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2024 World Championships

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    #992
    breffni bogballer
    Registered Users Posts: 618 ✭✭✭breffni bogballer


    Its a good job Jones isn't Chinese, would be serious question marks about a lot of his misses, chronically bad,he's like a 40 handicapper butchering Augusta



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    #993
    rolling boh
    Registered Users Posts: 2,034 ✭✭✭rolling boh


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122103659#Comment_122103659

    About ninety percent of the crowd at the darts are drinking and not paying much attention to watching the darts seriously.



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    #994
    El_Duderino 09
    Registered Users Posts: 20,188 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122103659#Comment_122103659

    Ok. So what I think you're saying is they changed darts and made it better and darts and snooker are different sports.

    Fair comment, if I've understood you correctly. So has the breakaway tour been better for players, fans and the sport in darts?



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    #995
    Danye
    Registered Users Posts: 2,139 ✭✭✭Danye


    Fundamentally it’s still the same game. What they did do is liven it up and making attending the darts more of a spectacle drawing in a crowd that perhaps would have never shown much interest in darts.

    You can’t really do that with snooker despite efforts in the past to jazz it up.

    But to answer your question, the PDC has been a huge success for darts.



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    #996
    CalamariFritti
    Registered Users Posts: 5,605 ✭✭✭CalamariFritti


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122103642#Comment_122103642

    LIV has ruined golf completely. Nobody watching it. And because a ton of big names have left the main tour I no longer watch that either. Cant speak for everyone tho.

    These days I watch a bit of European (sorry DP World) Tour and some ladies tour both Euro and PGA. They play very good golf too and they look much better at it, too. win win. :D

    The main golf is fkd I think.



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    #997
    run_Forrest_run
    Registered Users Posts: 6,425 ✭✭✭run_Forrest_run


    it might be an early night tonight but I'm hoping for a miraculous comeback and some edge-of-seat entertainment (I'm being very optimistic)



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    #998
    This is it
    Registered Users Posts: 5,427 ✭✭✭This is it


    Got away with that but can't be missing those



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    #999
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 11,381 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    Jones is just incapable of winning frames in one visit.



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    #1000
    Danye
    Registered Users Posts: 2,139 ✭✭✭Danye


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122104115#Comment_122104115

    This! I always thought the top 64 at least could finish you in one visit. He comes across as a decent league player.

    I read earlier in the thread that someone said snooker is in a good place with more tournaments and prize money but I don’t think it is. Take away Ronnie, Higgins & Williams it’s a very weak product, this final is case in point.

    I don’t think Judd, Robertson etc are enough for the game going forward.



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    #1001
    maximus15
    Registered Users Posts: 511 ✭✭✭maximus15


    Piss poor shot selection again by Jones. So many chances he passes up



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    #1002
    This is it
    Registered Users Posts: 5,427 ✭✭✭This is it


    Poor again. He's getting plenty of chances, just not taking them.



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    #1003
    sligeach
    Registered Users Posts: 17,181 ✭✭✭✭sligeach


    Wilson with a R'OS style hit and hope escape. Didn't get away with it though, almost fluked a red.

    Anyway, Jones has done his usual and missed a very pottable pink. Leaving Wilson with another good chance.



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    #1004
    Brian?
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,214 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    lads, I’m generally a positive lad. But this is terrible

    they/them/theirs


    And so on, and so on …. - Slavoj Žižek




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    #1005
    walshb
    Registered Users Posts: 55,525 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Awful stuff again from Jones. Wilson is a 7/10, but Jones about 3/10 as regards quality for a world final



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    #1006
    Holy Diver
    Registered Users Posts: 590 ✭✭✭Holy Diver


    Shocking standard altogether it must be said. Both players are terrible.



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    #1007
    raclle
    Registered Users Posts: 2,363 ✭✭✭raclle


    This is painful to watch. Must be the worst player ever to get to a final



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    #1008
    sligeach
    Registered Users Posts: 17,181 ✭✭✭✭sligeach


    Wilson hasn't played very smart here either. He should have moved that red along the cushion from the pink when there was one of the reds in the middle of the table, that way giving him options.



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    #1009
    sligeach
    Registered Users Posts: 17,181 ✭✭✭✭sligeach


    Jones missed that red by the proverbial mile. And this is supposed to be a WORLD final.



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    #1010
    kevthegaff
    Registered Users Posts: 6,965 ✭✭✭kevthegaff


    Jones is good at bringing the quality of the opposition down



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    #1011
    John arse
    Registered Users Posts: 1,929 ✭✭✭John arse


    Jones is like a club player who gets an occasional big break!



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    #1012
    Sandor Clegane
    Registered Users Posts: 1,113 ✭✭✭Sandor Clegane


    Jones had 3 chances to win that frame, just not good enough, the standard is bad it has to be said.



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    #1013
    sligeach
    Registered Users Posts: 17,181 ✭✭✭✭sligeach


    Another frame gone. Jones was poor but Wilson was lucky with the fluked snooker at the end. Not very smart by Jones with the attempted escapes. He should have been trying to glance off the red leaving the cue ball down the other end of the table. Instead he hit it full ball.



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    #1014
    sligeach
    Registered Users Posts: 17,181 ✭✭✭✭sligeach


    Everything's falling Kyren's way. Jammy fluke.



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    #1015
    sligeach
    Registered Users Posts: 17,181 ✭✭✭✭sligeach


    Ken saying Jones has fought back so well from when he was 7-1 down. Remind me of the frame score and difference?

    16-10.

    The gap is still the same though Jones should win this frame.



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    #1016
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 11,381 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    Jones with a century 😲



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    #1017
    maximus15
    Registered Users Posts: 511 ✭✭✭maximus15


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122104310#Comment_122104310

    It was 7 nil and now 5 frame difference. Can't deny he has fought , regardless of quality of game



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    #1018
    extra-ordinary_
    Registered Users Posts: 1,503 ✭✭✭extra-ordinary_


    Was that his first clear-up? Any others I always saw him break down on one of the colours etc.



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    #1019
    Stewball
    Registered Users Posts: 676 ✭✭✭Stewball


    Hazel just saying that was Jones' first century of the tournament - surely not?



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    #1020
    rolling boh
    Registered Users Posts: 2,034 ✭✭✭rolling boh


    I bet Stephen Hendry's opinion of the final would be very different off air than the waffle he has to say on the Beeb.



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    #1021
    sligeach
    Registered Users Posts: 17,181 ✭✭✭✭sligeach


    Jones with his 1st century of the final. Hazel says his first of the event. I think has made a couple earlier in the Championship. Still, Wilson has made more in the final alone than Jones has all tournament.



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