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.

Chisnall joins the PDC.

And Brian Woods

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.

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

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

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.

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?

It's 101 from PDC Order of Merit automatically win a tour card, 25 from the Q School and the last two go to Stacy Bromberg and Tricia Wright to make the 128.

Then, I think, if there's a shortfall in numbers for a tournament they'll use the Q School Order of Merit to make the numbers up.

Nobody's mentioned him, so still no PDC move for Waites? He really should move across now IMO.