Four months of unranked darting action starts tonight with the 2017 Premier League from Newcastle-upon-Tyne. After their displays of sheer incompetence in 2016, Robert Thornton and Michael Smith have been binned. In their place are Dutchman Jelle Klaasen, appearing for the first time in 8 years, and with Mensur Suljovic refusing to fall for Uncle Barry's hype machine, Belgium's Kim Huybrechts returns after finishing bottom in 2015.
It is the Waffleboy that gets this season going as he plays bipolar James Wade. The Hurricane's season 2 years ago saw him repeatedly throw away games and picked up just 4 points in 9 matches. The Machine's 2016 PL campaign saw him be the only man to beat MVG, on its opening night nevertheless, but had no consistency as he finished sixth.
Two men who are promising to do better this year meet again in Raymond van Barneveld and Adrian Lewis. Barney's 2016 PL saw him record just a single win in the play-off phase (conveniently against Lewis) and end 7th, while the ferry lover made the play-offs for the first time since 2011 but got battered by MVG in the semi.
Imminent retiree Phil Taylor is next up against simple Dave Chisnall. Philth was dismantled in the final by the Green Machine while Chizzy went from missing darts to reach the final in 2015 to elimination last year as he was comprehensively outplayed in every match.
The hottest rivalry of the moment is next with current PL champion Michael van Gerwen against previous winner Gary Anderson; their Masters final saw a combined 213 average in an 11-7 Dutch win, and a repeat of that standard tonight would be more than acceptable.
Peter Wright and Klaasen close out the session; despite coming close to the playoffs last time, Clownman choked in his deciding match and missed out. Paedo Suarez's previous PL saw him record just one win (he couldn't even beat Wayne Mardle!) but using that as a bearing on this year is just silly.
Coverage starts from 7:00pm UK time on Sky Sports 2.
>Tonight's fixtures (7:00pm start, all matches best of 12 legs) Kim "Husband of Dana" Huybrechts v James "The Meds Are Back In Town" Wade Barney v SnackP&Ot Taylel v Chizzy Gary "Big Game Counter" Anderson v MvGOAuTism Snakeshite v Jelle "Yewtree" Klaasen
This. Wtf is going on? Sky usually has good camerawork
Michael White
Shouldnt have fired based bristow
Jack Sullivan
>kimmy
Jace Hernandez
>mardle determining which players are "world class" wew
Asher Thompson
THAT 134!
Nicholas Hill
Chizzy to go Spazzy and get him and his ears knocked out with the manlet?
Blake Jones
if he doubles like he did at the masters, he'll be doomed
Brody James
If he plays like he talks, he's fucked
Connor Stewart
>kimbo bottlejob
Bentley Harris
>that last leg from Wade
Samuel Evans
>getting beat by wade.
Just relegate the useless jumped up little cunt already.
Henry Cooper
Wolfie pls
Landon Cooper
Fucking state of them!
Justin Green
>Mardle >4 time PL participant
>participation honors
John Sanchez
>using the dollar sign as an 'a'
Charles Baker
REV UP YOUR FILENAMES
Luis Gonzalez
I've walked past it a few times. Slap in east london where nu-male retards are happy to pay out the arse for anything. Like that place on Brick Lane that only serves breakfast cereal for 5 quid a bowl.
Ethan Hall
Mardle's PL record is pretty woeful.
>2005: bottom with 3 wins against Part, Scholten & Dudbridge >2006: bottom win a single win and that was against Ronnie Baxter >2007: didn't qualify >2008: 5th; missed out on the playoffs by 2 legs >2009: withdrew due to repeated cases of mumps, results scrubbed from the record
Jose Smith
>Barney THAT CHEEKY LEWIS
Mason Lewis
>you now remember andy hamilton and wes newton in the pl
Luke James
If barney loses tonight hopefully his odds increase then im gonna pile it on him
Charles Robinson
>Wes Newton and Andy Hamilton were TV fixtures for a number of years Scary stuff.
Caleb King
>barney headshaking
Dylan Stewart
>24 stone
Caleb Scott
>going from 4-1 ahead to 5-4 down >Fatpot
Adrian Williams
ALMOST BIG FINISH
Christopher Thompson
>Ferrypot [foghorn intensifies]
Carter Cook
>4-1 up >Lose 7-5 >Snackpot
Landon Myers
>FATPOT
Carter Diaz
>Poois
Kayden Cook
Its lewis
Luis Torres
>muh cold hands
Jack Green
Its a pretty legit excuse to be terrible but lewis obviously choked
Brody Reyes
Maybe he should stop taking the ferry to his games.
Nathan Adams
Fuck sake barneys odds gone down why did he have to win this one
Levi Adams
>lewis
Parker Jackson
IT
IS
TIME
HE
IS
HERE
Zachary Miller
>dizzy His name is chizzy you cunts
Matthew Howard
>flashing images
oh boy.
Robert Stewart
Mon Chizzy
Ayden Nelson
Need Taylor to knock the piss of Chizzy's shirt for the sky bet treble!
Chase Gutierrez
>this dave clark fellatio of taylor yuck
he's gone nude again
Levi Thompson
Barney said he was actually going to try this season, so the knock-out phase is almost guaranteed for him.
Its going to be like this every week, and probably all year through the tv tournaments. Just hope he ends up getting routinely smashed.
Jacob Torres
>it's a Taylor repeatedly misses D16 episode
Yeah, this is going to happen every fucking time he has a match.
Brody Myers
They have to hurry, next match scheduled for 21:45. Will they just stop when the clock hits quarter to 10?
Daniel Nguyen
Looks like Lewis and Chizzy are going to be battling it out for biggest waste of space in the PL this year.
Jack Gray
Don't count Kimberly out
Cameron Wilson
Like Smith last year, he was out the moment it was announced.
Still, could have been worse: the next player in the Order of Merit? #DiamondDab
And he has been horrendous.
Andrew Watson
excellent filename
John Carter
...
Dominic Brooks
Yep, Smith was woeful.
So sad that Suljovic opted out of selection, especially with how well he played last week
Nolan Price
...
Isaiah Smith
DAT CHIZZY 160
Dominic Moore
>makes him look simple
Insult to injury.
Christopher Harris
THE TAYLOR BULL FINISH
THE CRUELLEST OF ALL FINISHES
Ian Fisher
While I thought Blubby having to play twice on the opening night put him deeper in the shit than he already was, he never had the belief to overcome it.
>So sad that Suljovic opted out of selection, especially with how well he played last week Mensur's done the smart thing with that: by not having to play in this, he can focus on the ranking events and not have his career ruined like Bunt Man did.
Kayden Hall
>Chizzy hitting big numbers for fun again
Kayden Gomez
Very true, just a maybe Mensur fan boy, just hope he continues to get better and better, couldn't believe how much her had changed style last week
John Foster
>couldn't believe how much her had changed style last week And gender apparently.
The only change was his speed. No more slowness will objectively make him a much more watchable palyer.
Jason Turner
Jesus is the board hanging straight? They're hitting so many 5's and 7's tonight.
Luke Butler
It was a slog that shows why he's "retiring".
But the inevitable happened as Chizzy is too dim to remove Taylel again.
Lincoln Harris
Ooh the joy when he's retired. Instead of:
>"There's 18 world championships between these two in the final"
It will be:
>"So... you're both twice the world champ..."
Gonna miss Taylor though. Couldn't get enough of him losing and having secrets, acting like a cheeky cunt etc.
Carson Williams
>this is me last one Wait, what?
I thought he was still doing the non-ranked events.
Well... damn.
Ethan Bell
...
Liam Hall
Oh wait he's retiring because he's entering significant dementia.
Evan Morgan
lol these geordie mongs
Grayson Rogers
lel
>starts rambling on about playing county matches Truly the sign he's losing it
Jayden Lewis
I thought that too. If they really want to make it a show, they invite him for the Premier League in like, 2022 again.
>PHIL TAYLOR RETURNS >THE POWER, THE LEGEND, THE BEST PLAYER EVER
