PDC Grand Slam of Darts- 9th-17th November 2019- Wolverhampton

[devosteve]

Lisa plays okay and the call for equal prize fund in the bdo, for the ladies, is raised on fanatics again!

[Bomber]

Duzza doesn’t look convincing over the short format.

If he gets out of this group I think he has a good chance over the longer format

he shouldn't have touched him - after shaking hands before the first leg he then stroked bullyboy's beard who then looked like he was sniffing a fart for a few seconds - strange

[ChrisW]

Managed to miss all this afternoon's session. Is anyone keeping score

[devosteve]

Managed to miss all this afternoon's session. Is anyone keeping score

4-0. But I am not saying who to.

[ChrisW]

Managed to miss all this afternoon's session. Is anyone keeping score

4-0. But I am not saying who to.

Must be the women.

[craigmc]

Lisa plays okay and the call for equal prize fund in the bdo, for the ladies, is raised on fanatics again!

Will be equal soon enough. But men's brought down to the ladies payscale.

[ChrisW]

Lisa plays okay and the call for equal prize fund in the bdo, for the ladies, is raised on fanatics again!

Will be equal soon enough. But men's brought down to the ladies payscale.

It is equal at ally pally and the slam.

[ILAD]

Lisa plays okay and the call for equal prize fund in the bdo, for the ladies, is raised on fanatics again!

Will be equal soon enough. But men's brought down to the ladies payscale.

I agree, they can’t sell seats and can’t get sponsors so the money will be getting less and less. Equal money but not in the way the ladies want, what a shame.

[ILAD]

2019 BoyleSports Grand Slam of Darts
Saturday November 9
Afternoon Session (1300 GMT)
Groups E-H First Matches
Nathan Aspinall 5-0 Martin Schindler (H)
Ryan Harrington 5-4 Danny Noppert (F)
Gabriel Clemens 5-1 Brendan Dolan (G)
Dave Chisnall 5-3 Jamie Hughes (E)
Daryl Gurney 5-0 Richard Veenstra (G)
Peter Wright 5-2 Wayne Warren (F)
Rob Cross 5-2 Lisa Ashton (E)
Michael Smith 5-3 Glen Durrant (H)

Evening Session (2000 GMT)
Groups A-D First Matches
Darren Webster v William O'Connor (D)
Gerwyn Price v Mikuru Suzuki (C)
Ian White v Steve Lennon (B)
Gary Anderson v Dave Parletti (D)
James Wade v Wesley Harms (B)
Michael van Gerwen v Jim Williams (A)
Adrian Lewis v Ross Smith (A)
Dimitri Van den Bergh v Robert Thornton (C)

Group Stage Format: Best of nine legs

[malcy93]

Annoying at the late start tonight. I presume that Sky are waiting until 8pm to ensure their Premier League football coverage is over so they don’t have a clash for the audience.

Hopefully they go straight into the matches and not loads of chat first as they usually do.

[365Tonka]

Just doesn't feel right starting late. I'll end up falling asleep by the end, and that's just sitting at home. At least the other days are all sensible starting times.

[craigmc]

Lisa plays okay and the call for equal prize fund in the bdo, for the ladies, is raised on fanatics again!

Will be equal soon enough. But men's brought down to the ladies payscale.

It is equal at ally pally and the slam.

Rightly so. No reason a woman couldn't win any PDC event if good enough.True equality

[ChrisW]

Lisa plays okay and the call for equal prize fund in the bdo, for the ladies, is raised on fanatics again!

Will be equal soon enough. But men's brought down to the ladies payscale.

It is equal at ally pally and the slam.

Rightly so. No reason a woman couldn't win any PDC event if good enough.True equality

Darts for all the ladies.

[malcy93]

Just doesn't feel right starting late. I'll end up falling asleep by the end, and that's just sitting at home. At least the other days are all sensible starting times.

Completely agree. Will record, so catch up with later matches in morning.
My body clock doesn’t handle late nights as have to be up for work at 5am.

[unsanctionedBDOfan]

BDO 3 down at the moment, not surprising having played their group 1 opponents.

[craigmc]

4

[ssjsa]

Still not caught up with this afternoon's matches and currently got to Cross 4-2 up against Lisa.

Thought Veenstra looked like a rabbit in the headlights and played poorly, Wright and Cross have been solid, Aspinall played great and Chizzy vs Yozza was a good match.

Thought Laura Turner was very good on commentary, but not as impressive when on stage.

[Demolition_fan]

Come on Darren

[Demolition_fan]

Unlucky so far, darts just on the wires of the trebles

[craigmc]

Looking at today's matches and tonight's line up it is only the 2 ladies BDO players who bring something to this competition. Ok Durrant is one of the 6 men but the other 5 offer nothing. With the better BDO players jumping ship or the more recognisable players at end of careers the standard is just not worthy of tv and certainly not worth paying to spectate so this Masters with mainly county players will be the norm now.