European championships - Day one discussion

[devosteve]

Guys back to the darts. we all know you are showing off with your fancy French names . Still can't understand how people keep into that sport with the massive amount of drug cheats. I bet you guys are glad the darts is not on live .

Come on Whitlock.

Webster to play out of his skin tonight!

I used to be a fairly competitive cyclist and take my hat off to these guys. What they put their bodies through is nothing short of astounding. However since all the drugs scandals the reputation of the sport has been very badly tarnished but I still love what they do.

As for the darts, Webster will only win if Wade has been taking performance hindering drugs.

Yeah, they are called beer and lager. Just think Webster will be relaxed. This event is a complete bonus. Anyway we shall see: will be watching on sky+.

[STEVE M]

P1ssed off the first two matches are cut off,really wanted to see the Caven v Chisnall match.
It's all on the day,first to 6 is pretty short so to pick several winners is tough,have gone for Thornton to beat Dolan although Dolan is a very decent player these days.
Barneveld to win by 4 legs or more plus Peter Wright(changed my mind from Lloyd as you cant oppose wright at the moment).
And my longshot double was Barneveld and Taylor to both win 6-2.
Someone mentioned earlier that Webster might get his game together and have a good run,that would not surprise me in the slightest as I think he's world class on his day but you can just see hes badly lacking confidence.

[showtime69]

Thursday July 4
8pm-12pm Local Time (7pm-11pm UK Time)

First Round x8
Stuart Kellett v Ronny Huybrechts
Jamie Caven v Dave Chisnall
Colin Lloyd v Peter Wright
Robert Thornton v Brendan Dolan
Simon Whitlock v Kim Huybrechts
Phil Taylor v Vincent van der Voort
Raymond van Barneveld v Tomas Seyler
James Wade v Mark Webster

Big fan of Whitlock but it seems he is going out early in events (might just be my perception?) but hope the crowd lift him tonight.

Caven in a bit of form, so a test for chizzy .

But looking forward to the last match (more than the others). I expect Webster to take out Wade. In sport you sometimes get lucky (as Webster has here in a sense) but you then have to capitalise on it. How well does wade travel?

Webster should be relaxed, he has to look at his participation as a bonus and figure he has nothing to lose and just go for it

Welcome back, long time no see.

cheers mate, its been a while since ive been on

just feeling my way back in haha

[ChrisW]

79 Entrants in the prediction comp.

[Spud180]

Any streams, even the rtl 1?

[theflatman]

R. Huybrechts throwing some wonderful darts. Pleasure to watch. Not much Kellet can do about it.

[Neilly1986]

Huybrechts averaging around 110 here at the break.

Mason the main star in commentary though he really is a mile in front of anything that Sky have to offer.

[Welshwizard79]

good game this

[OllyNufc180]

so are ITV4 just going to catch up with the action at 8pm or will there be highlights shown from the games we've missed as caven vs chisnall is on next and coverage doesnt start until 8?

[The Crusader]

Found a link

[Chizzyfan]

Found a link

Wish I could...

[The Crusader]

pm sent chizzy

[fling]

Found a link

Can you send me the link also ? Thanks

[The Crusader]

Inboxed ya both

[spaceman70]

Inboxed ya both

Yes please.

[The Crusader]

done spaceman

[The Crusader]

Chizzy gettin battered

[slymaster]

Caven in fine form so far.
4-0, 115AVE

[Neilly1986]

This is sick from Caven.

Awesome darts.

[The Crusader]

chizzy awful