This scorer seriously diminishes my enjoyment of matches
Absolutely. Utter crettin. “Win handerd and thertybfaaahivve”. “Wuuuuunhundred and fordeeeeeeeee”. Comical and extremely annoying. He’s getting worse every year.
Van Gerwen looked very good, he's getting better as the tournament progresses which is ominous for the others. Van den Bergh will have to play out of his skin to beat him.
Smith was fortunate to win, only a 91 average and Bunting missed so many doubles. But you could argue he's managed to grind out a win without playing how we know he can. He'll have to seriously up his game in the semi though.
As for Price not sure what he was doing, you can't aggressively celebrate winning a leg and goad the crowd and then not expect any stick back. I've seen people posting on twitter saying the crowd are xenophobic but there's tons of foreign players in the tournament and none get stick like him. He gets stick because he acts like a dickhead not because he's Welsh.
To be honest i actually always felt he thrived off the crowd but he's probably only made things worse for himself going forward by doing that as now everyone knows he's easily rattled. Quite ironic really from a guy whose nickname is the Iceman.
As for Price not sure what he was doing, you can't aggressively celebrate winning a leg and goad the crowd and then not expect any stick back. I've seen people posting on twitter saying the crowd are xenophobic but there's tons of foreign players in the tournament and none get stick like him. He gets stick because he acts like a dickhead not because he's Welsh.
To be honest i actually always felt he thrived off the crowd but he's probably only made things worse for himself going forward by doing that as now everyone knows he's easily rattled. Quite ironic really from a guy whose nickname is the Iceman.
when the crowd are chanting you sheep shagging bastard its bang out of order
Price loves the crowd when he's playing well, but it's the first thing he blames when he isn't performing. Last year's crowd was 10x worse towards Price.
PDC and Sky have lost control of the crowd at the Ally Pally and it has been getting worse and worse each year, in terms of interest towards who's playing.
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It had a bit of everything
Smith equalled the record for 180s in a best-of-seven World Championship match with 19; van Duijvenbode "only" managed 12.
Next up: Chizzy v Bunting
Quite remarkable.
Only one Round 3 match left to play - Luke Humphries (5) v Vincent van der Voort (28) which is the opening match of this evening's session.
Round 4 line-up:
Gerwyn Price (1) v Jose de Sousa (17)
Gabriel Clemens (25) v Alan Soutar
Michael Smith (4) v Joe Cullen (13)
Humphries/vd Voort v Stephen Bunting (21)
Kim Huybrechts (31) v Dimitri Van den Bergh (15)
Jonny Clayton (7) v Josh Rock
Michael van Gerwen (3) v Dirk van Duijvenbode (14)
Rob Cross (6) v Chris Dobey (22)
I know MvG is a fairly short favourite with the bookies but I wouldn't be surprised if Cross or Dobey derailed the Green Machine in the quarters
Prediction time ...
QF line-up:
Price v Soutar
Smith v Humphries
Dimi v Clayton
MvG v Cross
Semis:
Price v Smith
Clayton v Cross
Final:
Smith v Cross
Bully Boy wins his maiden World title.
Not that I'm going to put any of my hard-earned on that sequence!
Price v de Sousa coming up (which must surely be more entertaining than what's happening in Oxford right now) and Clayton/Rock to finish off.
Looks like a Poundland Princess Leia.
Like the quick thinking of table who drew the no headphones round sign
Charlton win, Price goes out. Bullseye!
Was willing him to come back and win, it’s much more fun with pantomime villains
... and he gets stroppy when the crowd show their dislike. If there was any doubt he is a wanker then that doubt has now been removed permanently.
Smith was fortunate to win, only a 91 average and Bunting missed so many doubles. But you could argue he's managed to grind out a win without playing how we know he can. He'll have to seriously up his game in the semi though.
To be honest i actually always felt he thrived off the crowd but he's probably only made things worse for himself going forward by doing that as now everyone knows he's easily rattled. Quite ironic really from a guy whose nickname is the Iceman.
PDC and Sky have lost control of the crowd at the Ally Pally and it has been getting worse and worse each year, in terms of interest towards who's playing.