No Lewis , should have got rid yonks ago costing me big time

Looks a good draw wade vs Anderson a cracker bottom half looks wide open

I never noticed

Martyn Ridyard could beat Lewis at the minute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOPA...em-subs_digest

'House of the Flying Arrows'

New Darts DVD out next month

Phil Taylor will be missing from Minehead for the players championship , failed to qualify and has opted out of this weekends qualifers ,

Will that. Be the first pdc ranking event he will miss

No, he has missed loads.

I suspect you mean is it the first PDC TV ranking event he will have missed, and I suspect the answer to that is "yes".

Yes I ment all TVs ranking events as doesn't play in pro tour events

This is interesting. I've often wondered what a PDC players championship match is like. Well here is one. Dave Ladley v Steve West from today.

http://youtu.be/H_0PXysQ1E4

Seems a bit grim, playing in a small partitioned area in complete silence with no spectators and just a marker for company.

It makes you understand what the pundits mean when they talk about the difficulty of adjusting from playing on the floor to playing on the stage.

Wade sets a new world record with the most inner and outer bullseyes in one minute.

Video too, not a bad award on the side
http://jameswade.co.uk/james-sets-new-world-record/

Think we may see better games tomorrow afterwards rather than evening. I fancy the last 3 matches tomorrow night to be cake walks

Good day of darts nice to see Whitlock playing well again and itv are very good broadcaster for darts

Peter Wright narrowly missed a 9 darter just now against Christo Reyes

...and inevitably lost the leg.

Decent little match, this.

It's just been announced on the ITV coverage that Dave Lanning has died at the age of 78.

If Sid Waddell was the sport's most prominent voice, Dave Lanning was its most enduring; he commentated on darts for the Indoor League and covered the old News Of The World back in the 1970s, did all of ITV's tournaments in the 1980s, then joined Sky Sports and covered PDC events for the best part of twenty years.

Fittingly, ITV have just shown the first ever televised nine-dart finish from John Lowe in 1984 which Lanning commentated on.

Yes just watching that. Very sad news about Dave, as good a darts commentator as there's ever been in my opinion.

First time I went to Blackpool for the Matchplay we were in the same hotel as the Sky guys. The hotel fire alarm went off at 3am one morning and we all had to go to the car park. Most people quickly got changed but Dave Lanning was there in his dressing gown which still makes me chuckle. I remember the others ribbing him over it.

Really sad news about lannning rip legend and a great pice by itv

As good as Waddell was, Lanning was THE voice of darts in my opinion.
And what a voice.

Gutted. R.I.P to the big fella.

I agree. He had such a lovely turn of phrase

Touching from Taylor there, saying he'll no longer be able to call up Dave Lanning's son Phil and ask him how his father is.

MvG is on fire right now.

He beats Gerwyn Price 10-2 with a 105 average - but he was up in the 110s for most of the match.

Routine brilliance from MVG.

Boring night on the whole.