The days of pub darts,your star player playing for the county side and we all knew of guys in our league who qualified for Lakeside. Such a straightforward path to get there.Now its so convoluted.
A much easier route more like. As its now proved, it wasn't progress and it wasn't the way to develop real talent. Fred the plumber qualifying for Lakeside is a nice story, but it didn't promote the game, nor create the professional image needed to move things forward into being recognised as a professional game.
@@GretatheEvilGremlin I absolutely agree with you. Pro Darts was the way forward. My comment echod your sentiments about the plumber getting to Lakeside. But i was talking about a time before pro darts(im old). The Lakeside was a huge deal back then.Sad to see it decline. I still stand by my comment that its more difficult to get to the top in darts nowadays as there is very little prize money in the lesser tournys and if you dont do well then trying to turn pro without winning prize money is very difficult. Even the guys from Q school can struggle financially to make it as the cost of hotels,transport etc can be too much. Many still need to have a job to support their grind to make it to the stage where they dont need to work. Darts has come such a long way since the breakaway. The masters series,the euro tour,the pro tour,the premier league and the majors-plus i really enjoy the Modus Super Series. If you have access to the right equipment like i do you can be watching competitive darts nearly every week now. But i digress. I agree with you lol.the path is straightforward but difficult to navigate.
I wonder what would have happened if Schena became chairman. He's got money and business sense but not sure what good that would have done by that point
Is anyone else reminded of the T.V show Bo’Selecta when they see a picture of Paula Jacklin or is it just me?
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I loved the intimacy of the BDO and Lakeside is iconic. It's sad how badly wrong it all went.
The days of pub darts,your star player playing for the county side and we all knew of guys in our league who qualified for Lakeside.
Such a straightforward path to get there.Now its so convoluted.
A much easier route more like. As its now proved, it wasn't progress and it wasn't the way to develop real talent.
Fred the plumber qualifying for Lakeside is a nice story, but it didn't promote the game, nor create the professional image needed to move things forward into being recognised as a professional game.
@@GretatheEvilGremlin
I absolutely agree with you.
Pro Darts was the way forward.
My comment echod your sentiments about the plumber getting to Lakeside.
But i was talking about a time before pro darts(im old).
The Lakeside was a huge deal back then.Sad to see it decline.
I still stand by my comment that its more difficult to get to the top in darts nowadays as there is very little prize money in the lesser tournys and if you dont do well then trying to turn pro without winning prize money is very difficult.
Even the guys from Q school can struggle financially to make it as the cost of hotels,transport etc can be too much.
Many still need to have a job to support their grind to make it to the stage where they dont need to work.
Darts has come such a long way since the breakaway.
The masters series,the euro tour,the pro tour,the premier league and the majors-plus i really enjoy the Modus Super Series.
If you have access to the right equipment like i do you can be watching competitive darts nearly every week now.
But i digress.
I agree with you lol.the path is straightforward but difficult to navigate.
I wonder what would have happened if Schena became chairman. He's got money and business sense but not sure what good that would have done by that point
Been to a few local tourys where Wayne has played! Absolute awesome man! Deserved to keep trophy as he couldn't defend it!