Priestley wins PDC event

The Rooster

Dennis Priestley won the PDC event in Gibraltar over the weekend beating Terry Jenkins in the final. I think Taylor and Dudbridge were about the only top names not involved. Of Irish interest Mick McGowan had a decent run, beating Lionel Sams and Steve Beaton before falling to Colin Lloyd at the last 16 stage.

As an aside beaten semi-finalist Jason Clark (came quite close to beating Manley in the world championships) has been handed a £1,000 fine and banned from darts for 1 year - pending an appeal which is to be heard shortly.

Apparently there was a darts event in the Netherlands recently, and a lot of people took a lot of drink. 4 "Southerners" (i.e. south of England) were the worst behaved.

Jason Clark was dancing on the stage with his shirt over his head and his trousers around his ankles, and he waggled his backside to the packed audience. He said he has no memory whatsoever of the incident, but there were plenty of witnesses!!

Another guy threw up all over the bar and was involved in threatening behaviour towards Adrian Lewis. He got a £750 fine and 1 year suspended ban . The other two were "just" out of their face drunk in public at a PDC event and got £250 fines and 3 months suspended bans. I don't know who the final 3 were - Mardle might be a suspect given he's a Southerner known to be a bit of a lad!

Gibraltar results:

Final
Dennis Priestley 3-2 Terry Jenkins
Winner £5,000 Runner-up £2,500

Semi-Finals
Terry Jenkins 3-2 Colin Lloyd
Dennis Priestley 3-0 Jason Clark
Losers £1,250

Quarter-Finals
Colin Lloyd 3-0 Mark Walsh
Terry Jenkins 3-1 Dave Honey
Jason Clark 3-1 Mark Robinson
Dennis Priestley 3-2 Ronnie Baxter
Losers £600

Round Four
Colin Lloyd 3-1 Mick McGowan
Mark Walsh 3-2 Adrian Gray
Terry Jenkins 3-0 Wayne Mardle
Dave Honey 3-0 Wayne Jones
Mark Robinson 3-1 Colin Osborne
Jason Clark 3-2 Andy Jenkins
Dennis Priestley 3-2 Steve Maish
Ronnie Baxter 3-0 James Wade
Losers £300

Round Three
Colin Lloyd 3-0 Andy Hamilton
Mick McGowan 3-0 Steve Beaton
Adrian Gray 3-1 Denis Ovens
Mark Walsh 3-2 Andy Smith
Wayne Mardle 3-2 Jamie Harvey
Terry Jenkins 3-0 Alan Caves
Wayne Jones 3-2 Peter Manley
Dave Honey 3-0 Adrian Lewis
Colin Osborne 3-2 Colin Osborne
Mark Robinson 3-2 Mark Robinson
Andy Jenkins 3-0 John Magowan
Jason Clark 3-1 Alan Warriner-Little
Steve Maish 3-2 Steve Hine
Dennis Priestley 3-1 Tom Kirby
Ronnie Baxter 3-0 Ian Whillis
James Wade 3-2 Alan Reynolds
Losers £150

Round Two
Colin Lloyd 3-1 Josephus Schenk
Andy Hamilton 3-2 Nick Fulwell
Steve Beaton 3-0 Robert Watson-Lang
Mick McGowan 3-0 Lionel Sams
Denis Ovens 3-0 George Dearman
Adrian Gray 3-2 Matt Clark
Mark Walsh 3-1 Dale Newton
Andy Smith 3-1 Gary Welding
Wayne Mardle 3-1 Tony Smith
Jamie Harvey 3-1 Richie Burnett
Terry Jenkins 3-1 Sean Palfrey
Alan Caves 3-0 Guy Christyn
Peter Manley 3-0 Henry O'Neill
Wayne Jones 3-1 Gary Ewington
Adrian Lewis 3-0 Jon Archer
Dave Honey 3-0 Darren Johnson
Roland Scholten 3-0 Anthony Vince
Colin Osborne 3-1 Chris Sargeant
Dave Askew 3-0 Tom Nagels
Mark Robinson 3-0 Owen Caffrey
Andy Jenkins 3-0 Kelvin Painter
John Magowan 3-0 Andrew Davies
Alan Warriner-Little 3-0 Rod Harrington
Jason Clark 3-0 Colin Monk
Steve Hine 3-0 Kevin Painter
Steve Maish 3-1 Mark Pooke
Dennis Priestley 3-2 David Platt
Tom Kirby 3-2 Erik Clarys
Ronnie Baxter 3-0 Barrie Bates
Ian Whillis 3-2 Keith Deller
Alan Reynolds 3-0 Chris Mason
James Wade 3-2 Ian Critchett
Losers £75

Round One
(Q denotes Qualifier)
Colin Lloyd 3-0 Ray Stewart
Andy Hamilton 3-0 Leslie Ward
Steve Beaton 3-0 Francis Taylor (Q6)
Lionel Sams 3-0 Dyson Parody
Denis Ovens 3-0 Danny Peach
Adrian Gray 3-0 Joeri Raets
Matt Clark 3-0 Amos Bassano (Q4)
Mark Walsh 3-0 Justin Broton
Gary Welding 3-0 Bob Avenell
Andy Smith 3-0 Roy Rogers (Q2)
Wayne Mardle 3-2 Tab Hunter
Jamie Harvey 3-0 Paul Wills
Tery Jenkins 3-0 George Fredrick
Alan Caves 3-1 Eric Segui (Q7)
Peter Manley 3-0 Manolo Vilerio (Q1)
Wayne Jones 3-0 Kieron Lennon
Adrian Lewis 3-0 Alan Kimberley
Dave Honey 3-2 Wes Newton
Roland Scholten 3-0 Nicholas Cumbo (Q3)
Colin Osborne 3-0 Paul Williams
Dave Askew 3-0 Juan Asquez (Q5)
Owen Caffrey 3-1 Bob Anderson
Andy Jenkins 3-0 Justin Stagno
John Magowan 3-0 Nigel Russell
Andrew Davies 3-0 Darren Webster
Alan Warriner-Little 3-0 Henry Zapata
Jason Clark 3-2 Kevin Spiolek
Colin Monk 3-0 Jimmy Mann
Kevin Painter 3-0 Owen Phillips (Q8)
Steve Maish 3-0 Kevin Pearson
Dennis Priestley 3-0 Dylan Duo
Erik Clarys 3-0 Peter Evison
Ronnie Baxter 3-0 Nick Pinto
Keith Deller 3-1 Bob Crawley
Chris Mason 3-0 Glen Cameron
Ian Critchett 3-2 Lee White
James Wade 3-2 Yves Cottenge

califano

Good report surprised Priestly won though happy for him. Interesting to hear about the bans and fines!.
Mason is bang out of form. I think he still has that prison term he did weighing heavily on him.

Kingp35

Delighted for Priestley, I have always been a bit of a fan of his. Ths is the second event of the year IIRC with Kevin Painter having won a UK regional event against Colin Lloyd earlier in the month.

Thats ineresting to hear about the fines especially since me and Rooster were talking about darts and drinking in another thread

A year ban seems a bit harsh to me though

The Rooster

Jason Clark's appeal is to be heard on February 9. (Apparently he received the letter telling him about his ban 2 days before the world championships began :rolleyes: )

The other three who each got £750 fines but no bans were Wayne Mardle, Andy Jenkins and Colin Monk.

Kingp35

Your prediction that Wayne Mardle was involved was right Rooster. Colin Monk being involved doesnt surprise me an awful lot either!

The Rooster

Jason Clark has had his ban lifted, however he has received an 18 month suspended ban, i.e. if he steps out of line in any way in the next 18 months he'll get his ban. However, his fine has increased to €1,500. He's not happy with that and is considering his options.

Any Jenkins also appealed his €750 fine and 12 month suspended ban. On appeal this was turned into €850 fine and 12 month suspended ban! So he's not too happy either!

Wayne Mardle appealed his his €750 fine and 12 month suspended ban and he ended up with a €750 fine and 4 month suspended ban. So he's relatively happy.

Colin Monk's appeal was not heard (maybe he didnt appeal).

Kingp35

Well Clarke must be happy that his ban has been turned into suspended ban. I know that €1,500 is probably an awful lot of money for him but it allows him to continue playing. As for Jenkins thats very strange that his punishment was actually made worse on appeal by increasing his fine. I have never heard of that before so you can really blame him for being unhappy! Mardle should definitely be happy and he also the one that is most ikely to be able to afford the fine.