PDC world darts

[Kirkland Laing]

Can you believe the drinking whilst playing was banned 34 years ago....

I've said it before. Pistol shooting, clay pigeon shooting, curling etc..... All sports

I agree, Pistol shooting, Clay pigeon shooting even boring curling would be much improved by allowing the competitors to get properly tanked up whilst playing.

For it to be true sport they all need to be pissed up, shooting and smoking at the same time.

And for the avoidance of all doubt, fat blokes throwing tungsten darts at a board is not in any way a sport. It just is not.

OK so would you agree pistol shooting, clay pigeon, archery, curling isn't either? Any others

Golf to a certain degree also

I struggle to see any of them as sports. Even golf. More like games than sports. Darts is just a pub game. The fat blokes play darts to a very high standard indeed and under great pressures but at the end of the day they're a bunch of fat blokes playing a pub game.

[palmerq]

Fallon sherrock hit a 9 darter today, don't think it was televised though, good work by her, it was. A pdf challenge tour event she beat marco verhofstad..

Funny thing about sherrock is she doesn't win the women's world title despite performing far better v men than the other women. Good for her.

[Mark TKO]

Yes was looking for footage but none out there.

So like the moon landings it must have been faked.

[Kirkland Laing]

She looks nothing like a darts athlete. Needs to start eating the right foods. Correct nutrition.

[Memphis]

OK dragging this one up for painfully obvious reasons. How good Luke Littler is beggars belief. At 16 he's pretty much doing what he wants with the Worlds best players. Throughout the World championships it was all very cordial and his victims were all full of praise for him. Not that he needed any help, and you wouldn't go so far as to say that anyone rolled over for him. But you got the impression that some were ok with being the supporting act.

Nothing of the sort in Bahrain when it got to the business end. Price and Van Gerwen wanted to clip his wings for sure and he just mentally bent them over and fucked them in the ass. Dry, with a run up. It was brilliant. Just ridiculously good.

His Mrs is a nonce though for sure.

[Mark TKO]

Well been almost a year since anyone posted re darts and it's that time again - the world darts final.

The standard again has been crazy with two nine darters going in early and dare I say it the final most wanted - Luke Littler v Michael Van Gerwen.

MVG not the player he was 6-7 years ago but is defo playing better than he has for a while. Still has odd spells in matches where his darts are wayward and he misses pressure doubles but this tournament he seems to have just 'done things right at the right time' as he put it himself. His match v Callan Rydz is one of the best I've seen and on another day Rydz would have romped home - but MVG did things right at the right time ! The beauty of set play I suppose. Rydz has a great future if he keeps that standard up.

Littler a clear favourite and you do feel this lad will dominate for years to come. Have to say I'd like MVG to win. I know you only deserve the number of titles you get over the line in but I feel the way he's played the last 12 years or so he deserves more than his 3 wins at this event

No idea how to tag people but wondering what sort of coverage darts gets around the world - particularly outside of Europe and the USA?? Spic ?? If it ever cracks America it's potential as a global sport is limitless. The Littler effect will fuel that.

Can't wait till tonight

[Kirkland Laing]

It shows impressive dedication to his sport that at only seventeen years of age he's managed to attain the physique of an elite darts athlete. His hair isn't going to last much longer though. Good luck you darts throwing kebab eating motherfucker.