PDC World Darts Final : Taylor Vs Barneveld

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It's the dream final. Lets hope its not an anti-climax after all the hype.

I can't wait to watch this.

Anyone else excited about it?

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Sunday, 31 December 2006 01:09 (nineteen years ago)

Of course. It's a shame we didn't have a darts thread this year, there were some absolute belters of matches going on.

Kudos to Sid Waddell for using a Lazy Town reference in a first round match-up as well.

Anyway, yeah, Taylor to win and Chris Mason to cry a little more.

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Sunday, 31 December 2006 01:15 (nineteen years ago)

No doubt William shall have a darts thread for the other world championship.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Sunday, 31 December 2006 01:25 (nineteen years ago)

Dennis Priestley vs Per Laursen was a top quality match. I haven't seen too much this year, but that one alone was worth watching.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Sunday, 31 December 2006 01:27 (nineteen years ago)

Alan Caves vs Wayne Mardle was a fantastic match, I wonder if some bright spark will Youtube the best of the tourney once its over.

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Sunday, 31 December 2006 01:29 (nineteen years ago)

Having never had Sky, I've never seen the PDC championship. This also means I've never seen 'The Power' in action, except for the occasional highlights of his BDO win from 1990 (I think) that the BBC show during the BDO tournament. It's a pity, because I suspect the standard in PDC is almost definitely higher - I've been following this year's PDC on their website, and I think Rico Vonck's stats against Barney were pretty comparable to the kind that sees people through to the quarters of the BDO, except that Rico didn't have any checkout stats, because he didn't take a single leg off Barney in their match.

Thing is... at work, we get Sky Sports. And I'm working 4 til midnight on Monday. Fingers crossed nobody's wanting to watch Coronation Street instead...

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 31 December 2006 04:06 (nineteen years ago)

Perhaps, even more significantly, I've never heard Sid Waddell commentate on a darts match. John Part really is the best darts commentator I've heard in my life. Really.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 31 December 2006 04:12 (nineteen years ago)

The standards always been higher. But Barney is as good as anyone else (if not better) on the tour outside of Taylor so the PDC is stronger than ever before because of his move.
I'm really looking forward to this final, I just hope it's not a letdown. A Taylor vs Barney final is what a lot have dreamt of for years and now here it is. Both players have looked in awesome form too. So it's all set up for a classic.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Sunday, 31 December 2006 04:22 (nineteen years ago)

The obvious barometer of quality is whichever one Arjen Robben is spotted in the audience at.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 31 December 2006 04:26 (nineteen years ago)

i'm not sure about the standard in terms of depth though, there was a match to get into the quarterfinal that i saw the other night, that was possibly the single worst game of darts i've seen on the telly...

...what *is* mason's "beef" with taylor anyhoo?

also, why is taylor getting booed on his way in?

― CarsmileSteve (Carsmile Steve), Sunday, 31 December 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

None of these chumps would take a leg off Cliff Lazarenko.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Sunday, 31 December 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

Right, the programme has started, the telly is on the other side of the office from me. Who is silver-topped pundit man?

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 1 January 2007 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

Please keep me updated as I can't be arsed walking the 500 yards to the pub, which doesn't actually look like it's open anyway. (I shall follow via teh interwebs, but a bit of Swygart reportage wouldn't go amiss)

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Monday, 1 January 2007 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

If that's Barney being interviewed, he is wearing a strange and unusual colour of shirt (i.e. pale blue). I smell omens, and they're not good.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 1 January 2007 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

From this distance, that feller sat on the steps talking about Barneveld looks like Paul Whitehouse's Nosferatu. If he's an actual darts player, that's quite some feat.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 1 January 2007 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

It's about to start!

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

Barney is entering now.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

Now comes Phil.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

Barney's back in his usual shirt - Taylor, however, is wearing orange.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 1 January 2007 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

Of Holland.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

Nervy start from Barney.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

Taylor actually won the 1st throw but gave it to Barney. Must be feeling confident.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

1st leg to Taylor. Against the throw!

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

164 check out for Taylor!!!!

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

1st set 3-0 to taylor. He blew Barney away in that set.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

Many years of observation have led me to conclude that there are two types of Ray Barneveld - classic, and crap. On the evidence of that first set, the latter has definitely turned up. His first dart bedded firmly in the 5's, and he never recovered. After Taylor's 164, he let slip a nervous laugh, and that spoke volumes. Taylor was hugging the officials at the start, did a little jig - Barney is very, very much aware that he's in foreign territory, far more so than the old seas of orange at Lakeside, and he's going to have to get over that very, very fast, or we're not going to be around for long at all.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 1 January 2007 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

ohhh nearly a 167 checkout from Barney

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

2-0 to Taylor in the 2nd set.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

3-0 Taylor.
2 sets to 0

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

Barney playing badly or Taylor doing well? Worth watching or not?

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Monday, 1 January 2007 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

Also, running commentary of Waddellisms appreciated, that's half the fun of the darts.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Monday, 1 January 2007 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

3 sets to 0 for Taylor.
Taylor is playing awesome darts and Barney can't keep up with him at all.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

According to the marvellous scorecard on Planet Darts website, Barney's hit more 140+s and more 100+s than Taylor. Is it really as one-sided as the scoreline is suggesting? Poor finishing?

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Monday, 1 January 2007 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

Taylor hasn't gave Barney a sniff of a finish in most legs.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

Taylors slowed down in this set and Barney is 2-0 up.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

170 check out from Barney !!! He's won a set!!!

3-1 to taylor in sets

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

The BBC set-by-set updates are shite and uninformative. Bah. I want proper commentary! I want my local to be open! (perhaps it is and they've got the lights off)

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Monday, 1 January 2007 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

2 legs each. The big leg that could decide if we have a game or not.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

3-2!!

GAME ON!!!!

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

Taylor 4-2.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

Right, think I've hit a fallow period at work, so I think we're back in business at this end. How've things been since the close of the first set?

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

4 sets to 3. Barney looking great.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

Despite being behind. Big set this.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

Barney is looking a totally different player from earlier.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

He keeps hitting 180s. Is this gonna end up a classic after all? Hope so!

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

Barney misses the double and Taylor finishes. 1-1

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

2-2. This is THE BIG LEG

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

5-3 Taylor.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

At 4-3 up, we had classic Barney, again, the kind of player you saw routinely steamroller the Martin Adams and Mervyn Kings of this world, remorseless treble-eater, Taylor couldn't get a sniff. Then he got cocky - three legs out of five in that last set, Barney deliberately cued up a 156 finish, seemingly just because he could - he passed up shots at treble to take outer bull, always winding up on 156. And it cost - the last one was the one where he had a clear shot at winning the leg, he missed his first key treble 20, and from then on he was out of it. They were both trading tons, 140s and 180s through that set though - Taylor up 5-3, but not clear just yet...

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

Cheers, William, that the kind of detail I needed. Do you have the commentary on - darts ain't darts without Sid Waddell.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

I'll leave the rest to William then.
My final word is everytime Barney looks good Phil raises his game just to keep ahead.
7-5 to Taylor perhaps?

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

Please, keep going - I'm having to clip across the office to get near the telly then back here at intervals.

5-4 Taylor - last set was 3-0 Barney, something of a war of attrition - tons far less frequent, or at least that's how it seemed, with nerves really starting to creep in. Neither player looks comfy at present, Barney took three shots for his 25 outshot. Far too many shots of Silvia van Barneveld and her horrible lipstick.

wrt commentary - I can't really hear it, our office needs the phones on constantly so volume has to be right down. What little I do get consists of Waddell shouting, which is vastly preferable to Tony Green.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

Right, we appear to be at 5-5. Taylor losing it, or Barney finding his form? Updates please!

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

6-5 BARNEY! Taylor just isn't pressing him the way he needs to - Barney seems to have some kind of off switch for his nerves at present, he'll throw a crap 3 (though no single trio in this match has been that crap, honestly, both players are averaging in the 101's, with only decimal points separating them) then bang in a 180. Taylor just isn't having the luck with treble 20's, and as such he isn't getting on doubles often enough. He's too easy to break, because at the moment Barney looks like he wants this more. Much more. Barney leads 6-5, then, but Taylor has the darts.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

Barney now in the lead! Why am I not watching this? Why's no-one posting any more?

xpost!

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

What a match this is!
1-1 in the 12th set. Barney leading 6-5.
Barney keeps pinging the 180s.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

Barney 121 checkout. Leads 2-1 in the set.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

Could be the last leg in the match if Barney keeps hitting the maximums.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

2-2!

The biggest leg ever coming up!

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

6-6!!

This the what I dreamt of!!!

This is AMAZING!

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

Final set...

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:24 (nineteen years ago)

6-6. Taylor's eye finally got back in, but it was a bloody close thing - Barney was 2-1 up with the darts, but just couldn't hold him off - it came down to him having a 164 outshot for the title, but he missed the first dart of it, and from then on it was Taylor all the way - ran away with the last leg, as Barney couldn't get on a finish, and now it's all down a final set. Two clear legs, as per.

Thought - for being the greatest of all time, Taylor does get involved in a helluva lot of 7-6 finals, doesn't he?

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

Better than the Taylor vs Priestley final in the mid 90s?

My fave final was Jocky Wilson beating Eric Bristow. When Jocky was 5 up and Bristow pulled it back and Jocky won the final set.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

I hope this goes to 2 legs each.
Only thing missing is a 9 dart finish.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

1-1.
Awesome stuff.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

2-1 Barney. Taylor up 1st though.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

Bad start by Taylor. barney could be in here.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

Barney is gonna have 1st shot at the check out.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

Barney needs 120

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

barney misses double top!
taylor needs 56!

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

Taylor gets double tops!!

2-2!!!!

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

Who's looking nervous? Who's looking confident? Who are the crowd with? Background! Details!

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

It could go either way.
The tension is unreal.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

whoever wins this leg I think will win it

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

Taylor needs a 121

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

taylor hits the 25 and Barney needs 32

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

Barney hits the double 16 on his 1st go.
3-2 to barney

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

Barney will have a 131

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

Taylor with 147 left and is up
Barney left on 40
Taylor needs to check out

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

He misses

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

barney fucks up!!

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

Taylor gets double 8. 3-3

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

Taylor escapes luckily as Barneys nerves get the better of him.
Barney gets a 180 start though. Taylor gets 100

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

Barney has had 4 darts for the championship yet its 3-3 in the final set.
Will he regret those misses?

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

Barney needs 81

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

Misses.
taylor needs 121

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

Taylor missed bull
Barney is back in needs 25

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

Barney up 4 -3

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

4-4. taylor missed 2 doubles but holds his nerve and makes it with the 3rd.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

Taylor needs 136 to take the lead

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

Barney needs 40 to go 5-4 up

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

Barney leads 5-4.
Taylor to through 1st to save the match,

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

*Throw

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

I really hope this goes to the deciding leg. It would be fitting

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

Barney needs 170 to win

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

Oh misses the 2nd treble.
Taylor needs 32

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

Sudden DEATH!!!!

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

Closest to the bull will get 1st 3 darts.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

Barney hits the bull and goes 1st,
Barney is now the favourite.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

100 Barney
180 taylor!

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

180 Barney!

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

Taylor 281
Barney 116 left

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:54 (nineteen years ago)

taylor left with 148

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:54 (nineteen years ago)

Barney misses double top for the title!

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:54 (nineteen years ago)

Barney will have double top to win

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:55 (nineteen years ago)

1st dart! Barney wins!

Amazing final.
greatest ever!

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:55 (nineteen years ago)

Would you Adam & Eve it - just as they get to 5-apiece, and I get my first actual piece of bloody work for the night, so I miss the last two legs. I could've sworn Barney would blow it given the way he missed three darts for a 40 checkout earlier, but I think he really did just want it that bit more than Taylor - The Power was relying on the crowd to gee him up and keep him in it, he needed their reaction to keep him going and it really did work, for a bit.

Grr. Quite pissed off now. Oh well - BDO's kick off on Thursday. I have two essays due in on Monday, and an exam the Saturday after. Which should leave me nice and free for the final. Hopefully.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 1 January 2007 23:02 (nineteen years ago)

Magnificent thread! I've just read all of today's entries in sequence having forgotten about the final - cor! Were the tennis threads on old-ILX ever this exciting for the casual reader? I fear not.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 1 January 2007 23:08 (nineteen years ago)

ILX tennis threads are marvellous, and often better than actually watching the tennis. Do not do yourself down, Mr Mike.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Monday, 1 January 2007 23:36 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck me that was a great match.

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Monday, 1 January 2007 23:38 (nineteen years ago)

BDO's kick off Saturday, I should say. A thread will arrive, in due course, but it'll have to go some to beat that one.

I bloody loved the tennis threads, and, as I think my contributions to them made all too clear, I really know fuck-all about it.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 00:39 (nineteen years ago)

I'm still buzzing from this final.
The BDO's won't be able to live with that final I'm sure.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

(Well, yes, the tennis threads have other qualities, I suppose - I was just wondering whether anyone has ever been gripped [as I was above] by our collective hyperventilation over something like the ebb and flow of Roddick-El Aynaoui in Melbourne a few years ago. I bet not. Especially as they were probably following it on the same website!)

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

The only thing missing was the camera zooming in on the spot the dart was about to hit.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

wow, so sky's darts thing is actually good these days? last time i looked it seemed to be just Teh Powah with a bunch of jobbers.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

It's the extra bits of information and opinion dotted around the tennis threads by the contributors that make them so readable - it's a real community effort (which I lurk on because I am scared to contribute because you are all clever and know so much).

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A18531632

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

t/s: kerr vs. waddell

― Comrades, meet Tildo Durd (Scourage), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 23:05 (nineteen years ago)

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