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WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL (Jan 1)
John Part 7 V 2 Kirk Shepherd
2007 Champion - Raymond Van Barneveld
PREMIER LEAGUE DARTS TABLE - FINAL TABLE
1 Taylor 21pts (+46) - QUALIFIED
2 Wade 20pts (+22) - QUALIFIED
3 Barneveld 18pts (+16) - QUALIFIED
4 Lewis 12pts (-12) - QUALIFIED
5 Mardle 12pts (-14)
6 Manley 11pts (-12)
7 Jenkins 9pts (-18)
8 Part 9pts (-28)
US OPEN (May 18)
Phil Taylor 3 v 0 Colin Lloyd
2007 Champion - Phil Taylor
PREMIER LEAGUE DARTS SEMI FINAL AND FINAL (May 26)
Phil Taylor 11 V 1 Adrian Lewis
Raymond Van Barneveld 8 V 11 James Wade
Phil Taylor 16 V 8 James Wade
2007 Champion - Phil Taylor
UK OPEN (June 8)
James Wade 11 V 7 Gary Mawson
2007 Champion - Raymond Van Barneveld
LAS VEGAS DESERT CLASSIC (July 6)
Phil Taylor 13 V 7 James Wade
2007 Champion - Raymond Van Barneveld
WORLD MATCHPLAY CHAMPIONSHIP
Phil Taylor 18 V 9 James Wade
2007 Champion - James Wade
SOUTH AFRICAN MASTERS
Phil Taylor 5 V 2 John Part
2007 Champion - Phil Taylor
WORLD GRAND PRIX
James Wade 6 V 3 Terry Jenkins
GRAND SLAM OF DARTS
Phil Taylor 18 V 11 Andy Hamilton
John Part 7 V 2 Kirk Shepherd
2007 Champion - Raymond Van Barneveld
PREMIER LEAGUE DARTS TABLE - FINAL TABLE
1 Taylor 21pts (+46) - QUALIFIED
2 Wade 20pts (+22) - QUALIFIED
3 Barneveld 18pts (+16) - QUALIFIED
4 Lewis 12pts (-12) - QUALIFIED
5 Mardle 12pts (-14)
6 Manley 11pts (-12)
7 Jenkins 9pts (-18)
8 Part 9pts (-28)
US OPEN (May 18)
Phil Taylor 3 v 0 Colin Lloyd
2007 Champion - Phil Taylor
PREMIER LEAGUE DARTS SEMI FINAL AND FINAL (May 26)
Phil Taylor 11 V 1 Adrian Lewis
Raymond Van Barneveld 8 V 11 James Wade
Phil Taylor 16 V 8 James Wade
2007 Champion - Phil Taylor
UK OPEN (June 8)
James Wade 11 V 7 Gary Mawson
2007 Champion - Raymond Van Barneveld
LAS VEGAS DESERT CLASSIC (July 6)
Phil Taylor 13 V 7 James Wade
2007 Champion - Raymond Van Barneveld
WORLD MATCHPLAY CHAMPIONSHIP
Phil Taylor 18 V 9 James Wade
2007 Champion - James Wade
SOUTH AFRICAN MASTERS
Phil Taylor 5 V 2 John Part
2007 Champion - Phil Taylor
WORLD GRAND PRIX
James Wade 6 V 3 Terry Jenkins
GRAND SLAM OF DARTS
Phil Taylor 18 V 11 Andy Hamilton
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Really great 9 darter from Taylor. 4 times he has done a 9 darter at the UK Open.
Well, I managed to make it down to Wembley and I think I've recovered sufficiently. Here is a recap of my day.
I left my home at 3:45pm and arrived at Wembley Arena at about 5:15pm. I had never been to Wembley so walking towards Wembley Stadium was an interesting walk. Wembley Arena sits almost right next to Wembley Stadium.
We sat around waiting for the doors to open and we took our seats at around 7pm. If you were looking from the stage, we were on the right, towards the back corner. We were on the front row of a section so we didn't really have anyone in front of us.
Obviously, with it being darts, unless you were in the front few rows near the stage, you wouldn't see the darts at all but to the sides of the stage and on the ceiling heading towards the back were screens projecting the pictures you see on Sky Sports.
To warm the crowd up, John McDonald took the mic. He really is a natural speaker and was having fun before the event started. He gave us some instructions like when he says that we are live at Wembley, we were to cheer. He had the guys play the music that they play before breaks and at the end of matches and got a woman from the crowd to do the walk on to that music. She was at the event with her boyfriend, which got booed inevitably.
There was about 1 minute to go and I had a quick look around. The event was apparently a sell out but I would say it was only three quarters full. A whole corner was empty and there were rows of seats with no one in them.
On the TV, the walk on area looks quite long but it really isn't. It doesn't even go halfway back the tables section. The players come from behind the stage and walk up to the end and when they get announced, they walk onto the stage.
The crowd was very loud for the whole night. The first match was Mardle V Jenkins and, of course, the crowd was behind Mardle but they liked Jenkins too so were polite to him. The match itself was poor. Lots of 40 and 50 scores and no one really got going. Jenkins did check out 116 and there were a few 180s but it was difficult to get into.
It was a bit of a weird experience because you watch it on the TV and the crowd seem a bit quiet and you hear the commentary but in the arena, from where I was sitting, you can just about hear the darts going into the board and see what is going on but it's weird without commentary.
The 2nd match was Manley V Wade. Manley got booed a lot and Wade got booed a fair bit, which I could not understand. Sure, he isn't the most charismatic but you can't argue with the results he gets. It was a decent match and we had seen every possible leg being played so far.
The 3rd match was Barney V Lewis and the crowd were starting to get a bit more self centred. The chanting got a little crude. I haven't had a chance to watch all the event from the TV feed so I don't know if it was audible. Barney hit a load of bullseye shots out and Lewis had a lot of chances and blew them.
The last match was Taylor V Part. I would think most of the crowd were pretty drunk by this point and after the introductions, the crowd mostly were only interested in riling up each other. A few started a conga line going around the seated sections, a few at the back of the arena who were basically starting all the chants were constantly having a go at the tables sections for not singing.
The match itself was very good. We didn't know the averages but Taylor finished on 111 I found out at home and Part was averaging 104 and got stuffed. Unfortunately, a couple of idiots started fighting and the crowd goaded them on. The fight ended when one guy decked the other guy to the ground and they were escorted out of the building as the crowd chanted 'Cheerio'. Taylor actually looked around at the fight.
The event went on a little longer than planned and it resulted in us getting home at past 1am. If you were thinking on going to a darts event, I would recommend that you need to be a person with a lot of energy as I didn't last a couple of matches before I was finished.
Whether I'd go again, I'm not sure. The atmosphere was good to start with but turned in the 2nd half. I also felt like the majority of the crowd were more interested in drinking and chanting rather than watching the darts, kind of like they were more interested in the idea of darts rather than the actual watching of darts.
I suppose the closest comparison would be a football crowd but I've not been to a match so it's only a gut reaction. It's not really a crowd I fit in with as I don't drink and don't have a great deal of energy. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it but I would have liked it more if more of the people there watched the darts inside of the inside of their plastic glasses.
I left my home at 3:45pm and arrived at Wembley Arena at about 5:15pm. I had never been to Wembley so walking towards Wembley Stadium was an interesting walk. Wembley Arena sits almost right next to Wembley Stadium.
We sat around waiting for the doors to open and we took our seats at around 7pm. If you were looking from the stage, we were on the right, towards the back corner. We were on the front row of a section so we didn't really have anyone in front of us.
Obviously, with it being darts, unless you were in the front few rows near the stage, you wouldn't see the darts at all but to the sides of the stage and on the ceiling heading towards the back were screens projecting the pictures you see on Sky Sports.
To warm the crowd up, John McDonald took the mic. He really is a natural speaker and was having fun before the event started. He gave us some instructions like when he says that we are live at Wembley, we were to cheer. He had the guys play the music that they play before breaks and at the end of matches and got a woman from the crowd to do the walk on to that music. She was at the event with her boyfriend, which got booed inevitably.
There was about 1 minute to go and I had a quick look around. The event was apparently a sell out but I would say it was only three quarters full. A whole corner was empty and there were rows of seats with no one in them.
On the TV, the walk on area looks quite long but it really isn't. It doesn't even go halfway back the tables section. The players come from behind the stage and walk up to the end and when they get announced, they walk onto the stage.
The crowd was very loud for the whole night. The first match was Mardle V Jenkins and, of course, the crowd was behind Mardle but they liked Jenkins too so were polite to him. The match itself was poor. Lots of 40 and 50 scores and no one really got going. Jenkins did check out 116 and there were a few 180s but it was difficult to get into.
It was a bit of a weird experience because you watch it on the TV and the crowd seem a bit quiet and you hear the commentary but in the arena, from where I was sitting, you can just about hear the darts going into the board and see what is going on but it's weird without commentary.
The 2nd match was Manley V Wade. Manley got booed a lot and Wade got booed a fair bit, which I could not understand. Sure, he isn't the most charismatic but you can't argue with the results he gets. It was a decent match and we had seen every possible leg being played so far.
The 3rd match was Barney V Lewis and the crowd were starting to get a bit more self centred. The chanting got a little crude. I haven't had a chance to watch all the event from the TV feed so I don't know if it was audible. Barney hit a load of bullseye shots out and Lewis had a lot of chances and blew them.
The last match was Taylor V Part. I would think most of the crowd were pretty drunk by this point and after the introductions, the crowd mostly were only interested in riling up each other. A few started a conga line going around the seated sections, a few at the back of the arena who were basically starting all the chants were constantly having a go at the tables sections for not singing.
The match itself was very good. We didn't know the averages but Taylor finished on 111 I found out at home and Part was averaging 104 and got stuffed. Unfortunately, a couple of idiots started fighting and the crowd goaded them on. The fight ended when one guy decked the other guy to the ground and they were escorted out of the building as the crowd chanted 'Cheerio'. Taylor actually looked around at the fight.
The event went on a little longer than planned and it resulted in us getting home at past 1am. If you were thinking on going to a darts event, I would recommend that you need to be a person with a lot of energy as I didn't last a couple of matches before I was finished.
Whether I'd go again, I'm not sure. The atmosphere was good to start with but turned in the 2nd half. I also felt like the majority of the crowd were more interested in drinking and chanting rather than watching the darts, kind of like they were more interested in the idea of darts rather than the actual watching of darts.
I suppose the closest comparison would be a football crowd but I've not been to a match so it's only a gut reaction. It's not really a crowd I fit in with as I don't drink and don't have a great deal of energy. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it but I would have liked it more if more of the people there watched the darts inside of the inside of their plastic glasses.
Well, if my health holds out, I'll be travelling down to Wembley for the Premier League Darts tomorrow.
Taylor has hit form again and if he carries it on he'll still be the force he used to be.
Some great darts in the premier league this year, next week there's expected to be a crowd of about 8,000!
Some great darts in the premier league this year, next week there's expected to be a crowd of about 8,000!
If Taylor plays like he did on Thursday when I go in April (tickets came through last week), we are in for some night.
The Premier League well under way now and, if my health improves enough, I should be going to the Premier League event at Wembley in April.
No surprises in the final. Part beat Shepherd convincingly. Shepherd's route to the final has been full of people who are hit and miss. When good, very good, when bad, almost useless.
Terry Jenkins has double trouble when bad and that's why he lost. MaGowan is hit and miss, Manley also misses doubles and Mardle's B game is pretty poor, particularly when he tries to put his opponent off by changing throwing speeds and it wrecks his own rhythm.
Only 4 people have won the PDC title. Priestley, Taylor, Part and Barney.
Terry Jenkins has double trouble when bad and that's why he lost. MaGowan is hit and miss, Manley also misses doubles and Mardle's B game is pretty poor, particularly when he tries to put his opponent off by changing throwing speeds and it wrecks his own rhythm.
Only 4 people have won the PDC title. Priestley, Taylor, Part and Barney.
Hi, anything you'd like to add about the World Darts Championship?
If you just want to chat, General Chat is the place.
If you just want to chat, General Chat is the place.
hi grandprix
It's funny because Barney and Taylor have been changing things and tinkering with their game to try to get ahead of each other and they've both damaged their game to the point where the others just behind can now knock them out of tournaments.
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