Premier League Darts makes its first venture off mainland Britain as Dublin is the host for night three. Naturally this means an Irish talent will be the contender tonight; sadly Willie O'Connor is too preoccupied with repeatedly punching a picture of Max Hopp, so it's the incredibly dull youngster Steve Lennon up against equally boring Peter Wright in the night's second game. After two weeks of dreadful showings yet somehow getting a point from each of them, this should be the time for Snakebite to record a win in this year's competition.
Before that though is the battle of the mentalists with Welsh rugger roidlet Gerwyn Price against bipolar disorder's James Wade. The pair were week 1 table-toppers but both failed to win in Glasgow, and the Machine won their last meeting at the Masters.
Following the contender game is the match of the evening between the two masters of bald autism in Michael van Gerwen and Rob Cross. Mighty Mike is the sole player with a 100% record despite playing rather averagely last week, whereas Voltage looked far more composed than he has been in his defeat of Wade.
The young sulkers then meet as Michael Smith plays Daryl Gurney. Superchin's astounding finishing last week against contender Glen Durrant saw him pick up a vital two points, but Bully Boy's disastrous bottlejob against Wright from 5-2 up means this is a must win for the World Championship finalist.
A potential elimination decider closes the evening with everyone's favourite unorthodox Serbo-Austrian Mensur Suljovic versus lazy Dutch bastard Raymond van Barneveld. For the second year in a row the Gentle is averaging over 100 for the tournament yet getting nowhere close to winning a game, having been slapped silly by MVG on night 2. Barney was thankful Price imploded following missed match darts to get a draw, but he'll have to try a lot harder against Suljovic to avoid going bottom.
Coverage starts at 7:00pm UK time on Sky Sports Action.
>Tonight's fixtures (7:00pm start, all matches best of 12 legs; contender match in greentext) Gerwyn "Gurning" Price v James "The Meds Are Back In Town" Wade >Steve "Irish Stoneface" Lennon v Snakeshite MvGOAuTism v Rob "BAuLDtism" Cross Michael "Snackpot 2.0" Smith v Daryl "Sweet C4-line" Gurney Mensur "DIE MEISTER, DIE BESTEN" Suljovic v Barney
There were another two Players Championship events in the weekend just gone, and curiously enough both had similar outcomes to the previous two PCs in Wigan. But the wins proved to be two record breaking moments
PC3 on Saturday saw Michael van Gerwen have to play nowhere near his best for most of the day to pick up his 71st Pro Tour title in the PDC, finally surpassing Phil Taylor's record haul of 70. A routine victory over Ryan Searle was followed by a bizarre struggle against Ross Smith, with one leg seeing the World #1 score 171 after 12 darts and as a result won with a match average below 91. MVG hit another magic 9 darter against Jamie Hughes of 177-174-150 to win. Wins against Dimitri Van den Bergh and Gavin Carlin followed before a truly bewildering showing from Mervyn King, who averaged just 85 as he clearly didn't put any effort in yet blamed a "long throw" on the streaming boards for his display. In the other half, Stoke dab sensation Ian White made the final having beaten Chris Dobey in the semis. Although Diamond came from 2-0 down to tie it at 2-2, a ridiculous 160 from MVG put him 3-2 up and only dropped 3 further legs in his best display of the day.
PC4 on the Sunday saw a first time winner. van Gerwen was dumped out at the last 16 stage by a wonderfully clinical Nathan Aspinall who won 6-1, but the Asp then lost to Gerwyn Price. Price then lost to a 109 averaging Duzza, making his second PDC final in as many Sundays. Remarkably his opponent was the big stage playing Belgian Dimitri Van den Bergh, notorious for being shit on the floor, who took out James Wade and Rob Cross on his way to his maiden PDC Pro Tour final. Sadly for the Dreammaker, the illusion of the big stage vanished and he realised where he was, losing the first 3 legs and never recovering to be defeated 8-3 by the man from Middlesbrough. Here's the winning visit and aftermath for Glen & Dimitri: youtube.com/watch?v=l-WjNeLgBQU
Apparently Scott Baker has become a top talent as well now that he's in the PDC when just a month ago he was literal who to the YAYAKOLO chanting PDC fans.
Jordan Howard
How is that even true ffs.
Jonathan Clark
I think your drug is the best currently. What is it?
Brayden Jenkins
cool, we've got Russ
Xavier Collins
t. NPC
Matthew Miller
I really don't get it why Price gets booed but Wade doesn't.
Are the Premier League audiences really that thick?
@KimHuybrechts 1h1 hour ago More Stay in a @premierinn nearly every week.. used to be brilliant.. bring dvd device and watch series.. now they said they block all hdmi devices... guess that’s a search for a new weekly hotel then ! #riciculous #boring #stupudpolicy
Glad that went out the traps as it looked a great looking lineup on paper. Roid v meds, Autism v Autism, Fat v Chin, Happy Dad v Sad Dad. If Gacy loses now it really ought to catch fire
Chase Foster
>clownman in green le appeal to popularity man does it again!
Samuel Price
Will Clown change his equipment one more time?
Jack Cook
Based LELnon
Austin Carter
The Clown has a fucking weird complex about country support a bit like Wade, wont have liked that flag waving one bit
member like 5 minutes ago when they said that Cross has the game to beat MVG? That of all the players in the Premier League, he's probably the only one
The roundup will be in the Pastebin as usual. See you next week for the first of four days of darting action from the South West with the UK Open starting the day after the Premier League.
