Other than the semi finals and final of the PDC Matchplay, is has been as expected a quiet week, so will start with said semi finals and final of the Matchplay.
The first semi final was the Sulky Scot against Bellyboy Michael Smith, and last week I spoke how Smith will find some way to lose in a comp, where he was not only the top ranked player in the comp, but prior to the game, he was the only player left in the comp that was in the PDC top 10, and sure enough he lost.
I said on twitter how he is the new Terry Jenkins, but I was wrong.
Its an insult to compare that choking cunt to Terry Jenkins seeing as when Jenkins lost to vastly superior players.
Looking at the career of Jenkins, you will find he lost major finals to Phil Taylor, a pre head shaking Barney, when the dutch cunt was a top player, and a peak Wade. All those players that beat Jenkins were top players, in the top 5 of the PDC at the time.
Bellyboy has lost to lesser players.
The fact that Bellyboy has now risen to the PDC world #4 shows everything that is wrong with the PDC ranking system.. Ian White and Dave Chisnall are higher ranked in the PDC than Dimitri......I shit ye not, 2 chokers who never won a thing are ranked higher than the current Matchplay champion.
If that does not tell you something is seriously skewed, nothing will.
That said Bellyboy is a great watch in the earlier rounds of comps, as you know when he reaches the latter stages he will shit himself. He does have the ability, but am sick of hearing people say he will come good in the next 18 months, as that has been said for the last 5 years.
The stroppy cunt with 6 chins, came from 14-8 down, winning 7 legs on the trot, had all the momentum, and impetus, had a dart to make it 8 legs on the trot, and go 16-14 up and a mere leg from the final and he missed that double, despite Ando totally out of it, it was the point when everyone knew the choke was on, and sure enough, he lost and no one on the forum I was on, was surprised.
Still, it was a great watch, and the pace of the game made it all the more enjoyable, and the 34 legs of darts took one hour and ten minutes.
Now compare that to the second semi final, when that game was at one hour and ten minutes, they were only in the 20th leg.
Dimitri is a slow player, but by Christ, Durrant is without doubt the slowest player in the PDC, and even that prick Justin Pipe is quicker these days.
I was delighted Dimitri won, even though I expected Durrant to win, and prior to the game I had wanted Glen to win and the reason I was delighted Dimi won, was not because I dont like glen, but because of the commentary during the game. It was a fucking disgrace. The bias shown towards Glen was on a par with the type of bias that old fossil cunt Tony Green use to display towards cunt like Prostate hole Adams during the January Jobber Jamboree.Whenever Glen broke throw we were told how Glen was a battler, but when Dimi did it, we were told how Glen played a bad leg, how disrespectful was that to Dimi. The comms sounded almost annoyed Dimitri won. Mark Webster was not too bad, but Stuart Pyke is another cunt if I never heard his sucking up again it still would be too soon.
The nonsense spouted was even more ridiculous, when they said shit like "he never gives up". Why would anyone give up when they play people like speed jobber Vinny, when he is a well known choker. I asked before, has Glen ever beaten any top elite player who has played well ?
Durrant is a good player deserving of a spot just inside the top 16, but the way comms go on you would think he was in the league of these top players, like MVG, Cross, Price, Cross etc. He is not in their league.
Take a read of this
We were not even finished the second leg of the final when the comms started rimming Durrant...yes the same Durrant who lost to the player Dimi, who was now playing in the final. Would we finally get a game with no biased commentary in the final ?
Of course not, comms decided then to rim Ando, and when Dimitri was winning with ease, the comms managed to make the final seem so flat, I switched to the Dutch commentary, which had more emotion.
The comms were atrocious, and here is the frightening part, Nicholson, Mardle, Thunder Thighs,Dawson and token black man were not on, that just tells you how few decent commentators there are in darts. When Mark Webster was possibly the best commentator of the week it shows how bad things are.
This week on the PDC youtube channel, they released a video of Devon Peterson and BLM and more political shit. not surprising it has a heap of dislikes already.
It fucking sickens me when you see him speak about how he faces racism, was it racism that got him the job on sky because of his color. It certainly was not on his ability, experience or talent at commentary, because he is shit, and his color was why he got the job, and nothing will convince me otherwise.
The PDC is an accepting code, don't matter if you are black , white, blue or green, gay or straight, male of female you can rock up to Q-school, and if you are good enough you can play.
I do not need to see the PDC spout their pc bullshit, we got it with Fallon, now we are getting it with Devon, if these people are getting preferential treatment then its not equality, which is what people are claiming to want.. Keep the political shit out of darts, bad enough Sky are trying to horse that shit fown our throats without Uncle Barry guzzling the KoolAid.
Ando never got going in the final, and I was half expecting him to do a Barney and announce he was retiring. One thing in the final leg that bugged me was Dimitri with 80 for the match went for the 16s...and after hitting a single 16, should have went 14 for bull but again went the wrong way by going for 2 double 16s and went outside the board. Stupid play.In the final of a major with 3 darts for the title at 80, he should have went the 20s route. Thankfully it did not matter.
Seeing Dimitri the Euro Twink standing there holding the trophy in an empty arena reminded me of Wayne Warren holding the bdo tin pot title, the PDC can blame covid for the absence of a crowd, what was the BDO's excuse ?
The Matchplay did not quench my desire for Darts, it just made me hungry for even more.
I enjoyed the Matchplay a lot, and according to reports the viewing figures were supposedly very good, which I believe were boosted by the fact hunchback the fly catcher went out early. It would not be the first time figures improved after Hunchback went out earlier than expected.
The added audio was not everyone's cup of tea, and there were a few issues, but overall I thought it a good addition.
Next up according to the PDC calendar is the indoor leisure centre Premier League.....
No mention of the Champions League event that is held on BBC tv either.
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Seems the Welsh Napoleon went to the same medical Institute of Knowledge as Dr Chris Mason, as Price posted this on social media this week, complaining about masks...
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The main news on the "other side of the divide" this week concerned the UKDA, and the number of new "counties" joining the organisation.The UKDA released this statement.
"The Management Team are very pleased to welcome the Wirral into the United Kingdom Darts Association.
We are delighted the Wirral have decided to be part of our journey, and join Derbyshire, Clwyd, Shropshire, Cleveland, Salopian, Kent, Carmarthenshire, Lancashire, Cheshire, Northumberland and West of England in our organisation.
We look forward to a long and successful association."
As an Irishman my knowledge of British counties is not the greatest, but suspect its better than most British people's knowledge of Irish counties, but since when has "West of England, Carmarthenshire, Salopian, and Cleveland " become counties ?
Here is the real kicker, some bdo loving asshole on bdo rimmers fanatics, looking for a way to have a dig at the UKDA complained the UKDA are accepting teams that are not real counties. He is right, it is a joke, but the BDO supporting moron is too thick to realize the same BDO consider Jersey, Isle of Man, Catalonia and north Cyprus as official countries....priceless.
A few weeks back there were stories circulating that the BDO were not going to be using DartsForWindows and were expected to be changing to Darts connect. This message was one of a few doing the rounds at the time.
Seems the BDO cannot afford to switch to darts connect, and now went crawling back to DFW, and of course DFW were happy to have them back,and DFW appears to have done a 180 and now the BDO are trying to spin this as a successful partnership. Only the BDO would try spin a complete fuck up and them crawling back in to something that is supposedly great news" as seen below.
