The Random Darts Discussion Thread

They did literally say that immediately after on the PDC.tv stream lol.

But yes I found something on google now, says he's working mostly backstage and he's officiating asian tour and world series events.

Littler needs to win this decisive leg. We deserve at least a 12th set.

bah

Ah well GG deserved winner in the end, Littler will do it one day!

Major blow for the Pear shaped bloke theory

Another hit to the Baids theorem

Very happy with the result, would have been an amazing story for the kid to win but I think it’s better for the sport that he didn’t win.

Should have gone 5-2 up, that miss was the end for him. Littler’s setup and checkouts are sometimes sub-optimal, and over time he should learn to make better choices. I doubt many would go T18 T18 D2 for a 112 checkout. Similarly in the semi-final he definitely went for T20 T20 T20 with 182 left.

If the fat kid were brazilian everyone would say he was an age cheater.

Premier League must be:

1. Luke Humphries
2. Michael van Gerwen
3. Michael Smith
4. Nathan Aspinall
5. Gerwyn Price
6. Rob Cross
7. Peter Wright
8. Luke Littler

Right?

That is the line up that I have seen someone work out from tweets yes

Isn't MVG having his jaws broken or something? Thought he was gonna be out for a while.

I see no reason to rush Luke Littler, the world #31, into the Premier League. His time will come.

Won’t happen, but my choice would be:
1. Luke Humphries
2. Michael van Gerwen
3. Michael Smith
4. Nathan Aspinall
5. Gerwyn Price
6. Rob Cross

and two of:
9. Jonny Clayton
10. Dave Chisnall
12. Joe Cullen

Viewing records were absolutely smashed during his run.

If you are not going to include him, might aswell do away with wildcards and just go with the top 8. He's exactly what a wildcard pick should be imo.

Was already announced as Humphries/MSmith/MvG/Price/Cross/Aspinall/Wright/Littler by the time you posted. Yes they've got to capitalise on the attention he's brought to the sport. And yes it will probably knacker his chances of getting into majors this year unless he wants to risk getting severely burned out

I’m not really excited about Peter Wright being in

I'd rather have Wright/Littler out and Dobey +1 (Chisnall/Bunting/Ando/whoever) in but I can see why they've put their most marketable players in a huge exbo

Glasgow leg is day after my birthday, might go

I agree with most of this except he obviously didn't intentionally go T18 T18 D2 for the 112, he accidentally hit the second triple when going for single 18 to leave D20.

Littler in the PL is super duper obvious from a pure capitalise on the world's concept.

I'd almost make a "World's Finalist" slot for whoever has a huge run to bring in new viewers as again, it's all exhibition's. Be it a random Aussie, German, 16yo, Lim etc...

As a decade + sports dad of 3 kids this could have been written to/by me

A few names that are through to round 2 of Q-School include Mike Warburton, Adam Hunt, Danny Lauby, Matt Dennant and Stefan Bellmont. WDF champ Baetens surprisingly dumped out in the last 256 by a Czech guy who I've heard of but who he shouldn't be losing to.

As an aside the PDC have wrecked the Euro Tour by making the direct qualifying criteria basically the same as the Matchplay, completely screwing over at least two thirds of all card holders, all affiliates, and having the effect of making the top 32 a very closed loop with much the same players going to be in every event by default. Seeds for the first two World Series events are the exact same eight players as in the Premier League, because who doesn't love seeing the same matchups we get every week even more often

Leighton Bennett has a tour card. The level of hype the PDC will generate when he plays Littler in due course will be huge

He's doing the Rob Cross match right now in Bahrain if you wanna log onto pdc.tv and watch lol

Rooting for Aspinall as per usual but an MVG Littler final tonight would be fun to watch.