BDO World Darts Trophy 2017

[nikkiboy]

Absolute zero mention of this on any of the Unilad FB pages. Then again, they did pick the wrong day to be announcing it...

Because of Roger Moore dying?

[Ginge]

He was the best Bond and I wont hear a word said otherwise.

[Ginge]

Absolute zero mention of this on any of the Unilad FB pages. Then again, they did pick the wrong day to be announcing it...

Because of Roger Moore dying?

Stop it.

[nikkiboy]

Yes although to what extent is unknown. FR have booked-in live sport on Friday night and Sunday afternoon.

So it IS on TV, but you said...... lol

Better than fek all but this cloak and dagger hush hush stuff really pisses people off

paid-for TV NIkki, Paid-for TV

All TV is paid for Skewy

FFS Nikki, stop being pedantic or thick. WHichever it is, please stop

What?

Are you sure that they haven't secured a sponsor to pay for it?

[nikkiboy]

He was the best Bond and I wont hear a word said otherwise.

Plus his name has been an ethos of yours, allegedly

[Ginge]

He was the best Bond and I wont hear a word said otherwise.

Plus his name has been an ethos of yours, allegedly

It was for a few years, aye.

He used to go on the Jonathan Ross talk show when he was still on the BBC, was always good for a laugh even into his late 70s and 80s.

[Rout]

This is all great news, but the fact remains no one is buying tickets and putting money into the event.
This is going to cost them a tidy sum.

its not great news and by believing it is you are falling into the classic BDO trap of 'something is better than nothing' style of annoucments'
The BDO is heading for the dustheap at an alarming rate. Remember this was on EuroSport once.

Last year it was on one of the country's biggest FTA channels available to everyone on TV...

An excellent celebration of the achievement of having this event on that channel.

I'm very confident this is the sort of thing you were saying at the time too. I'd be very surprised if you were derogatory about it back then....

[Ginge]

This is all great news, but the fact remains no one is buying tickets and putting money into the event.
This is going to cost them a tidy sum.

its not great news and by believing it is you are falling into the classic BDO trap of 'something is better than nothing' style of annoucments'
The BDO is heading for the dustheap at an alarming rate. Remember this was on EuroSport once.

Last year it was on one of the country's biggest FTA channels available to everyone on TV...

An excellent celebration of the achievement of having this event on that channel.

I'm very confident this is the sort of thing you were saying at the time too. I'd be very surprised if you were derogatory about it back then....

Enough chasing of me, do you still think...

They are playing roulette with 50k.

??

[nikkiboy]

This is all great news, but the fact remains no one is buying tickets and putting money into the event.
This is going to cost them a tidy sum.

its not great news and by believing it is you are falling into the classic BDO trap of 'something is better than nothing' style of annoucments'
The BDO is heading for the dustheap at an alarming rate. Remember this was on EuroSport once.

Last year it was on one of the country's biggest FTA channels available to everyone on TV...

An excellent celebration of the achievement of having this event on that channel.

I'm very confident this is the sort of thing you were saying at the time too. I'd be very surprised if you were derogatory about it back then....

The day before Dave was announced he was busy arguing with me that Dave would never ever show the darts

[Ginge]

Chase me, chase me!!!!

[nikkiboy]

Not chasing just doing a Ginge and repeating what you said

[Ginge]

Not chasing just doing a Ginge and repeating what you said

"When Barney moved to the PDC they gave him a wildcard into ranking events"

[nikkiboy]

Not chasing just doing a Ginge and repeating what you said

"When Barney moved to the PDC they gave him a wildcard into ranking events"

They're still doing it or do you think Klaasen's operation timing was just a coincidence

[Ginge]

Nick thinking the World Cup is a ranking event, there.

[WCDPA]

Perhaps it's time for our side of sport to cut its cloth to suit and all that , the old BBC deal was great , just as Eurosport was getting involved with BDO, EDO and even Jersey a certain party with his bullshite ruined all that .
Frontrunner are keen to grow our band and EDO are progressing nicely with them Selsey getting decent coverage in June , and hopefully a longer term guaranteed coverage will result .
Pleased the BDO are also using them on this occasion , perhaps they can work with EDO and realise we occasionally do bring something to the table , our directors the business people you rarely hear about saw through Delux at an early stage and brought Frontrunner to the table .
If we work together we can improve if the in fighting of the last few years continue .....we will fail .

[Ginge]

Perhaps it's time for our side of sport to cut its cloth to suit and all that , the old BBC deal was great , just as Eurosport was getting involved with BDO, EDO and even Jersey a certain party with his bullshite ruined all that .
Frontrunner are keen to grow our band and EDO are progressing nicely with them Selsey got decent coverage in June , and hopefully a longer term guaranteed coverage will result .
Pleased the BDO are also using them on this occasion , perhaps they can work with EDO and realise we occasionally do bring something to the table , our directors the business people you rarely hear about saw through Delux at an early stage and brought Frontrunner to the table .
If we work together we can improve if the in fighting of the last few years continue .....we will fail .

I think its too convenient to blame Warren brown for Eurosport not showing darts anymore, they had just been taken over by Discovery Communications , its perfectly possible they were going to ditch darts coverage anyway . Their standards seem to have improved, the snooker coverage on there these days is about ten times better than it was a few years back, they may have deemed a Parrack/Battersby production as too amateurish for their channel.

What all this proves is that the PDC dominate the modern darts broadcasting landscape and outside of one event (Lakeside) , everyone else on that side of the divide either has to give away its coverage for free, or pay for it. That isnt going to be changing anytime soon.

[thelad1985]

bdo are on the up and up.

[Ginge]

As an aside, Im looking forward to reading the live comments on the Unilad site as thie live stream If you thought the comments John Parrack had on his streams were bad...

[nikkiboy]

As an aside, Im looking forward to reading the live comments on the Unilad site as thie live stream If you thought the comments John Parrack had on his streams were bad...

No only forums have bad comments

[Ginge]

As an aside, Im looking forward to reading the live comments on the Unilad site as thie live stream If you thought the comments John Parrack had on his streams were bad...

No only forums have bad comments

Unilad are going to rip it to shreds. Guaranteed. Oche will be fighting a losing battle on there....