On another note the annual end of tournament montage was very shoddily put together.
This one will never be topped.
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The Smith 9 darter, you really can’t get better entertainment than that.
The Sky Sports lads can’t help themselves but overhype everything. It was a game with the greatest leg of darts but not the best ever.
Peak darts was mid 2010s when you had Taylor averaging 108-112, Barney could go close, Gary Anderson just getting going, peak Whitlock, Lewis, Wade, up and coming MVG.
There were some other characters in that video like Painter, Terry Jenkins who were fierce likeable too. Jenkins bully bully entrance was legendary.
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Taylor patting Jenks on the head and being a condescending bastard"Terry knows he can play better!" Great times.
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Duzza was on OTBAM earlier
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Q School 2023 begins tomorrow morning.
The break down is as follows:
UK
First stage - 387 entries
Final stage - 24 entries
EU -
First stage - 435 entries
Final stage - 15 Entries
Full list here > 2023 PDC Qualifying Schools - Final entries confirmed | PDC
I’d expect a few to drop out but with 27 Tour Cards on offer in total they should be split 14 for the EU event and 13 for the UK event I’d say.
Some of the more recognisable names on the list include:
Lisa Ashton
Andy Hamilton
Wayne Jones
Wes Newton
Alan Norris
Fallon Sherrock
Alan Tabern
Lorraine Winstanley
Corey Cadby
William Borland
John Henderson
Andy Jenkins
Max Hopp
Gian Van Veen
Scott Mitchell
Jelle Klaasen
28 entries from Ireland trying to win a Tour Card:
Neilie Brouder
Frankie Collopy
Mark Connolly
Dylan Crean
Jason Cullen
Niall Culleton
Dylan Dowling
Aaron Dwyer
Glenn Fitzpatrick
Billy Fogarty
Bodien Fogarty
Liam Gallagher
Liam Kindlon
Alan Lawler
Andrew Leigh
Ryan Lowndes
Killian McCormack
Shan McGuirk
Barry Morgan
Jason O’Donovan
Keith Rooney
Stephen Rosney
Katie Sheldon
Dylan Slevin
Ciaran Teehan
Shane Walsh
Michael Flynn
Conor Heneghan
My predictions for the UK event:
Dylan Slevin
Graham Usher
Conan Whitehead
Darryl Pilgrim
Conor Heneghan
Stephen Burton
Keegan Brown
James Hurrell
Jim McEwan
James Richardson
Josh Payne
Jarred Cole
David Pallett
EU picks
Corey Cadby
Gian Van Veen
Jelle Klaasen
Thibault Tricole
Wesley Plaisier
Owen Roelofs
Karel Sedlacek
Sebastien Bialecki
Jeffrey De Zwann
Lukas Wenig
Daniel Klose
Alex Spellman
Max Hopp
Jacques Labre
Dreams can come true for 13 players in the Marshall Arena in Milton Keynes this week 
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I remember him being at the Worlds a few years back and looking like a serious prospect - did he do a stretch between then and recently?
Goes into detail here
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A former round 2 or 3 jobber in the worlds. Did he leave darts for a while or get dropped back
Hoping to hear about success for Chuck Norris, Big Hendo, Scotty Dog and Wexford’s Jason Cullen.
Jelle Klaasen is currently World Number One on the sporting side of the game and he looks a live contender to add his second World Professional title on December 10th next at Lakeside.
Lost his card in 2017 and hasn’t won it back since.
I think only 3 players have won their tour card back straight away after losing it. (Lost in December and won back in January)
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A tour card will rule him out of that.
He looked a bit pissed the last few times I seen him playing.The amount of functioning alcoholics in darts is pretty high I’d say.
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I’d say Mr Cadby could be after a few this morning.
The early start could catch out a few players.
On the board for 10am 
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Isn’t it a bit unusual there’s no top class Irish darts player ? It’s very popular in Ireland and a fair amount of pub leagues etc etcz
Catholics can’t throw doubles
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It’s hard to make a proper go at it if you’re in Ireland. Without sponsorship you’ll struggle. Lot of expense in travelling over to the UK and Europe for the Pro Tour and Euro Tour.
If you get bate first round on the Pro Tour you don’t get any prize money.
If you don’t do well on the Pro Tour you won’t get into the spots for the majors. There’s 30 Pro Tours a season.
Radek Szaganski is from Poland but living in Cork. He picked up 16.5k in prize money in the season just gone. He’d be down money after all the travel and expenses so still needs a job. He’s driving for Bus Eireann. Willie O’Connor is #37 in the World and is still doing a bit of carpentry I think.
Dylan Slevin is from Offaly and I’d be surprised if he didn’t get a card this week. Jelle Klaasen beat him in the Irish Open final in Killarney. (Jelle got 4k and Dylan got 2k and that would be the biggest event in the Irish calendar)
Mike Flynn from Carrigkerry is a dark horse to get a card this week.
If you were going over this week and funding it yourself I’d say you wouldn’t have much change out of 3k.
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