Originally Posted by fudbeer:
“Agree love the darts its just about the only thing I find worth watching this time of year.
I find the crowd at these events interesting they pay all that money to go and spend much of the time chanting away barely watching much of the action.
I went to one of the premier league matches last year and you are basically in a room full of drunk people!
I like a drink but having people around you drunk and constantly standing up and screaming down your lug hole gets tedious after a while!”
This might end up a bit of a rant FB but did you see the Daryl Gurney v Mark Webster clash?, - [I won't mention the result in case anyone's watching it all recorded like me and hasn't seen it yet] - but the crowd were disgusting in my view. They constantly barracked Gurney every time he was throwing important out-shots, it was so bad it clearly was ruining his concentration and his game.
At the end of the match, and I've never seen this before in my life he was so annoyed he just walked off stage and never acknowledged them at all and I didn't blame him one bit.
The problem is Barry Hearn who now practically owns darts on TV wants these football mob-style crowds it pays handsomely. The players, the commentators and the referees are too frightened to speak a word against it because Hearn wants this type of circus darts.
I hate it with a passion, a bit of noise of course, the audience is there to watch good darts and have some fun, but not when the players are throwing the darts, they should show some respect and pipe it down.
Eventually I can see darts losing its appeal on TV, certainly to the level it currently is, it's now over-exposed on three channels, the same 2/3 players win all the tournaments. [one player in particular of course winning most things]
I think in time it might make a lot of people just turn over and watch something else, and these inebriated, fancy dressed, deafening crowds chanting the same boring chants day after day after day aren't helping.
Rant over.
