General Chat

Gonna be a new name on the televised ranking event roll of honour.

Michael Smith v Diving Board & Chris Dobey v Ross Smith is the semi-final line-up at the Europeans.

Another entry in the Michael Smith Big Book of Missed Opportunities, or does he finally get it done?

Must be any pro's dream - to play Michael Smith in your first TV final, given his record

Although in fairness to Bully Boy, he didn't do much wrong this time

Ross Smith is a fine player, been around a few years and always on the 'one to watch' list

Must be very pleasing for him to turn up and play so well in his first big final

I guess some players just have the natural temperament to deal with those situations

He's pretty much retired as it is. Last few times I seen him play, and especially when he's interviewed, he strikes me as a man only there to placate and fulfill some sponsorship deals he has going or something

John o Shea and mickey mansell both confirmed into world championship.

Steve Lennon misses out on players championship finals and unless he bags a spot at world's qualifier will miss that too

Is John fully confirmed, or just 99.9% confirmed? There is an outside chance of a couple people not already in the WC field getting into the Grand Slam via the TCH qualifier going on today, and earning enough money to vault themselves into the Top 32, displacing Lewis and Schindler who would then fall back onto their ProTour spots displacing John and Gawlas.

EDIT: Can't forget the PC Finals as well messing with the main Order of Merit.

Barney, Soots, Wattimena, Edhouse, Schindler, Mensur, Woodhouse, Gawlas all make the Grand Slam. All are currently in the WC already; so John is still good.

Only remote chance of John being knocked out of the WC spot now is two out of:

• Nathan Rafferty making both GSoD and PC final
• Ryan Joyce makes the PC final
• One out of Ted Evetts, Ashton, Fallon, Leonard Gates, Christian Perez wins the Slam

Cheers for the clarification @TheChrisD

Maybe the only unfair part of it was the fact that eight spots went to the TCH qualifier, as opposed to just however many are left available after adding all event winners — although I suppose this way also gives the PDC the chance to remove the TCH qualifiers entirely if they ever decide to bring back WDF representatives.

Some groups there that could be tight

Doubt she’ll get booed. The crowd that turn up at the Ally Pally won’t care how she got her place.

Much like the Premer League really. Although it does serve a purpose to provide some funding toward pro, challenge and development tour prizemoney. Personally have feck all interest in PL or World series.

Back to the score before the first dart is thrown

From 15 it's better throwing single 7 leaving double 4. You rarely try to leave double 7 because if you 'throw inside' you are on an odd number. It's why Double 16, Double 8, Double 4, Double 2 became the most popular route.

Just as a random idea, maybe try a simpler game to get the kids started. Stops the frustration for kids of games ending up at double one.

'Round the board' is a nice one. Aim is to go from 1 to 20. So throw a 1, move onto 2, then 3 etc. Winner is whoever throws the 20 first (or end on the 25/bull if you want). Score with all 3 darts then get another go. Gets everyone used to where all the numbers are as well.