Darts – Stunning Stuff (Tuesday Night)

Dave 61.62% Peter 60.09% Ian 56.05% Doddy 46.67% Fred 43.64%
Steve 42.57% Papa 39.62% Malc 34.62% Mike D 34.55% Colin 33.33%

There were some fabulous darts thrown on Tuesday evening. Winners and losers alike agreed the all round player performance was one of the best if not the best so far.

So, a top evening. It started a little late; one player was a tad tardy but claimed not to be late. This led to Dave cheekily enquiring if the hands on his watch were made from jelly!

We still managed to blister through seven games. The ‘pickometer’ teamed up Pete and Dave ‘v’ Ian and Mike D (AKA J.A.) The evening was snaffled by Pete and Dave with a 6 – 1 victory, games as follows IM 1 / 234567 PD.

I have said it before and need to say it again, that score line in no way reflects the battles that were fought! Only one game was a walk over all the others were highly contested. Most games changed hands several times before the end and there were plenty of pressure shots in the closing stages.

There were some interesting tactics played, although all games started on bulls there were two distinct team styles:

Ian and Mike generally played Ian on bulls while Mike D started up 10/15s + 11/14s.

Pete and Dave alternated with one going for bulls and the other opening 20’s + 18’s

This led to some very scary games; at times you couldn’t help but get dragged away from your goal for defensive throws.

In one game two low numbers were left open; twelve and thirteen (I seem to remember). Each team was scoring on one of them and also required 1 semi to finish. Lead position changed about 4 or 5 times before the game ended because each team would poke some darts in their scoring number to take the lead before trying to close off the opposition and go for bull. The pressure was immense on all players, bloody exciting!

Player Performance:

Ian - Great form, Bulls galore

Mike D - Excellent, a massive number of trebles.

Pete - Officially on fire, bulls Trebles and 18’s

Dave – Officially on fire, Trebles and Bulls (two reds in one throw)!

There must have been over a dozen red bullseyes thrown last night, in fact there was far more scored on centres than semis during the night.

Chart Action:

The top three remain unchanged, Sadly Mike D drops down one position. This is a real shame as with the performance he put in he deserves to have gone up rather than down, but that is the way the %’s crumble.


Pete X