Irish Taxi Forum
Public Area => Sports and Gambling => Topic started by: The Liffey Lip on March 01, 2019, 11:10:17 am
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Bit of entertainment for the arrow-fans among us....
https://www.pdc.tv/news/2019/02/25/2019-ladbrokes-uk-open-draw-schedule (https://www.pdc.tv/news/2019/02/25/2019-ladbrokes-uk-open-draw-schedule)
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8 boards... you'd need eyes in the back of your head... and lot's of them!
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No bets this time. Will miss Sunday's matches..........Roscommon are entertaining the Dubs in football so I'm off to that. Still, something to watch later.
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Might have a bet after the first round or two. I'll have to record what's shown on TV tonight as I'm going to work around 19:07... but if I was there I'd be watching the non televised boards in the hope of spotting a few live outsiders for the later rounds. Have it on the 40" plasma at the moment with last nights Premier League playing on my smartphone!
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lol Jaysus, you probably have a stable and a couple of ponies too, do you? Well for you............
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Nha, my sister keeps horses so I can always go for a canter if I want to... which is extremely rare these days, to be honest.
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No offence intended........just joking. Durrant, Anderson and MVG all gone...........Went out after Anderson lost to Beaton..........
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With so many "shocks" there has to be value there somewhere. I didn't see either of Lennon's games but I reckon I'll just have a throwaway tenner on him at 100/1. No fun in backing Price now that Anderson is gone but I guess he has some appeal at 8/1. I suppose one could also make a case for Londonderry's Daryl Gurney at 12s given his obvious liking for Minehead. The open draw makes it tricky but Dimitri Van Den burgh and Nathan Aspinall, both at 25/1, are live outsiders.
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Had to settle for €8.40 on Lennon. Market was suspended on Bet365 so I went to the biggest bookmaker in the world, paddypower.com, and the limit was a (surprisingly generous, to be honest) €8.40.
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You can watch scores from around the boards on https://www.flashscores.co.uk/darts/ (https://www.flashscores.co.uk/darts/) LL. Better late than never, I guess.
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I must remember to back Chisnall to lose 9-10 next time. He never disappoints in that regard.
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Gurney did the same against a walking wounded Smith... Lennon went 7-3 up on Aspinall before losing 10-8... grrrr
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The Tattoo brigade have taken over.
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Nice to see Aspinall win it after him beating Lennon. Not the best of finals but (for no particular reason) I don't like Rob Cross.
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2 right gypos- the pair of them- in my opinion...Essex meets Mushy Peas and fried Mars bars.
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The game has it's roots in public bars, generally frequented by working class men... so you kinda expect players to be a bit rough and ready. I suppose Gerwyn Price would be viewed as a snob given his background in professional rugby but even he has at least one assault conviction in his past. Aspinall was actually pursuing a profession before turning professional in the darts arena... you can't always judge a buke by it's cover. Funnily enough, though, one of the ITV4 commentators suggested he is of Irish Traveller stock being a Corcoran - presumably on his mother's side. Can't say I've ever heard of the Corcorans being of any prominence in the travelling community. I know a few musicians of that name and the commentators made reference to some boxers who may or may not have been related to him... all quite insulting, IMO.
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Aspinall has that look...........you see it in the eyes. Don't know anything about his traveller roots nor care. Cross comes across as reasonable enough man, I suppose, so I was being a little hard on him. However, Chisnall, Bunting, Durrant, Norris, Anderson(aside from the tats) and possibly all the Belgians and Dutch don't have that hardened look. I'd say the roughest of them is Suljovic......but he knows the game and he kow-tows to the ruling classes....being from a former Communist Bloc country helps. It's a sad day if one can't open one's mouth about Dart players..........this touchy-feely crap that Guerney goes on with can't take the game over entirely...........abject effeminisation of men has to be stopped....it has already destroyed soccer.
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To be fair to Gurney he answered MVG by agreeing with him and taking €60,000 outa his phoca. He did extend the argument to the point of ridicule in suggesting he was on the verge of packing it in... where else would a bloke who does nothing but play darts earn the kinda poke he's getting? I did find the chorus of boos amusing in Dublin though... I kid you not, one crowd of working class Dubs leading the chants were dressed in orange suits and chanting Barney Army before the night was out!
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Yes...typical Irish........they hate being called out..........King Billy's troops were the ones wearing green etc.etc.. I've no problem with Gurney's religious affiliations, Rats, but he's very in-your-face with his pecks on the cheek and his arm-rubbing..........neither of which are easily reconcilable with Ulster Protestantism...........in fairness, if I was living in Ballymena or Limavady or, indeed, Greystones, I'd be a fundamentalist Baptist and a regular screeching parable-quoter. Some of the biggest bigots I've ever met never attended Mass or Sunday Service.
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Adrian Lewis started all that kissing and cuddling... I'd say a few blokes woulda liked to punch him over the years but he's a big unit... as is Gurney. I can't remember who it was on one of the walk ons went to kiss (presumably) his aulfella and the old lad jumped back a mile!
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Gurney is/was a plumber near Lisnagelvin shopping centre, Derry/Londonderry/Maiden/Stroke City....the heartland of the Apprentice Boys............the Waterside tradesmen don't take kindly to any reference to the Bogside.
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They all drink beer and throw darts, the petty politics is irrelevant!
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None too fond of puffs was my point....not one gay bar across the Foyle.
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Probably not many poofs throwing darts up there, the Nationalists wouldn't be too fond of them either.
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I was being a smartarse....waterside...hetero...............bogside....etc.