# Stand up, if you love The Darts! **URL:** \ **Category:** Other sport\ **Created:** [2 January 2017 13:45 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/stand-up-if-you-love-the-darts/445 "2017-01-02T13:45:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![saintbletch](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/saintbletch/32/618_2.png) [@saintbletch](https://www.sotonians.com/u/saintbletch)\ **Post date:** [2 January 2017 13:45 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/stand-up-if-you-love-the-darts/445/1 "2017-01-02T13:45:10Z")
I bought a dartboard last year and during the summer we have the odd outdoor tournament (it gets hung on the shed door) - if we’ve got friends or family round. I’m shite, but I love watching The Darts - oh and betting on The Darts. We watched the semi-finals last night and the match between van Gerwen and van Barneveld was something else. As so often happens when you watch professional sports people\*, it’s so easy to forget just how bloody difficult the game actually is. I’ve never seen van Barneveld play so well. He ended the best of 9 set match with a 3 dart average of about 110 and he bloody lost!!! Van Gerwen was a machine. Incredible to watch, and with only two outcomes and no draws, and with players having alternative starts in the sets, the odds fluctuate tremendously which makes it a great sport to bet on (backing and laying). Anyone else watch it? ## \*Except football where I could have been, and _some_ say could still be, a pro. ---
**Author:** ![TheCholulaKid](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/thecholulakid/32/17_2.png) [@TheCholulaKid](https://www.sotonians.com/u/TheCholulaKid)\ **Post date:** [2 January 2017 13:58 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/stand-up-if-you-love-the-darts/445/2 "2017-01-02T13:58:24Z")
Currently Anderson’s @11/4 which, given that it’s hard to imagine van Gerwen will scale the peaks of last night again, seems pretty good value. ---
**Author:** ![Rallyboy](https://www.sotonians.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/0ea827/32.png) [@Rallyboy](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Rallyboy)\ **Post date:** [2 January 2017 13:59 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/stand-up-if-you-love-the-darts/445/3 "2017-01-02T13:59:39Z")
You and I have nothing in common. I’d sooner spend an evening discussing Brexit with Pap. ---
**Author:** ![saintbletch](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/saintbletch/32/618_2.png) [@saintbletch](https://www.sotonians.com/u/saintbletch)\ **Post date:** [2 January 2017 14:05 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/stand-up-if-you-love-the-darts/445/4 "2017-01-02T14:05:23Z")
Not even Paco Rabanne? ---
**Author:** ![Rallyboy](https://www.sotonians.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/0ea827/32.png) [@Rallyboy](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Rallyboy)\ **Post date:** [2 January 2017 14:06 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/stand-up-if-you-love-the-darts/445/5 "2017-01-02T14:06:20Z")
No, I’m on Blue Stratos now my Old Spice has run low. ---
**Author:** ![Goatboy](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/goatboy/32/167_2.png) [@Goatboy](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Goatboy)\ **Post date:** [2 January 2017 14:08 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/stand-up-if-you-love-the-darts/445/6 "2017-01-02T14:08:08Z")
heathens: ![](https://discourse-sotonians-uploads.s3.dualstack.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/3X/7/c/7c8de6451f81bd66ecdd9d2954761d60d423e1d8.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![saintbletch](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/saintbletch/32/618_2.png) [@saintbletch](https://www.sotonians.com/u/saintbletch)\ **Post date:** [2 January 2017 14:11 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/stand-up-if-you-love-the-darts/445/7 "2017-01-02T14:11:18Z")
Yeah, my plan is to let van Gerwen win a set or two and Anderson will drift more out than that. Then, IF Anderson gets a couple of sets back at some point the odds will swing back a bit, then I’ll lay Anderson or back van Gerwen with the profit I’ve got from Anderson. Then I’ll simply enjoy the rest of the game knowing I’m “greened-up” and can’t lose - well unless Anderson thrashes MvG and his odds just come in from the off, or MvG does the same to Anderson. ---
**Author:** ![saintbletch](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/saintbletch/32/618_2.png) [@saintbletch](https://www.sotonians.com/u/saintbletch)\ **Post date:** [2 January 2017 14:16 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/stand-up-if-you-love-the-darts/445/8 "2017-01-02T14:16:00Z")
Joking aside, I think it’s one of the best televised sport there is. It’s made it even better for me knowing that the RaleighBoy doesn’t understand the rules. ---
**Author:** ![PhilippineSaint](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/philippinesaint/32/3978_2.png) [@PhilippineSaint](https://www.sotonians.com/u/PhilippineSaint)\ **Post date:** [2 January 2017 14:35 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/stand-up-if-you-love-the-darts/445/9 "2017-01-02T14:35:00Z")
Its not been the same since Sid Waddel stopped commentating. And Hampshire stopped picking Big Cliff Lazarenko. ---
**Author:** ![PhilippineSaint](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/philippinesaint/32/3978_2.png) [@PhilippineSaint](https://www.sotonians.com/u/PhilippineSaint)\ **Post date:** [2 January 2017 14:35 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/stand-up-if-you-love-the-darts/445/10 "2017-01-02T14:35:59Z")
> Originally posted by @Goatboy > > heathens: > > ![](https://discourse-sotonians-uploads.s3.dualstack.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/3X/7/c/7c8de6451f81bd66ecdd9d2954761d60d423e1d8.jpeg) Shouldn’t that be in the Christmas gift section? ---
**Author:** ![lifeintheslowlane](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/lifeintheslowlane/32/690_2.png) [@lifeintheslowlane](https://www.sotonians.com/u/lifeintheslowlane)\ **Post date:** [2 January 2017 14:45 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/stand-up-if-you-love-the-darts/445/11 "2017-01-02T14:45:03Z")
The ONLY choice for a REAL MAN! ![](https://discourse-sotonians-uploads.s3.dualstack.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/3X/5/2/52cab895dda48819f9882f83694630afbbf7c0b1.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Fowllyd](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/fowllyd/32/74248_2.png) [@Fowllyd](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Fowllyd)\ **Post date:** [2 January 2017 14:55 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/stand-up-if-you-love-the-darts/445/12 "2017-01-02T14:55:35Z")
[![]( "YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MznwIPVSmyM) Have I misunderstood? ---
**Author:** ![steveintheforest](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/steveintheforest/32/135_2.png) [@steveintheforest](https://www.sotonians.com/u/steveintheforest)\ **Post date:** [2 January 2017 15:11 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/stand-up-if-you-love-the-darts/445/13 "2017-01-02T15:11:14Z")
> Originally posted by @lifeintheslowlane > > > Originally posted by @PhilippineSaint > > > > > Originally posted by @Goatboy > > > > > > heathens: > > > > > > ![](https://discourse-sotonians-uploads.s3.dualstack.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/3X/7/c/7c8de6451f81bd66ecdd9d2954761d60d423e1d8.jpeg) > > > > Shouldn’t that be in the Christmas gift section? > > The ONLY choice for a REAL MAN! > > ![](https://discourse-sotonians-uploads.s3.dualstack.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/3X/5/2/52cab895dda48819f9882f83694630afbbf7c0b1.jpeg) ![](https://discourse-sotonians-uploads.s3.dualstack.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/3X/2/f/2f0984456f8dd47c5beb0a68b72c3d6cf62ef2aa.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Map-Of-Tasmania](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/map-of-tasmania/32/1298_2.png) [@Map-Of-Tasmania](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Map-Of-Tasmania)\ **Post date:** [2 January 2017 20:15 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/stand-up-if-you-love-the-darts/445/14 "2017-01-02T20:15:43Z")
[![](https://discourse-sotonians-uploads.s3.dualstack.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/3X/3/8/380ce7f64a550d5f7756b8d867fe87e9b0c8e9c7.jpeg "Darts") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHnBppccI0o) ---
**Author:** ![SaintBristol](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/saintbristol/32/607_2.png) [@SaintBristol](https://www.sotonians.com/u/SaintBristol)\ **Post date:** [2 January 2017 23:01 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/stand-up-if-you-love-the-darts/445/15 "2017-01-02T23:01:57Z")
[![]( "YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwfnurvQKxk) ---
**Author:** ![SaintBristol](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/saintbristol/32/607_2.png) [@SaintBristol](https://www.sotonians.com/u/SaintBristol)\ **Post date:** [2 January 2017 23:08 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/stand-up-if-you-love-the-darts/445/16 "2017-01-02T23:08:51Z")
Van Gerwen does remind me of … [![]( "YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQyrDwp7qzs) ---
**Author:** ![Fatso](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/fatso/32/18_2.png) [@Fatso](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Fatso)\ **Post date:** [2 January 2017 23:17 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/stand-up-if-you-love-the-darts/445/17 "2017-01-02T23:17:37Z")
I went to see the darts in Wolverhampton once. I don’t remember too much about the actual darts, just drinking from two pint beer glasses and writing rude signs to show on the telly. Oh and I got chased by a nightclub bouncer on the way to the train station as I stopped for a piss by their fire exit. ---
**Author:** ![SaintBristol](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/saintbristol/32/607_2.png) [@SaintBristol](https://www.sotonians.com/u/SaintBristol)\ **Post date:** [2 January 2017 23:34 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/stand-up-if-you-love-the-darts/445/18 "2017-01-02T23:34:04Z")
That actually counts as a decent night out in Bristol ---
**Author:** ![PhilippineSaint](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/philippinesaint/32/3978_2.png) [@PhilippineSaint](https://www.sotonians.com/u/PhilippineSaint)\ **Post date:** [3 January 2017 05:22 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/stand-up-if-you-love-the-darts/445/19 "2017-01-03T05:22:24Z")
Back in 1981 was living in Barnstaple for a year first year of my apprenticeship, and went to see Jockey Wilson, Cliff Lazarenko, and John Lowe at a hotel exhibition match in Ilfracombe, which eventually ended up a drunken mess with the dart players taking the piss out of the punters. that so enraged a lot of us that John Lowe ended up being thrown in the swimming pool. He was not happy and the local constabulary were eventually called to throw us out. We were probably lucky nobody was arrested as that would have meant your apprenticeship down the drain. ---
**Author:** ![saintbletch](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/saintbletch/32/618_2.png) [@saintbletch](https://www.sotonians.com/u/saintbletch)\ **Post date:** [3 January 2017 11:45 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/stand-up-if-you-love-the-darts/445/20 "2017-01-03T11:45:37Z")
So van Gerwen won quite convincingly. I didn’t bet in the end as I couldn’t get the money on the right side of the bet at the right time. That’s gutting because on the Betfair Exchange at one point Anderson was at 80/1, but during the final 2 set comeback he came back to 14/1. Could have made some cash on that swing. [Next page](https://www.sotonians.com/t/stand-up-if-you-love-the-darts/445.md?page=2)