KNOB OF THE WEEK
It seems the world Seniors of Darts is done. Whilst the initial concept was a novel idea, and the WSoD no doubt had hoped the inclusion of Phil Taylor would be enough for it to be a success, the reality is it was always doomed to failure, not solely because Phil Taylor was utter shit these days and he lacks any charm or charisma, but the false notion that the best players over the age of 50 would be playing, was a monumental lie considering the best players over 50 include Clayton, Gary Anderson, Peter Wright etc who all play in the PDC.
Even in Modus you have players like Derek Coulson who over dozens of games over multiple months has a running average well over 90.
On the flip side you have Thornton, Howson etc who won WSoD events who have never won a champion of champions in modus. A one off yearly event where selected players could be invited like they did with head shaker Barney might have worked, but holding multiple events for players simply not good enough was always doomed to failure. fuck them, even their social media accounts blocked anyone that dared criticize them,, so I wont miss it, it is just a shame the WDF does not fuck off like the WSoD and the BDO, and let Modus and the ADC do what they do, The WSoD kept flogging a dead horse and from a business prospective it was a bad business model.
Players today can play ADC, hope for invites to modus, play the Challenge tour, and those young enough can play the development tour. The game was over saturated.
I have always stated that the WDF event that they ridiculously claim to be a world championship might be of interest to some fans, and whilst not knocking the players taking part, the audacity of the WDF morons to try convince people this is a world title is simply absurd. When Shane McGuirk won the competition last December I showed on here how the ADC Global championships was a higher standard overall, had more 90+ averages etc.
This week the WDF Champion took part in the Modus Champions week, and whilst I admit I have enjoyed a lot of it, it only served to show me not only wass the ADC a better standard than the WDF but so is Modus. Shane this week lost every game he played on Monday, and after the group was over on Wednesday finished bottom. He then got another chance in a group C which included players like a washed up Andy Hamilton, and failed to get out of the group, even if he did miss 4 match darts to get through to finals night.
When Graham Usher, Andy Hamilton, Jeff Smith, Adam Gawlas etc who were no good enough to keep their tour cards are doing better than the current WDF champion. its time the WDF stop advertising their shit title as a world title, even the ADC, the company that once under early leadership had wrestling style darts belt are sensible enough to refer to their comp as A global championship instead of calling a proper world title.
I like Shane McGuirk, good player, put in some fantastic displays, but the reality is he was not good enough to qualify despite having multiple chances and the WDF champion was not good enough for Modus. He certainly did little on his appearances on the challenge tour also.
As for modus, as said I enjoyed what I saw of this for the most part, except when comms wank themselves blind if a player is averaging over 115 after just a leg and a half, but silence when a player averages in the 70s when a game is over which has happened, and today I caught up with Friday's afternoon session and did not bother watching the PDC highlights, as the World Series is absolute dogshit. I do not want to see Twat Porters favourite players smashing up southern hemisphere jobbers in an utterly meaningless non ranking heap of shit, let alone watch it at 8 o clock in the morning. I wont be watching tomorrow morning's final session either as means absolutely nothing, and will instead look forward to Modus Champions night.
Of course Modus next week returns to meaningless fodder as its all kids week, and along with influencer weeks, munter weeks, it is not worth watching, but their Champion of champions week is always worth a watch and the timing this week was perfect to counteract the slop the PDC offered up.
We are now less than 8 weeks from the World Grand Prix the next large proper ranking major. It was the 2023 Grand Prix where Luke Humphries who was the then World #6 put together his run of titles that saw him take the #1 spot, but on the flip side he now defends an awful lot of money. It might not be the money of the Worlds or even the Matchplay but still 120k in the Grand Prix and Littler defending fuckall we could see a new #1 before it ends, unless Humphries reaches a final at least and picks up a couple of floor titles or euro tours before then and his current form is less than a lot of players below him.
As for Price who has climbed back to #6 he defends 60k. Those on the opposite scale include Wade, Heta and Rock all defending a first round loss, MvG and Bunting defend only a second round loss. Then you have the dutch trio of Van Veen, Wattimena and the Match fixer defending nothing.
It only serves to show how amazing players like Wade, Lewis, Ando etc were to keep at the top for so long, as it seems the average peak for players seem like 5 years between the surge and decline.
