And after taking that bow Crackpot, please apologise to everyone for the lack of a performance in the final. Tut tut.

Fair play to Anderson, he's a good player and played great darts in the final, but Lewis had a relapse after his brilliance against Taylor.
Never turned up.

I suppose thats how it goes the break inbetween the semi and final really affected his darts, either that or he couldn't believe what he did to Taylor and thought he already had it in the bag!

Why is everyone saying 'oh Lewis bottled it', 'Lewis wasn't on it'? Did you not see the final? Anderson absolutely blitzed him! Don't take anything away from Gary, he was superb.

It was a combination in reality, Anderson was brilliant from the off and Lewis couldn't get started. By the time Lewis found some form and woke up, he had left himself an impossible task.
Had Lewis started off where he left off with Taylor, it would have been a close match. And, may I add, more interesting.

I missed the first couple of legs but the form Anderson was in , No one would have troubled him . I agree about Lewis though , It would have been an interesting last couple of legs had he been nearer to Anderson as the scot's finishing isn't great.

I don't subscribe to this theory that it takes so much to beat Taylor you lose your next game, plus it takes the shine of the player who wins that match. It had nothing to do with Lewis beating Taylor but Anderson turned up and Lewis didn't in the early stages.

True,Anderson was off to a blistering start.Would have rocked any player.Disappointed the way the match went.Expected a ding dong encounter.

To be fair Anderson`s start put Lewis under pressure from the off.

Why should he apologise? Anderson set off to a great start,kept the pressure on throughout,down to Anderson winning it through great darts,more than Lewis losing I.M.O.

Richie Burnett doing his best to throw this game away.

A couple of cracking results for Reece Robinson now, hope the draw will be fairly kind to him.

Barney reduced to rubble.

Is there a more stoney faced player than him? Makes King look like one of the Chuckle Brothers.

I've never liked him right back to the BDO days. I get the impression he thinks he's a lot better than he actually is, and sulks when it's not going his way.

If all the Darts 'majors' were held in the North West, Wes Newton would be in the top 4.

But not at Blackpool.

Very true but he looks a different player these days, being 8th seed means he gets Taylor early on (ok assuming he can actually win a game there) but might not be such a bad thing and a good run at Blackpool could see him really arrive as a top 8 player. Guess the likes of Ronnie Baxter, Andy Hamilton and Colin Osbourne have flattered to deceive when in the position Wes is in but hopefully he has the ability to kick on and establish and improve his position.

Blackpool's about the only place Hamilton seems to pop up regularly over the last few years. He's never reached the highs his form of a few years back promised. Osbourne's in danger of going that way too, I was never a big Newton fan but he's growing on me now. He's was brilliant in Bolton.

Wes has the strangest throw,looks like he is about to topple over.

Not as strange as the guy who played Mardle in the first round of the Open last week, it was such a strange action and he was all over the shop.

Magnus Caris.

If the guy ever won a big event, he'd still not smile. Bet he's still gutted that a crippled Bobby George beat him at the Embassy Semi in '94.

2011 World Matchplay
First Round Draw


Phil Taylor (1, ENG) v Mark Hylton (ENG)
Wayne Jones (16, ENG) v Scott Rand (ENG)
Wes Newton (8, ENG) v Andy Smith (ENG)
Mervyn King (9, ENG) v Justin Pipe (ENG)
Simon Whitlock (5, AUS) v Peter Wright (ENG)
Ronnie Baxter (12, ENG) v Denis Ovens (ENG)
Gary Anderson (4, SCO) v Andy Hamilton (ENG)
Colin Lloyd (13, ENG) v John Henderson (SCO)
Adrian Lewis (2, ENG) v Kevin Painter (ENG)
Vincent van der Voort (15, NED) v Alan Tabern (ENG)
Terry Jenkins (7, ENG) v Steve Beaton (ENG)
Mark Webster (10, WAL) v John Part (CAN)
Raymond van Barneveld (6, NED) v Steve Brown (ENG)
Paul Nicholson (11, AUS) v Colin Osborne (ENG)
James Wade (3, ENG) v Jamie Caven (ENG)
Mark Walsh (14, ENG) v Dave Chisnall (ENG)

Quote ="carl_spackler"Richie Burnett doing his best to throw this game away. A couple of cracking results for Reece Robinson now, hope the draw will be fairly kind to him.'" www.thisishullandeastriding.co.u ... story.html Hopefully ,the first of many.

Quote ="carl_spackler"Richie Burnett doing his best to throw this game away. A couple of cracking results for Reece Robinson now, hope the draw will be fairly kind to him.'" www.thisishullandeastriding.co.u ... story.html Hopefully ,the first of many.

Hope so. I think he looks like he's got an excellent temperament for the game, and looks better than Arron Monk IMO, who seems to have more hype.