UK Open 3-5 Mar Butlins Minehead

[devosteve]

Gilding leading 3-2. Seems a pretty relaxed guy.

[devosteve]

This is a good final.

6-4 to MVG. Cracking bull.

Gilding is an interesting character. Slightly odd? But he doesn't care. He keeps focused on his game.

Eating all the time like rvb: diabetes?

[meetthefeebles]

Gilding has missed enough doubles to be home and hosed. Would love to see MvG lose this.

[meetthefeebles]

It would be absolutely mint if Gilding won this.

Aye.

[devosteve]

9-7 MVG. Crowd have been okay it seems.
Hope the forum members who are there post a report when they are back home and sober.

[devosteve]

9-9!
Good stuff.

[devosteve]

Cracking 170! MVG 10-9.

But looks like a last leg decider coming

[devosteve]

10-10.

[meetthefeebles]

That was absolutely fantastic! Great final.

[devosteve]

Gilding wins.

Darts is in a good place.

2 thumbs up from gilding!

[meetthefeebles]

Brilliant last leg from Gilding.

[ChrisW]

Billy has some bollocks.
Go Les!

[WizardofozFan]

Yes Gilding! This is what the FA Cup of Darts is all about. Really pleased for him, talk about a polar opposite to Price haha!

[devosteve]

Yes Gilding! This is what the FA Cup of Darts is all about. Really pleased for him, talk about a polar opposite to Price haha!

His simple thumbs up for a 180 works well for him. People had thumbs up drawing on those cards.

Short replays in the interview. He's a shy guy.

[WizardofozFan]

Yes Gilding! This is what the FA Cup of Darts is all about. Really pleased for him, talk about a polar opposite to Price haha!

His simple thumbs up for a 180 works well for him. People had thumbs up drawing on those cards.

Short replays in the interview. He's a shy guy.

Love seeing different players lower down the rankings having good runs at these tournaments. Especially when they're playing well consistently coming up against the big, hyped names.

Yes unlike blabbermouths Aspinall or Humphries who give long-winded, not coming up for breath answers, refreshing to see someone who gets stage fright like me when put on the spot hahaha. And you can't beat that thumbs-up celebration, like Bob's finger-point.

He'll likely never win another major, but nobody can take this win away from Gilding.

[meetthefeebles]

It's always nice to see someone different win. It was impressive from Gilding. First major final, playing MvG in a decider and he pinged the middle of tops first match dart. Easy to bottle there, but he didn't. Good stuff

[Emulsfier]

Cracking result.

[1205]

It's always nice to see someone different win. It was impressive from Gilding. First major final, playing MvG in a decider and he pinged the middle of tops first match dart. Easy to bottle there, but he didn't. Good stuff

His run:

Andrew Gilding 94.75 6–2 Darren Webster 92.53
Ricky Evans 89.38 5 – 10 Andrew Gilding 99.68
Luke Woodhouse 91.89 5 – 10 Andrew Gilding 90.89
Brendan Dolan 87.49 8 – 10 Andrew Gilding 88.82
Andrew Gilding 93.90 10 – 4 Martin Schindler 87.87
Adam Gawlas 85.90 6 – 11 Andrew Gilding 95.86
Andrew Gilding 95.46 11 – 10 Michael van Gerwen 96.74

At least he beat Van Gerwen in the final.

[Rout]

If you were to order every player in this tournament in terms of whether or not they fit the PDCs profile of ideal player image, I honestly can't think of anyone that would be below Gilding in that list.

Absolutely hilarious.

[ChrisW]

Exactly what they want for the UK Open.