Peter 61.64% Ian 54.14% Dave 51.61% Mike D 46.43% Steve 46.03%Papa 44.05% CM 37.50% Doddy 35.29% Colin 34.78% Malc 27.27%
Another Tuesday rolls around and Nailsworth was once again hosting another Bad Boys Darts match. The five players wondering what lady luck had in store for them were: Ian, Mike, Steve, Papa and Pete. The flipometers sorted out the teams in short order; Ian and Papa ‘v’ Peter Steve and Mike.
Now it has to be said that the three handed mob started off pretty poorly, thus Ian and Papa took the first, second and third games; leaving PSM feeling pretty despondent. We then had a stroke of luck and took the fourth, celebrating wildly that we had avoided what seemed like an inevitable white wash, in truth Papa and Ian were catching us fast and we only took the fourth by the skin of our teeth!
The fifth game got started and once again Ian and Papa marched to victory. The only question in PSM’s heads were ‘How many more are we going to go down by tonight?’ Then miracles seemed to happen (for PSM), suddenly our game came together and we barrelled through the next three games to pull proceedings to a draw.
Unfortunately we ran out of time for a decider; however this is probably no bad thing as a draw was probably the right result. I have to admit no one on my team thought that we would get to stalemate by the end of the evening, so we were mightily pleased.
The final score line was IP 1235 / 4678 PSM
Notable events:
Mike (JA) got Shang-Hi on the 18’s
Papa got a hatful of 16’s
Ian got a hatful of something else but I can’t remember what it was for the life of me.
Ian and Papa also did rather well on the centre of the board with Ian getting plenty of bulls and 25’s, Papa was also hitting the green regularly. Between them they put plenty of pricks in the middle of the board! They were as Dave would say ‘Cock on!’
Bull Wars Ian 3, Papa 1, Pete 1, Mike 1.
Chart Changes: Zilch, Nowt, None, Nada.... not a sausage!
The gap between Mike and Steve has narrowed still further, remarkably they no longer seem to be concerned with beating each other; apparently they both feel they now have Dave in their sites!
Dave’s ears must have been burning, when I got back from the hut I found an email from him booking a further two June dates, giving him three outings in the coming month.
So it looks like it will be strong competition in June... Game On!
Peter x
