Darts Discussion Thread

[Federer91 3,390]

A lot of the BDO players are trying in the Q-School this year. McGeeney and Jamie Hughes earned a Tour Card after the first 2 days. Durrant is also there, but had 2 early loses. I don't know if he was overconfident after the third Lakeside trophy.. Other notable names include Waites, Jim Williams, Dobromyslova, Ashton, Fallon Sherrock.

[heywoodu 16,468]

On 18/01/2019 at 21:33, Federer91 said:

A lot of the BDO players are trying in the Q-School this year. McGeeney and Jamie Hughes earned a Tour Card after the first 2 days. Durrant is also there, but had 2 early loses. I don't know if he was overconfident after the third Lakeside trophy.. Other notable names include Waites, Jim Williams, Dobromyslova, Ashton, Fallon Sherrock.

To be fair, the short format of things like Q-School makes chances of surprises a lot bigger, so it might have been a bit of bad luck (possibly combined with indeed some overconfidence). He made it though, just like 1960's figure Scott Baker, who made a hugely impressive effort against Durrant at Lakeside. There's also a Tour Card for 2008 PDC world champs runner up Kirk Shepherd and for Conan Whitehead, who played some brilliant darts on occassion this month at Lakeside.

 

In the European Q-School among others Darius Labanauskas (beat Van Barneveld at PDC worlds) and José de Sousa (nearly a nine darter at PDC worlds) made it.

Edited January 22, 2019 by heywoodu

[heywoodu 16,468]

Great match at the Asian Tour today, the players averaged 76.2......combined

https://members.dartconnect.com/history/report/games/match/5c4bd3841e0efe61e266b7aa

[heywoodu 16,468]

Once again, Van Barneveld announced his immediate retirement. This time he lost twice in the Premier League in Rotterdam, 1-7 against Gurney and 1-7 against Van Gerwen on Wednesday and today. 

[heywoodu 16,468]

Jesus, on Dutch TV in the studio they're talking as if Van Barneveld's funeral is about to begin. 

[Federer91 3,390]

6 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Once again, Van Barneveld announced his immediate retirement. This time he lost twice in the Premier League in Rotterdam, 1-7 against Gurney and 1-7 against Van Gerwen on Wednesday and today. 

 

I thought he was retiring after the Worlds?

[heywoodu 16,468]

2 hours ago, Federer91 said:

 

I thought he was retiring after the Worlds?

Yeah, he had said that, but after the PL disaster in Rotterdam he was all "I'm gonna quit now" and "I don't give a fuck anymore about all this". The Dutch 'darts channel' started the funeral atmosphere and basically was already burying him, all media in the Netherlands came with big headlines, "Van Barneveld to retire with immediate effect", even the PDC threw out a tweet saying exactly that.

 

Surprise surprise, then this came (tweeted by his manager):

 

 

[heywoodu 16,468]

Holy crap, Jeffrey de Zwaan on the Development Tour today........

 

He started off with a pretty good match....followed by seven (!!) consecutive 100+ matches, most of which he averaged significantly higher  

 

Insane day

 

[Wumo 3,035]

 

 

[Federer91 3,390]

Is he really playing?