KNOB OF THE WEEK
Seven weeks ago Barry Hearn posted this: You Tube
As you read this its the 29th March and still no announcement. I would mock the BDO for this type of shit and their announcement of an announcement, so only right I criticize the PDC for deploying the same retarded click bait announcement of announcement.
Luke Humphries said on TalkSport “It doesn’t matter what happens in the next six, seven, eight months, it’s all about the World Championships. We all know that the world champion is going to get a million quid.” If that turns out to be the "news that will put smiles on peoples face" then I am not impressed.
Streaming the PC championships, that made me happy as a fan, PDC Tv existing makes me happy as a fan, streaming the other boards in the UK open is good for us fans, but why would I give a flying fuck if some cunt gets a million instead of half a million. How would that , or why would that put a smile on the faces of people...as in plural ? The only single person happy will be the fucker who wins the million if that turns out to be the news.
PDC EURO TOUR
LAST 32:Noppert missed a match dart against the match fixing cunt Nijman where 21 doubles were missed, 11 by Noppert and despite an 99 average out he went earning nothing.Wade above him in the rankings also scored well, but only won 2 legs against Smudger after Wade missed a dozen doubles and he also earned zero, I wonder if he no regrets not going to the 2 previous players champs in Germany. Cross beat Gilding in a good quality game after Gilding wilted near the end. Heta missed match darts for a 6-3 win over Menzies, but as the standard dropped, Menzies took it to a last leg decider with the throw and took the win. Heta blew it.Dobey and Wattimena was high quality, with Wattimena averaging 111 winning 6-4. dobey averaged over 102. Bellyboy's 94 average was enough to dispose of a piss poor Pikachu.Josh rock the delusional fuckwit who said earlier in the year how he along with littler would dominate the game lost yet again, this time to Van Veen who in my opinion is a better player with a higher ceiling. Last up in the evening session was Babs and Joyce. Babs played as good as he has all year, with some clinical bull finishes, and Joyce hit a 167 for 3-3, but Joyce broke at 5 for the win, and Babs went out with a 98 average and no money earned. Only 2 of the 8 seeds won in the session.
Springer averaging just 88 was 3-0 up on MvG. with the aid of a break it was soon 3-3 and MvG missed a dart to break and Spring held and then broke to throw for the win, his second win over MvG in the week, but MvG broke and then held and into a final leg. Scores of 42, 59 and 54 cost Springer and out he went. Humpries went 4-1 up on Krcmar who was playing really well, and Boris took the next 3 for 4-4, but Humphries took out 134 for the 6-4 win, both players averaging over 101. Schindler dismantled Clayton 6-1. Clayton took the third leg, but Schindler ran off the last 4 as he had finishes of 96 and 121 and an average of almost 107. Last up was Edhouse and Stutter a poor game, Stutters went 5-2 up but Edhouse took it to a last leg, after breaking with a 170 checkout, and taking a 130 checkout next leg but threw absolute muck and Stutters went through
LAST 16: Menzies against De Decker was nothing close to what both usually average, De Decker came from 3-1 down to lead 5-4, and missed 2 match darts and Menzies held and in to a last leg decider, and Menzies missed double 9 for a 138 out, then missed another 3 match darts,then did his usual amateur dramatic posturing. De Decker then missed 3. Menzies like a fucking spastic with 18 needed went 6 double 4 , miscounted thought he won laid on the crowd like a fucking spastic until he realised what a spaz he was. De Decker with another 3 darts could not take out 14, and the ginger posing attention whore sealed the win
Joyce despite averaging only 88 took out Rob Cross 6-4, who at 5-3 down took out a 170.
Price was superb against the match fixing cunt, he had darts to win the first 4 legs but it was just 2-2, Price's scoring was superb and he averaged 110, bye bye Nijman ya cunt. Sadly MvG beat Van Veen who averaged 102, Van Veen was 3-0 down after missing multiple doubles, but then took out 120 to make it 3 on the spin for 3-3. Van Veen missed the bull for 5-5 and out he went.
Smudger took out 127 against Chizzy to break and lead 2-1 and Chizzy missed multiple darts to break back and in a game of countless missed doubles chizzy did break for 3-3. Smudger then broke and Chizzy was always chasing as Smudger kept holding and when he took out 142 for a 5-3 it was all over for Chizzy.
Schindler took on Ando, and Schindler took out 110 to break and go 3-1 up but Ando woke up and rattled off the next 4 legs for 5-3, Schindler hit an 11 darter to hold and broke and had the throw in the decider. Ando missed 4 match darts, and Schindler missed 3 before Ando took the win.
Wattimena broke leg one against Aspinall but Asp broke back and then it was holds of throws for the next 4 legs for 3-3. Then the stupid fat dutch cunt blew a chance to break going for 2 double 16s with 64 needed, and got a second bite and blew that. He did hold for 4-4, and took out a crucial 90 to hold for 5-5 and the decider was a poor scoring leg and Asp fell over the line. Both averaged over 101. Last up was Humphries and Bellyboy, and started poorly with bellyboy going 2-0 up and held for 3-1, and broke for 4-1 after Humphries missed 16 doubles already. Humphries thanks to great scoring then broke twice and at 4-4 had the darts and went 5-4 up. Bellyboy held and in to a last leg. With Bellyboy waiting on 68, Humphries took out 78 for the win. Humphries hit 7 maximums, averaged almost 5 points higher but was lucky to get the win.
LAST 8: Menzies -v- Joyce: After 4 legs Joyce was averaging 28 points higher (82 & 110) but it was 2-2. Menzies average dropped below 80, and Joyce was soon 4-2 up. Joyce missed a dart for 5-2. When joyce took out 105 for 5-3 he was averaging 21 points higher.Menzies throwing to save the match hit a score of 3, and Joyce wrapped it up. Menzies averaged 77 to Joyce's 99.
Price -v- MvG: Price was averaging 115 and 4-1 up and this looked over with MvG averaging 90, but Price's standard dropped and MvG upped it. Price missed a dart for 5-2, and MvG broke Price missed the bull for 5-3 and it was 4-4, When MvG broke, Price went to shit and went out 6-4 despite a 107 average. Ross Smith -v- Gary Anderson: one leg each both players missed countless doubles ended up on double 1 and Smudger eventually broke.Between them they missed 16 darts in that leg alone. Smudger missed darts to break for 4-1, but held for 4-2 averaging 9 points more. Smudger held for 5-3 and at 5-4 was throwing for the win, but Ando hit a max and took out 81 in 2 to break and threw for the win.He was averging more now and with the aid of another max took the win, after being 5-3 down. Aspinall -v- Humphies: Luke started piss poor yet again and Aspinall was soon 3-0 up after Luke missed darts to break. " maximums saw Stutters hold for 4-1 averaging 12 points more than Humphries. Asp scoring like a lunatic broke for 5-1 and Humphries was fucked as Asp was averaging 107. Asp took out 83, with Humphries waiting on 24 for a 6-1 win.
SEMI FINALS: Joyce -v- MvG: This started slow with 2 breaks.then 2 holds with Joyce taking out 121 for 2-2. Joyce then broke, and MvG broke back 3-3. Joyce broke yet again for 4-3. Joyce missed the bull for a 167,and MvG missed multiple darts for a 6th break and it was 5-3. MvG held for 5-4. Joyce took out 110 for a 6-4 lead.MvG held again to trail 5-6 and Joyce throwing for the win and wrapped it up with an sweet 87 of Seven, Bull Double 16. Anderson -v- Aspinall : Asp took the first leg but Ando ook the next 3 and Asp was chasing and it was soon 6-3. Asp broke and then held to trail 5-6. With Ando waiting on tops for the win, Asp took out the 170 for 6-6 and the throw in the decider. Ando seemed broken with scores of 40 and 59. Asp missed tops for the win, but Ando could not take the 164 and Asp wrapped it up.
FINAL: In leg one Asp broke with a 12 darter, and Joyce broke next leg, but missed darts to hold and a third break saw Asp go ahead. Despite missing multiple darts, Asp managed to break again for 4-1, this looked over.Joyce then broke but had poor leg on throw and had to see Asp miss more darts before he held to trail 3-4. Asp was scoring huge and went 5-3 averaging 100 despite 17 missed doubles. Joyce held but seemed it was like he was only making the score respectful especially when Asp held for 6-4. When joyce failed to take out 57, Asp broke and it as good as over. Asp held and took his first "big"win since 2023.
RANKINGS
Joyce was up 3 places to #26
Bellyboy and Babs were now still out of the Mathplay spots.
Boris Krcmar moved up 12 places to #107 doing better than a lost of tour card holders, Springer was up 7 spots to #94. Dirk dropped 3 spots to #29
Aspinall's win made him only the second player ever, after Luke Humphries to win a Development tour, Challenge tour, a World Series event, a Players Championship, a Euro tour and a PDC Major.
THE WEEKLY NON RANKING LUKE LITTLER RIMMING MARATHON
I obviously gave this a skip. Seems it is over a decade since Bunting won a game in the PL. Price seemed to be poor, Humphries who is still the world #1 and beat Dobey looks a shadow of the player he was over a year ago, and yes this is a meaningless shit event, but he has been slack in the important raking events.Aspinall continued his good week dumping out MvG, the same prick who still thinks people fear him. Even when littler averages in the 90s people still shit themselves like Cross did. Humphries put in a rare great performance to beat Aspinall from 4-2 down, but in the end bombed against the other Luke in the final with both averaging 93.
DEVELOPMENT TOUR
This event kicked off again with events #6 and 7 taking place Friday. Greaves won event #6, but went out last 64 in event #7 but deservedly she is not only top of the Dev tour OoM but has over twice as much as the player in second place. It seems like a case of which way will she get her tour card first, via the Dev tour or the challenge tour she might even with invites get it via the main OoM, but she wont be going back to q-school where she and many others bombed.
PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIPS
This returns Monday and so far the only big name it seems so far to be giving this a miss is MvG
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