England Darts forced to find a new venue

[oche balboa]

Sadly after 14 years, the new owners of Bunn Leisure, Cove Communities have made the decision that they will not associate their site with any sporting events. This came out of the blue and a shock to us.

I received this news in a very matter a fact two minute phone call, I would have thought after 14 years we would have had an official communication from them, and that is the reason we have not reported this to you, however nothing has been sent to us, or no prior notification that this was their companies future policy.

I would like to place on record our sincere thanks to the previous management of Bunn Leisure, Neil, Pete Treagust, Ian, Steph and the entire bar staff, the support staff, in fact everyone over the years who have made us all feel like part of their family, it is without doubt the most rewarding partnership I have had the pleasure of being part of in my whole darting career.

Whilst it is a big setback to England Darts following on from the Pandemic, nevertheless we have to source an alternative venue for our Open next June, an event which we will definitely stage, hopefully as a Gold but definitely as a Silver Weekend.

Please just give us some time, to investigate the future possibilities to continue with this iconic event in the WDF calendar for 2022 and onwards.

Tommy Thompson
Chairman England Darts
19/10/2021

Bad news

[BlueSpark]

Oh no!!

[Ginge]

Hmm. Was someone a naughty boy or girl when the event was there last month?

[ChrisW]

Not fitting in with their 'family' experience.
Darters on the beer all day.

[only85]

sold to the cove group ( yanks ) for around £140 million

[Ginge]

sold to the cove group ( yanks ) for around £140 million

Yes, in August 2019. Why let them run the event last month if they didnt want pissed up darts players around?

[malcy93]

Presume they booked in 2019 for 2020 and Covid pushed that back to 2021.
If they had agreed a contract they probably couldn’t rip it up saying darts doesn’t fit their image of a family friendly holiday village.

[Ginge]

Aye maybe.

Never mind, now they can find a more central venue.

[1205]

Likely Cove Communities wouldn't provide any sponsorship at all. They're a relatively new company that's buying up RV/trailer/caravan parks all over the place. They've seen the opportunity to squeeze more money out of people with nowhere cheaper to go.

[oche balboa]

Coventry/Birmingham is the answer

[Ginge]

Coventry/Birmingham is the answer

They will just cite the time they held an event at the Ricoh and the turn out was poor.

Nine years ago.

[oche balboa]

I was there

[only85]

if they want the hi de hi camp sites all stay on site then for me its parkdean, (plenty to choose from ) butlins is a no no, depends if they wish to refresh the format of cheap weekend family holiday image back end of season or not

[Si Robin]

Brean Sands here they come.

[Rout]

if they want the hi de hi camp sites all stay on site then for me its parkdean, (plenty to choose from ) butlins is a no no, depends if they wish to refresh the format of cheap weekend family holiday image back end of season or not

Aye Butlins is a total shithole. Any darts org would be mad to hold an event there.

[Antony Harboyle-Degg]

Coventry/Birmingham is the answer

Yes, if the question is "What are the 2 biggest shitholes in England?"

[Bag Carrier]

Brean Sands here they come.

Your not far off the money on Brean.

Heard about Selsey few week back, MAD also cancelled there event there in December a few weeks back also didn't they

[Ginge]

Brean Sands here they come.

Your not far off the money on Brean.

Heard about Selsey few week back, MAD also cancelled there event there in December a few weeks back also didn't they

"Following detailed advice MAD have made the difficult decision to postpone the '2021 Winmau European Open' until early 2022"

That was on the 27th September - two weeks after the EDO event at Selsey. Hmm.

[el_ringo]

Hmm. Was someone a naughty boy or girl when the event was there last month?

When Tommy was trying his coup over county darts with Trination darts him and a couple of his lapdogs were highly abusive to concerned persons on Facebook who were asking them probing legitimate questions on Facebook about their chequered history and future plans.

Those abusive comments and other information relating to the running of England darts and its officials were then subsequently reported to Bunn Leisure who now after conducting their own investigation have obviously decided to take the correct course of action.

[Rout]

I am hoping to qualify for the final of this tournament by winning my semi final. That of course is if I qualify for the semi final by winning my quarter final qualifier. And so on.