Good Old Ferghal.

There ya go Ferghal. There is your mention. Haha. Ferghal is the manager and probably future owner of my local back in Tramore. Although he is a crap player like most others in Tramore you couldn't question Bohany's admiration of the game of darts. His loyalty is unquestionable too as he has been behind the sponsorship of many tournaments locally and has also run, along with his brother Niall(Poland's current number 1), a few exhibitions with the world's best. Early this year he and Angela ran a singles league which lasted 14 weeks and was won by Ken Coffey. A league table will never lie. Knockout tournaments lie the whole time if ya know what I mean. The new weekly darts tournament starts next Friday i think. Tramore darts makes me laugh and always has to be honest. It seems people there are content to be crap. Not all, but most and the few young lads who may be capable are scared shitless to develop their individual game. They stop playing when the tourist season comes in, drifting in and out of concentration when they do decide to play. The new players get to play one league game before being dumped out and are forced to wait a few months to play again in a competitive league. That probably explains the concentration drift. Having done research on national leagues throughout Ireland 2 years ago I found out that the Tramore league was one of only 3 leagues nationwide that are run on a knockout basis. Hardly a base for a league. Waterford and Tramore leagues never merged and that has been reflected on the county showings in the past 10 years but I cant blame Tramore for not getting involved with the Waterford board as they are nothing short of a joke at best. Positives to come out of Tramore are few and far between but they do exist. Angela is a positive. The Waterfront is a positive as it does try to promote. Three players under the age of 26 stand out and they probably know themselves who they are. Time is running out though lads if you wanna take the game seriously outside of the Thursday night 1001. One of them made a great showing in an underage national tournament already this year and without question has ability but that ability will just remain stationary if things remain.
A new season is approaching now and a big one for Tramore Darts. Good young players are coming through and the old ones still playing but not dominating anymore. Not even coming near to dominating in fact. Your Monopoly is gone lads so change your teams as much as you want, as it doesn't matter anymore. Lets get things going to the next level this year and start supporting darts in our local pubs etc and give these young players a chance to realise what they can do. A bus ran to the Citywest last year for the first time ever for the Grand Prix - shows the interest that is there in the game at the moment so lets use that interest and be constructive with it and stop relying on Angela to do everything.
Tramore darts is close to my heart and i would love to see it develop as its been "just there" for years now so hopefully as I say this year we might have more tournaments(seed them if necessary),give the poor teams more than one game per league or they'll never improve, more pubs coming on board, more competing outside of Tramore as I know the interest is there so lets use it and move with the times.