With the largely awful preliminary and poor first rounds finally out of the way (but somehow a better standard than last year - I blame the new boards) the men's second round starts this afternoon. Arguably the match of day 5 at Lakeside is the afternoon closer: a repeat of last year's first round clash between Canada's Jeff Smith and three time champion Martin Adams. Wolfie was stunned with a 3-0 defeat that eventually saw the Silencer reach the final, but a repeat of his performance in that epic victory over Ryan Joyce will surely enact revenge on the newest BDO loyalist.
Other notable clashes today include 2015 champion Scott Mitchell against Belgium's Geert de Vos, who was involved in the highest standard match of Round 1 against Australia's Raymond Smith, Stockport stalwart Darryl Fitton playing escape artist Pip Blackwell and number 1 seed Glen Durrant taking on the very dim Paul Hogan; another 97 average from Duzza will surely be more than enough to dispose of Crocodile Dundee.
Inexplicably, there's still one first round women's match to go with Aussie Corrine Hammond against Canuck Patricia Farrell. Great organisation, lads: is having both the men and the women's first rounds ending on the same day too much to ask? Oh, wait: this is the BDO, so of course it is.
Coverage starts at 12:05pm on Channel 4 before switching to BT Sport 1 at 6:45pm.
All matches are best of 7 sets except women's matches (best of 3 sets). Women's matches are in greentext.
>Today's matches (12:05pm - 5:00pm) Geert de Vos (15) v Scott Mitchell (2) >Corrine Hammond v Patricia Farrell Jeff Smith v Martin Adams (5)
>Tonight's matches (6:45pm - 10:45pm) Darryl Fitton (10) v Pip Blackwell Jim Williams (13) v Jamie Hughes (4) Paul Hogan v Glen Durrant (1)
how come they split darts into men's and women's? you throw the thing like two metres, there shouldn't be an inherent advantage between the sexes
Hudson Russell
This day actually looks OK
Robert Cooper
Some big games tonight lads. Clashes that will no doubt go down in the history books
Blake Parker
Women are just shite at it. As bobby george said once live on air "the women, they get all emotional"
Ayden Morgan
They don't have the concentration or hand eye co-ordination
It's the same with snooker, there is no physical advantage so it has to be mental
Asher James
You won't promote women taking part in the sport that way, that's like asking why there's a national Japanese-only competition when they can just take part in the worlds. They won't qualify for it because the game isn't as developed for them yet, you allow them their own constricted competition in the hopes that it improves.
Noah Davis
Can't get comfy with all these adverts desu
Joshua Jackson
I GET UP AIN'T NOTHING GETS ME DOWN
Tyler Morris
same as chess I suppose
Alexander Wright
Casual here
Where are the boring boring tables chants?
Fucking shit desu
Lucas Stewart
Actually it's financial.
If you're the best man at the sport you can make a living at it. If you're the best woman at a sport you'll still need another job to make ends meet.
Thus women don't commit to practise as much as men and never achieve the same heights. Snooker, Pool, Chess, Darts... bigger rewards would equal better players.
Nah, it's equal prize money in Tennis now and they'd still get absolutely smashed.
Asher Gomez
Can women still play at the PDC? Haven't seen one since Anastasia
Carson Jenkins
Because tennis is physical and women are weaker.
I was talking about non-physical sports. Table games (snooker, pool etc), Darts, Chess.
Kayden Miller
>They don't have the concentration or hand eye co-ordination
How come then that woman is able to give you the best handie while looking you deep in the eyes?
Jonathan Diaz
Stephen Fry once said that men are better at sports because they were invented by men, to showcase male skills. So if men have a natural advantage at something, it gets turned into a sport, while if women are better at something, it doesn't. I honestly think that is the most likely explanation for the state of things.
Joshua Rogers
have you had handjobs from men to compare?
James Davis
>he's never been jerked off by a trap
Wyatt Diaz
>23 posts in >Thread is already about gay sex acts
Elijah Taylor
bottling intensifies
Ryder Moore
I don't get it. Why don't they just play well instead?
Jayden Lewis
There's never been a gender requirement to join the PDC.
Ashton could be a good choice of a woman to switch but it'll never happen.
Pressure of the Lakeside stage(!)
Cameron Lee
kek
Ethan Cruz
>"He has to break the De Vos throw now" >45
Noah Reed
It seems to happen a lot that the player who throws second in a leg is absolutely JUST. They don't just lose the leg; they get demolished. And then, when they throw first in the next leg, the other player becomes comically terrible. It's weird.
Jack Davis
scoreboard pressure m8
Luke Phillips
>scott
Brandon Parker
>fatty the farmer can't even average 90 over 6 sets lol
get fucked Mitchell
Angel Gutierrez
A woman was top 8 in the world at chess at one point, men and women. There's no reason other non-physical sports couldn't be the same.
Logan Jenkins
>he's a big guy
Adrian Ross
Treble 5s for show, 90 averages for dough
Anthony Smith
And Magnus Carlsen is a man who is meant to be the GOAT. Therefore, by your logic, any man could be GOAT. There comes a point when talent becomes involved too. If Magnus Carlsen was a woman, maybe he too would have never progressed beyond "top eight at one point".
Owen Martinez
This Australian woman would get it. I hope she's not a lesbian.
Jack Diaz
I don't think it's outrageous to suggest that if women were encouraged to do some of these non-physical things from an early age that they could be as good. Polgar is a classic example, she was brought up in a chess hosuehold where all her sisters played chess and were all better than anyone ITT for doing it. She was even better obviously.
If as many women were encouraged to play chess from an early age like her and it is just part of their life in the same way I see no reason to assume that women couldn't be equally as good. There is certainly nothing we know about within the brain that would suggest this.
Matthew Hall
Deta is a curiously attractive woman. I can see why Jaws was knuckle deep in it.
Ethan Ross
>Those 2 darts in the 1
Levi Perry
>3
Brayden Lewis
>3 >Win the leg
Lucas Brooks
Bloody hell this leaf bitch is shorter than the demolition manlet.
Tyler Young
All the womens players look like dinner ladies desu lads
Sebastian Hill
Deta should be at home being ashamed of herself instead of saying how great the women's darts has been blah blah blah
Blake Evans
she switched to 19 now
William Ross
It's not helping
Robert Cox
Corrine looks like she could be Cadby's mum. Maybe all convicts just look the same.
Ryder Kelly
>100 needed >First dart almost in the D20 >Second dart almost in the T20 >Third dart in the D5
Chase Bennett
Wish they had the number of darts thrown next to the score like they used to
>super darts >26 dart leg
Wyatt Brooks
To be fair to the Canadian womanlet, like the darting forum described for Webster, chucking a dart at double top is like throwing a beachball over blackpool tower for her.
Isaiah Peterson
>tfw once someone's ahead it's easy to root for someone in the womens because you just want it over as quickly as possible
Landon Stewart
Stop samefaggin, Colin.
Asher Moore
It's wolfie time lads
Dominic Parker
*unzips dick*
Angel Collins
wolfie practice in the background
Aiden Scott
>the thrilling climax of a brilliant afternoon of arrows
