Comments on: World Darts

By: MartS

MartS — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:35:57 +0000

12 shots – from the same player, not both of them – at a double 12 was the pinnacle of my BDO World Darts 2010 watching this year. Truly awful.
Lucky I have Sky Sports to show how the game should be played, where if a player doesn’t get 120-180 per visit to the board they are booed. In the world of the BDO the rafters rattle when the score goes past 110.

Colin Murray was a welcome addition to the coverage, injecting a bit of childish enthusiasum to the presentation, but I bet the BBC can’t wait for the day that either Martin Adams or Ted Hankey retire, so they can slide them in to the expert analysis role, as Bobby George seemed to be on a loop when talking about each match (‘ard for the looser, winner can now go awll the way to ver finol in my book).
David Croft obviously loves the sport and it shows in the commentary. Tony Green sounded a cross between bored and embarrased during the early stage matches.

The one thing that the BBC do, and Sky don’t is count up the running score. Nice little touch that.

By: Wilma Haswell

Wilma Haswell — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:25:43 +0000

Colin Murray best presenter yet!!! he really got into the spirit of things – please bring him back next year, fantastic!

By: ciaran

ciaran — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 01:55:58 +0000

Great article. History will look back at the mid noughties as the 2nd golden era of darts.That tournament was brilliant. The emergence of Fitton,imperial phase Barney,Adams at last getting to the final and a breakthrough for an unknown called Simon Whitlock.And their was still the taylor-barney rivalry and countless 9 darters to follow.

Thought I might as well read it again as it shows you just how far the coverage and standard of darts has fallen on the BBC.The darts this year has to be up their with the worst televised sport in history.A player who hit double 1 when aiming for treble 20,some of the lowest 3 dart averages in living memory,the BBC pulling the most dramatic matches off TV to show gardening/cooking style programmes,that awful set with the BDO blazers walking round the place like in a retirement home.martin fitzmaurice insulting seemingly taunting everybody in the audience,tony green describing just about every match as the greatest ever seen in the history of the lakeside,ALAN “?” Norris as a co-commentator.”oh and dont get me started on rob walker and colin murray.its all too much to take.This is truly darts “USA 94″ moment.

Surely the BBC cant show this farce any longer.A sad story to a once great tournament and tradition.