But despite knowing that they were coming to the end of their careers, Wilson and Bristow were at the forefront of the split. Sport before personal gain and self-aggrandisement, something you could never accuse Ollie Croft of.

Agree 100%, a true character,loved the way he bounced around the stage,and his bizzare throwing technique.

Review of Cosmo 'fit flight system'

O.K. this is an initial review as i've only thrown with them for half an hour, thought i'd put some thoughts down though

First up, fantastic service from Elite Darts.com....very happy with the service provided, i'll be mentioning them to friends and will be ordering products from there in the future, thanks to Dave Shaw for his help with ordering.

O.K. the actual system itself, well as mentioned I have only thrown with them for a short while, but can draw some conclusions straight away

The actual flight is AMAZING! what a high quality product, perfect right angles and even after half an hour of bashing into one another not a mark, they are well worth the extra money.........

However, the shafts...work needs doing, Cosmo really need to offer more variety on the choice on offer, currently we are really limited to what we can throw with...really not a fan of slim shafts, I like my shafts to be an extention of the dart, this resulted in my darts going low in the board.......maybe I can adjust, but I don't really want too. The Gripper 2 by Unicorn and similar shafts whilst fragile as you china with a bull in your shop are really solid to throw with....hopefully Cosmo are working on this

However that aside, very happy with the product bought, good service and I really admire Cosmo's innovation into the darts market.

POSTED THIS ON FACEY TODAY...anyone played with Cosmo products?

What do you think of Lewis`s strop? He will be complaining next that someone farted in the audience and blew his dart off course.
Don`t get me wrong,I like his style of play,but he needs to lighten up a bit.

He just continues to prove why I can't stand him.

Who is the gorgeous tall blonde that accompanied Simon Whitlock tonight wearing the milk maids outfit ?

I see Painter felt he had the brush off from Wade.He seemed to bristle over the fact he didn`t go for an interview.He didn`t gloss over it either.I wonder if he wanted to put Wade on the canvas?

Great comeback from Whitlock tonight to put out Lewis. Also Hamilton's done well to qualify as well. All to play for now with wade and barney taking to the stage.

Good Premier League season so far and would not have put Painter or Hamilton in myself but did themselves proud and Barney aquited himself better than expected after looking on the downgrade most of last year.

With Pipe, Chisnall and Newton doing well in the floor events it sets up Bolton nicely and it could be one hell of a tournament with an open draw and quality players such as Wade, Nicholson, Webster and King not qualifying in the top 32 and having to play from Round 1.

Robert Thornton

Great performance by the Thorn, no matter how many excuses Deckchair Dave tries to make for lard Taylor. Fully deserved 2nd major victory of his career!

I completely missed the idiot getting on stage, must've been when I went for a cuppa.

Anyone see what happened?

Yeah, don't cha feel sorry for 'The Power'?
Errrrm ... NO!
Well done Thornton for not dissolving into a pile of sweaty putrefaction just because you were playing Phil Taylor, unlike most other players who play the player and not the board.

We were at the darts and the lad never actually got onto the stage he got over the barriers and as the security grabbed him he knocked over a few of the lights by the steps which was what made Thornton stop in his throw.

To be honest I don't think it would have happened at any other venue because the walk ways are usually towards one side and they go onto the stage from the corner but because the walk on at Bolton is dead centre he got close before anyone realised what was going on.

Taylor made a meal of it but it should not have happened but as he said it was almost inevitable it would happen somewhere but in some ways the PDC have made a rod for their own back and any crowd problems that do occur are partly of their own making. Saying that apart from one idiot it was a very good crowd for the final with none of the nastiness that was apparent at the last final I went to at Doncaster in December.

We were saying that after to be honest very few of the players have the right attitude to beat Taylor but hopefully now others will show a bit more belief if they meet him at the later stages of a tournament.

I must admit that I didn't watch the final live because I fully expected Taylor to win and the guy can be an arrogant sod when he is winning. I mean during the game!
So I watched it yesterday in the repeat programme and was delighted to see that smug smile wiped from his face after he went 2-0 up.
He really was acting like an @rse again, totally disrespecting Thornton and clowning about on stage as he put on his 'easy!, easy!' act.
Hardly surprising given that he is used to door mats as opponents.
Little did he know what was to come.

To be fair to him, he missed countless doubles and let Thornton in.
It can be argued that he is not used to that kind of pressure and Thorton made him jittery. I would like to think that was the case rather than Taylor having a bad day at the office.

It's just nice to have someone else win for a change.

Thought flintoff was going to have a heart attack then during commentary when van Gerwen threw the 9 darter!

R.I.P Sid Waddell

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Agreed. Very sad news.

Sad news,love or hate him his commentry was unique.

And darts would not be the high profile sport it is today without him even going back to getting pub sports on TV on Indoor League.

True,loved indoor league,bar billiards,skittles and of course darts,magic.Plus good old Freedie Trueman.
"I`ll see thee".

You have to be worried about Wade and his darting future after last night, Sky spoke of him being ill but it looked more serious than that and you do have to wonder if he might be better taking a break from the sport and seeing if it is really what he wants to do.

Phil Taylor might have to soon change his name to Phil Failure.
Oh, I do feel sorry for him .........