I saw arguments online about the likes of Littler who won the Worlds, UK Open, Matchplay and Grand Prix and questioning should he be allowed in the youth world champs.
I am conflicted either way, one one hand you have Littler the best player in the World currently, along with other tour card holders like Van Veen battering non tour card holders. Surely this cannot be a benefit for the non tour card holders, if anything it might discourage them getting walloped by more experienced players from the senior tour. The point being those tour card holders have their own tour, fuck off and let the kids have their event in peace.
The counter argument is how can you have a competition called the World Youth Championships and not allow Littler in. If Littler was forbidden entry then it would make the youth title meaningless, when whoever wins it will always have that stigma on them how the real best players were not allowed enter. It will be like the old days of the BDO, where county players and piss head jobbers would rock up to Bob Potters run down hotel every year and brain wash the handful of fans and themselves they were playing in a World Championship where the winner was a world champion when the best players in the World were in the PDC.
As it transpired Beau Greaves beat Littler in the semi final in a quality affair which was funny because the greatest player on Earth at the moment, ends up losing to a girl without a tour card, and she played brilliantly, in fact both did. Littler survived match darts in his game against Manby in the last 16. The final between Greaves and Van Veen takes place on November 23rd at the Players champs finals.
I think the PDC are fucking things up by making the Youth championship open to 23 year olds. If you are 23 you are not youth, even if your are considered young by old cunts like me, but at 18, never mind 23 you are old enough to drink, drive vote,etc. How many of these 23 year old kids have their own fucking kids ? At 23 my father was 7 years in the military, including spells abroad, my mum was already married with kids at 23. At 18 you are legally an adult, and that should be the cut off point for the World Youth Championships, then Twat Porter is a fucking moron.
Here is a guy who thinks 23 years are youths, if he really believes they are kids, then why does he use every opportunity to have an even younger player in Littler be his show pony as he whores him out for publicity. Contradictions are lost on Twat Porter, remember this is a guy who claims the PDC is Unisex, so why did he invent a Women's series and give preferential treatment to one gender in a unisex code....then allow only one man to play in a Women's event.
If Noah Man Lueven can rock up and pretend he is a woman without ever doing a medical which he would fail, as we have a thing called biology what is stopping any man from identifying as a women on the day of the women's comp ?. Surely if Twat Porter believes a man can change in to a woman by simply putting on lipstick and saying they are a woman through this "self identifying" bullshit, and gets to play without question then any man can do it right if they were prove a point, or needed the money or were just mentally ill people who think biology does not matter.
Then when the comp is over you can simply identify as a man again, since it seems just claiming to be something you are not is allowed and seemingly there is no time frame on this whole nonsense.
PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIPS #31
Price Noppert, Ando and DeDecker gave it a skip
LAST 128: Out first round went Littler, MvG, Smudger, Cullen, Krusty, Van Veen, Chizzy, Gurney and Woodlouse, but a huge defeat for MvG in his bid for the Players champs finals. Littler was 2.5k outside the qualifiers.
LAST 64: Out went Humphries, Cross, Rock, Dobey, Clayton, Dirk, and Menzies and by the time the round was over only 4 of the top 20 players in the world were left.
LAST 32: The seeds of Joyce, Magpie, Nellyboy, Springer went out, and Babs van den Bergh was having good run for a change.
LAST 16: When Heta and Schindler went out there was only 2 players in the top 20 left in Wade and Bunting.
LAST 8: Thankfully Bunting beat the match fixing cunt, Wade went out to Aspinall despite being 5-4 and throwing for the win, Wattimena beat Landman and Zonneveld beat Hunt, and looked like Bunting's title to lose. Aspinall put himself well within the qualifiers for the PC Finals.
SEMIS : Zonneveld threw absolute slop and got raped by Fattimena in the last leg he hit scores of 12, 42 and 65.Bunting scored better and averaged higher than Stutters Aspinall, but "the fighter" Asp did the right things when needed and won 7-3.
FINAL : The final was between the World #22, and world #23, and despite Asp going 2-0 up, Fattimena won 8 on the trot and a 101 average. A good day for Asp reaching a final and hitting two 9 darters
PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP #32
MvG had another sulk and pulled out, also missing were Van Veen, Price, noppert and Ando.
LAST 128: Wade missed darts for 5-1 and went out. Rock and Schindler both went out after leading 5-4.
LAST 64: This saw the exit of Humphries,Clayton, Smudger, Joyce, Cullen, Krusty, Zonneveld and Woodlouse.
LAST 32: It was goodbye to Dirk, Chizzy, gurney and Ratajski.
Last 16: This saw wins for Littler who was inside the qualification spots, Asp continued his great recent run, but out went Heta, Cross and springer.
LAST 8: Out went the match fixing cunt, along with Asp and Dobey.
SEMIS : Littler sent his equally fat oppenent Bunting out and Fattimena went out to Dennie Olde Kalter.
FINAL : Littler and his 110 average was too much for Kalter.
Andreas Harryson hit a 9 darter in the first round.
EURO TOUR.
With this being the final euro tour and 24 of the 32 places in the European championships confirmed the main emphasis for the lower ranked players who qualified is to either secure their spot or those outside to make a final surge. The hopes will be aided in the fact Littler, Humphries, Hunchback, and Ando were not going to be involved.
I only saw the highlights of both sessions on Friday and it was now 25 places secure. For those outside the spots still left hoping to scrape in only Chizzy seems likely, as one win might be enough on count back, 2 wins sees him in. Magpie needs a semi final spot to take the last place of Gilding, who Willie beat on Friday. As for the others Zonneveld and Rapid Ricky would need to win the event..
I wont miss Cullen at the European Championships.
A special mention for Hunchback MvG, who failed to qualify for the Players Championships finals, through shit performances, missed events due to hissyfits, and will see 60k come off his ranking, yet when he won a mickey mouse world series event, a non ranking event comms told us MvG was back. Who could have imagined comms would lie to the viewers and try bullshit them.
Nobody likes the drop in temperatures, the oncoming of winter with its wind and rain, dark mornings, fields like bogs whilst walking the dogs but I always equate it to Darts season. Sadly in the spring and Summer all we get is the UK Open and Matchplay and the majority of rest just filler shit like non ranking exbos. Darts season has truly begun and the European championships is perfect for next weekend as it gives me plenty to watch as I have zero intention of going for a pint next weekend during what will be the biggest festival of the year here in Cork, where every pub will be packed tighter than a dinghy full of illegal immigrants. Always the same type of assholes that never drink all year then go out for the festival and Xmas. Cunts who cannot handle their drink, they fall in to 3 groups, those who think they are comedians, those who think they are gods gift to women's, and lastly the ones that think they are tough. All 3 are assholes who are unbearable, hence me staying home. As for Xmas, it will be ourselves sipping drinks in front of the open fire watching darts. The events come thick and fast now, and whilst I an thankful it serves to highlight how imbalanced the calendar is.
