oche balboa wrote:Yes professional footballers don’t drink lol
But a PL footballer would not, if sent off, then be in the pub next door having a beer at half time.
There is a difference between professional and amateur sport.
I love non league football. I pay to watch it (£8 if anyone is interested). But I would not pay, say £25, as I have done to watch Wigan in the top flight.
And, if we are having a serious discussion, many folk will pay £25 to watch pdc darts (not just ally pally ) but not many would pay £25 to watch the wdt would they?
All am suggesting is that may be one factor is that the players are seen as 'stars' in 1 code whilst in the other you can have a beer at 'half time' with players before and after they play.
This is where your argument suffers, people pay £25.00 and don't watch the darts, watch any PL audience half of them don't even know who's on stage, they are just there for the party atmosphere. By it's very nature entertainment darts attracts audiences from a certain demographic and limited I.Q. who attend in a lame attempt to be cool and get their face on TV.......very sad.
Still gets people in though..........which in turn makes the PDC money.
The BDO would kill for 10% of those people to turn up to this.
Please go and have a guess in the ticket sales thread
oche balboa wrote:Yes professional footballers don’t drink lol
But a PL footballer would not, if sent off, then be in the pub next door having a beer at half time.
There is a difference between professional and amateur sport.
I love non league football. I pay to watch it (£8 if anyone is interested). But I would not pay, say £25, as I have done to watch Wigan in the top flight.
And, if we are having a serious discussion, many folk will pay £25 to watch pdc darts (not just ally pally ) but not many would pay £25 to watch the wdt would they?
All am suggesting is that may be one factor is that the players are seen as 'stars' in 1 code whilst in the other you can have a beer at 'half time' with players before and after they play.
This is where your argument suffers, people pay £25.00 and don't watch the darts, watch any PL audience half of them don't even know who's on stage, they are just there for the party atmosphere. By it's very nature entertainment darts attracts audiences from a certain demographic and limited I.Q. who attend in a lame attempt to be cool and get their face on TV.......very sad.
Still gets people in though..........which in turn makes the PDC money.
The BDO would kill for 10% of those people to turn up to this.
I admit it does but not for the right reasons in my book....... hence why I class it as Darts Entertainment.
I doubt the BDO care if people pay at Lakeside to watch the darts or sit there doing their knitting, its still a person on a seat paying money to be in there. Exactly the same principle.
Ginge wrote:I doubt the BDO care if people pay at Lakeside to watch the darts or sit there doing their knitting, its still a person on a seat paying money to be in there. Exactly the same principle.
Look it was cold and I'd forgotten my big scarf....
I assume players don't want to commit until.they know whether it's on TV and even definitely on I suppose....never known it happen in other sports though..a cut off date is a cut off date and everybody knows
I assume players don't want to commit until.they know whether it's on TV and even definitely on I suppose....never known it happen in other sports though..a cut off date is a yescut off date and everybody knows
It is an invitational event with contracts having to be returned by 25th , if anyone not accepted by then others would have to be contacted and sent contracts to sign ! Today is only the 27th so not long really .
I assume players don't want to commit until.they know whether it's on TV and even definitely on I suppose....never known it happen in other sports though..a cut off date is a yescut off date and everybody knows
It is an invitational event with contracts having to be returned by 25th , if anyone not accepted by then others would have to be contacted and sent contracts to sign ! Today is only the 27th so not long really .
Sensible decision, wouldn't want to run a comp with players missing, oh...........hang on.
"it's the same trolls spouting the same crap every other post.... you have to be some kind of sad act to watch nearly 8 hours of darts a day for 9 days just to post about how crap it is"
I assume players don't want to commit until.they know whether it's on TV and even definitely on I suppose....never known it happen in other sports though..a cut off date is a yescut off date and everybody knows
It is an invitational event with contracts having to be returned by 25th , if anyone not accepted by then others would have to be contacted and sent contracts to sign ! Today is only the 27th so not long really .
How do the PDC confirm a field for their major events the day (2 days at a push) after the qualifying period ends?
Players have to sign contracts there. So to use that as the excuse is a load of shiiiite.
Plus £2000 9 dart and £1000 High Checkout = £50,500
The ladies prize money is ridiculously high there in comparison to the quite poor mens pot...seeing as it's the men who the TV station will be interested in..and the a TV viewers and most ticket buyers then the men should have a far bigger percentage of this money..
It's not like Wimbledon with equal participants and the ladies matches are equally as big a draw to TV and spectators....BDO will always struggle to get TV deals unless they sell the product on the back of the top male players they have left.
ChrisW wrote:13500 ridiculously high?
500 quid for a major. Pfffff.
You didn't read his post properly. He meant in comparison to the men.
If anything the men are being short changed and the women's should stay as it is now.
I read it and understood it fine thanks.
Yes the women's is fine as it is now. Thanks for confirming what I was saying.
Not at all ridiculously high in comparison to the mens.
ChrisW wrote:13500 ridiculously high?
500 quid for a major. Pfffff.
You didn't read his post properly. He meant in comparison to the men.
If anything the men are being short changed and the women's should stay as it is now.
I read it and understood it fine thanks.
Yes the women's is fine as it is now. Thanks for confirming what I was saying.
Not at all ridiculously high in comparison to the mens.
