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Glad you’re alive and well Drone! I often wonder what happens to forumites who disappear and always hope it’s nothing nasty or sad.
Darts is one of those sports that the pro’s make look easy, but ever try in a pub after a few pints and it’s an absolute nightmare!
I once stumbled across this during one of my youtube-rabit-hole evenings, watched nearly all of it too lol think it was when I was smoking the wacky backy so I found it thoroughly amusing! Couldn’t help but be infatuated by the chaps taking part! I mean look at this chap, fag in mouth and everything!
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That looks mad, Ben.
Bullseye was a bit of a mad show back in the 80s. Think it’s still on GOLD.Drone I use to be in the castle hotel every Thursday in the late 90s but only as part of a window cleaning team.
Beautiful hotel and still going strong.
I’m not a bitter/beer drinker so wouldn’t know but I’d happily buy you a pint and a ploughman’s lunch, let you throw first and even offer you double or quits when I check out.Blackbeard to conquer the World
Count me in Nath and Drone, I’ll be referee and will apologise in advance when I have to ask you to add up the scores for me
What a hunk with shirt studiously unbuttoned to reveal his stupendously hirsute chest
Great footage of the days when darts players wore sports jackets, ties and terylene slacks. Ditto the crowd, who being assembled in neat, relatively subdued, rows gives the event an oddly elegant and understated ambience
The outshot combinations always intrigue me, such as 167 being Treble 20, Treble 19, Bull; and the seemingly automatic, unthinking manner in which pro darts players know them and the split-second adjustments required if they fail to hit the correct number
I think they’ve all but gone now but during my ’70s boozing apprenticeship many of the pubs in Yorkshire had Doubles Boards; that is, without the treble ring and just a central bull. Double to start, double to finish
The older boards were a slice of tree trunk with I believe Elm being the wood of choice
‘The outshot combinations always intrigue me, such as 167 being Treble 20, Treble 19, Bull; and the seemingly automatic, unthinking manner in which pro darts players know them and the split-second adjustments required if they fail to hit the correct number’
Three x 167 is known as a perfect nine darter as there is no chance of any luck with a deflection and the bullseye is smaller than the standard doubles. Never attempted in competition but common in exhibition play.
Former pros sometimes work as ‘spotters’ who tell the camera operator where to move to on the checkouts. Not only do they have to know the permutations, some players go a different way if they favour a particular double.
I’ve heard of the Yorkshire Doubles board but being a southern shandy drinker I’ve never seen one in the wild.
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