Bill Lennard

Post by **Booji Boy** » Sat Mar 15, 2014 9:28 pm

How good was he. Heard someone talking about him tonight and it seemed he was a brilliant player. I had never heard of him until tonight,

Post by **Lee Taylor** » Sat Mar 15, 2014 9:41 pm

Bristow speaks very highly of Billy Leonard.

He was around just as the game went big in the late 70's.

Post by **Lee Taylor** » Sat Mar 15, 2014 9:43 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Lennard

Post by **trotter** » Sat Mar 15, 2014 10:15 pm

He had a great reputation locally and everybody speaks highly of him...unfortunately his best darts were before the big TV boom of the late 70's....I saw him play on the TV at Jollees and other events but I am reliably informed he was better than he showed in those events...

He used to have a darts shop in Eccles near Manchester , called Bill Lennard Darts funnily enough ...a little place selling darts stuff and trophies and I went in there occasionally...I don't think it's there now though , although I haven't been in that area for about 20 years.

Post by **TheFlash** » Sat Mar 15, 2014 11:46 pm

trotter wrote:He had a great reputation locally and everybody speaks highly of him...unfortunately his best darts were before the big TV boom of the late 70's....I saw him play on the TV at Jollees and other events but I am reliably informed he was better than he showed in those events...

He used to have a darts shop in Eccles near Manchester , called Bill Lennard Darts funnily enough ...a little place selling darts stuff and trophies and I went in there occasionally...I don't think it's there now though , although I haven't been in that area for about 20 years.

Sounds like a bottler who couldn't play in front of the cameras.

Post by **mc1958** » Sun Mar 16, 2014 7:52 am

Great player back in the 70's - his biggest moment was probably winning the News Of The World title in 1976 beating Leighton Rees

Post by **ChunkIOW** » Sun Mar 16, 2014 9:47 am

FlashDarts wrote:
trotter wrote:He had a great reputation locally and everybody speaks highly of him...unfortunately his best darts were before the big TV boom of the late 70's....I saw him play on the TV at Jollees and other events but I am reliably informed he was better than he showed in those events...

He used to have a darts shop in Eccles near Manchester , called Bill Lennard Darts funnily enough ...a little place selling darts stuff and trophies and I went in there occasionally...I don't think it's there now though , although I haven't been in that area for about 20 years.
Sounds like a bottler who couldn't play in front of the cameras.

Come on Flash, how many times have you bottled it in a big game over the years, don't say you never have otherwise you'd be playing today in PC2 and getting ready for the premier league on Thursday!

Post by **Justin Credible** » Sun Mar 16, 2014 12:09 pm

Post by **GtotheF** » Sun Mar 16, 2014 11:11 pm

If you won the NotW any year chances are could play a bit.

Post by **Hungry Coyote** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 1:17 pm

I played Billy Lennard in a 1001 exhibition in the late 70's. It was a double header evening with Tony Ridler. I was a young up and coming player at the time but managed to beat him after he'd wasted a shed load of darts at a double. Later in the evening he sat with me and we chatted darts for quite a while. I only met him the once but I know a top bloke when I meet one. And to answer an earlier quote from someone, you don't win the NOW if you're a bottler!

Post by **Ginge** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 1:19 pm

When can we expect Ecky Thump to come along and claim he was a better player than Phil Taylor is?

Post by **Welsh Wayne** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 4:28 pm

Hungry Coyote wrote:I played Billy Lennard in a 1001 exhibition in the late 70's. It was a double header evening with Tony Ridler. I was a young up and coming player at the time but managed to beat him after he'd wasted a shed load of darts at a double. Later in the evening he sat with me and we chatted darts for quite a while. I only met him the once but I know a top bloke when I meet one. And to answer an earlier quote from someone, you don't win the NOW if you're a bottler!

I had also the pleasure of meeting Billy a few times,and as coyote says top man,sadly fans of today may lose out on that one to one chit chat with their favourite players,as the size of the sport starts to alienate the fan.

Post by **Welsh Wayne** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 4:31 pm

Justin Credible wrote:

Crickey where did you get that JC Alan Evans had a similar cover.

Post by **Zeyes** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 4:46 pm

Welsh Wayne wrote:I had also the pleasure of meeting Billy a few times,and as coyote says top man,sadly fans of today may lose out on that one to one chit chat with their favourite players,as the size of the sport starts to alienate the fan.

"Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded."

Post by **Justin Credible** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 5:17 pm

Welsh Wayne wrote:

Crickey where did you get that JC Alan Evans had a similar cover.

from my site in the retro section, there are around 230 covers of darts world.
There are hundreds of other magazine covers, and also retro old pics including this one of evans,, am sure there are a couple of others as well

Post by **Ecky Thump** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 5:20 pm

Ginge wrote:When can we expect Ecky Thump to come along and claim he was a better player than Phil Taylor is?

Not this time Ginge

Post by **spaceman70** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 5:32 pm

Welsh Wayne wrote:
Justin Credible wrote:

Crickey where did you get that JC Alan Evans had a similar cover.

He's on the front of that issue, but there isn't an article on him within the issue.

Post by **Lee Taylor** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 8:52 pm

I have hundreds of Darts Worlds in the loft, used to love it when it dropped through the letterbox.

Post by **Hungry Coyote** » Thu Mar 20, 2014 12:43 pm

I penned the 'Follow the Dragon' Welsh column in Darts World for many years during the late 80's early 90's.Tony Wood was editor at the time. I hand wrote everything. I must have been mad!!

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