PDC Players Championship

Treble20

The Players Championship starts tomorrow with live coverage of every game on ITV4. It would be down the list in the rankings of the majors but still a £60,000 winners cheque is nothing to be sneezed at for a weekend's work! It's also an ideal warm up for the forthcoming World Championship even though I seem to think that a certain Phil Taylor was unhappy last year about this tournament been on so close to Ally Pally?

It'll be interesting to see how current World Champion Adrian Lewis gets on in this tournament after a relatively quite enough year on the circuit after his World Championship victory. Phil Taylor I'm sure will be all out to win this to get some momentum going for Ally Pally. The current form player Michael Van Gerwen will be the main focus of attention and he plays reigning champion Kevin Painter in the 1st round.

Great to have another tournament on TV and it should be Interesting to see how this goes,maybe another outside winner like last year? Action stars on ITV4 each day at 12 45pm and 6 45pm Friday-Sunday.

KevIRL

Hope itv4 isn't blocked on UPC for this

The Showstopper

Could be Taylor v Lewis in the 2nd round

Kingp35

KevIRL wrote: »

Hope itv4 isn't blocked on UPC for this

I just checked and it is blocked. Ridiculous stuff.

Jarjohn

Ill take a stab at predicting 1st round results but wouldnt be too hopeful with short format
White v Smith
Lloyd v Wright
Pipe v Osborne
Huybrechts v Van der Voort
Thornton v Walsh
Jenkins v King
Baxter v Nicholson
Hamilton v Smith
Chisnall v Jones
Wade v Dolan
Lewis v Burnett
Van Gerwen v Painter
Barney v Beaton
Taylor v Webster
Newton v Anderson
Whitlock v Caven

hawkwing

Kingp35 wrote: »

I just checked and it is blocked. Ridiculous stuff.

"Programme Not Available in ROI
ITV4, 12:30 - 17:15

Due to rights restrictions, this programme is not available in ROI."

http://tv-guide.upc.ie/TV/?eId=eid_174419419_14O_2012-12-01T12:30Z
:mad::mad::mad:

mr170

Lads there is an app on android called film on live tv. It has itv 4 just watching the darts on it now. Not sure if the apple app store has it . Or just go to the flim on live tv site

Will I Amnt

mr170 wrote: »

Lads there is an app on android called film on live tv. It has itv 4 just watching the darts on it now. Not sure if the apple app store has it . Or just go to the flim on live tv site

App store has it too so will work for iPhone/iPad users also.

Kingp35

Not sure if I am a fan of this venue, the crowd are very far away from the stage and not much atmosphere at all yet. Hopefully it picks up.

Wins so far for Michael Smith, Peter Wright, Justin Pipe and Kim Huybrechts.

shocksy

ITV4 is available to watch to anyone who has sky.

Kingp35

I don't like Mervin King but I'm delighted he won that because the crowd were a disgrace as usual. They have to try and cut out the booing! Terry will be kicking himself though.

KevIRL

Kingp35 wrote: »

Not sure if I am a fan of this venue, the crowd are very far away from the stage and not much atmosphere at all yet. Hopefully it picks up.

At least there are a lot more at it than last year when it was nearly empty.

buster180

They have blocked it again on UPC, Fecking B@#&%£$”

Kingp35

What's happened to Chisnall?! I knew I shouldn't have bet on him!

KevIRL

THAT was a paddlin

Choochtown

Come on Brendan!

Kingp35

The standard has been very poor in this tournament so far.

Choochtown

Maybe it's the camera angle but the crowd seem very distant from the stage.

Kingp35

Choochtown wrote: »

Maybe it's the camera angle but the crowd seem very distant from the stage.

They are, they're miles away.

Jarjohn

Poor darts so far. Barney looks a good bet at the moment- 8/1 looking at whats left in his half of draw- Jones, Wright, Smith, Pipe, Wade/Dolan, Huybrechts, King

Choochtown

Great finish T19 D18 D18 !

Jarjohn

Mr Lewis involved again!! Always other players fault. Fair play to Russ Bray telling him to leave it alone and get off stage

Will I Amnt

Jarjohn wrote: »

Mr Lewis involved again!! Always other players fault. Fair play to Russ Bray telling him to leave it alone and get off stage

In fairness, he didn't seem to do anything wrong.
Burnett looked like he flipped out over nothing.

hipdoobloon

You'll get the free stream 4 the darts at http//justin.tv/timmyc_sportingzone23

http://justin.tv/timmy_sportingzone23

Will I Amnt

Hope van Gerwen brings his form into this and lights up an otherwise dull tournament.

Treble20

A cracking game there between Barneveld and Beaton. A shock that Barney was beat and he averaging almost 100! Fair play to Beaton though a great win for him but Barney will rue those missed doubles especially the 3 misses to win the game in leg 10.

The standard so far has been poor enough with some mediocre games with the main talking point from tonight been the spat between Lewis and Burnett! Personally I thought there was nothing in it from viewing it on TV but maybe Burnett might reveal later what upset him.

Good to see a packed venue for this event for a change compared to the last 2 times when this event was held in Doncaster where the attendances were poor. However like previous posters have commented the crowd seems very far back from the oche and the atmosphere is lacking something.

Taylor up 4-1 at the Interval against Webster and producing the highest average of the tournament so far. Looking forward to Anderson v Newton up next,could be a cracker of a game.

Treble20

Taylor wins 6-2. He's in good form again taking down the board for everyone to sign:rolleyes: (only when he wins:D!)

Treble20

Good win there for Gary Anderson 6-4 over Wes Newton and he did it in style with a brilliant 130 checkout via treble 20 treble 20 double 5. Another tough game awaits Anderson in the 2nd round against his fellow Scot Robert Thornton.

EireIceMan

What exactly happened with lewis earlier? Missed that part because of toy show:(

Jarjohn

Jarjohn wrote: »

Poor darts so far. Barney looks a good bet at the moment- 8/1 looking at whats left in his half of draw- Jones, Wright, Smith, Pipe, Wade/Dolan, Huybrechts, King

I hope Barney is as sick as I am...:(

KevIRL

Dolan gave himself too much to do there, really valiant effort to fightback though, seemed to be good banter between himself and Pipe at the end too