Insulting genuine darts fans for expressing their opinion. Yet failing to condemn and fight the abusive, whistling idiots in darts crowds who are ruining events for everyone.
Time for the PDC to show a bit of self reflection and assess what their actual priorities are.
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@OfficialPDC
Funny how the comments are full of negativity even when this is regarding an open event. This is how you know it's not about sporting integrity for them, it's simply to hate on a person.
@Dobey180
Chris I support you mate but this is not a good look. It's really not the players' responsibility for their crowds. It's the PDC who needs to sort it out. If anything players should be united in this, not divided by nationality. The problem isn't specific to 1 nation.
@OfficialPDC
Littler once again with his back turned and fiddling with his dart case while the other player is waiting for him to shake hands. Come on Luke. Sort it out. It's just a bad look.
@phillbarrs
Price is a complete drama queen. He has done crap for years he took on the villain mantle himself. Has had incidents with half the tour and crowds all over the world. He is asking for it. No sympathy for him at all
@slacky109
@OfficialPDC
Nonsense. Apart from D1 his other 4 darts at a double were all really close. Look at the D2 he missed especially. Do you think it's possible to do that on purpose? Absolute madness if you actually think that.
@OfficialPDC
Good list but very sorry for the event winners missing out!
Kim Huybrechts
Radek Szaganski
Callan Rydz
Ryan Joyce
Ross Smith
All deserved to be at the Slam!
@TheDartsReferee
Come on. He would need to win 3-4 more world championships and that's assuming MVG sits on his arse and does nothing in that time
And no one is overtaking Taylor for some time obvoiusly
@MatadorDarts
No point in that. It wouldn't be a world championship without proper international representation. It's fine at 96 players. You don't have to watch every single game and if you do you can't complain about the standard
@WeeklyDartscast
I'm happy the PDC got what they deserved. Even if they won't care too much. Absolutely absurd decision and timing on their part. Ally Pally has now lost one of the most exciting international qualifier. The tournament will be worse because of it.
@KDeller138
@Gezzyprice
A lot of players give it some and yet they come across as great guys. The celebrations are only a part of why Price is so disliked. He has been provoking crowds and other players for years. Seems like he can dish it out but can't take it
@anonymous_darts
@KamilPs05
Although they are right Littler was a sore loser in this game and I will keep calling him out. Just like I call out anyone else for the same thing. But no need for an article written on it.
@jjheisman
@DartsOrakel
You do realise prime Bristow was consistently averaging around the 90-95 mark? Which would be 100-105 on today's boards? Wouldn't have a tour card is nonsense. He would be world number one.
@OfficialOLDarts
@MattPorter_PDC
If you didn't want people to overreact you could of had a phased approach. It's fairer. From 24 to 10 is a huge drop. Why not just go to 20 or 16 and reevaluate next year?
It's the wrong direction. Top 32 players already have it very good. The rest need more support.
@180Thelaw
@OfficialPDC
Yep. It makes zero sense what they are doing. Beau's place should have gone to Lisa Ashton and the world youth place should go to a youth player. Should Jiwa have to withdraw, his place should go to the Indian runner up.
Having 4 or 5 PDPA qualifiers is an utter farce.
@ronannnnn__
@OfficialPDC
They have won a pro tour event so they should have been in the event by default. I'm pointing out the obvious flaw in the qualifying criteria
@OfficialPDC
Well done Gabe. Great achievement this for German darts. I'm sure this won't be your last quarterfinal. And I'm sure other people from Germany will get there. The first one is always the hardest
List of PDC event winners that deserve to be in the Grand Slam of Darts this year and might not get there:
Ross Smith
Ryan Searle
Kim Huybrechts
Damon Heta
Callan Rydz
Ryan Joyce
Radek Szaganski
I will be rooting for all of them in the floor qualifier. PDC needs to sort it out.
@FDI_Index
I do think the current system has 2 big faults
1. 2 year ranking protects out of form players too much. The optimal solution would be a weighted system where recent achievements are worth more.
2. The overly high value of the Worlds is distorting the rankings.
@dazi180turtle
At the end of the day is it really a big deal if he misses the Matchplay or the Europeans? PDC would be seething but to him personally, he has already enough on his plate this year. He will be playing in these events for decades
@livedarts
Really sad this is what darts has become. Ref should be able to stop the game until the idiot is thrown out. Refs need more power. Security needs to be more vigilant. PDC needs to acknowledge the crowd problem, publicly condemn it and deal with it.
@OfficialPDC
This is just horrible. Why the same board for 3 rounds? And why always the same seeds on the streaming boards?
PDC needs to sort this out. At this moment it would be better to have only 2 boards streamed but with random games each round, as it was.
@OfficialPDC
My favourite games
Ross Smith v Scott Williams
Rob Cross v Cameron Menzies
Dimitri Van Den Bergh v Jim Williams
Damon Heta v Jules van Dongen
Michael Smith v Richard Veenstra
Joe Cullen v Jamie Hughes
@OldManWinter999
@livedarts
That is very unlikely. In the last few years he has done barely anything darts wise. I want him to be back but we shouldn't expect success immediately. Even getting through Q School will be very hard
Bloody hell. German crowd already awful. When will the PDC acknowledge this problem and do something about it??? They are about 10 years too late at this point!!!
@CFC_CS
@OfficialPDC
People complain about Fallon getting a lot of attention, yet they continue to bring her up at any opportunity.
Why not support all 3 women? I personally hope Beau, Lisa and Fallon all have a great tournament. No need to compare them or choose between them.
@OfficialPDC
Brilliant from Stephen and I'm chuffed for him. Huge victory. Hope he can finally pick up his first PDC TV title!
But it has to be mentioned the crowd are a disgrace again! This is how bad it has gotten. 2 great players on stage who don't deserve this!
@jetze_jan
Not a lot of shocks there. I feel sad for Geert de Vos I think he needed to switch a few years earlier he could have made a good career out of it
@OfficialPDC
God I hope the crowd doesn't ruins this. Sounds like they are already at it. Shame as Ricardo and Ross are 2 nice guys and neither of them deserve this
@dazi180turtle
The gap is closing fast for sure. UK has more depth while EU has better top end players. Just going off names I'm far more interested in EU even though that might be because of the different nationalities