2016 BDO Darts Thread

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Darren Lethem

13-01-2016

Originally Posted by Ginger Daddy:
“"Going back" is a bit of a misnomer, they just arent renewing their Tour Cards , or trying for one. They might not play a single event all year. Plus both are woefully out of form and Lloyd has admitted as much in a recent interview. Its hardly a "coup".

People seemed to get excited about Co Stompe "going back". Again, he was out of form and didnt enter much, in fact he hasnt entered anything meaningful since May last year. I expect Lloyd to probably enter one or two events but no chance he will do the full tour.”

What is the situation with Jaws ? Does he still have a PDC card then ? Or has he dropped that far down. I did notice Alan Tabern hasn't entered Q School too.

EDIT - Just read on the PDC thread that Colin Lloyd has retired

Ginger Daddy

13-01-2016

Originally Posted by Darren Lethem:
“What is the situation with Jaws ? Does he still have a PDC card then ? Or has he dropped that far down. I did notice Alan Tabern hasn't entered Q School too.

EDIT - Just read on the PDC thread that Colin Lloyd has retired”

He was into the 100's on the Order of Merit, he would have had to play Q School.

Darren Lethem

13-01-2016

Originally Posted by Ginger Daddy:
“He was into the 100's on the Order of Merit, he would have had to play Q School.”

Wonder what Tabern is doing then. Might have realised that he is past his best. God knows why Barrie Bates keeps trying. He's only 2 places above me in the rankings

Ginger Daddy

18-01-2016

Originally Posted by misawa97:
“
Someone on the SOS forum has put the final yesterday at 1.6 milion while the PDC final got 900k.”

Originally Posted by Darren Lethem:
“PDC final got 908k on its two channels. BDO got 2.2m on BBC”

Now thats naughty Darren, you were comparing a Sky average viewing figure with a BBC peak figure. Tut tut.

Actual figure for the final on the Beeb was 1.68m if you want to make a correct comparison, which Misawi97 was doing

The lowest figure since records began.....

Darren Lethem

18-01-2016

Originally Posted by Ginger Daddy:
“Now thats naughty Darren, you were comparing a Sky average viewing figure with a BBC peak figure. Tut tut.

Actual figure for the final on the Beeb was 1.68m if you want to make a correct comparison, which Misawi97 was doing

The lowest figure since records began.....”

Will you post the figures from the site then please. I can see the BBC ones on BARB but the Sky ones aren't on as it wasn't in the 'others' top 30 that week. Only sport is football on both Sky and BT

And viewing figures have gone down for every show and terrestrial channel over the years. EastEnders is at 7m, used to be over 20m

Ginger Daddy

19-01-2016

908k is correct as an average for the Sky final, my only point was is that you had obtained the BBC peak figure from somewhere and using that as the figure. Lakeside final got 1.68m average with an extra 0.08m watching on BT.

Darren Lethem

19-01-2016

Originally Posted by Ginger Daddy:
“908k is correct as an average for the Sky final, my only point was is that you had obtained the BBC peak figure from somewhere and using that as the figure. Lakeside final got 1.68m average with an extra 0.08m watching on BT.”

I got the figures from SOD thread at first because they weren't available on BARB. Now they are but I still cannot see the Sky ones anywhere. Can you post them please ? BARB doesn't have them.

Bhaveshgor

19-01-2016

Originally Posted by Darren Lethem:
“I got the figures from SOD thread at first because they weren't available on BARB. Now they are but I still cannot see the Sky ones anywhere. Can you post them please ? BARB doesn't have them.”

http://www.barb.co.uk/whats-new/weekly-top-10?
692K on Sky sports 1
216K on Sky Sports darts

908K average for the darts

edit forgot the link to the sky darts channel.
http://www.barb.co.uk/whats-new/weekly-top-10?

Ginger Daddy

19-01-2016

Yes they do, look at the Top 10 section. However I see I have been beaten to it.

Darren Lethem

19-01-2016

So both the BDO and PDC finals down quite a bit on last year. I don't see what this is proving ? All TV shows are getting less viewers every year rather than more, certainly in the case of terrestrial telly. This just shows 'The Taylor Factor' to me. When he is playing the crowds ( still ) are there.

Ginger Daddy

19-01-2016

Im not trying to prove anything, just saying comparing a peak to an average is a bit misleading

misawa97

19-01-2016

Originally Posted by Darren Lethem:
“So both the BDO and PDC finals down quite a bit on last year. I don't see what this is proving ? All TV shows are getting less viewers every year rather than more, certainly in the case of terrestrial telly. This just shows 'The Taylor Factor' to me. When he is playing the crowds ( still ) are there.”

A lot of people don't like to admit but Phil Taylor is still a very popular player and a major draw.

Terrence Chant

24-01-2016

Nine darter in the BDO ladies today:

https://mobile.twitter.com/Josse180/...95320102289408

Darren Lethem

24-01-2016

Originally Posted by Terrence Chant:
“Nine darter in the BDO ladies today:

https://mobile.twitter.com/Josse180/...95320102289408”

Wow. Who got the 1st ?

Terrence Chant

24-01-2016

Mandy Solomons & Val Maytum have made nine darters in ladies competitions apparently

Darren Lethem

26-01-2016

Lovely interview with John Gwynne here

https://www.welivedarts.com/article/...-times-calling

Hayden

26-01-2016

Thays is indeed a fine interview - thanks for that Darren.
The design and navigation on that website is blimming awful though.

degsyhufc

30-01-2016

Waites and Gulliver were on the Balding show the other night. Not the most interesting interview imo but there was a gasp by the audience when they were told how much prize money they won respectively.

Terrence Chant

30-01-2016

Deta Hedman was on Pointless tonight with Andy Fordham, too.

breppo

31-01-2016

Live coverage of the Dutch Open in my home town:
http://www.rtvdrenthe.nl/tv/programma/67/Drenthe-Dart
Don't know if its geo-blocked but you can give it a try.
Worked last year.

misawa97

09-02-2016

Just read this on a forum.

This is true?

Quote:
“The new events were promised and to be run by a guy called Warren Brown as Deluxe Sporting Events, the BDO gave them the "contract"

A quick delve into their accounts reveal they are £140k in debt and a google search revealed that they have a history of events not happening and refunds were let's say delayed.

Deluxe strung everyone along for weeks on twitter and facebook promising Mega rich sponsors, telephone number prize pots, TV coverage and of course the #newera for the BDO

Several announcements of announcements later it looked like the event was going ahead but with no TV and a greatly reduced prize fund BUT was still going ahead. A few weeks later and no tickets people asked for refunds, he blocked them and didn't refund or claimed that he had already done so.

Event cancelled and BDO left to pick up the pieces as in sorting out refunds for people

Deluxe claiming that the event has only been delayed and will be on later in the year but credibility shot, he's now claiming that channel 4 are interested in showing the new events and by all accounts has pissed off Eurosport leaving coverage of existing events in doubt”

Chris_Wilson

09-02-2016

Originally Posted by misawa97:
“Just read this on a forum.

This is true?”

what forum did you get that from?

misawa97

09-02-2016

Originally Posted by Chris_Wilson:
“what forum did you get that from?”

http://www.tsod.tv/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15769

Ginger Daddy

09-02-2016

Yup that's all true. The BDO have seemingly got a random bloke to organise 8 events, he hasn't a clue what he is doing and as result the first one was cancelled at three weeks notice (see the BDO website for info).

Oh and it's been announced today that the BBC will no longer be showing Lakeside.

Not been a great month for the BDO!!!

misawa97

09-02-2016

Originally Posted by Ginger Daddy:
“Yup that's all true. The BDO have seemingly got a random bloke to organise 8 events, he hasn't a clue what he is doing and as result the first one was cancelled at three weeks notice (see the BDO website for info).

Oh and it's been announced today that the BBC will no longer be showing Lakeside.

Not been a great month for the BDO!!!”

Players let down again.

The press release from the BBC/PDC regarding the new PDC tournament and confirmation of BBC dropping the Lakeside even had the words "exciting new era" in it.

Barry Hearn trolling

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