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RE: Darts
A few observations.

This ongoing Williams vs. Nilsson match is a truly dreadful advertisement for the BDO. Pair of glorified pub players.

The caller of this match is the absolute pits. It's bad enough that he has a Jonathon Ross-style lisp so that he says "One Hundwed", but his calling is so monotonous and drawn out.

Rob Walker on Channel 4 is destroying the coverage with his usual insincere 'I-Know-Nothing-About-The Sport' style. I know the host need to promote the events and point out when there's been something impressive, or praise an individual for a performance, but every single match - according to this lanky cunt - is a dramatic classic. He really isn't doing the BDO any favours with his nonsensical hyperbole.

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09-01-2018 13:41
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Since the PDC set up its own qualifying school the BDO has become largely irrelevant as up and coming players now don't need it as a feeder school to the PDC they can go straight there and come up the ranks of the PDC.

The only thing it does have over the PDC is that it has a womens World Championship and womens tournaments around the year which the PDC seems to have no interest in establishing in their brand
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09-01-2018 13:52
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(09-01-2018 13:41 )Robot Devil Wrote:  Rob Walker on Channel 4 is destroying the coverage with his usual insincere 'I-Know-Nothing-About-The Sport' style. I know the host need to promote the events and point out when there's been something impressive, or praise an individual for a performance, but every single match - according to this lanky cunt - is a dramatic classic. He really isn't doing the BDO any favours with his nonsensical hyperbole.
Still better than Colin Murray. Or Ray Stubbs, for that matter. BDO darts really doesn't seem to get blessed with good presenters (they've got some bloke doing analysis and interviews who's a washout too). Vassos aka Chris Evans' mate is at least in the ballpark of a 3-digit IQ.

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09-01-2018 13:58
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Post: #434
RE: Darts
(09-01-2018 13:58 )Doddle Wrote:  
(09-01-2018 13:41 )Robot Devil Wrote:  Rob Walker on Channel 4 is destroying the coverage with his usual insincere 'I-Know-Nothing-About-The Sport' style. I know the host need to promote the events and point out when there's been something impressive, or praise an individual for a performance, but every single match - according to this lanky cunt - is a dramatic classic. He really isn't doing the BDO any favours with his nonsensical hyperbole.
Still better than Colin Murray. Or Ray Stubbs, for that matter. BDO darts really doesn't seem to get blessed with good presenters (they've got some bloke doing analysis and interviews who's a washout too). Vassos aka Chris Evans' mate is at least in the ballpark of a 3-digit IQ.

Oh fuck, I'd almost forgotten about that Kenny cunt that does all the interviews. Who is he? All I can tell about him - other than the fact he only has one arm - is that he CLEARLY knows fuck all about darts! And Vassos.......every bit as irritating as Wayne Mardle on Sky.

EDIT: The idiot interviewer is actually called Danny, not Kenny. Gormless twat.

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09-01-2018 14:25
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(09-01-2018 13:52 )mikedafc Wrote:  Since the PDC set up its own qualifying school the BDO has become largely irrelevant as up and coming players now don't need it as a feeder school to the PDC they can go straight there and come up the ranks of the PDC.

The only thing it does have over the PDC is that it has a womens World Championship and womens tournaments around the year which the PDC seems to have no interest in establishing in their brand

Take rob cross failed in qualifying events for BDO World championships and Masters in 2015 and then moves to PDC in over a year World champion and beats the prob greatest darts player of all time

makes struggling in the BDO seem not worthwhile

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I never get how Vassos can be a BBC person on most days but a C4 one every once in a while (see also Clare Balding for being a media fidget).

Geert de Vos must have had a topsy-turvy one. He seemed to be hitting 180s for fun at one point, and his oppo was the kind of brain cell who celebrates checking out on double top, only to find he'd bust because he needed 30, not 40. But it finished up close.

I concede it's hard to laud the BDO players when hitting 100+ seems to be more an exception than a rule.

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09-01-2018 20:23
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There's a first, Scotty Dog Waite playing darts with a sweatband on his left wrist. Who says it's not a physically demanding sport Wink
10-01-2018 14:05
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^ was quite a high quality match
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(10-01-2018 14:05 )circles_o_o_o Wrote:  There's a first, Scotty Dog Waite
You mean Mitchell Wink I'm glad he lost anyway.

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10-01-2018 17:25
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Robot Devil Offline
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Conan Whitehead looks a decent player. Definitely see him jumping ship to the PDC in the foreseeable future.

After (disappointingly) losing yesterday Danny Noppert has quit the BDO and is heading to PDC's Q-School.

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