filbertway

Well happy for Woody, Littler well below par. Probably lost a bit of that extra battling spirit and concentration with the clean sweep no longer on. Also hes probably secretly happy he can watch the Super League final on saturday now Been a good night of darts, although 6pm feels like it was about 6 days ago now haha

Good start to the grand prix tonight! Great comebacks by Aspinall and Smith. Hoping Joyce can do the biz v MVG

World grand prix darts, the superior option

I like the chairs that are definitely suitable for u12s in the picture.

Third times the charm!

Was literally just about to post something along these lines and you've done me!

I think a £50m fine and a slap on the wright oughta do it.

My main concern with Martin is what comes after this season to be honest. It'd be a huuuuuuge failure if he didn't get this team up given that the academy has given him 3 or 4 starters that are more than good enough in this league and he's also been well backed in the transfer/loan market. If we don't go up, the budget will surely be slashed as the last of our Premier league money disappears. If we do go up, we'll be a relatively small fish in the Championship. Essentially I can't imagine he will have the same massive advantage next season. When he doesn't have a massive advantage over the rest of the league (or even when he does - see Rangers) his awful football will be found out big time. There's just 3 managers I can't stand in English football. Brendan Rodgers, Russell Martin and Nathan Jones. If we do end up sacking Russ and Nathan Jones somehow ends up here, i'm going to be sick.

Yeah heard the same thing when I went to go and watch Coalville v Anstey Town at Nonads ground. Don't really get it myself. I know their ground floods but it'll be a shame for them to move out of Anstey

Get him in the u21s! We've found his level

The annoying thing there is, if O'Hora can get his head up there's a very decent option to play that over/around the CM that's in front of Sammy and in that channel between the left back and centre back. The fact they're willing to push up like that and leave those options really is damning on the way Russell wants the team to play.

I swear I read quotes from Top last week in the Mercury that suggested he doesn't have any interest in selling up anytime soon. The family might want rid but Top doesn't seem too keen on the idea. While equally he doesn't seem too keen on running the football club. It's an odd one.

Ross Smith hitting lovely form as we get towards the worlds. Gotta fancy he's got a good chance of reaching the semi's (depending on the kindness of the draw). Just seen David Munyua and Sakai have already qualified for the worlds which is great news. Littler really doesn't help himself when he gives it the biggun, he definitely had it worse, but you look at smith who was getting jeers on Thursday and then last night, he just got on with his darts. That being said, Littler is 19 and Ross Smith is 37. So it's not a surprise that the teenager probably hasn't developed emotionally to deal with something like that. Especially as it feels relentless for him, it must be a crap feeling getting hostility from the crowds so often.

I wouldn't go as far as to blame Faes, as it was pretty poor from O'Hora, in general though the players playing at that pace doesn't help us. I would say the hospital pass by Faes is a symptom of this mind numbing style of football though. How are you supposed to win your duels and out battle your opponents when your tempo has dropped so low that you're literally walking about and passing it to your team mates like that. You could argue that it's on the players to keep mentally sharp, but when you're doing a mind numbing task it's easy to go into auto pilot. Football should never feel like that, but I see it every week when I'm watching football now.