" I THINK THERE'S BEEN A BIT OF AN OVERREACTION TO IT" MATT PORTER DEFENDS THE EURO TOUR CHANGES
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- PDC Chief Executive Matt Porter defends the recent changes to the PDC Euro Tour " I think there's been a bit of an overreaction to it if I'm being honest."
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The arrogance of this man ...would love a debate between him and Vincent
Would never happen because he knows Vincent would destroy him.
@@user-ix4on9ol6i exactly...but if they had it on sky pay per view....🤣
Who’s Vincent?
@@David_dulkan14 nanannaa Vincent van der voort van der voort vincent van der voort nannnaanana🤣
@@David_dulkan14 Artist who cut his ear off.
This Is literally going to suffocate the Prospects of about 100 PDC Tour card holders who were already feeling the strain of Mid Week pro tours. Clearly MR Porter only knows about 24 Players in the PDC currently.
If you ask current and ex pdc card holders who aren’t or were not the elite they’ll all tell you the pdc only ever focus on the elite it’s all there really bothered about
Please Matt have a think about this. You want darts to grow long term? You have to involve more players. How will you find the next Luke Littler or Josh Rock? This decision is harmful to every tour card holder outside the top 32. When the top 32 already had very generous benefits to begin with.
You say you want a professional organisation with players being full time. This decision takes money out of players pockets who are trying to go full time, and it puts the money in players pockets who are already able to make a comfortable living off darts anyway.
Just consider the impact of these changes especially regarding international players. Due to geography international players, especially Asian, American, Oceanian players are structurally at a huge disadvantage in darts. This decision just alienates them further. Why would someone from the US or Japan move to Europe and pursue a professional career when their basic earning is not guaranteed?
Many players think they are better off without a tour card nowadays because they have more events to play in and are not restricted to 30 PC events and 13 Euro Tours a year. And you are restricting them even further because they are not going to qualify for most of the ETs.
He’s clueless in terms of running a sport. Entertainment-wise he’s faultless but the decisions he’s making could be harmful for many players’ careers. There’s 128 fantastic players on tour but he only cares about the top 32.
Luke Littler went from 164th in the world to almost top 10 in the world if he'd won this final. Surely he is not the player who will struggle to get into the top 16 even with this new rule introduced... it will take something big to get into the top 16 which makes it more exciting. Fair or not. At the end of the day it's about entertainment. No dart player with serious ambitions is going to stop playing because of this rule. And if someone does, well, he would not have been you're new Luke littler or Josh rock anyway. And once you're in the top 16, you'll be happy about this new change. The system makes sense.
@@Ruffaloo The top 16 already had countless benefits. They pretty much get in every major event. This decision just widens the gap between the top 16/32 and the rest. Which is simply not good for the growth of the game. And it's not just about this one decision. Also putting all the Pro Tours midweek, again this is something that hurts amateur and semi-pro players, but not the top 32 who are full time players. You need a steady conveyor belt and support systems to keep finding the next generation of talents. Many players with potential are getting shafted by these decisions, even if they don't stop playing altogether the PDC just puts obstacles in front of most of the players. Entertainment wise, well they might sell some more tickets for Euro Tours but the events will become more stale with pretty much the same lineup all the time. And it's going to be the same 32 players at the European Championship, World Matchplay, World Grand Prix, with maybe a couple different faces. This might help the PDC maximise their ticket revenue short term, but it's definitely not something that helps long term growth. Entertainment is important but it can't be the only aspect. With decision the PDC lose more on the sporting side than what they gain on the entertainment side.
Every time this guy is in front of a camera it gets worse. Darts has been coasting for years and it’s been saved by Littler. Some of the recent decisions around pro tour and now euro tour are a joke, and everyone gets bored of the PL year on year. Bring back the original league format with 10 players, relegate 2 on Judgement Night week 9, then do the KO format for another 7 weeks. It won’t go stale then. But what do I know, I’m just a keyboard warrior 🤷♂️
Coasting for years? Saved by Littler? That’s absolutely ludicrous and you’re clearly just trying to discredit the sport as a whole just because you don’t agree with a certain decision that’s pretty pathetic
What does Dobey need to do? This guy thinks that a 60yr old man dressed like a clown is box office. You've got to think of the tournament and pick the form players. If you want to go on past reputation and achievements, then pick RVB.
Dobey has been underappreciated here, they got this very wrong.
This comment is so true
Win something. Wright won the Euros. Dobey won ...
Off that logic of what’s been won …. Ross smith, danny noppert, Andrew gilding all major winners who were not picked for the prem , Paul Nicholson wasn’t even picked and at the time he was box office ideal for the prem
@@chrisbradley9343so what logic is there to pick Dobey then?
What form was Dobey in? He didn’t win anything after the masters? Didnt even reach a final? So what is this form you’re speaking about??? Form to keep losing in quarter finals?
It's not about about the Top 16, Phil! It's the Top 32 that's the problem! You should have asked whether they'd got their statisticians to do an analysis of the impact of the rule changes.
They havent and I have the database and knowledge to do such calculations. I have proof that they know who I am that they like what I do, but they cant be bothered the reach out and do something that can make the rankings and qualifying criteria better and for the changes they make to have the intented outcomes in stead of winging it.
He’s a corporate man. He’s made some terrible decisions of late.
Like what?
Barrs never asks tough questions does he?
He's not a great interviewer sadly. He has his list of questions and never deviates from them so it the interview never truly flows with push backs, tangenting off on small points etc...Seems a bit robotic. Especially with the players post match interviews at majors. Same 5/6 questions to every player, at every tournament for years.
What he's done for the online community within darts is great. Also the frequency of the content, fallout bar/live lounges etc cannot be snuffed at. It's just the interviewing that winds me up.
He's not alone though - All UK sports reporters ask shit questions and never push back. When was the last time Geoff Shreeves asked a hardball in a post match?
No, and he didn't even understand the impact of the ET change focusing on the Top 16.
Barrs when are you going to ask the difficult questions?
WGP Ireland. Couldn't either Belfast or Dublin Premier League venues be used? Maybe a different configuration if PL config is too large for WGP?
Or take WGP to Germany and rotate where the Euro Champs final is held (Germany, Holland, other emerging Euro markets)?
The bloke is a prized plank.
You can tell by his body language and how he answered the question about the changes to the Euro tour that he already knows it was a mistake....but the ego won't allow him to admit it! I can almost guarantee it'll change again for next year.
Not enough tuff questions, Q-school? system? money in for PDC from Q-school? (a lot btw), shouldnt PDC give new PDC-players prizemoney (outside the ranking) so they have a budget before starting in the PDC? Now i think the first they get is a bill to pay. Are they pro´s then?
16 seconds is still too long an intro on a youtube video. and Phil I know you are only following trends but at least remove the sound effects from the annoying "SUBSCRIBE!!!!" popups
Why not straight knock out tournament? One leg, 1001, it's really not difficult to understand for any viewer. Thats bollocks.
“Luke Littler didn’t have any status within the game”🤦♂️ This bloke is clueless about darts outside the top 32. Most people who follow dart expected him to do well many including myself had him making the quarters before the event.
The Euro Tour changes are also terrible everyone know it including the PDC. Just admit it was done to try to get TV deals not for any darting reason.
Corporations dont admit mistakes. They just flame and discredit any opposition, sporting or not... We see it almost daily these days unfortunately.
Porter basically saying 112 or 120 (Euros and PL) tour card holders "should win more/do better/try harder/arent good enough" is a complete kop out but exonerates them from any responsibility in their eyes. Typical BS
That being said - I actually think they got the PL line up right tbh..... Euros is an abvious slap in the face to 85% of card holders and true darts fans.
Wouldn surprise me if the PDC is a closed shop in 10-15 years time, somewhat akin to LIV golf - 32 of the big boys on guaranteed salaries and everyone else fighting over WDF scraps. They've never had any interest in anything other than the top players. Bazza has admitted it in interviews multiple times.
In a form rankings i keep, luke was at #5 at some point. He deffo didnt came out of the blue
Won’t hear anything but his own opinion, the ET Qualifiers suck now
The INEC in Killarney would be a good venue to host the Grand Prix☘🎯
Always fascinating listening to Matt…… and a lovely bloke
Great Interview
Not sure if serious. Some very good stuff, but miss on the big stuff.
I just don’t understand why Luke Littler is not introduced as a current world champion okay it might be the junior title but he’s still a current world champion. In fact he is a current two time world champion, JDC PDC. Do those competitions mean nothing
Because he's not a world champ???? Also, this might be the most pointless take I've seen this week.
@@ChrisTravelss he is the current PDC junior world champion. The clue is in the word world champion, so I am presuming you do not understand plain English and haven’t seen his trophies. He is also the world JC champion
@@ChrisTravelss I am presuming you don’t follow darts or you would know that. There are a lot of sites on UA-cam for knitting if you’re interested
@@Truthwokephobia LOL
I wouldn't normally humour this nonsensical diatribe of but seems as its 5.30am on new years eve (I live in vietnam before you call me crazy) and can't sleep, go on....
Known about littler perhaps not as long as some people, but certainly considerably before he made his MODUS debut. Based on your intellegence and maturity level (which is pretty evident from tone alone) id say I've been playing and following darts since you were in nappies.
Secondly- The world YOUTH champ isn't a world champ. Its a world youth champ... hence the name, YOUTH champ.
Let me explain:
The world championship is an OPEN EVENT
Literally anybody on the planet can spend their £425 to go to Q school, win a card and eventually qualify for the worlds. EVERYBODY. IN. THE. WORLD. Man/woman/black/white/rhich/poor/gay/straight/16yo/70yo. Doesn't matter.
Not everybody can quality for the YOUTH championship. Its not an open event. therefore, not a world champion.
Do you have a problem with Keegan brown not being introduced as a world champ also? James Hubbard? Aaron Monk??
Or is your problem just with the fella you inevitably heard about for the first time about 8 weeks ago??
Always the people who spout shit like "do you even know anything" that have done a 2 week crash course om youtube and have no clue.
You're the type that was a trade expert during brexit, a foreign affairs expert during the recent publicised wars, a medical expert during covid..... if you're old enough to even remember them. You lemons stand out like sore thumb.
I stand by the opinion that this is an utterly pointless take and not even remotely relevant to anything discussed in the interview.
@@Truthwokephobia "the clue is in the name" then misses out THE key word in the title.
Let me explan how the world championship works:
It is an OPEN EVEN - OPEN. Meaning OPEN to anybody.
Anybody on the planet (of legal working age in the UK) can pay their £425 for Q-School, gain their card and qualify for the worlds.
16yo/70yo/man/woman/rich/poor/gay/straight/black/white. Literally anybody without discrimination. Hence OPEN event, and hence being a world champion
Youth champion is restrictive. Not an OPEN event, therefore not a world champion.
Out of curiosity, do you have a problem with Scott Hubbard and Aaron Monk not being introduced as world champions? Or just the kid you seemingly only heard of 8 weeks ago whilst the rest of us have been watching is WDF, JDC, MODUS etc exploits for a while now?
I stand by the point that this is the most ridiculous take, not even remotely relevant to anything in the video. It belongs on twitter with the rest of the garbage.
Take the matchplay to Germany
They already have the World Cup, a Premier League night and Euro tour. Time it was back in Ireland. Or give Belgium a go, they behaved well on the Euro Tour.