Rout wrote:
Wheres PDC world finalist Peter Wright has been playing like he did at Ally Pally in TV for a decade!
18 months is a long time in darts. You could cite some incredible turn rounds of form in that sort of timescale on both sides, in both directions. MVG being one of them.
Peter Wright was playing at a level to qualify for Lakeside in 95. He also lost to the eventual champion with almost a 90 average.
As people generally consider Lakeside from 94-2000ish to have been of deeper quality than the PDC and everyones comments about 90 average being capable of being a top 8 PDC player now.
Its fair to say that he has been playing close to that level for 18 years.
Given hes only really played the full PDC tour since 2008 its taken him 5 seasons to enter the top 6.
Add in he beat Buddah at the UK Open without breaking sweat it is being very optomistic that the Top 4 can be broken into in 2 years even the top 8 woudl be very difficult now unless you have a world final in those 2 years.
The advantage Buddah might have now over previous years is IF and thats a big
IF a certain Mr Taylor is in decline and plays less floor and euro events as well then he won't hoover up alot of the money and that money will possibly be more spead over a wider group which hopefully will lead to a much narrower gap between the top 4 OOM money amounts and the number 16 OOM money amount.
I did have a thought earlier that really given the BDO 'water tight' 'expert litigation' team that Buddahs primary objective before the first week of Jan next year was to win the 100K to 'give' back to them .......
