

Horrendous throwing by me ha

Keep practising. I averages in the 30's for a couple of years before I finally started to get better. It's all about practice in darts bar the odd natural.

Kingp35 wrote: »

Keep practising. I averages in the 30's for a couple of years before I finally started to get better. It's all about practice in darts bar the odd natural.

Yep Practice is the whole thing many moons ago i had loads of time on my hands and used to throw darts for 6/7 hours a day and went from been the lad who would throw last on the team to the first thrower.

Averages weren't recorded as such then but i was regularly throwing between 15 and 20 dart legs. When i was practicing my aim was to always throw under 20 darts and my best was 20 legs in a row under 20 darts.

Then the less i played the worse i got and would be happy with a 60 avg now. If i had time i would throw darts all day. I would be lucky to get 20 minutes a day now.

US2 wrote: »

501 darts. Ie next day delivery always

Ordered Friday and arrived today very impressive will use them from now on.

Kingp35 wrote: »

Keep practising. I averages in the 30's for a couple of years before I finally started to get better. It's all about practice in darts bar the odd natural.

I find the online darts great for this
No more throwing aimlessly at the board, nothing like a bit of competition to focus the mind
A game or two in the evening, or a tournament or league, there are so many players and leagues and tournaments for all levels of player , it's easy enough to get a game
In the last week I've played a 2501 down tournament (great for scoring practice) a best of 11, 170 tournament (great for checkout prcatice) etc...as well as a load of regular 501 best of 9 games
Not sure I'm getting better quick, but it's a great way to while away a few hours

Where can you find upcoming tournaments boomdocker? I've only played a few games on Nakka.