This week every year is like deja-vu, I criticize the idiotic qualifying criteria for the Grand Slam, as do so many others on social media. Every year it is the same argument, you have players who won just 3 games in a one off competition that is already a decimated and depleted field, and for just 3 wins you get to play in the Grand Slam.
Yet this year, there are TEN players who won proper ranking Player Championships, where they competed in full fields of 128, and had to win 7 matches to win an actual title, and those ten players do not get a spot in the Grand slam for those achievements. Yes you can argue they were in the lottery that is a qualifier, but the point is winning full ranking competitions should carry more weight than some depleted one off clusterfuck of a qualifier. When Cross, Chizzy, Smudger, Wright, Babs, Joyce, Dirk, Cullen, Menzies and Barney went out early in the qualifier you knew it was jobber jamboree time.
Bellyboy made it through which was sickening enough although I do not mind Noppert, Rapid Ricky,Evil Charlie and Connor Scutt, but Luke Woodlouse, dear fucking Christ. Wenig is only there to finish bottom of a group, and the vile match fixing cunt made it through. I despise that cunt more than anyone in the PDC.
Does anyone truly believe Wenig, Woodhouse, Scutt etc are more deserving than players that won titles this year like Cross, Smudger, Menzies, Searle Cullen etc. The system is flawed, and when you consider the success of Littler and Humphries who reach so many finals it lowers the number of available spaces on offer via the finals route. I think every single player who wins a trophy be it Euro tours or floor titles should be automatically in even if it means no floor qualifier. How often have we heard that twat Porter tell us players will be rewarded for their success, except when it comes to the Grand Slam, and the Premier League, and the World Series.
EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS
I missed the semis and final of the European Championships and only found out the result via the pdc highlights on youtube on Monday. Happy for Van Veen, a player I like, as for Humphries who earned more than Littler to maintain the #1 spot, it gives comms something to drag up again for the next tv event. What did piss me off was the media, comms etc after Wade deservedly beat Littler, instead of praising Wade it was excuse after excuse for Littler and how he did not play well, when in reality Wade could have won by more, but then it was the same when prime Taylor or MvG lost always claim their favourite did not play well instead of crediting the player that beat them. As for Gian, he broke in to the top 10. Well happy for the lad.
As I said last week, over 2 years ago the top 2 players in the world rankings were Bellyboy and Wright, they now are #29 & #30 with Cullen at #31.
PREMIER LEAGUE DISCUSSION
Right away Gian was being predicted to be in the next PL, and whilst I would like that, remember multiple players have won tv events and not been selected, ask Smudger, Cross, De Decker, and Nicholson. As it stands if the format remains the same it would be the Lukes, Bunting and MvG as the top 4, stick in Van Veen and Wade who had 2 Major finals this year, beat Littler last week, and has climbed the rankings to world #5 and among the top earners of 2025.
As for the 2 remaining places, I have no doubt Twat Porter would want Aspinall and Price, but Price is not even the best Welsh player currently and clayton is in better form even if he is dull. Rock is solid but has done fuckall in Majors, and no one really gives a fuck about his non ranking world Cup win, forget Bellyboy, Wright, Cullen, Heta Smudger etc. That only leaves Dobey who has less personality and charisma as Wez Newton, and Noppert who to his credit is playing well. Cross is not worthy and was never a Twat Porter favourite, Ando is not worthy, and probably will claim he does not want it. Asp is in form but to include him would be criminal.
However with the Slam, PDC and Worlds to come, everything will change, MvG cannot defend his 60k at the PDC players finals and could be out of the top 4 by then, Wade could be in the top 4 and the PDC might suddenly change the rules, a dark hose could do what Van Veen did and win an event and it all changes again, so until the last 8 of the worlds it will be wide open and any more discussion until then is just pointless, no point criticizing what they might do.
PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIPS
EVENT #33
There was no Littler, MvG, Wade, Van Veen, Clayton, Rock, or Ando, and when Humphries Cross and Bunting were gone before the last 64, there was not a top 10 player left. By the time it ended Dobey was however back in the top 10 with his win against Magpie. At 6-6 Willie went 12 darts without a treble and it cost him the match he should have won.Dobeys win also assured him of a Grand slam spot. Elsewhere Aspinall and Heta both it 9 darters
EVENT #34.
Littler was back, and again Humphries Cross and Bunting were gone before the last 64, as were Smudger, Asp, Heta, Wright, Joyce , Dirk and De Decker, and with no Price, Wade, Van Veen etc involved I lost interest but Campbell dumping out Littler perked my interest again as Cullen, Chizzy, Schindler and Gilding all exited. Babs had to win the event to make the PCF or else the field was set and went out to Dobey. Magpie and Dobey made the semis again.When the match fixing cunt reached the final to playing the boring cunt woodlouse I was done.
The big winners this week were Van Veen getting in the top 10 and up to #7. Dobey who moved back in to the top 10 with his win and semi final and moved 3 spots to #8. Magpie jumped 4 places to #41. Woodlouse jumped 3 spots to #25, what a grim reality.Price dropped yet another spot to #14.
Twat Porter will be giving himself an aneurysm trying to work out what believable, let alone viable or plausible excuse will be needed to stick him and stutters in the PL. No player going down the rankings should be considered for the PL in a fair and balanced system, however this is the PDC when rankings, form, titles etc can be totally disregarded in favor of picking the players in his own clique.
I saw this week speed jobber Vinny was criticizing Gerwyn Price, not for political choices, not for any incident, not for any comments he made, but ...wait for it...losing weight. Here is a game where over 50% of the players have bigger bellies than the patients in a fucking maternity ward, where obese cunts like Littler and MvG waddle instead of walking, players that have more chins than a Chinese phone book, players out of breath on TV after a walk on of 20 yards and then climbing 6 steps. Yet Vincent van der Voort thinks Price needs to be fatter. What normal rational sane person would take medical advice of speed jobber Vinny? He is like the Dutch version of Mervyn King, who has had every ailment under the sun except ovarian cancer and Dutch elms disease. How dare Price lose weight, get healthy, add years to his life, be fitter and more active, Speed jobber Vinny probably saw that fat dead cunt Fordham as an athlete. This is a game where multiple players have drank themselves to an early death. I do wonder though, had vinny spoke out and took the opposite view on weight and said that the chav keab guzzling Littler was obese and should lose weight, how many soyboy beta cucks and closet homosexuals would be out in force crying about body shaming ? We are at the point when visually repugnant obese beached whales cannot be told they are fat, I saw one article recently calling a fat cunt, a "high calorie person" you could not make this shit up.
I appreciate Vinny speaks his mind but the clownshoe made a right ejit of himself this time.
