Re: Another Darts Thread : Fri Jan 14, 2011 11:04 pm  

Darts looks extremely poor on ITV. Be nice if the BBC got the Grand Slam, but to be honest nobody does it better than Sky. I hope that the GS and the World Cup works better than this year. If the World Cup was earlier in the calendar, it'd be very marketable. It's way too close to the Worlds to be considered credible on its own.

Re: Another Darts Thread : Sat Jan 15, 2011 11:09 am  

Chisnall joins the PDC.

Re: Another Darts Thread : Sat Jan 15, 2011 11:43 am  

saint billy wrote:

Chisnall joins the PDC.

And Brian Woods

Re: Another Darts Thread : Sat Jan 15, 2011 11:44 am  

richardviking wrote:

Darts looks extremely poor on ITV. Be nice if the BBC got the Grand Slam, but to be honest nobody does it better than Sky. I hope that the GS and the World Cup works better than this year. If the World Cup was earlier in the calendar, it'd be very marketable. It's way too close to the Worlds to be considered credible on its own.

Darts on ITV is effectively the same as it is on Sky. Don't know where you've got the idea that it looks poor in your head, because it doesn't. The BDO coverage is a shambles in comparison. I'm not sure if they even have any spotters.

Re: Another Darts Thread : Sat Jan 15, 2011 4:57 pm  

To be fair, being a spotter in the BDO must be a bit of a thankless task, given the mediocre standard, and often even worse mental arithmetic of some of the players

Re: Another Darts Thread : Sun Jan 16, 2011 4:58 pm  

Dave Lister wrote:

And Brian Woods

Didn't think he had it in him to get a Tour Card.

Big John Henderson is also in there too.

Re: Another Darts Thread : Sun Jan 16, 2011 8:33 pm  

WireFanatic III wrote:

Didn't think he had it in him to get a Tour Card.

Big John Henderson is also in there too.

Indeed, Hendo is absolutely crap, he'll be back in the BDO within a year

Re: Another Darts Thread : Sun Jan 16, 2011 10:16 pm  

Dave Lister wrote:

Indeed, Hendo is absolutely crap, he'll be back in the BDO within a year

The only one who will maybe have an impact is Chisnall. Doubt Woods or Hendo will even get close, apart from making a couple of quid in the Tour events.

Rumour is that Winstanley rejected a tour card after initially wanting to accept one. Phillips, Adams and Dekker refused, Phillips I don't know why, Dekker because he wants to focus on his studies and Adams, well, because he doesn't want to test himself against the best and would rather be a big fish in a small pond in the BDO.

Saying that, something that came through from Alan Warriner Little earlier on:

Well done yesterday to big John Henderson in qualifying under the stress of the BDO texting/phoning him with the usual idle threats..Well done big fella

Re: Another Darts Thread : Mon Jan 17, 2011 12:07 pm  

WireFanatic III wrote:

:)

The only one who will maybe have an impact is Chisnall. Doubt Woods or Hendo will even get close, apart from making a couple of quid in the Tour events.

Rumour is that Winstanley rejected a tour card after initially wanting to accept one. Phillips, Adams and Dekker refused, Phillips I don't know why, Dekker because he wants to focus on his studies and Adams, well, because he doesn't want to test himself against the best and would rather be a big fish in a small pond in the BDO.

Saying that, something that came through from Alan Warriner Little earlier on:

Threats ? That's stupid.

Re: Another Darts Thread : Wed Jan 19, 2011 5:07 pm  

So the way I've researched and read it, 16 won tour cards at Q School, 9 from the Q School Order of Merit. There's a 128 player limit for events, so does that mean the top 103 in the world all automatically win tour cards?