Professional Darts Corporation

He was the main man.

And then you had the big splitting darts with the PDC and the BDO.

And the PDC asked, was I interested in joining them? Back in 96, I'd only been going 18 months.

And I said yes, but they got me banned from all darts.

I couldn't play anymore after that because of the video ruling.

little bit more professional? You would have seen the change, I reckon, Russ.

Yeah, not off, not off.

The PDC brought that itself back in 1995, 1996, when they very first got started.

So we will get stuck into that.

Plus there's things that happened on the Pro Tour last week, plus the PDC have announced changes for 2027.

It's like g- how are we even gonna fit all this in? I'm looking at the comments and the questions that people have sent in and thinking, "Can we even get them in?" Matt, the world of darts is alive.

I'm really interested this week, and I think our viewers are gonna love this, 'cause I've got a feeling...

And we haven't spoke about this.

I'm just guessing.

I think we're gonna have different opinions and views on the announcements from the PDC.

I think we're gonna look at this from completely different angles.

So a lot of our tickets are straight from the organisation.

For example, I'm going to talk about the darts and we get our tickets direct from the PDC, which is the main organisation that sell the darts.

So we dine out on that a lot because you're missing out on middleman by coming to us, basically.

Amazing.

That broke away from the EFL because Sky wanted to create.

Just like when Sky broke away and made the PDC darts.

That's what happened there.

They broke away the Premier League.

That's what made them break away and do the PDC darts because the Premier League was so successful as well.

So look, it's like the Premier League was driven by TV money and we're reaping what we sow, I suppose, in a lot of ways.

We're just lucky to be part of it and not being swept up in the chaff like a Swindon or an Oldham who were in the initial Premier League and so on.

We've talked about it before.

It's not the PDC.

It's not the PDP.

They're all different organisations.

I don't think it will stop them.

It would almost take... half a dozen players to go, right, yeah, we're not going to Holland anymore.

For the PDC to go, oh, well, actually, maybe we won't go there if your big stars aren't going to be there.

I just don't think it's, and I feel for him, I don't just feel for him, I feel for any player And I've seen it a lot.

Oh, God.

We've heard rumours that there might be some changes to the PDC TV line-up next year.

Is that fair enough to say, Barsi, that we've heard rumours?

I don't know.

I mean, was there anything to talk about, really? You know, not like a massive exclusive that we dropped.

Yeah, yeah, Starman, yeah, Paul Starter.

Again, Paul Starter, outside of, obviously, he doesn't do any PDC events, but he is absolutely a top-class MC.

Yeah.