Lakeside World Professional Championships 2017 7-15 Jan

[only85]

BT Sport will not be free to BT TV subscribers (i.e. me) from August. So that will be even fewer people watching Lakeside on BT Sport next year.

This is actually a inavative move from bt, the line rental hasn't risen just a £3 extra for sports be interesting to see how the others react to this i.e. the dirty digger / talk talk etc

[WCDPA]

BT Sport will not be free to BT TV subscribers (i.e. me) from August. So that will be even fewer people watching Lakeside on BT Sport next year.

Remember C4 signing Lakeside for 2 years did BT sign for 2 as well.

[Ginge]

BT getting its money ready for the current round of CL bidding, then.

[Zapp Brannigan]

BT Sport will not be free to BT TV subscribers (i.e. me) from August. So that will be even fewer people watching Lakeside on BT Sport next year.

Remember C4 signing Lakeside for 2 years did BT sign for 2 as well.

Sounds like it

http://www.channel4.com/info/commission ... sport-faqs

[only85]

[quote="Ginge"]BT getting its money ready for the current round of CL bidding, then.[/quote

its well know in certain circles that bt can easily out fund the dirty digger, without this £3 token increase (that's all it is ) as I have pointed out previously the line rental charge has not increased which is a new tactic that none of the big 4 have previously done put a token charge for the sport but not increase line rental,

[Ginge]

I'm confused. Why do you keep calling Sky the "dirty digger"?

[Rout]

I'm confused. Why do you keep calling Sky the "dirty digger"?

That nickname was given to Rupert Murdoch based on his media empire and they way they go about "getting" news and the page 3 girls etc

[Ginge]

I'm confused. Why do you keep calling Sky the "dirty digger"?

That nickname was given to Rupert Murdoch based on his media empire and they way they go about "getting" news.

I see. Genuinely never heard of that one before. Maybe if people just use the proper name there would be no confusion...

[devosteve]

Was there any truth in the story that there was a fight in the players bar?

If The Food And Drink are So Bad why have they got away with it for so long from a health aspect?

[Ginge]

@oche_balboa 13h13 hours ago
The Sun did a "A week in the life of Daryl Fitton" in their paper today. wasn't funny in reality. #Darts

What the actual fuck?!?! Did anyone see this?

[Ginge]

@oche_balboa 13h13 hours ago
The Sun did a "A week in the life of Daryl Fitton" in their paper today. wasn't funny in reality. #Darts

What the actual fek?!?! Did anyone see this?

Found it. Could have been a lot better:

[devosteve]

Is that a spoof column?

The bdo : the poor, sweaty overweight uncle who doesn't get invited for Christmas!

[Rout]

Awful.

[Addicks Fan]

Interesting review of the Lakeside experience by Raymond Smith:

http://www.dartsaustralia.com/2017/01/3 ... xperience/


Seems like he really enjoyed it, but the fact that it is so different to anything else some of these players experience must have an effect on their performance. Seems that he suffered from the thieving as well. Not sure I understand what he's saying about the hotel costs?

[Ginge]

"Getting to and from Lakeside from Heathrow Airport is expensive. I recommend contacting the Lakeside Hotel ahead of time and booking their taxi service. It’s £42 – £46 one way, but cheaper than any other option you will find anywhere in the UK."

Erm, surely the train is cheaper than that?!

As for the hotel, he just wasnt budgeting for it being that expensive is my reading of it.

[Si Robin]

£15.40 to Farnborough North from Heathrow.

[Booji Boy]

As an aside, a BDO thread elsewhere is crying about this forum from this point onwards

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showpost ... tcount=294


Apparently you ban people who troll about the PDC. Come on Madsocks, join up and tell us who you are referring to!

How's the list coming on Ginge?

All updated!

Madsocks telling it how it is, there.

Ifm talking about himself there.

[Ginge]

Nah I dont think its him, has Ian ever mentioned having a cat?

https://forums.digitalspy.com/discussio ... ing#latest

And unless hes pretending to be a Warrington rugby fan over there.....

[Booji Boy]

Nah I dont think its him, has Ian ever mentioned having a cat?

https://forums.digitalspy.com/discussio ... ing#latest

And unless hes pretending to be a Warrington rugby fan over there.....

Yeah he recently got a cat, big ginger thing I saw it on his facebook feed. There is also a pic of him wearing a warrington shirt on there as well.

[BlueSpark]

Nah I dont think its him, has Ian ever mentioned having a cat?

https://forums.digitalspy.com/discussio ... ing#latest

And unless hes pretending to be a Warrington rugby fan over there.....

Yeah he recently got a cat, big ginger thing I saw it on his facebook feed. There is also a pic of him wearing a warrington shirt on there as well.