First of all I must apologise (not). Had a text yesterday from a fella telling me to stop slagging off united. Some crack isn’t it. That’s what Rio thought anyway.
An unranked tournament took place in Newcastle on Sunday last. Wozza had a good showing this time out beating Lee Palfreyman, Andy Smith, the 2006 World Matchplay runner up James Wade, David Richardson and Kevin McDine before going out to 3 x 12 dart legs a 14 and a 15 to Lloyd. Lloyd won the game 5.3 hitting a 170 to win it. Over 500 played and it was a good showing to get to the last 8. It was won in the end by the Flash. Wozza has been putting the work in of late and that is good and hugely important. He had a bad 18 months prior to that which certainly cut short his practice hours but we all know what he can do so hopefully this may put him back on the comeback trail to the top 5 in the world which is where he is use to being in the last 15 years being World number 1 on 5 occasions. Priestley went through a torrid 3 years where he almost packed it in and now he is well established in the top 10 again and that’s what we have to do and aim for.
Heading off to Australia today is Jamie Harvey. Jamie is travelling over with Deller and Ritchie Burnett to play in an invitational tournament down under. Joining them from Orlando will be Bob Anderson which is the reason why he’s risking his place in the Citywest. The Aussies are mad for darts and although the price difference for the 4 lads to play is slight they are all well paid. 3 World Champions Anderson, Burnett, the flash in the pan and Harvey. They’ll have a good crack anyway and the result won’t matter in this instance but its promoting the PDC and that’s all that matters. They have stocked up on VB and Carlton cold for Jamie for I hope they know what hits them when they see the Jock coming.
Good news for the Aussies on the darts scene at the moment though. Anthony Fleet has beat off the challenge from Barry Jouannet to qualify for the PDC World Championships and the Wizard Simon Whitlock who defeated Taylor earlier in the year qualifying for the BDO one means the signs are certainly looking up for them. They also hosted the World Cup last year so they must be doing something right.
As I write this I have a horse going in the 5pm at Sedgefield so I’m going off to look at that.
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