I'll bite for the troll ....Grassroots would survive without the BDO - the local leagues are organised at local level, the superleagues organised by the counties. Proper fans can follow both the BDO and the PDC but you're so blinkered and blinded you can't see that. Exactly. The BDO diehards' argum...

Through tv advertising the games more played today as in competitive darts today as when I recall when young not hardly any young guys played the game at all as , was all mainly middle aged men when I recall from around 1976 them days , but was playing for fun more so to stay on the board although ...

123.4 , that's a shit load more than 112. Taylors pathetic averages are not even in the Ball Park. MvG has hit a homer, Taylors just registering base hits. About 1 dart per leg difference. For all the obsession with averages (particularly in short matches), 12 darters are just as effective as 10 da...

Through tv advertising the games more played today as in competitive darts today as when I recall when young not hardly any young guys played the game at all as , was all mainly middle aged men when I recall from around 1976 them days , but was playing for fun more so to stay on the board although ...

MVG v thorn year he played uk iopen for 1st time in last 64 they had 6 100+ finshes in a row That was at the 2008 UK Open, just after Thornton had switched to the PDC. It was MvG's second UK Open, as Colin Osborne had beaten MvG at the 2007 UK Open. That was another great match too, with Taylor doi...

Nicholson beating Taylor 9-8, what year was that? That was in the Last 16 of the 2011 UK Open. Nicholson beating Taylor 9-8, what year was that? That was after he'd beaten him in the Players Championship Finals at the Circus Tavern and I thought he had "it" but seems I may have been wrong...

There's so many good memories. I liked Shayne Burgess' revival and run to the final in 2003. Barney's 11-10 win over Taylor in the quarter finals in 2006 stands out with it being Barney's first TV win over Taylor. And in 2008, when Barney beat a seemingly invincible Taylor 10-9 in the quarter finals...

The Cat wrote:There was some dispute wasn't there about the actual legs?

Originally the story included 4 9 darters or something like that.

Priestley missed a dart for a 9-darter in each of the first 4 legs, and then did a 9-darter in the fifth leg.

Over a short format, completely zoning for a few legs is possible. Some players have done it on the floor, including Michael Smith recently. I doubt anyone will do what Dennis Priestley did on the dartboard against Bobby George in a practice match at the 1993 Embassy. Priestley won 5-0 in legs with...

Over a short format, completely zoning for a few legs is possible. Some players have done it on the floor, including Michael Smith recently. I doubt anyone will do what Dennis Priestley did on the dartboard against Bobby George in a practice match at the 1993 Embassy. Priestley won 5-0 in legs with ...

Michael van Gerwen won 7-5 after being 2-5 down in the 2006 World Masters final. It was the last of a hat-trick of televised matches between MvG and Adams in 2006. Michael van Gerwen was a teenage sensation from 2005-2007. There was a lot of hype about him, hype that he justified a lot during that p...

There's no reason for a merger now. If the BDO had accepted Barry Hearn's takeover bid, then it would have been better for the sport. That ship has sailed now, though. It's obvious that Barry decided that the BDO had made their decision in rejecting his takeover bid and had chosen to become an irrel...

the year prior to the switched he said he was staying, like king he lied. Bet all those that stayed in the bdo are asking themselves why Did Barney lie though? Or did Hearn come in with an amazing offer?? He was give a PL place after all I don't think "lie" is the correct word. It was dip...

the year prior to the switched he said he was staying, like king he lied. Raymond van Barneveld was vowing to stay with the BDO just 1 month before he switched. See the BBC article below dated 16 January 2006: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/darts/4617626.stm I like how he mentions tha...

10 years ago today on 15 February 2006 was one of the biggest events in the history of darts and certainly the big event that has led to today's PDC. Raymond van Barneveld moved to the PDC, citing that he wanted to challenge Phil Taylor. Raymond got a place as one of the seven players in the 2006 Pr...

Professional tennis was at least on a par with the amateurs by the 1930s in terms of standard, and perhaps superior (opinions vary). Players like Bobby Riggs and Jack Kramer in the 1940s massively improved the professional standard, and by the time that Pancho Gonzales was dominating professional t...

I personally would love to see a PDC version of the World Masters format. The US Open had it less than a decade ago.

History of tennis page on Wikipedia has taken a pounding tonight. :roll: It really hasn't. I've been a big tennis fan for years, same with darts. Professional tennis was at least on a par with the amateurs by the 1930s in terms of standard, and perhaps superior (opinions vary). Players like Bobby R...

Although for the longest time it wasn't much of a tour on either side of the divide. Until shortly before the Open Era began, being a professional tennis player consisted of little more than exhibition-style appearances and only the very best players of the day could afford to make a career out of ...

Other sports manage to cope without the need for two organisations to choose from. I don't hear many tennis fans complaining because it's always the same players competing, and they'd rather the BBC showed an amateur competition. Not the point, Tennis never had a split did it Tennis did once have a...