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Rillington 18-12-2022 15:50
If you love the darts...
 
Please say so!!

This is the darts appreciation thread timed to co-inside with the festive tungsten-fest that is the PDC World Darts Championship.

joglynne 18-12-2022 16:02
Re: If you love the darts...
 
I couldn't hit the proverbial barn door but I do enjoy watching darts on TV. The only players I can't watch are those that throw left handed as watching them makes my neck hurt. :D

TheDaddy 18-12-2022 16:19
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I don't watch pdc, much preferred BDO, so much so I used to go up to the lakeside to watch it

SnoopZ 18-12-2022 16:33
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I only ever watched topless darts.

Hugh 18-12-2022 16:40
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Originally Posted by SnoopZ (Post 36142176)
I only ever watched topless darts.
I only watched that once, but never again.

Seeing Jockie Wilson and Eric Bristow playing with no shirts on put me right off my food…

denphone 18-12-2022 18:45
Re: If you love the darts...
 
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Originally Posted by TheDaddy (Post 36142175)
I don't watch pdc, much preferred BDO, so much so I used to go up to the lakeside to watch it
Did not the BDO go bust TD?.

TheDaddy 18-12-2022 23:08
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Originally Posted by denphone (Post 36142181)
Did not the BDO go bust TD?.
Might be why I was using past tense ;)

The WDF has taken over anyway and will be at the lakeside for the next three years at least

Rillington 22-12-2022 16:07
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TheDaddy (Post 36142175)
I don't watch pdc, much preferred BDO, so much so I used to go up to the lakeside to watch it
How often did you go?

Given that the BDO is no longer with us, do you now watch PDC events?

TheDaddy 23-12-2022 15:42
Re: If you love the darts...
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Rillington (Post 36142433)
How often did you go?

Given that the BDO is no longer with us, do you now watch PDC events?
For a few years around 2010, also I remember going to something at the circus tavern in the 90's.

No got no interest in pdc, the crowd sucks hard

denphone 23-12-2022 17:00
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TheDaddy (Post 36142517)
For a few years around 2010, also I remember going to something at the circus tavern in the 90's.

No got no interest in pdc, the crowd sucks hard
Sky have ruined it in my view.

Rillington 24-12-2022 13:16
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Originally Posted by TheDaddy (Post 36142517)
For a few years around 2010, also I remember going to something at the circus tavern in the 90's.

No got no interest in pdc, the crowd sucks hard
Ive never understood why football-style chanting by the crowd at a PDC darts event has become a thing in recent years.

Rillington 28-12-2023 14:40
Re: If you love the darts...
 
who is loving the darts this year? The tournament returns either tonight or tomorrow from its Christmas break.

jfman 28-12-2023 14:57
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It came back yesterday. Bunting just had a good win this afternoon.

Tournament is too long now it could do without the first round, and Sherrock getting in for no valid reason.

The crowd were as bad as I’ve ever seen it during the Cross match yesterday. Tedious, pointless chants and almost nobody watching the darts.

Paul 28-12-2023 15:06
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I dont specifically watch it, but I'll sometimes watch a few minutes if its on while Im passing time waiting for something else.

Mr K 28-12-2023 20:43
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One of those games that's fun to play, but tedious to watch, a bit like golf.

Jaymoss 28-12-2023 20:53
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Paul 28-12-2023 21:15
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LOL, Ive never seen that before. :D

[ It jumps back to the start just after 3 mins ].

Jaymoss 28-12-2023 21:17
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Originally Posted by Paul (Post 36167374)
LOL, Ive never seen that before. :D

[ It jumps back to the start just after 3 mins ].
That is the proper end point. Dunno why they looped it

TheDaddy 29-12-2023 02:46
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Originally Posted by Paul (Post 36167374)
LOL, Ive never seen that before. :D

[ It jumps back to the start just after 3 mins ].
That sketch poisoned darts imagine in the minds of the public for years in favour of snooker apparently, its possible I'm making that up but I'm sure I remember hearing it and it does kind of tie in with how popular snooker became in the 80's

Jaymoss 29-12-2023 10:15
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Originally Posted by TheDaddy (Post 36167399)
That sketch poisoned darts imagine in the minds of the public for years in favour of snooker apparently, its possible I'm making that up but I'm sure I remember hearing it and it does kind of tie in with how popular snooker became in the 80's
TBH when that sketch was made Darts was pretty much a parody of itself. I remember Jocky Wilson well. Darts was the only "sport" in existence where professionals got bladdered while playing

Rillington 29-12-2023 15:02
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jfman (Post 36167353)

The crowd were as bad as I’ve ever seen it during the Cross match yesterday. Tedious, pointless chants and almost nobody watching the darts.
For the past decade or so, the PDC has marketed darts as a night out at the darts rather than as a sporting event. Consequently, the behaviour you describe is part and parcel of any PDC event.

This is now being trialled in snooker via the Shoot Out, where you get the same type of behaviour. Thankfully, snooker has resisted the urge to go down this route for any other tournaments.

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Originally Posted by TheDaddy (Post 36167399)
That sketch poisoned darts imagine in the minds of the public for years in favour of snooker apparently, its possible I'm making that up but I'm sure I remember hearing it and it does kind of tie in with how popular snooker became in the 80's
It did, and it can be argued that that single sketch paved the way what came next - ITV getting out of the sport altogether in 1988 and the BBC doing the same, with the sole exception of the World Championship. This resulted in a dramatic loss of profile and income for the payers who had turned professional and resulted in the split in darts in 1993 and the formation of the WDC, which became the PDC and the product we have today.

denphone 30-12-2023 13:36
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jfman (Post 36167353)
It came back yesterday. Bunting just had a good win this afternoon.

Tournament is too long now it could do without the first round, and Sherrock getting in for no valid reason.

The crowd were as bad as I’ve ever seen it during the Cross match yesterday. Tedious, pointless chants and almost nobody watching the darts.
l love darts but the crowd is more of the loudmouth football variety now so l mute the volume button.

Bagmanian 30-12-2023 21:50
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My 50 year old was home for Christmas and is keen on watching darts so I got to watch a bit. It sure looked different from years ago when they had players who had some character. Now I just think it noisy and tedious and won't be watching that. Even golf is better to watch and that is saying something

peanut 30-12-2023 21:58
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This was probably the most interesting / strangest thing to happen in darts....

https://www.tiktok.com/@dartsss180/v...357978?lang=en

The strangest 170 in history.

Paul 31-12-2023 02:35
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Ugh, TikTok, it threw up a horrible captcha screen, I didnt bother.

Dude111 31-12-2023 03:34
Quote:
Originally Posted by Rillington
Please say so!!
I will say I cant do good @ all!!!!!!

If I hit anywhere on the target Im lucky!!!

Anonymouse 01-01-2024 02:18
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Depends on your own point of view, as Obi-Wan would have it.

I used to play in a pub team, started when I was (conspiratorial look) 16. This was years after a somewhat shaky start...and I was the one doing the shaking. Even at the age of 3 I had a scientific bent, and a yen to ask questions such as "What happens if I do this...?"
For no reason I can recall, I decided to find out what happens when you stick the point of a dart into a wall socket.
It goes without saying that I found out. :shocked:
Never again, I swore (once I'd stopped shaking). But I still played darts with my Dad.
He was always a good player, and I picked up a lot from him - so much so that when a slot opened up in his team he suggested I fill it, and so I did. I think I won my very first match, 2 legs to 1.
We were never very good, usually the bottom of the league or thereabouts, but as the old cliché has it, we didn't care 'cause we enjoyed it - played more for the game than the win, though of course a win was extremely welcome and we always did our best.

Except one night when we were playing against the top of the league - a foregone conclusion, one would think. We certainly did, not that we cared much. We were pragmatic about it: if we lost we lost, and if we won...well, that would certainly upset the league.
Of course, as a Hollywood tale would doubtless have it, we were bound to win as we were the underdogs. I think I made a joke in that regard. "Yeah, but really, that sort of thing just doesn't happen in real life."

Oh yes it does. :p:

In my X-Men fanfic, Rebirth, Wolverine growls to a guy, "There's a reason why clichés become clichés, bub." Sir Terry Pratchett was fond of million-to-one chances and the underdog, so he'd have loved what happened.

Against all the odds, we won. Made the front page of the Buff, a publication for our leagues as well as dominoes, pool etc. It came down to the last darter, and Kevin was generally not the most reliable of players, to put it mildly.
But he won 2 legs to 1. That gave us 8-7 (a bad start; Vic, our first and oldest player, lost 0-3, though Dad evened it up by winning 3-0) and a win!

Paul 01-01-2024 02:52
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I used to play Darts & Dominoes for our local club in the 1990's.

It would be fair to say I wasnt that good at darts, and was generally always the last player.
Even so, I certainly won as many as I lost (the opposing last player was usually as bad, or worse).

I was better at dominoes, I (we) won the local league pairs competition one year, and I won the singles another year (still have that trophy in the loft).

TheDaddy 01-01-2024 13:56
Re: If you love the darts...
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Anonymouse (Post 36167584)
Depends on your own point of view, as Obi-Wan would have it.

I used to play in a pub team, started when I was (conspiratorial look) 16. This was years after a somewhat shaky start...and I was the one doing the shaking. Even at the age of 3 I had a scientific bent, and a yen to ask questions such as "What happens if I do this...?"
For no reason I can recall, I decided to find out what happens when you stick the point of a dart into a wall socket.
It goes without saying that I found out. :shocked:
Never again, I swore (once I'd stopped shaking). But I still played darts with my Dad.
He was always a good player, and I picked up a lot from him - so much so that when a slot opened up in his team he suggested I fill it, and so I did. I think I won my very first match, 2 legs to 1.
We were never very good, usually the bottom of the league or thereabouts, but as the old cliché has it, we didn't care 'cause we enjoyed it - played more for the game than the win, though of course a win was extremely welcome and we always did our best.

Except one night when we were playing against the top of the league - a foregone conclusion, one would think. We certainly did, not that we cared much. We were pragmatic about it: if we lost we lost, and if we won...well, that would certainly upset the league.
Of course, as a Hollywood tale would doubtless have it, we were bound to win as we were the underdogs. I think I made a joke in that regard. "Yeah, but really, that sort of thing just doesn't happen in real life."

Oh yes it does. :p:

In my X-Men fanfic, Rebirth, Wolverine growls to a guy, "There's a reason why clichés become clichés, bub." Sir Terry Pratchett was fond of million-to-one chances and the underdog, so he'd have loved what happened.

Against all the odds, we won. Made the front page of the Buff, a publication for our leagues as well as dominoes, pool etc. It came down to the last darter, and Kevin was generally not the most reliable of players, to put it mildly.
But he won 2 legs to 1. That gave us 8-7 (a bad start; Vic, our first and oldest player, lost 0-3, though Dad evened it up by winning 3-0) and a win!
The Buff, it sounds like a paper version of The Indoor League, I loved that show, Fred Truman with a pipe and pint, shuffling over to the bar skittles table or darts without the trebles

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Originally Posted by Paul (Post 36167586)
I used to play Darts & Dominoes for our local club in the 1990's.

It would be fair to say I wasnt that good at darts, and was generally always the last player.
Even so, I certainly won as many as I lost (the opposing last player was usually as bad, or worse).

I was better at dominoes, I (we) won the local league pairs competition one year, and I won the singles another year (still have that trophy in the loft).
They weren't expecting it back for next years winner then :D

My daughter got one for horse riding that we kept, it was so battered it only had one handle left so they bought another and let her keep it

Paul 01-01-2024 14:57
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Originally Posted by TheDaddy (Post 36167606)
They weren't expecting it back for next years winner then :D
It was just a smallish personal trophy that you could keep, the doubles (pairs) I think we had to hand back. :)


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