Ginge wrote: ↑Mon Feb 04, 2019 11:21 am No, about someone who has only been in the PDC a few weeks being picked. Wouldnt surprise me if some picked up the phone to Manley and had a moan.

PDPA member Ian McFarlane would be thrilled, though, I'm sure.

Not to mention that the vast majority of people in the audience have been there as players or players' friends/family since Friday morning and probably enjoy getting home at a reasonable hour on Sunday... At least we've been spared the usual suggestion that the PDC should somehow look at incorporati...

Zapp Brannigan wrote: ↑Thu Jan 31, 2019 4:19 pm There is a brand new system for this season could be some players tried to use the old system

How would that have worked, considering this year's tournaments aren't listed for entry on the old system at all?

You , I and most players agree that what has happened at this weekends Romanian Open , or whatever it’s called , is wrong but IMO I believe the organisation of said country had the opportunity to deal with it. They checked the permissions given and said player was allowed to play . It is done now a...

Ginge wrote: ↑Sun Jan 27, 2019 9:05 pm

Demonloy wrote: The very idea that you have a plan is just priceless.

His plan is to defend the man who threatened him at Lakeside. Bizarre.

And I doubt Jacklin would employ the "I was joking" excuse about that, too.

The BDO and oche deserve each other.

BlueSpark wrote: ↑Sun Jan 27, 2019 8:25 am The Metro may as well be the BDOs media partner.

Three articles with Jacklin quotes there in three days, each more insane than the previous. Smacks a bit of "giving a fool enough rope to hang himself" to me.

People not happy that all prize fund will now be done by bank transfer and not cash...say especially the lower amounts will turn to nothing once exchange rates and bank fees apply.... So if a British winner wins the €5k top prize, what is he going to do with €5k in Euros? Some people are never happ...

Too many. Not good enough to get a card but rewarded with places at the Euro Tour. Doesn't make sense. Associate players took 25 qualifying spots in last year's 13 South/West qualifiers while competing against tour card players. No idea why you think they don't collectively deserve 2 places per eve...

Reinier wrote: ↑Mon Jan 21, 2019 9:56 am The two spots for Western Europe Associate members is the most ludacriss.

Too many or not enough?

Those who tried but failed: Peter Jacques Kevin Painter Darren Johnson Andrew Gilding Stephen Burton Robbie Green Jamie Caven Jimmy Hendriks Scott Taylor Ritchie Edhouse Steve Hine Aden Kirk Richie Burnett Paul Rowley John Part Maik Langendorf Prakash Jiwa Lee Bryant Scott Darbyshire + de Graaf, La...

Heh, that's shocking, and as has been said that's actually one of their better efforts. Exactly my point though, it's quality not quantity. It's like that programme from a few months ago for the Masters or whatever that had Des and some other random bloke on the front. Yeah, that's funny in itself ...

MancheStar wrote: ↑Tue Jan 15, 2019 8:55 pm With the standard improving in the women’s game (...)

That's another Nicholsonism, isn't it?

footballafc wrote: ↑Sun Jan 13, 2019 11:31 pm The scoring:
1 point - player who lost in the Last 8 ("daily tour card final") on any day and ends up leaving Q School without a card

Last 4 nowadays.

...because they obviously all believe they have an excellent shot at winning one, and aren't just doing it for the Challenge Tour and/or as a show of gratitude. So now they are spending £450 on a show gratitude? If the rules haven't changed, Ashton and Dobromyslova got theirs for free. (Well, for t...

...because they obviously all believe they have an excellent shot at winning one, and aren't just doing it for the Challenge Tour and/or as a show of gratitude.

It's irrelevant anyway. Suzuki may be getting treated as a star inside the darts bubble at tournament sites or sponsor shindigs. Leave the building that those are taking place in, and it'll be a whole different matter.

If it wasn't for social media the people of Japan would never have heard about Naomi Osaka's US Open victory.

So we should believe you over a professional player and media worker?? I’ve heard it all now. Aren't you the same person who earlier insinuated that lack of professional coverage in print and broadcast media don't matter and Twitter et al. are where it's at? Guess people working in media do matter ...

DavidB wrote: ↑Sun Jan 13, 2019 4:04 pm Not seething but I’ll listen to experts rather than you, thanks!

That's your problem in a nutshell. Too gullible and clueless to recognize "expert" BS for what it is. But then, you've pretty much made a forum career out of it, so don't be stopping now.

While you're at it, how much do they talk about Asada or any other male Japanese player? From what I recall the Japanese players tend to get a mention or two in the big national papers when they appear in the PDC's World Cup or at Ally Pally, though it's really barebones stuff that doesn't really d...