The irony. Jim Carter is the narrator of this documentary and introduces “one of the cruelest attacks on any sport” the Smith and Jones sketch. @10.15 in the sketch the caller is played by ..Jim Carter.
When the BDO were absolutely on their knees in the mid 2000's Barry Hearn approached Olly about helping them out, and making the BDO a sort of development tour for the PDC. They offered to use the PDC influence to generate more events etc, but even then, when rock bottom, Olly refused. Stubborn til the bitter end.
A large part of the attraction of darts to TV was Sid Waddell's commentary. People would tune in to listen to him as much as watch the darts. He was a huge selling point yo TV companies. Not mentioned in this doc
Look at the BDO now, and look at the PDC ,,darts didn’t need Croft, but Croft needed darts and top players for his greed ,,but they worked him out and the rest is history,,,R I P BDO
Credit to Ollie. The game wouldn't be what it is today without him. Unfortunately his quest for ownership of a sport destroyed him. No one owns any sport. The BDO could have continued as it was perfectly well, but now as the WDF, it is strictly amateur, which isn't a bad thing necessarily. It's still a good feeder system, but doesn't offer what it once did.
the history books will show that the two dinosaurs had no business sense, no managerial abilties or darts knowledge. just right place right time. they come across pretty deranged, incompetent and bitter for the most part
The Croft s to a degree were control freaks….. as Ollie said they didn’t own the players and he didn’t own the game so they could do what they wanted and they did!!!!!
The irony. Jim Carter is the narrator of this documentary and introduces “one of the cruelest attacks on any sport” the Smith and Jones sketch. @10.15 in the sketch the caller is played by ..Jim Carter.
When the BDO were absolutely on their knees in the mid 2000's Barry Hearn approached Olly about helping them out, and making the BDO a sort of development tour for the PDC. They offered to use the PDC influence to generate more events etc, but even then, when rock bottom, Olly refused. Stubborn til the bitter end.
A large part of the attraction of darts to TV was Sid Waddell's commentary. People would tune in to listen to him as much as watch the darts. He was a huge selling point yo TV companies. Not mentioned in this doc
Look at the BDO now, and look at the PDC ,,darts didn’t need Croft, but Croft needed darts and top players for his greed ,,but they worked him out and the rest is history,,,R I P BDO
"They do eat a lot because they've got to" 😂
Look where the PDC is now, and the BDO went bust. Says it all.
Credit to Ollie. The game wouldn't be what it is today without him. Unfortunately his quest for ownership of a sport destroyed him. No one owns any sport. The BDO could have continued as it was perfectly well, but now as the WDF, it is strictly amateur, which isn't a bad thing necessarily. It's still a good feeder system, but doesn't offer what it once did.
The experts in comms
Did you see the narrator Jim Carter was the scorer in the ‘Not the 9 o’clock News’ sketch?
Its funny seeing Croft bomb it about in a Roller but refused to pay the players 😂
I miss the darts on BBC2.
no it was about money, thats what the players like bristow cared about. lets not bullshit
the history books will show that the two dinosaurs had no business sense, no managerial abilties or darts knowledge. just right place right time. they come across pretty deranged, incompetent and bitter for the most part
Oli was 💩on but just look at the PDC now 👍, half a million to the winner for throwing darts amazing 😲😳😮🤯
The Croft s to a degree were control freaks….. as Ollie said they didn’t own the players and he didn’t own the game so they could do what they wanted and they did!!!!!
This is being narrated by the geezer from Downton!
My favourite BDO player was Ted Hankey but you don't hear much of him these days. I wonder what happened to him ? 😏
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The Crofts were just out of touch and out of their depth.
BDO fcked it up.