Premier League Darts finally lands in England for the first time in 2018 from Tungsten-upon-Tyne (better known as Newcastle) with four players still unbeaten.
Starting the evening are everyone's favourite unorthodox Serbo-Austrian Mensur Suljovic against one of those lossless men in Michael Smith. The Gentle is inexplicably without a point despite averaging well over 100 in both games so far, while Bully Boy is one of a pair yet to drop points. Smith has only won 2 of the last 8 meetings with Suljovic, so this could go against him.
Next up is the closest thing the PL will get to a cunt-off now that Phil Taylor's gone as Northern Ireland's Daryl Gurney takes on Wales' Gerwyn Price. Superchin and the Iceman have become renowned for their over-the-top stage antics, and their last big stage meeting at the Masters saw the Ulsterman intimidated by the Roidlet's roaring. This could honestly go either way.
Two boring men with recent victories over the World #1 meet in the middle match of the night as unbeaten Peter Wright plays reigning World Champion Rob Cross. Clownman FINALLY ended his TV hoodoo against MVG while we all know how Voltage beat him. However, Cross is finding the PL difficult and is pointless so far, but maybe this could be the match where he finally switches on.
The big event of the night follows with reigning PLD winner Michael van Gerwen up against world #3 Gary Anderson. This is MVG's first match since last week's shock loss, having skipped the UK Open qualifiers this weekend, and you know he'll want to crush the still-ailing Scotsman, who got his first win of the season last time out.
Closing the evening are the last two unbeaten players in Australia's Simon Whitlock and Dutch legend Raymond van Barneveld. The Wizard was tipped to be a favourite for relegation but has surprised everyone by winning 2 from 2. Barney will have to stop that run if he's to overtake the Aussie in the table.
Coverage starts from 7:00pm UK time on Sky Sports Action.
>Tonight's fixtures (7:00pm start, all matches best of 12 legs) Mensur "DIE MEISTER, DIE BESTEN" Suljovic v Michael "Snackpot 2.0" Smith Daryl "Sweet C4-line" Gurney v Gerwyn "Gurning" Price Rob "BAuLDtism" Cross v Snakeshite MvGOAuTism v Gary "Big Game Counter" Anderson STRAYA v Barney
The 96 UK Open professional qualifiers were confirmed this past weekend in yet another eventful three days in Wigan, but all for the right reasons this time as two players registered their first senior PDC event victories.
It was an old campaigner to kick things off on Friday as Gary Anderson made up for the previous weekend's withdrawal by winning Qualifier 4 and confirming his place in Minehead. His final victory saw him defeat the impressive young Dutchman Jeffrey de Zwaan 6-2, who has performed brilliantly since regaining his Tour Card in January. That day also saw the return of Terry Jenkins to the stream screens, who is now "The Bald Bull" following a bout of alopecia as a result of a car crash last year.
Australia's newest sensation Corey Cadby perfectly demonstrated what he's all about in a sensational comeback victory against Rob Cross to win Qualifier 5 and his first ProTour title. Having gone 4-1 down to the World Champion, the ex-World Youth Champion won 5 legs running, including a remarkable 161 to tie the match up at 4-4 with Cross having missed his own shot at bull for a 125 and then winning it on a superb 134 finish. A turnaround like that shows he's got the game for the floor, which many thought would be his big hindrance.
Krzysztof Ratajski made up for his failure to win a Tour Card by becoming only the second man to win a PDC ranking event as a non-professional (following Joe Murnan in 2015) in claiming Qualifier 6 by beating Daryl Gurney in the final. The Pole broke Gurney with an 11 darter in the opening leg and never looked back, eventually winning 6-4. It was also a good day for ex-Lakeside finalist Danny Noppert, who made the last 8 to secure his spot in the UK Open field.
Shame for Mr. Bean after his decent Worlds run as well.
Grayson Gutierrez
And we're on now.
Oliver Watson
Always great when I wake up on a Thursday morning and realize its Premier League Day. Sorry Rusev.
Levi Kelly
Have you accepted Martin Adams as your lord and saviour?
Thomas Sullivan
>666 All hail Satan and Wolfie
>tfw beer and /180/
Lucas Edwards
...
Evan Sanders
Nice to see that John Part is commentating today, he's by far the best out there.
Austin Gray
>Run The Jewels Noice
Jack Watson
SHUT UP AND EAT WITH ME
Sebastian Morales
>when youre watching the darts at work
Daniel Fisher
GWAN MENSUR
Thomas Cox
>league averages: Suljovic 103, Smith 0 wut
Mason Martinez
>le miss D14 man
Benjamin Murphy
Cruel 72 from Smith.
Mensur just not getting the luck.
Elijah Torres
Two players who are either really hot or cold on any given day.
Elijah Robinson
Smith a different player this time 'round
Brody Cooper
He was ruined last time by playing two games on the opening night.
Completely destroyed his mentality.
Xavier Hernandez
My antivirus started to complain about crypto mining scripts on GAC recently.
Xavier Reyes
Thought he was on the same path in week 1. I would like to see him do well.
Robert Campbell
He's been playing really well in floor events (won one UK Open qualifier and was a finalist on another) lately so maybe that form carries on to the big stage.
William Collins
GET IN
Carter Reyes
I enjoy watching Smith when he isn't having his retarded tantrums.
>Blubby incredulous with THE MENSURBUTT wew
Oliver Smith
Hmm, they're becoming alarmingly prevalent. Easylist via uBlock Origin did block the miner for me natively so it didn't show up but cheers for the heads up.
Joseph Russell
Big 116 to break back from Blubby.
Woeful set-up from Mensur on that 135.
Cameron Williams
Both are averaging below 90.
>BDO-level darts in the Premier League, episode 5
Christopher Thompson
>Breaking Mensur on the Mensur It's ogre
Luis Martinez
>mfw Mensur threw at doubles near me
Carson Gray
>tune in late >Mensur getting pumped again
Angel Collins
>de mens
Austin Jenkins
Mensur deserved to lose that.
Must be seriously worrying now. He's played the three lowest ranked players in the tournament and lost to them all.
Hudson Foster
Didn't play Rob 'Loss' Cross yet!
Brandon Fisher
Smith with a ridiculous checkout percentage of 77.8% while Mensur's highest checkout was only 40.
Jacob Bell
>Mensur
Ryder Diaz
Next up:
>Supersulk vs. The Walking Brain Injury
Cameron Nelson
Could be entertaining in the same way a car crash is entertaining.
Gavin Campbell
>cunt v cunt There are no winners here.
Liam Clark
How did johnny fat do in Wigan? I think he just scraped in a 1st round spot for the Open lol
Brandon Wood
...
Andrew Green
I like Price, if only for entertainment value. Also like Cadby, so say what you will.
Levi Perry
Yep: 93rd from 96.
Made the last 32 on day 4, where he lost to the disgusting Andrew Gilding. He lost first round every other day.
>price getting a mixture of boos and silence Hilarious.
Jace Lopez
Based. Will any of those 1st round matches get television coverage? I cant remember how it works.
John Scott
GWAAAAAAAAAAN GURNEY
SWEEEEET CAROLINE
Jonathan Stewart
Afternoon session on the Friday.
>Nicho-Terry Jenks and Cristo-Benito are first round games Ridiculous.
Dylan Bailey
He actually got a really good draw. He plays a Rileys Qualifier in the first round and if he wins, it's either Martin Atkins or another Rileys Qualifier in the second round.
Jackson Thomas
tbf that OAR bird was porn
Luke Peterson
does gurney have the most hideous shirts in the league? cunt looks like he works at butlins
Owen Mitchell
I'm more concerned about how poor fitting his shirts are.
Ian Nguyen
>Roidlet getting bummed Wonderful scenes.
Parker Reyes
The shirt is about the least disgusting thing with Gurney. Also: Price has his own face on his shirt, so the award for the shittiest shirt goes to him I guess.
Dylan Green
T H I C C
Jackson Baker
PRICE SEETHING
Mason Green
>The Price >being right
Brody Campbell
Gerwyn, make way for the real Iceman.
Hudson Moore
well this is fuckin tedious
Samuel Adams
THAT 148
Austin Gomez
>chin was 5-1 up and missed D18 for 6-1 He's fucked this away.
Elijah Sanders
>131 scored after 9 on your throw to tie the game up
Ayden Nelson
Price averaging 43 in this leg.
Joseph Butler
>match so dull the scoreboard has given up
Levi Russell
BOOOOOOOOOOM
Kayden Rivera
That 136 to break back!
Impressive.
Gavin Long
WHERE IS THE SCOREREEEEEEE
Christian Hughes
>sky
Benjamin Rodriguez
Would be the perfect outcome if neither of these dickheads manage to win this match.
Aaron Scott
Here:
60 60 60 59 60 60 59 60
Connor Diaz
>score graphic now appearing miles off the top Who the fuck is in charge of this shit
Tyler Hall
THE PRICE IS RIGHT
Easton Howard
>Superchin
Isaac Harris
Roidlet has many many (many) flaws but lack of bottle has never been one of them
Jeremiah Collins
>Chin shitting the win away again
Jordan Evans
KEK. Fuck off Supercunt!
Dominic Green
Haha. Fuck off then Gurney!
Evan Bailey
Is anyone going to average over a 100 today?
Caleb Nguyen
>lack of bottle has never been one of them Apart from when he shit himself against MVG at the Worlds.
That 160 to beat White at the UK Open last year was absolutely superb.
Dominic Perez
Never gets old seeing Superchoke choking it away.
Robert Roberts
>joint cunt interview OH BOY
Jason Gomez
Gurney literally holding back tears.
Ethan Hall
SEETHING
Nolan Adams
Gurney so salted!
Nathan Rivera
Thing is, he's thrown away 6-3, 5-1 and 6-4 leads.
You can't keep doing that and expect to stay up.
Connor Bennett
Cross's walk-on song triggers me so fucking badly every time I hear it. So much missed potential there.
Jaxon Harris
Stuart Pyke must hang
Adrian Kelly
It's the curse of ditching Electric Six. It just kicked in a few games later after it happened. How in the world can this awesome song get scratched for that abomination we have to listen to now?
Justin Allen
haha time for cross
Noah Robinson
At least Electric Avenue would have been more enjoyable and suitable.
Xavier Carter
Feeling hot, hot, hot, lads.
Tyler Jones
THE UNDERTAKER
Brayden Edwards
>Feeling bald, bald, bald
this
Easton Gray
or literally anything by ELO
Nathaniel Walker
Man, fuck Rob Cross. Great player but needs some coaching on how not to be so fucking dull
