Busted.

Sensational story line breaking this morning in World Darts was the ban by the DRA on Robbie "King Kong" Green for failing a drugs test last June. Although i knew for some weeks now about Robbie i couldn't say anything for obvious reasons. Everyone on the circuit knew that the DRA hearing was on Wednesday night. The DRA (Darts Regulation Authority) are independent supervisors between the PDC and the BDO and they are the ones that will determine how hard the iron fist will be slammed on a darts player from either federation. Green got to the last 8 in Bolton before failing an A Sample AND a B Sample before being eliminated. I wonder how all the players he beat along the way in that tournament may feel now....

The duration of the ban has not yet been realised but is expected to be in the region of up to 2 years. This will be a cruel blow to Kong who only recently obtained the sponsorship from Phil "The Power" Taylor to keep himself on the circuit. It goes to show you the potential this guy has/had when you have Taylor backing you. Robbie will appeal this or is certainly entitled to but just to let him know that in the 2 year or so existance of the DRA 100% of appeals have been thrown out without success so we'll have to see where this leads for the Liverpudlian Kong.

Bad week in general for "The Power" as he crashed out of Poker millions the other night when he was defeated by topless model (i kid you not) Leilani and Austin Healy. Maybe a question for my next quiz. Who was the first topless model to beat Phil Taylor? About my quiz if anyone finds it too difficult blame all the people who cheated on the last quiz for the difficulty level increasing for this one.

The final line up for the Grand Prix will be confirmed tonight with the likes of Barneveld, Maish, Mann, Osbourne, Americans Johhny K and Ray Carver amongst the favourites.

Had somebody onto me the other night giving out about my remarks about Anto and Gareth the other day looking to know why i wrote what i wrote. My answer is as simple as this. They did very well to get through and i genuinely wish them well but as i said some weeks back it is easy for these players to think they are better than they are when their respective heads are being filled with rubbish about how good they actually are. While i do think Gareth CAN be class,being good in the Dublin surrounding area means nothing. Out of all the Irish players that qualified for the Grand Prix since it began in Ireland in 2000 not one of them has done anything in the game since.That includes both the Irish game and the World game. Total one hit wonders. Matty Murtagh, Martin Murphy, Brendan Dolan, Paul Watton, Joe Collins, Keith Rooney and even Jack Mckenna and Tom Kirby to anextent. The list goes on and on. They are great players, but to make it great play in one round of qualifiers is not good or great enough.