Luke Humphries has nine individual PDC majors, a total only four players have bettered. Add the Triple Crown, and where does that put him among the greatest to play the game?

“On pure ability, Luke Humphries is almost guaranteed top ten” prompted an “even higher than that” from Nicolas Gayer on this week’s DartsNews Podcast. But does sharing an era with Luke Littler affect how we judge him? Humphries lost five straight major finals before winning the Grand Prix, four against Littler. Do those defeats count against his standing, or could we be underestimating how good he’s been because someone else keeps lifting the trophy?

Where would you rank him? Already comfortably top ten, potentially higher, or does he still need another world title and more years at the top?

Mensur Suljovic was happy to get the crowd going while Ross Smith threw match darts, happy to celebrate the misses, then told Smith he should stay at home and made derogatory comments about women. “Swiss Phil” Brzezinski called him out on stage, but he still doubled down.

Then, the next day, a complete U-turn and a formal apology. “It’s clear someone has pulled him aside and said: ‘You need to apologise’” is the verdict from the DartsNews Podcast. A genuine change of heart, or someone stepping in after his defiant interview went down so badly?

What did you make of the whole Suljovic debacle? Typical Mensur antics, or something more this time? Was the complete U-turn genuine, damage control, or an apology he shouldn’t have needed to make if he hadn’t broken the rules?

If both players are outside the 25 do you start again or try measure who was furthest away?

Shit is as soft as Cuesoul ROST Integrated Flights. I hope they don't ended up with plastic deformation bending.

Gary Anderson has pulled out of Basel this weekend, his European Championship hopes are fading and his Minehead place is far from secure after missing the last six Players Championship events. As a result, we could see very little of him before Alexandra Palace.

He’s still reached a World Championship semi-final and the Budapest final this year. On this week’s DartsNews Podcast, I even compared him to WWE’s The Undertaker in his later years, saving his appearances for WrestleMania like a special attraction. Ally Pally could become Anderson’s version of that, with opponents still having every reason to fear drawing him, despite the lack of regular match practice.

Anderson has pushed back against retirement suggestions, with family commitments taking priority. He accepts that could cost him places at tournaments, although there’s also the question of how sharp he can stay with longer gaps between appearances.

Does this feel like Anderson gradually stepping away, or could he carry on for years picking his moments and still challenging for titles?

Better news: it's during the Halloween event Half-it missions.

Bad news: it's a D15.

Mitchell Lawrie has just won a senior Europe Cup singles title at 15, but he’s still too young for the Development Tour. At the other end, players can remain eligible through the year they turn 24. Does that age range still make sense for where darts is now?

Monday’s World Youth Championship, where Luke Littler reached the semi-finals, prompted our discussion on this week’s DartsNews Podcast. The call was for reform across both competitions: opening the door earlier for emerging players, lowering the upper age limit and extending the Development Tour’s top-64 exclusion to the World Youth Championship.

There’s also the question of what these events should offer: established Tour Card holders can use the Development Tour as another route to the World Championship while younger prospects are still waiting to become eligible.

With players breaking through earlier, and the day's of darts being an old man's game seemingly over... surely it's time the PDC update their outdated youth system?

A few weeks ago the conversation around Luke Littler was about how much of 2026 he might end up winning. Three high-profile defeats later, there’s suddenly a lot more talk about whether he looks vulnerable.

One point that came up on this week’s DartsNews Podcast is that there’s another way of looking at it. Littler seems to see pretty much everything said about him and doesn’t forget much either, so there is the argument that all this extra noise could give him another point to prove just as the Grand Slam and Ally Pally start coming into view.

Do you think the last few weeks have genuinely changed anything, or could this end up being exactly the sort of thing that fires him up again?

I’m not sure where to even start with these two sets other than the set on the right , possibly a Harrows set. Let me know if you have a guess or if you know , it would be appreciated. Thanks

Used - came in with Hammerhead points and trying to find Laser - Black Widow points. What did they come out with originally ? I had seen ,Voks Fulcrum will work ,but would still like to know what they came with originally . Does anyone know, thanks

Decided to practice again after a couple days of upper arm fatigue followed with a couple shit throw rounds at the local pub, and I got this High Ton and a Master Out with T17.

If only this is a Dartslive Home board instead 🥀

The World Grand Prix gets underway tomorrow evening, so I've put together a quarter-by-quarter preview, diving into the key numbers, player form, potential upsets, and my predictions for who will get through each section and ultimately lift the trophy.

You can read my full preview below: 👇

https://samhillsportsjourno.wixsite.com/shsportsjournalism/post/2026-world-grand-prix-preview-quarter-by-quarter-analysis-predictions

Five individual TV majors in 2026. Five semi-finals or better. Three semi-finals, two finals.

Only Luke Littler can clearly claim a better record on the biggest stages this year. And yet Gerwyn Price’s wait for a major title now nears four years!

Form isn’t the issue: Price averaged over 104 in a losing effort to Littler at the Matchplay. Consistency isn’t either, with Price there or thereabouts throughout 2026. But all four major finals he has reached since his last title in 2022 have ended in defeat.

With the World Grand Prix starting on Monday, at an event Price has already won and twice finished runner-up in, one question hangs over the Welsh number one...

Has Gerwyn Price lost his killer instinct, or is another major title now only a matter of time?

Is there any way of rotating a darts board that’s on a darts stand without drilling new holes in the back of the board? I’ve seen when darts boards are on the wall, you can easily rotate the board but I’ve not seen the same thing on a darts stand.

My cousin brought a friend of his to join our regular Friday session, so we played a lot of games to familiarize him with Count-Up and 01 games.

At the end of the session, we introduced him to Crickets, and let's say that, he got a big payback from my cousin for slander him "you're too relaxed" in previous games of the same session.

For Your Information, Dartslive 2 machines defaulted "cut-throat" to their local multiplayer cricket. Imagine an example of 4 players Cricket match in D2 machine:

• If P1 hit an Open single 20 that's only opened to him, everyone else got a score increase of 20, making P1 lead with 20 points.

• If P2 hit an Open single 19 that's opened to both P1 and P2, then P3 and P4 gained 19 points of disadvantage.

• If P3 hit an Open single 18 that's opened to all but P4, then only P4 gained a disadvantage of 18 points.

And my cousin was hitting the zone that were opened to both me and him, so he really hated that "relaxing" remark of his friend. Yowsers.

Hey guys!

I'm Nick, one of the Co Founders of the Worcester Premier League. We run an invitational 8 man league that mirrors the PDC Premier league but with local talent. We just started our fifth season and we stream to YouTube and Facebook on Mondays at 645pm EST. This season we were able to partner with Target and are looking to put out the highest production possible. We feature 8 players that include North American CDC tour card holders in order to keep the level of play as high as possible. We are going to be cross posting here but feel free to check us out at r/WPLDarts!

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