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2017 Premier League Thread

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    #62
    Kingp35
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 12,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kingp35


    ThebitterLemon wrote: »
    They need to shake this up, it's getting very boring and irrelevant

    TbL

    It's good viewing for the casual darts fan, people who are really into darts generally wouldn't be a fan of it.

    I think I've watched 3 matches so far this year.


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    #63
    sc86
    Registered Users Posts: 2,882 ✭✭✭sc86


    anderson done 115 last weeks players final
    beat him 6 -1
    no hype over it because wayne mardle / sky hype train not involved ha


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    #64
    NoviGlitzko
    Registered Users Posts: 2,581 ✭✭✭NoviGlitzko


    Kingp35 wrote: »
    It's good viewing for the casual darts fan, people who are really into darts generally wouldn't be a fan of it.
    If you were a 'real darts fan' why wouldn't you want to see more televised important darts matches? MVG called this the second biggest tournament of the year last year. I love that I have darts to watch on Sky every week.


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    #65
    Kingp35
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 12,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kingp35


    NoviGlitzko wrote: »
    If you were a 'real darts fan' why wouldn't you want to see more televised important darts matches?

    Because it's a non-ranked tournament and therefor not important darts matches.
    MVG called this the second biggest tournament of the year last year. I love that I have darts to watch on Sky every week.

    MvG is saying what Sky want him to say. Phil Taylor has been doing it for years.

    It's great that you enjoy the tournament, many don't though. I think a lot of people, including me, believe that darts has reached saturation point with so many non-ranked tournaments on TV.


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    #66
    NoviGlitzko
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    Kingp35 wrote: »
    Because it's a non-ranked tournament and therefor not important darts matches.
    I didn't know it was a non-ranked event. :o If the others are so important why do they get almost no airtime? Who knows how both MVG & Taylor feel? It's a long format and heavily televised, attracts the biggest crowds in darts, and well set up.

    It also gives me an excuse to attend the PL session in Dublin month. :)


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    #67
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    It certainly is a cashcow for the PDC.

    And listen fair play to them, they plough the profits back into the Pro Tour prize money. All tour card holders benefit from the Premier League, as well as challenge tour and youth tour players.

    As a spectacle though I find it bloody boring, I never seem to be able to stick with it. It's not essential viewing for me.

    Tbh I prefer getting up a WDF/BDO stream at the weekends and watching a darts Open from some Eastern European country. :pac:

    I much prefer the excitement of tournament play.


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    #68
    mdwexford
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    NoviGlitzko wrote: »
    I didn't know it was a non-ranked event. :o If the others are so important why do they get almost no airtime? Who knows how both MVG & Taylor feel? It's a long format and heavily televised, attracts the biggest crowds in darts, and well set up.

    It also gives me an excuse to attend the PL session in Dublin month. :)

    Every major tournament is televised and receives the same coverage as the rest.

    There are so many meaningless games in the premier league. You can see the players themselves aren't even arsed for some of them.

    Try going to the Grand Prix in Citywest for the quarter finals night. Always a cracking night.


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    #69
    ThebitterLemon
    Registered Users Posts: 6,625 ✭✭✭ThebitterLemon


    mdwexford wrote: »

    You can see the players themselves aren't even arsed for some of them.


    Exactly this!

    I think it's a totally manufactured side show, with very little tension or drama.

    Players don't really give a fcuk, almost seem like they are going through the motions.

    Part of the attraction of tournament darts is than you've got something to lose, very little at stake at this s glorified exhibition

    Like another poster said I'd watch any class of tournament darts that this toss.

    Tbl


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    #70
    paulie21
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    Unusual to see Taylor up first


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    #71
    peteeeed
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    paulie21 wrote: »
    Unusual to see Taylor up first

    And see how that worked out for him :)


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    #72
    peteeeed
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    Thought mvg was going to get the 9 darter there


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    #73
    SlickRic
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    Kim is a bottler. Plain and simple.


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    #74
    peteeeed
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    Can't get over that finish line


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    #75
    gramar
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    Huybrechts is a ballbag.
    Had him down for 6-6 in the PL prediction game and he missed 4 darts at a double to go up 6-5 with MvG to throw for the draw.
    He folds time and time again.


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    #76
    lycan238
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    I think I will need to turn my TV down for this match. Crowd will be very loud I expect. Good matches tonight I am enjoying them.


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    #77
    Burial.
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    Gary throwing ridiculous darts and then mucks up where he should have gone 6-0 up. Those early legs for him were outstanding


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    #78
    gramar
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    Barney was like a man possessed tonight.


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    #79
    statto25
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    Lewis up to his old tricks again. Complaining that Kim was stamping on the stage after collecting his darts.


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    #80
    gramar
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    statto25 wrote: »
    Lewis up to his old tricks again. Complaining that Kim was stamping on the stage after collecting his darts.

    Funny how the heaviest man in darts accuses others of causing the oche to shake.


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    #81
    statto25
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    Maybe I should have given Adrian the benefit of the doubt! Still there is pointing it out to the ref and then there is having a hissy fit on the stage.


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    #82
    lycan238
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    How good was Barney tonight wow just wow. MVG and Klassen both with injuries this year in the PL.


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    #83
    paulie21
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    Taylor getting unsettled by been booed


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    #84
    raiders11
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    Taylor is embarrassing himself more and more every time ye see him...


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    #85
    gramar
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    raiders11 wrote: »
    Taylor is embarrassing himself more and more every time ye see him...

    He was very childish towards the end.


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    #86
    ThebitterLemon
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    gramar wrote: »
    He was very childish towards the end.

    And a complete tool!!

    TbL


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    #87
    peteeeed
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    Imagine if someone every time he loses grabs the board and gets him to sign in , he's a complete baby , bad winner and a terrible loser


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    #88
    gramar
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    ThebitterLemon wrote: »
    And a complete tool!!

    TbL

    He really looked like a spa last night.
    Frustration got the better of him. I think he saw Barney playing the darts of his life earlier and adored by the crowd while he was getting a bit of stick and then he threw away a 3-0 lead and was schooled by MvG. He let himself down and it was a lack of respect towards the fans in Rotterdam and MvG to chuck away his last 4 darts like that and behave like a spoiled child.


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    #89
    anti-venom
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    raiders11 wrote: »
    Taylor is embarrassing himself more and more every time ye see him...

    It's a pity but it's true. He never looked more past it than he did last night. Should have packed it in after worlds this year. MvG looked like he wanted to laugh at him in the post match interview.


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    #90
    peteeeed
    Registered Users Posts: 13,563 ✭✭✭✭peteeeed


    i think MVG had has to be given a lot of credit for his behaviour . when he turned around and saw taylor celebrating him missing a double and didn't react then taylor spoke to him at the end of the leg


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    #91
    raiders11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 641 ✭✭✭raiders11


    Sarcastically applauding the crowd too after they jeered as he threw and missed 2 darts at a double.. A thing he thrived on happening to some of his opponents over the last 2 decades..He sure as hell, had no problem with it then..


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