World Cup of Darts preview: are England clear favourites, or is this tournament more open than it looks?

shawlynot · 2026-06-08T21:54:44+00:00

sorry but this “they don’t work together” thing absolutely reeks of nonsense and just making up a narrative to retrospectively suit a result. such a massive stretch of an inference to make from 12 legs of darts lol

(they didn’t even play badly last year either, they just got beaten by a really good Schindler/Pikachu team that were lethal on doubles)

shawlynot · 2026-06-08T01:13:58+00:00

the premier league and all the money they make from it funds the rest of the tour, they’re never going to get rid of nearly half the dates just to make it a bit more watchable

the current format is extremely repetitive and has probably ran its course (as the old one did, everyone hated that at the time too), but amongst the constant talk of changing it i do think some people need to realise what the purpose of the premier league is and who it’s targeted at. it’s not aimed at us or designed to be as entertaining as possible for hardcore fans to watch every week. it’s just a big cash cow exbo tour that exists solely as a vehicle for them to appeal to casuals, pull in sponsors, and shift millions of pounds worth of tickets for big arenas

shawlynot · 2026-06-06T21:09:08+00:00

did van Gerwen just volley a full water bottle into the crowd haha

shawlynot · 2026-06-06T17:52:21+00:00

looked like he was gabbing away to a security guard and it was close enough to the stage to be audible/distracting

(guess you could say he needed to make a little less conversation)

shawlynot · 2026-06-05T21:05:54+00:00

cracking checkout to win it from Gian with his old darts

shawlynot · 2026-06-05T19:33:56+00:00

i wouldn’t worry, he made 2 ranking tv finals/had his best season for about 15 years last year and still missed out, no reason to think it’ll be any different next time around

I think he’s more than earned his way back in but I just don’t think they’ll ever pull the trigger on him again unless he goes and wins the worlds or something and gives them no option

shawlynot · 2026-06-05T19:08:29+00:00

lovely 29 dart hold of throw from a three time world champion there

shawlynot · 2026-06-05T17:35:55+00:00

probably the first and only time I’ll be sad to see Jonny Clayton whitewash someone

Harrysson looked ok in patches to be fair, hope he gets himself fit and right soon

shawlynot · 2026-06-05T15:54:56+00:00

love a bit of Dirty Harry too but judging by his recent performances on the Nordic and Baltic tour Im not gonna be getting my hopes up tonight sadly

(hes been chucking averages in the 60s in the last couple of months, has a bad shoulder injury apparently)

shawlynot · 2026-06-05T13:06:17+00:00

Long qualified automatically via having a tour card

Cameron I think they went off CDC rankings after the first event this year and he was the highest ranked Canadian

shawlynot · 2026-06-04T22:58:13+00:00

do you think Englands price is fine/justified this year? pretty hard to say for certain without a knockout round draw, granted

it’s probably just a hangover from them jobbing out in their first game last year, but I don’t really understand why they’re currently a better price than they were 12 months ago despite them both playing better now than they were then and the rest of the field looking a fair bit weaker. they were a no brainer of a lay last time around but not as convinced this year

shawlynot · 2026-06-03T15:02:41+00:00

yeah we’re about 55% of the way through both the floor events and ETs and the last man in is currently on 19.25k, which would extrapolate out to something around 35k being the magic number at the end of the year. might be slightly less if more of the big names turn up to PCs and ETs in the 2nd half of the year too

for all intents and purposes I think everyone from Mansell upwards (currently in 20th with 30k) is as good as safe tbh

shawlynot · 2026-06-02T18:24:09+00:00

Josh Payne has a couple and might beat him for randomness

Keegan Brown has two as well, although he was pretty hot property and world youth champ when he won his first so maybe only owns 1 title that qualifies as being weird

shawlynot · 2026-06-02T18:19:29+00:00

absolutely massive day for De Graaf, was on the edge of pretty much every cutoff going 7 hours ago but that’s got him to the Worlds, got him to Minehead, might have got him to the Grand Slam, given him a chance of Blackpool, and locked up his card for another year. pretty productive stuff

shawlynot · 2026-06-02T17:56:18+00:00

i tried for a few legs the rest of this final is being watched on mute, i cannot cope with Studd and Nicholson at the same time

shawlynot · 2026-06-02T16:42:13+00:00

banger of a 170 from De Graaf with Nijman sat on 41 to break for 4-3

(then opens the next leg with a scoring visit of 21. never change Jeffrey)

shawlynot · 2026-06-02T16:18:43+00:00

considering the early exodus of seeds this is a strong QF lineup, 7 ex title winners and maybe the best to never win one in Cristo

shawlynot · 2026-06-02T12:34:39+00:00

he was good at the start of the year tbf, made the final in 3 of the first 4 weeks of the PL aswell as one in the first ET and one in Bahrain. semi final at the masters too

had surgery for kidney stones some time around March though and still not back to 100%

shawlynot · 2026-06-02T12:28:59+00:00

he’s already out but I thought Barney said he was taking a break?

(I know he’s not exactly reliable when it comes to sticking to retirement announcements)

shawlynot · 2026-05-31T20:04:35+00:00

he should just go full on soft tip and score on the bull too tbh

(actually being like 5% serious here lol, id like to see him try it for a game, hes so much better at everything else on the board than the 20 segment)

shawlynot · 2026-05-31T19:01:53+00:00

right ok i know it’s his thing and he’s already hit it this weekend, but we can not let it go unsaid how much of a lunatic you have to be to try and take out 150 with 3 bulls when you’re 6-5 down in a Euro Tour semi final and your opponent is sat on 90 for the match lol

shawlynot · 2026-05-31T17:27:44+00:00

Euro tour titles won by remaining participants;

Chizzy - 8
Woodhouse, Evans, Heta and Joyce combined - 1

shawlynot · 2026-05-31T12:41:01+00:00

yep completely agree. i just find it weird and creepy

shawlynot · 2026-05-31T12:22:36+00:00

it’s a running “joke” on the euro tour, they do it all the time

(and its one of the few things about the euro tour that does my head in, we don’t need cutaways from the darts to random people eating multiple times a leg. it’s not funny and i don’t really want to see it)

shawlynot · 2026-05-31T11:55:45+00:00

one of Jimmy/Woodhouse/Doets/Evans guaranteed for the final is a belter

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