trotter01 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 6:52 pm

phil davies wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 5:31 pm

oche balboa wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 5:23 pm

phil davies wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 5:20 pm

oche balboa wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 5:14 pm You do realise you have to get a tour card first.

If you can’t win one then your not a top player anyway. Plus if you fail you still have challenge tour/development (if young enough) plus if your European like him then some ET qualifiers.

Joining the PDC is gaining a tourcard

Exactly so if you fail then you can both pdc and BDO events like Waites will be doing this year after his pathetic attempt to win a card. Alternatively you can do a Jamie Hughes and just focus on challenge tour and improving your game ready for Q school next year.

Jamie Hughes didn't have much choice as a Lakeside qualifier failing at QS.. His options back then were limited... much more choice and flexibility to all QS failures now..

Mandigers has a fair point though.. You shouldn't have to be a PDC player to expect venues, dates, TV stations and prize money and cut off dates to be set in stone.. to be fair though Des does seem to be trying to put all this in place.. Its just happening very slowly

phil davies wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 5:31 pm

oche balboa wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 5:23 pm

phil davies wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 5:20 pm

oche balboa wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 5:14 pm You do realise you have to get a tour card first.

If you can’t win one then your not a top player anyway. Plus if you fail you still have challenge tour/development (if young enough) plus if your European like him then some ET qualifiers.

Joining the PDC is gaining a tourcard

Exactly so if you fail then you can both pdc and BDO events like Waites will be doing this year after his pathetic attempt to win a card. Alternatively you can do a Jamie Hughes and just focus on challenge tour and improving your game ready for Q school next year.

phil davies wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 9:13 pm

oche balboa wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 8:00 pm

phil davies wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 5:31 pm

oche balboa wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 5:23 pm

phil davies wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 5:20 pm

If you can’t win one then your not a top player anyway. Plus if you fail you still have challenge tour/development (if young enough) plus if your European like him then some ET qualifiers.

Joining the PDC is gaining a tourcard

Exactly so if you fail then you can both pdc and BDO events like Waites will be doing this year after his pathetic attempt to win a card. Alternatively you can do a Jamie Hughes and just focus on challenge tour and improving your game ready for Q school next year.

Jamie Hughes had no choice but to focus on the challenge Tour, Otherwise he would have played in the BDO

Thankfully for him he no longer has to put up with the shambolic organising of events on that side anymore.

ChrisW wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2019 5:02 pm BDO International Open and Youth Festival has been cancelled and in 2020 will be in the Magna Centre Rotherham.

ChrisW wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2019 5:02 pm BDO International Open and Youth Festival has been cancelled and in 2020 will be in the Magna Centre Rotherham.

DavidOwen67 wrote:

ChrisW wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2019 5:02 pm BDO International Open and Youth Festival has been cancelled and in 2020 will be in the Magna Centre Rotherham.

One of Des's big announcements? A cancelled event?

devosteve wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2019 5:30 pm

ChrisW wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2019 5:02 pm BDO International Open and Youth Festival has been cancelled and in 2020 will be in the Magna Centre Rotherham.

Any reason given?

At least it is on next year (or planned to be on anyway ).

Not the start of things unravelling?

ChrisW wrote:

devosteve wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2019 5:30 pm

ChrisW wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2019 5:02 pm BDO International Open and Youth Festival has been cancelled and in 2020 will be in the Magna Centre Rotherham.

Any reason given?

At least it is on next year (or planned to be on anyway ).

Not the start of things unravelling?

Venue problems

devosteve wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2019 7:41 pm Just read on fanatics. So reason to cancel is because they didn't want an unsuitable venue (present one being demolished?). Sure there are tons of suitable venues out there.

Is des losing heart?

DavidOwen67 wrote:

devosteve wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2019 7:41 pm Just read on fanatics. So reason to cancel is because they didn't want an unsuitable venue (present one being demolished?). Sure there are tons of suitable venues out there.

Is des losing heart?

Announcement is on the BDO website.

However to find it you have to scroll past the massive advert for the North Cyprus Open.

Seems it's all about priorities.

DavidOwen67 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2019 8:15 pm

devosteve wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2019 7:41 pm Just read on fanatics. So reason to cancel is because they didn't want an unsuitable venue (present one being demolished?). Sure there are tons of suitable venues out there.

Is des losing heart?

Announcement is on the BDO website.

However to find it you have to scroll past the massive advert for the North Cyprus Open.

Seems it's all about priorities.

ChrisW wrote:

DavidOwen67 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2019 8:15 pm

devosteve wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2019 7:41 pm Just read on fanatics. So reason to cancel is because they didn't want an unsuitable venue (present one being demolished?). Sure there are tons of suitable venues out there.

Is des losing heart?

Announcement is on the BDO website.

However to find it you have to scroll past the massive advert for the North Cyprus Open.

Seems it's all about priorities.

It's awful that banner.

I see they have added a new Cat A event to the Welsh Open weekend.

Double Flops wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2019 11:13 pm Seems like Paul James is Des's gloss over man ...no mention of Des's CV and how much he loved the Youth Game but yet they suffer first. After all the 'spineless' insult and everything else ..I wouldn't be a lacky for someone