The big story this week was the death of Aussie Player Kyle Anderson, I don't know what the cause was, and remember he did get covid a few months back, but either way, 33 is no age for the poor lad who left behind a family.
Moderators on some darts forums were quick to stop any mocking of his death, but it did raise an issue with me, why other players and people involved in darts were not granted the same protection by the same mods who now act like they are some paragons of virtue. For example when Fatzmaurice died, there was no shortage of people ripping in to the racist, myself included, no shortage of people slating Eric Bristow, likewise when Fordham snuffed it, there was plenty out in force, but suddenly its an issue.
Is it because Kyle was not white ? and moderators who should have applied the rules evenly prior are only doing so, not out of respect, but out of fear it might seem racist, or is it because he was a PDC player, and Christ knows mocking of the PDC players is frowned upon on certain forums too who treat players like they are Gods.
Another thing I noticed was when Kyle returned home and handed back his tourcard, no one really gave a shiny fuck back then, it hardly warranted a mention by certain people, yet now those same people are using terms like he was a "legend". I wont even post the stupid cartoon pic I saw floating around social media .
But what fucking irritates me, is when as soon as someone dies, be it a dart player, footballer, hurler, or whatever, he is suddenly promoted to legend or top player etc....just stop it. Pay your respects, give your condolences, but the hyperbole that follows is just ridiculous.
Credit to Damon Heta who started up an auction for Kyle's family auctioning off signed darts shirts for those willing to pay. I use the term willing because what I will say next might upset some people, and if it does go fuck yourself.
Kyle Anderson made over half a million in career earnings in the few years he played the game, which is more than your average working class bloke in the UK will make in 15 years,maybe even 20 years yet we have cunts dictating people should contribute to some go fund me or whatever to support a player who earned more than most.
I sympathize for his family, the poor kids lost a father at a young age etc, but one particular prick, who has a history of reporting members on forums said
"anyone with the means should chip in".Why should they ? Surely any persons priority is to provide for their own family first, not some family who were accustomed to a better standard of living than they were /are. I am all for people donating should they choose, but assholes dictating what people SHOULD do with their own money is where I draw the line. If some poorer guy living down the road from them snuffed it, they would probably do fuckall for them, but because he is a dart player they are quick to tell others to cough up.
Thankfully as what seems a long barren spell, the busier part of the year will soon be upon us and the World Cup starts in 2 weeks. Normally I don't give 2 shiny shits about the World Cup, another meaningless non ranking glorified exbo, but such is the lack of televised darts, this seems almost palatable, and with no Bellyboy and Rob Dross for England, it might be the most entertaining team for England in years. Wales and Scotland the two best looking teams, with England, Australia and possibly Holland as the next best.
Thankfully before that we have the first Euro tour next Friday, a proper ranking comp, the Hungarian Darts Trophy and I don't think I welcomed a Euro tour more than this. I have been so starved of top quality darts, this thing will feel like a World championships. In the previous weeks I have been watching Nordic shit, some Modus online shit, and believe some of that has been absolutely dire, and barely keeping up with UK and Euro development tours, etc.
Roll on the euro tour...Proper darts at last.
Unless I am mistaken, I believe the top players who come in during round 2 don't earn anything if they lose their first match. so any player like Bellyboy, Chizzy etc who lose their first game could be under pressure to qualify for the Europeans champs. I would love to see hunchback Van Gerwen go out early and fail to qualify for the European champs.
KNOB OF THE WEEK
Been a quiet week so was going to award Knob of the Week to Richie Burnett. Thing is I like Richie, and along with Rab Thornton, the only reason why anyone would watch that online shit, and suffer the torture of having to listen to Mason or Nicholson and even then would fast forward the other games.
So instead of Richie getting Knob of the Week, I am giving it to Modus for this never ending shit, the abysmal production values, the hyping of uber jobbers, their hiring of Nicholson and Mason, and promoting the 9 darter as if it was typical of the type of overall standard they are trying to hoodwink people into thinking happens.
I have no idea when this continues, who else is in this, but I bet anything Modus were delighted the coke snorting pit pony managed to scrape through, as I said earlier, other than Thornton, and maybe Colin the teapot Osborne, I would never switch that shit on otherwise....even as starved for darts as I am.. The morning session saw multiple players win games with averages in the 70s, in one game a 74 average was enough to beat another spastic who threw similar. There was even averages in the 60s, I thankfully never turned it on as watching the "Black hole of entertainment" Wez Newton was bad enough when he was in his prime, never mind watching the fucker now that he is throwing muck as well as the other useless cunts that took part this morning. Faster the PDC get back to normal there will be less demand for this, and degenerate gamblers will always find something to bet on as those sad fucks will bet on anything.
Lastly saw this earlier on Youtube
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