DS Forums

 
 

2017 PDC Darts Thread


Reply
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Old 02-01-2017, 22:27
bcdee
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Lapland
Posts: 727
What a final!!! Never seen darts like it.

After the match it was good see Gary Anderson showing that not only is he a great champion but a gentleman too

Well done MvG, what a year he's had

Premier League Wild Cards............I would have liked to have seen Big Ben in there instead of Kim
bcdee is offline   Reply With Quote
Please sign in or register to remove this advertisement.
Old 02-01-2017, 22:31
bcdee
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Lapland
Posts: 727
PDC vs BDO..........I look at it in the same way as I do boxing

MvG is your Anthony Joshua and Scott Waites is more your Tyson Fury, both world champs but maybe not quite in the same class
bcdee is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 02-01-2017, 22:34
clarky323
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 4,824
Nonsense the greatest will always be the one who's won the most in any sport anything less they can't be the greatest simple as that.
Not really.

Ronnie is considered the greatest snooker player ever by many despite having two fewer world titles than Hendry. Messi the greatest footballer despite not winning the World Cup, Tiger Woods the greatest golfer despite winning four fewer majors than Nicklaus and so on.

Its only a matter of opinion anyway. Its very hard to compare different era's, the conditions and the quality of players around at the time etc...
clarky323 is offline Follow this poster on Twitter   Reply With Quote
Old 02-01-2017, 22:35
Darren Lethem
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Hull - UK City of Culture
Posts: 27,227
Somebody mentioned earlier regards averages throughout the years in the final so I have had a look

Winners average since the PDC worlds started

94 Sir Dennis - 94.38
95 Taylor - 94.11
96 Taylor - 98.52
97 Taylor - 100.92
98 Taylor - 103.98
99 Taylor - 97.11
00 Taylor - 94.42
01 Taylor - 107.46
02 Taylor - 98.47
03 Part - 96.87
04 Taylor - 96.03
05 Taylor - 96.14
06 Taylor - 106.74
07 Barney - 100.93
08 Part - 92.86
09 Taylor - 110.94
10 Taylor - 104.38
11 Lewis - 99.40
12 Lewis - 93.06
13 Taylor 103.04
14 MVG - 100.10
15 Anderson - 97.68
16 Anderson - 99.26
17 MVG - 107.79
Darren Lethem is offline Follow this poster on Twitter   Reply With Quote
Old 02-01-2017, 22:44
Sick Bullet
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Middleton
Posts: 13,830
Somebody mentioned earlier regards averages throughout the years in the final so I have had a look

Winners average since the PDC worlds started

94 Sir Dennis - 94.38
95 Taylor - 94.11
96 Taylor - 98.52
97 Taylor - 100.92
98 Taylor - 103.98
99 Taylor - 97.11
00 Taylor - 94.42
01 Taylor - 107.46
02 Taylor - 98.47
03 Part - 96.87
04 Taylor - 96.03
05 Taylor - 96.14
06 Taylor - 106.74
07 Barney - 100.93
08 Part - 92.86
09 Taylor - 110.94
10 Taylor - 104.38
11 Lewis - 99.40
12 Lewis - 93.06
13 Taylor 103.04
14 MVG - 100.10
15 Anderson - 97.68
16 Anderson - 99.26
17 MVG - 107.79
Oh nice thanks for that.
Sick Bullet is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 02-01-2017, 22:54
Madsocks
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Wherever I want to be!
Posts: 848
Some guy on one of the Facebook pages saying he's fuming about Klaasen being in the PL because he "doesn't want to watch perverts".

Seems like he's oblivious to the fact that Taylor has a wildcard......
Madsocks is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 02-01-2017, 23:01
Fat Buddha
Forum Member
 
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Birmingham
Posts: 715
How come Phil Taylor had to have a Sky Wildcard to qualify
Because he's slipped out of the world's top 4. so as a cosequence he has to be invited.

Barry Hearn has admitted he's looking at power scorers as opposed to steady Eddie types. If it was chosen on form alone then Suljovic should have been there instead of Huybrechts. Clearly it's a case of 180s are better from an entertainment perspective than players like Mensur.
Fat Buddha is offline Follow this poster on Twitter   Reply With Quote
Old 02-01-2017, 23:03
RB
Forum Member
 
Join Date: May 2000
Location: South West Herts
Posts: 310
Van de Pas should be in no explanation from Hearn why Suljovic was not in
RB is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 02-01-2017, 23:07
david16
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Central Belt
Posts: 12,268
Is Phil Taylor the only other darts player to will all the Darts majors and the World Championship in one year
I think he must have done it a few times (held them all at the same time) despite those who said he's never done it.

Just that in the darts, the PDC Worlds is classed as the first tournament of the season not the last, even if they are still played in December of the old year and in far more of December than in January. Even though Taylor holding the lot with the worids the last of them he won is not classed as the grand slam because he never happened to do it in the correct order.

Thinking about, it after winning the PDC Worlds, Van Gerwen holds the lot too, but he hasn't won them all in the right order either.

Holding all PDC televised titles at the same time is a phenomenal achievement for both Van Gerwen and Taylor even if neither have achieved it in the correct order.
david16 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 02-01-2017, 23:22
MR_Pitkin
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2015
Posts: 3,708
Van de Pas should be in no explanation from Hearn why Suljovic was not in
I heard he turned it down
MR_Pitkin is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 02-01-2017, 23:24
MR_Pitkin
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2015
Posts: 3,708
I think he must have done it a few times (held them all at the same time) despite those who said he's never done it.

Just that in the darts, the PDC Worlds is classed as the first tournament of the season not the last, even if they are still played in December of the old year and in far more of December than in January. Even though Taylor holding the lot with the worids the last of them he won is not classed as the grand slam because he never happened to do it in the correct order.

Thinking about, it after winning the PDC Worlds, Van Gerwen holds the lot too, but he hasn't won them all in the right order either.

Holding all PDC televised titles at the same time is a phenomenal achievement for both Van Gerwen and Taylor even if neither have achieved it in the correct order.
Taylor has never held all tv majors in a calendar year, and I suppose as this is the 2017 world championship, neither has MVG yet
MR_Pitkin is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 02-01-2017, 23:28
david16
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Central Belt
Posts: 12,268
What a final!!! Never seen darts like it.

After the match it was good see Gary Anderson showing that not only is he a great champion but a gentleman too

Well done MvG, what a year he's had

Premier League Wild Cards............I would have liked to have seen Big Ben in there instead of Kim
Phenomenal from Van Gerwen. But he has to win all the rest of the major PDC televised preceding next years worlds in any darting year to achieve "The Grand Slam".

People think he has achieved it tonight but he has not. It msy be the hardest feat there is because after a PDC World championships win you are running on empty for much of the rest of the year, and there has never been long break to recharge the batteries like the snooker had for many years. The other big PDC dart tournaments come thick and fast soon after the PDC Worlds.
david16 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 02-01-2017, 23:42
david16
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Central Belt
Posts: 12,268
How come Phil Taylor had to have a Sky Wildcard to qualify
In exactly the same way that Taylor will never be last up in the evening on Sky, and then be forced to play 1st up in the afternoon session the following or even the same day. Even though he's not been the man he once was for a number of years now.
david16 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 02-01-2017, 23:43
Sick Bullet
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Middleton
Posts: 13,830
Nice to see Waday up to 5th in the rankings, he has a knack of staying up there doesn't he.
Sick Bullet is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 02-01-2017, 23:47
MR_Pitkin
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2015
Posts: 3,708
Nice to see Waday up to 5th in the rankings, he has a knack of staying up there doesn't he.
Is Taylor 6th now then, how come he went further in the worlds than Wade?
MR_Pitkin is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-01-2017, 04:09
malcy30
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: West Sussex
Posts: 1,519
Is Taylor 6th now then, how come he went further in the worlds than Wade?
Read my post from yesterday but that's probably 10 pages back now.

OOM is rolling 2 years and Taylor was a finalist in 2015. That £120k drops off his ranking. Plus he had a quiet 2016. He won the Champions League but that £100k is unranked.

So he is now #6 behind Lewis and Wade plus Chisnall in #7 is only £6k behind him.

The player riding for a rankings fall in 2017 is Lewis. He had a rubbish 2016 as only #16 in the 1 year rankings and all his money from 2015 starts to fall off especially at year end where he was a Players and World Championship finalist.
malcy30 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-01-2017, 08:25
Kid B
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2016
Location: Tea and toast
Posts: 406
PDC vs BDO..........I look at it in the same way as I do boxing

MvG is your Anthony Joshua and Scott Waites is more your Tyson Fury, both world champs but maybe not quite in the same class
Posted on a similar forum...

"I can see why the Beeb got rid of the BDO, it's literally not in the same league as the PDC."

But I will be watching it on the basis that it's darts I want to see, irrespective of format or tournament.
Kid B is online now   Reply With Quote
Old 03-01-2017, 08:41
Ginger Daddy
Forum Member
 
Join Date: May 2009
Posts: 6,798
The bloke who invaded the stage turns out to be the same guy who invaded the X Factor stage. The "group" he is a member of are claiming he got put in hospital by security staff.

Boo hoo. Shouldn't be invading stages like a nobhead then.
Ginger Daddy is online now   Reply With Quote
Old 03-01-2017, 08:53
Kid B
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2016
Location: Tea and toast
Posts: 406
The bloke who invaded the stage turns out to be the same guy who invaded the X Factor stage.
Had he managed to get rid of Honey G then I don't think there would have been so much objection.
Kid B is online now   Reply With Quote
Old 03-01-2017, 09:57
Bless You
Forum Member
 
Join Date: May 2015
Location: 🕳
Posts: 1,844
Fantastic final !
Bless You is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-01-2017, 10:55
Darren Lethem
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Hull - UK City of Culture
Posts: 27,227
The bloke who invaded the stage turns out to be the same guy who invaded the X Factor stage. The "group" he is a member of are claiming he got put in hospital by security staff.

Boo hoo. Shouldn't be invading stages like a nobhead then.
Quickly followed by the security staff finding themselves in the dole queue after Barry had a word

Hooray Henry's trying to be funny and cool. Only people they are entertaining are themselves. I would treat them the same way as football hooligans and ban them for life.
Darren Lethem is offline Follow this poster on Twitter   Reply With Quote
Old 03-01-2017, 11:04
Ginger Daddy
Forum Member
 
Join Date: May 2009
Posts: 6,798
They already have banned him for life, apparently. Not that it really matters, hes clearly the type who just attends events to disrupt them and isnt actually a fan of any of them, hes done X Factor and the darts so it will be something else soon enough.
Ginger Daddy is online now   Reply With Quote
Old 03-01-2017, 17:26
ste1969
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: cumbria
Posts: 972
Blimey what's uncle Fester doing with that stunner
ste1969 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-01-2017, 17:33
Sick Bullet
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Middleton
Posts: 13,830
Blimey what's uncle Fester doing with that stunner
She is lovely eh, she is always there, I bet he had an even better night
Sick Bullet is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-01-2017, 18:18
tonypennys
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Leigh
Posts: 4,153
They already have banned him for life, apparently. Not that it really matters, hes clearly the type who just attends events to disrupt them and isnt actually a fan of any of them, hes done X Factor and the darts so it will be something else soon enough.
When someone gets banned for life do they have a picture of him at every entrance In every tournament to stop him getting in .i got banned from Pontins for life in 1981 but still went back the following year
tonypennys is offline Follow this poster on Twitter   Reply With Quote
 
Reply




 
Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 08:55.