BDO 2015 World Championship

DEFTLEFTHAND

Wolfie and Bobby George playing with the wolf hand puppet during his post match interview has to go down as the cringiest moment of the championships so far. Even worse than the referees and 'Little' Richard Ashdown dancing on stage.

sid waddell

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Wolfie and Bobby George playing with the wolf hand puppet during his post match interview has to go down as the cringiest moment of the championships so far. Even worse than the referees and 'Little' Richard Ashdown dancing on stage.

That's part of Lakeside's endearing charm. I hope it never changes.

Devastator

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Wolfie and Bobby George playing with the wolf hand puppet during his post match interview has to go down as the cringiest moment of the championships so far. Even worse than the referees and 'Little' Richard Ashdown dancing on stage.

its embarrassing! like the people howling when adams won a leg/set

Kong going out here to Jeff Smith, sweating buckets on stage! Wonder how he'll get on under the big lights of PDC? Not looking good from this performance

Devastator

Smith 5-1 Kong

munster87

Devastator wrote: »

its embarrassing! like the people howling when adams won a leg/set

Kong going out here to Jeff Smith, sweating buckets on stage! Wonder how he'll get on under the big lights of PDC? Not looking good from this performance

If he can't do it under pressure here against this lad he'll struggle hugely in the PDC

Devastator

munster87 wrote: »

If he can't do it under pressure here against this lad he'll struggle hugely in the PDC

Was it pressure, was it he's unfit and can't handle a stage with ights or is he just not that good?

TBH(easy to say now ) I've never seen anything from him to make me think he could/would do damage in the PDC but it was alarming just how much he struggled to be up there tonight.

Fair play to Smith the qualifier!

squadro

The little blonde one needs to do a few bicep curls. And a bit of subtraction.

munster87

Devastator wrote: »

Was it pressure, was it he's unfit and can't handle a stage with ights or is he just not that good?

TBH(easy to say now ) I've never seen anything from him to make me think he could/would do damage in the PDC but it was alarming just how much he struggled to be up there tonight.

Fair play to Smith the qualifier!

He played very well the last day against the Swedish player when there was very little pressure put on him

Devastator

What happened at end of the girls game? My tv was going nuts and cut off. Was there a miscount or something because seemed like confusion.


Confusion in commentary box aswell....Tony Green"What a champion!!"....ummmmmm Tony, that wasn't the final mate!

squadro

Fallon left double 16 but threw a single six and then took out double 13 with her second arrow to win. It's always like that in the commentary box.

Devastator

squadro wrote: »

Fallon left double 16 but threw a single six and then took out double 13 with her second arrow to win. It's always like that in the commentary box.

lol did she think she was on 46 or something? They really should have a ref, whos job it is to call out scores required, not to have a speech impedimen. Who's fault was it?

Some of the ref errors on scorign has been terrible all week

squadro

Had to be her fault as she had 3 arrows in hand and as far as I know the ref said fallon you require 32. Lucky it didn't cost her dear.

Devastator

About to kick the tv in here so gonna hook laptop up and stream this match, at least it wont cut out every 15 seconds!

squadro

If you hear interview let me know what she says about it cos someone here carried out a coup on the remote control.

squadro

Heard it myself.she thought ref said 42 not 32.

squadro

She's backstage having a few pints of brown ale now. Aay uup.

Will I Amnt

Cracking stuff from Durrant there, not missing much at all.

squadro

Bit of role play later on there for darth vader and his light sabre.

marklazarcovic

come to life at the end this game

seanhynes

Durant v smith final on Sunday hopefully

Ronan|Raven

I cannot believe Robbie lost 5-1

Devastator

Yeah your fella Durrant played some great darts there, lost it a bit towards the end but was strong enough to take it out.

Is he playing Wolfie tomorrow?

sid waddell

Ronan|Raven wrote: »

I cannot believe Robbie lost 5-1

I certainly can. There is tremendous strength in depth in the BDO and you never know who can emerge from the field. Jeff Smith is a classic example of this. Unknown before the tournament but has proved himself a brilliant player and ice cool on the doubles.

marklazarcovic

Devastator wrote: »

Yeah your fella Durrant played some great darts there, lost it a bit towards the end but was strong enough to take it out.

Is he playing Wolfie tomorrow?

yup

Devastator

marklazarcovic wrote: »

yup

Hopefully we'll see more of the same again tomorrow

Will I Amnt

Poor old Sid ain't getting the reactions :pac:

DEFTLEFTHAND

Just looked up a bit about Smith, apparently he had a PDC card in 2012 and 13, also played with Part in the pdc world cup. By the sounds of it he never really got the sponsorship behind him to give the full tour a proper go.

seanhynes

Wolfie must be getting a say in the scheduling it was very unfair on Montgomery to be playing about 13-14 hours after and including doing media etc after beating waites,he hadn't enough time between games I see he's on again late tomorrow Adams,he gets great time in between matches

ThebitterLemon

Havent seen much of this unfortunately but I did see Smith take out Harms and just saw highlights of him taking out the gastropod!

Don't know much about throwing styles but he seems fluid and steady, would like to see him go on and win it.

TbL

squadro

Please let someone other than that utter prick Adams win it.

mdwexford

sid waddell wrote: »

I certainly can. There is tremendous strength in depth in the BDO and you never know who can emerge from the field. Jeff Smith is a classic example of this. Unknown before the tournament but has proved himself a brilliant player and ice cool on the doubles.

Strength in depth, brilliant.

I enjoy the BDO but c'mon now let's not kid ourselves.
This seems to be the worst year in a long time from what's I've seen.
Not sure if the averages reflect that but Smith averaged 90 today, that's diabolical in a World quarter final.

Durrant has been the only player to impress me.
Adams and Mitchell have been ok.

mdwexford

mdwexford wrote: »

Strength in depth, brilliant.

I enjoy the BDO but c'mon now let's not kid ourselves.
This seems to be the worst year in a long time from what's I've seen.
Not sure if the averages reflect that but Smith averaged 90 today, that's diabolical in a World quarter final.

Durrant has been the only player to impress me.
Adams and Mitchell have been ok.

I agree that the standard in the BDO seems to be dropping and the gulf to the PDC growing.

But players in the quarters and semis of the PDC have averaged less than 90.

Devastator

Deleted User wrote: »

But players in the quarters and semis of the PDC have averaged less than 90.

In the last 5 years only 1 person has had an average of less than 90 in 1/4s or 1/2s or PDC, Wade 2013 88 average losing to MVG in semi. There have been numerous 100+ averages from various players unlike the BDO

Devastator

Devastator wrote: »

In the last 5 years only 1 person has had an average of less than 90 in 1/4s or 1/2s or PDC, Wade 2013 88 average losing to MVG in semi. There have been numerous 100+ averages from various players unlike the BDO

In 2012, the final was 93 v 90.8 and most scores from the quarters on were in the 92-93 bracket. That will be remembered as producing one of the great clashes.

2 years before then, Webster had an 88 in the PDC semis.

In 2009, outside your 5 year limit admittedly, 4 of the quarter finalists didn't break 90 and one match was 82 81.

None of which is to say that this years BDO is great, because clearly it's not. I just wouldn't draw much from a particular average and say that's what clinches it.

Devastator

I agree that averages don't tell the full story Conor but I was replying to you saying PDC having less than 90, in which Wade is the only culprit. I thought 5 years was a fair timescale, we could go back 20 years and I'm sure find worse PDC averages. If we just compared this years tournaments the gulf is pretty huge.


Unfortunately for the BDO I see the differences increasing every year as there is very little incentive for the best BDO players to stick about and the overall quality is falling.

Saturday 2.30pm
Jeff Smith v Scott Mitchell

Lisa Ashton v Fallon Sherrock (Not before 4.30pm)

Glen Durrant v Martin Adams (Not before 6.30pm)

Go Harvey Go

seanhynes wrote: »

Tony green had said the best of order 4times already and he thought MITchell was throwing for the match just there he's as bad as ever this afternoon :pac:

Devastator wrote: »

Its actually got to the stage were his health is concerning me. I've had 3 relatives suffer from dementia and alzheimers and the repetition of questions/phrases along with general confusion are major signs of trouble ahead

As I've said several times now, I think it's time for Greeny to do the honourable thing and retire...

Devastator wrote: »

Wolfie, as ridiculous as this sounds, could equal Barney on 5 world championships. Some of the 'top' players have been shocking this tournament and more and more taking on the PDC challenge opens for wolfie to be about the only 1 left!

He'd equal Brissy, too.

Devastator

Go Harvey Go wrote: »

As I've said several times now, I think it's time for Greeny to do the honourable thing and retire...




He'd equal Brissy, too.

oh yeah, he's the commentator right? ;)

Go Harvey Go

Mitchell beating up Smith here, as Bobby George might say...

Go Harvey Go

Devastator wrote: »

oh yeah, he's the commentator right? ;)

Am I the only one here who calls him Greeny, then? :eek:

Devastator

Go Harvey Go wrote: »

Am I the only one here who calls him Greeny, then? :eek:

Well I don't but opps, my "oh yeah, he's the commentator right? " comment was in reply to you saying about Bristows 5 titles

Devastator

Mitchell 6-0 Smith

Smith wasn't in that at all, he only won about 6 legs?

Go Harvey Go

Devastator wrote: »

Mitchell 6-0 Smith

Smith wasn't in that at all, he only won about 6 legs?

Missed doubles, plus several ton-plus finishes by Mitchell, hurt badly.

robman60

Good ladies' final again. Fallon scored really well but her doubles just weren't there. I felt she'd lost it when she somehow contrived to lose the second set. She's a definite future champion I think.

squadro

How much they pocket for ladies final?

DEFTLEFTHAND

squadro wrote: »

How much they pocket for ladies final?

£12,000 for the winner and 5,000 for the runner up.

DEFTLEFTHAND

robman60 wrote: »

Good ladies' final again. Fallon scored really well but her doubles just weren't there. I felt she'd lost it when she somehow contrived to lose the second set. She's a definite future champion I think.

Yeah only 20 years old too, she has a bright future.

sid waddell

Deleted User wrote: »

I agree that the standard in the BDO seems to be dropping and the gulf to the PDC growing.

This has been the best Lakeside for a number of years.

Scotty Mitchell is a transformed player and has put on an absolute clinic of finishing all week.

Jeff Smith did something similar until his form dipped today.

Ross Montgomery put on a genuinely world class display in his second round tie.

Wolfie is back to his best.

Glen Durrant has been knocking in 98 averages for fun.

Karel Sedlacek lost 3-1 despite a 99.57 average.

Fitton v Norris was as good a match as you'll see.

Top seeds tumbling and shocks as always.

It's been a brilliant tournament and as always, thoroughly enjoyable.

Devastator

Come on Durrant!! Please!


I never realised he came out to same song as Lewis

Ronan|Raven

I'm hungry like the wolffffffffffff

(back in a bit off to the chipper)

Go Harvey Go

sid waddell wrote: »

This has been the best Lakeside for a number of years.

Scotty Mitchell is a transformed player and has put on an absolute clinic of finishing all week.

Jeff Smith did something similar until his form dipped today.

Ross Montgomery put on a genuinely world class display in his second round tie.

Wolfie is back to his best.

Glen Durrant has been knocking in 98 averages for fun.

Karel Sedlacek lost 3-1 despite a 99.57 average.

Fitton v Norris was as good a match as you'll see.

Top seeds tumbling and shocks as always.

It's been a brilliant tournament and as always, thoroughly enjoyable.

If only the commentators were like the much-missed real Sid...

(Though as I said before, if BT Sport had full coverage then they would probably still have Vassos in their commentary team. And probably Greeny, too. :rolleyes: )