Fallon Sherrock

[Tommy T-Rex]

Who?

Orca Zilstra

[ChrisW]

Say what now?

[The Master]

Well Said Deta

[Zapp Brannigan]

Well Said Deta

Well everything bar the point about plenty of time to win the ladies worlds, it was probably her last chance

[Black Velvet]

Who?

Orca Zilstra

Oh. Truly hilarious.

[Deleted User]

Without winning a World title it's just some girl off the amateur circuit, not even the best, hammering a few professional male players. it makes the PDC look very over rated.

Paddy calling the BDO the "amateur circuit", there.

Hater.

[oche balboa]

Well Said Deta

Well everything bar the point about plenty of time to win the ladies worlds, it was probably her last chance

They said this in 2009 about Dobromsloya. She returned and won the worlds

[Zapp Brannigan]

Well Said Deta

Well everything bar the point about plenty of time to win the ladies worlds, it was probably her last chance

They said this in 2009 about Dobromsloya. She returned and won the worlds

I was thinking more there won’t be a bdo world championship next year

[robot]

Well Said Deta

+1

[Murphio]

Think you missed the point, pal, if that's what she wants to do, fair play. Long term though, not sure it's great.

Unless someone throws millions at womens darts, she will never have a better opportunity to make the money she will in the next 12 months.

The BDO should hope Greaves wins, and the publicity they'd get from that. How do they capitalise on that though?

Greaves is hardly a poster girl for darts. In fact she is a bad advert for darts.

What a horrendous thing to say, participants based on looks.........

It's true, or are you seriously saying that Anca Ilstra or Maria O'Brian would be in the World Series and Premier Leauge if they had done what Fallon did?

True - the princess of the palace, pretty English white girl next door thing is a huge part of her marketing appeal. It's undeniable imo.

[Ginge]

I also agree. Paddy, stop pretending to be outraged.

[markymark]

Remember when the BDO had two young World Champions and did no promotion of them or their achievements?

[Tommy T-Rex]

Remember when the BDO had two young World Champions and did no promotion of them or their achievements?

They did a sell out theatre tour with their 2 world champions one year!

[1205]

Unless someone throws millions at womens darts, she will never have a better opportunity to make the money she will in the next 12 months.

The BDO should hope Greaves wins, and the publicity they'd get from that. How do they capitalise on that though?

Greaves is hardly a poster girl for darts. In fact she is a bad advert for darts.

What a horrendous thing to say, participants based on looks.........

It's true, or are you seriously saying that Anca Ilstra or Maria O'Brian would be in the World Series and Premier Leauge if they had done what Fallon did?

True - the princess of the palace, pretty English white girl next door thing is a huge part of her marketing appeal. It's undeniable imo.

I don't think Sherrock's at all pretty. But she's young, feminine, an OK communicator (huge contrast with Ashton) and being a single parent also adds to the story.

Looks could be a factor for some of the World Series, so others might not have got the MSG spot, but I think any female player able to do what Sherrock did would have had interest in other places like Australia and New Zealand.

Especially true of Greaves. Doesn't matter that she's overweight. Greaves is _16_ this year. A 16-year old girl successfully competing against men would have been a huge story and probably bigger than Sherrock.

[Paddy McGinty]

I also agree. Paddy, stop pretending to be outraged.

So this is what our society has come to.......disgraceful. Just goes to prove my point about this being sports entertainment, the PDC have ruined darts as I once knew it. Just can't believe there's so many here that are still blatantly filled with lookist tendencies . The women get their place on how they look. The heart and soul has been ripped out of darts.

[TheSandman]

I also agree. Paddy, stop pretending to be outraged.

So this is what our society has come to.......disgraceful. Just goes to prove my point about this being sports entertainment, the PDC have ruined darts as I once knew it. Just can't believe there's so many here that are still blatantly filled with lookist tendencies . The women get their place on how they look. The heart and soul has been ripped out of darts.

I totally agree paddy! The heart and soul was ripped out of the darts, the day the chairman of the BDO added fake names into a draw so his wife could be seeded.

Corruption at its finest, the Russians would be proud.

[1205]

Think you missed the point, pal, if that's what she wants to do, fair play. Long term though, not sure it's great.

Unless someone throws millions at womens darts, she will never have a better opportunity to make the money she will in the next 12 months.

The BDO should hope Greaves wins, and the publicity they'd get from that. How do they capitalise on that though?

Greaves is hardly a poster girl for darts. In fact she is a bad advert for darts.

What a horrendous thing to say, participants based on looks.........

It's true, or are you seriously saying that Anca Ilstra or Maria O'Brian would be in the World Series and Premier Leauge if they had done what Fallon did?

O'Brien wouldn't have been going to the USA, but she'd have been in the Premier League. Don't know about Zijlstra. The big story is a woman playing to a good standard and beating men at darts in the top competition, and the whoever it was, the crowd would have gone mental, as they did when Ashton took the first set against Dekker, and when Suzuki was competing against Richardson. And, O'Brien has some personality, which means that she'd be media friendly.

It's darts, where the long-time world champion during its recent growth was a short, balding fat man, people are still talking about a grotesquely fat man's Premier League walk-on and after some moaning from a few stupid reactionaries nobody cares any more that the PDC got rid of the walk-on girls.

[Deleted User]

Well Said Deta

Well everything bar the point about plenty of time to win the ladies worlds, it was probably her last chance

They said this in 2009 about Dobromsloya. She returned and won the worlds

Whooooooosh!! It probably won't exist next year!

[brainim]

from this one exhibition playing with a celeb she is going to make more than the entire BDO ladies prize pool apparently

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/10663239 ... ournament/

[ILAD]

"The star threw the entire BDO World Darts Championship into doubt this week when announcing her withdrawal."

Where did they get this crap from.