Lakeside World Professional Championships 2017 7-15 Jan

[ssjsa]

And follows up with a fantastic 130 checkout.

[Paddy McGinty]

Bloody heaving in here tonight.......

[ChrisW]

Bloody heaving in here tonight.......

Give us a Wave!

[devosteve]

Bloody heaving in here tonight.......

Paddy, can't see the BT action. They push folks forward to make it look good for TV.

What's it actually like there?

[ChrisW]

It's is looking pretty rammed tonight.

[trotter]

The overall quality has been better than some recent Lakesides to be honest....not too long ago I remember one with only five 90 plus averages in the whole event....
There have been some decent showings this year....the averages were never ever going to match Ally Pally and only a fool would think they would be close....nothing to do with equipment !... but it's not been a bad Lakeside....not a patch on ones around 1996 to 2005 or so...but better than some recent ones for sure.

[Duterprat]

Looks like some high quality matches this afternoon, looking forward to tonights fare.

Yes, high world class stellar quality - provided that you are blind, deaf and don't know what the goal of the game is.

more depth. only 1 or 3 players can win at the circus. at lakey 7 or 8 could win.

How's the booze flowing today, 4th or 5th tetra pak 50-cent-cider already?

Back in the day in my kindergarden group we were like 20 guys with equal chances to win a darts match, by your definition we were better than the BDO. And we probably would be today.

[ifm]

It's is looking pretty rammed tonight.

It's been rammed every night.

[davcol]

Looks like some high quality matches this afternoon, looking forward to tonights fare.

Yes, high world class stellar quality - provided that you are blind, deaf and don't know what the goal of the game is.

more depth. only 1 or 3 players can win at the circus. at lakey 7 or 8 could win.

How's the booze flowing today, 4th or 5th tetra pak 50-cent-cider already?

Back in the day in my kindergarden group we were like 20 guys with equal chances to win a darts match, by your definition we were better than the BDO. And we probably would be today.

Dear me why don't you turn over and watch van der valk if it bores you that much son ?

[Bigwilma]

Fitton's performance was equal parts car crash and sublime. Imagine if he could finish.

[ssjsa]

Stats from the Fitton vs Blackwell match.

[Bigwilma]

lol Fitton - D1 is my favourite double, I've had so much practice on it over the years

[ssjsa]

Fitton's performance was equal parts car crash and sublime. Imagine if he could finish.

Thought Blackwell should have pushed him a lot closer. Unable to take advantage of Daryll's poor doubling.

[The Crusader]

Someone nicked de Vos darts when he was signing autigraphs. Paddys there tonight aint he ?

[ssjsa]

Wednesday 11th January Afternoon Session:

Geert de Vos (92.28) 4 (7) 2 (89.94) Scott Mitchell
Corinne Hammond (70.44) 2 (3) 0 (61.26) Patricia Farrell
Jeff Smith (89.31) 1 (7) 4 (89.94) Martin Adams

Evening Session:

Daryll Fitton (87.75) 4 (7) 1 (83.73) Pip Blackwell
Jim Williams vs Jamie Hughes
Paul Hogan vs Glen Durrant

[Bigwilma]

Fitton's performance was equal parts car crash and sublime. Imagine if he could finish.

Thought Blackwell should have pushed him a lot closer. Unable to take advantage of Daryll's poor doubling.

Blackwells scoring was very poor though he couldn't get close enough most of the time to take advantage.

[Paddy McGinty]

Cat is really loving it.......

[ifm]

Someone nicked de Vos darts when he was signing autigraphs. Paddys there tonight aint he ?

He has returned them.

[ifm]

Really looking forward to this, should be a cracker, Welsh International v England International, you only see that at the home of World darts.

[Bigwilma]

Someone nicked de Vos darts when he was signing autigraphs. Paddys there tonight aint he ?

No chance it was Paddy he's too busy hiding in Wolfie's hotel room closet, basking in the musk of the great man.