World Matchplay thoughts
Well its been a great start to the World Matchplay. Who expected MVG, Price & Cross to be eliminated in the opening few nights?
Certainly not me but you have to give credit to Whitlock, Noppert & Clemens for brilliant victories over the big trio. Wright had a massive scare against the "Special One" Jose De Sousa, His 2nd round match vs Durrant will be a fine tussle. Duzza's opening match against Jeffrey De Zwaan was the performance of the 1st round and possibly one of the best performances in Durrant's TV career, he looked untouchable, Needs to keep that level tomorrow.
Ian White isn't really going to convert his floor form to TV, After getting to the Players Championship Semis last year, You thought he turned the corner (Early Days) but you have to beat the likes of Joe Cullen to set a statement in the big ones. Good to see VVDV do well, Chisnall I believe will be the latest player to fall out of the top 16, He is past his peak and Rob Cross will have a dip in the next 12 months too, Sometime you will see another change of the guard in the PDC,
Is Michael Van Gerwen the player he was? is he over his peak? I'm not sure but he not dominating like Phil Taylor did.
The Venue looks good, PDC have done a good job with this, Obviously the crowd is a huge miss and its not the same as Blackpool. But we are watching it so all good in that regard. As for the comms. Wayne Mardle is missed. Studd is a solid miss too (Wish him well). Pearson isn't good enough to fill Dave Clark (Who will be surely missed) boots. And Laura Turner commentary is welcome as it upsets a certain controversial keyboard warrior :D
Seeing on Twitter that Ricky Evans got abuse after losing to Darryl Gurney as someone lost a bet, Its disgusting and wrong that some people are getting this (Fallon Sherrock did a few weeks back). Its ok to be annoyed to lose a bet but to give sick abuse to players is a level that no one should touch, People should suck it up and move on, Players lose more (Prize Money) by losing a match anyway.
I wouldn't like to call a winner for the Matchplay, too many shocks seems to point that either Peter Wright will walk it or we have a shock or debutant winner, All in all its an interesting week.
You can leave comments now, I'm sure someone will fill their boots ;)
Best Wishes
Oche
Certainly not me but you have to give credit to Whitlock, Noppert & Clemens for brilliant victories over the big trio. Wright had a massive scare against the "Special One" Jose De Sousa, His 2nd round match vs Durrant will be a fine tussle. Duzza's opening match against Jeffrey De Zwaan was the performance of the 1st round and possibly one of the best performances in Durrant's TV career, he looked untouchable, Needs to keep that level tomorrow.
Ian White isn't really going to convert his floor form to TV, After getting to the Players Championship Semis last year, You thought he turned the corner (Early Days) but you have to beat the likes of Joe Cullen to set a statement in the big ones. Good to see VVDV do well, Chisnall I believe will be the latest player to fall out of the top 16, He is past his peak and Rob Cross will have a dip in the next 12 months too, Sometime you will see another change of the guard in the PDC,
Is Michael Van Gerwen the player he was? is he over his peak? I'm not sure but he not dominating like Phil Taylor did.
The Venue looks good, PDC have done a good job with this, Obviously the crowd is a huge miss and its not the same as Blackpool. But we are watching it so all good in that regard. As for the comms. Wayne Mardle is missed. Studd is a solid miss too (Wish him well). Pearson isn't good enough to fill Dave Clark (Who will be surely missed) boots. And Laura Turner commentary is welcome as it upsets a certain controversial keyboard warrior :D
Seeing on Twitter that Ricky Evans got abuse after losing to Darryl Gurney as someone lost a bet, Its disgusting and wrong that some people are getting this (Fallon Sherrock did a few weeks back). Its ok to be annoyed to lose a bet but to give sick abuse to players is a level that no one should touch, People should suck it up and move on, Players lose more (Prize Money) by losing a match anyway.
I wouldn't like to call a winner for the Matchplay, too many shocks seems to point that either Peter Wright will walk it or we have a shock or debutant winner, All in all its an interesting week.
You can leave comments now, I'm sure someone will fill their boots ;)
Best Wishes
Oche
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