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Reply | Leicester defeat a disaster??
at 18:27 22 Jan 2025
I actually looked at our managers who had at least one season since our time down. JFH's streaks aren't too bad but my god so many draws
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Reply | Snooker, Golf or Darts
at 17:31 22 Jan 2025
My cricket team used to do an all day pub crawl at the end of each season. One year we did a Pubtathlon - a pub crawl involving billiards, darts, quiz machine, and pool tournaments in each one |
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Reply | Leicester defeat a disaster??
at 16:33 22 Jan 2025
It is something Marti does bring. Since he took over, our longest losing streak is 4 matches and we've only had 4 patches of more than one defeat in a row. Going alll the way back to McLaren we've been prone to long and frequent losing streaks |
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Reply | LFW Message Board Glossary
at 13:13 22 Jan 2025
Player wins one header "reminds me of Les Ferdinand"
Player completes one pass "Something of Faurlin about him"
Player completes one tackle "Derry-esque"
Player is old "Well, what did we think when Clint Hill came here" |
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Reply | Game on.
at 12:55 22 Jan 2025
That wasn't really their point though |
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Reply | Game on.
at 10:55 22 Jan 2025
*sigh*
Am i gonna have to start doing the promotion/relegation tracker again? |
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Reply | Lloyd and saito
at 09:46 22 Jan 2025
I was really very negative on Lloyd in his early appearances this season, but clearly they've coached him a lot and he's really applied himself. He looks like a totally different player.
Koki will always be the king of my heart |
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Reply | Snooker, Golf or Darts
at 16:20 21 Jan 2025
I saw it on a Phil Taylor masterclass on YouTube and it made a huge difference to me straight away
Interestingly, Taylor is right handed but left eye dominant which is why he brought the dart across his face
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Reply | QPR on fifa 25
at 14:41 21 Jan 2025
I got a Ps5 for Christmas so thought about getting the new EA FC as hadn't bought a new one since FIFA 20. Until PSN told me I played more than 1,000 hours of FIFA20. Playing actual games now |
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Reply | Snooker, Golf or Darts
at 14:17 21 Jan 2025
Time practising is important cos it allows you to experiment with stance, grip etc. I got dramatically better during lockdown cos i could play uninterrupted on my own for an hour each break experimenting with stance, grip, throw etc and double down on what worked.
But here are the general pointers I give to people.
1. Dominant eye
This often makes the biggest, quickest improvement. Your vision is not correct. Your brain is taking the imagery from two data points and merging them. But it takes one eye as the dominant one to give you one vision. So you think you're aiming from the centre of your face but you're actually seeing it from the centre of your dominant eye.
Find out which it is - hold your finger in front of you, then look at with one eye closed at a time. The one where it's in the same place as with both eyes open is your dominant one - then when you stand at the oche line the centre of the board with the centre of that eye, and pull your arm over it to aim from the centre of that eye.
2. Stance
I stand front on, but this more about comfort - I physically can't stand full side on. Going halfway with your foot slanted is a nice way for beginners to align their body as you can use your heel to line up with the centre of the board
3. Throw
Main tip here is you want to minimise variance in movement and only really move your elbow. Bring your arm back, set, then throw. Helps allay going left or right. I also say try to go "to" the board. I imagine extending fully and having my finger point at where i want the dart to go. Take your time between throws and get a process and rhythm and stock to it. I find the slower I throw, the more accurate I am.
4. point the dart up
Darts don't travel in a straight line, they arc. Face the tip pointing upwards to let it do that, then move it flatter depending on how fast you throw
5. Practise with purpose
The amount of time in warm ups there'll be a go smoking T20 and you think "oft, don't want to play him" and then in a match they couldn't finish their dinner is alarmingly common. Trebles for show, doubles for dough. Don't throw aimlessly at the board. Pick a number and try to check it out. Do Round the World but just at doubles. A good MvG tip I picked up was if you do something amazing in practise, leave it there. Gives you the feeling "I can do it". If I hit a 100+ in warm up, I won't throw again till the games.
I'm still not great, I average like 40/50, but I was maybe 20 when I started |
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Reply | Snooker, Golf or Darts
at 13:20 21 Jan 2025
Bottled a 180 in my match last night. Two perfect T20s, clustered in the left hand corner. The whole bed to aim for, throw in the zone.
Middle of the bed 1. Ouch.
Lost the leg too as they checked out 91 in 2 darts. Brutal sport |
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Reply | Snooker, Golf or Darts
at 10:20 20 Jan 2025
As a darts player, you can pretty much double your average with 2 hours practise a day for a month. I don't think that's possible in golf |
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Reply | If a miracle happened and we went up via the playoffs
at 10:03 20 Jan 2025
The thing I really hate is when team's go up, look sunk, sack the manager that got them there, then come down with some no mark and wish they had say, oh I dunno, the guy that got them up?
Going up, sacking Marti in January then going down with like Gregory Vignal as coach would be diabolical |
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Reply | RIP David Lynch
at 09:41 17 Jan 2025
He really captured the experience of following QPR
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Reply | Working Mens Clubs/ Constitutional Clubs.
at 13:14 16 Jan 2025
I should love the Trades due to my proximity to it but I've had a few interactions with them about hire where they were really rude and it's soured me on it |
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Reply | Film 2025
at 12:12 15 Jan 2025
I personally really enjoyed it. Not reinventing the wheel, but it's a fun self contained romp |
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Reply | Film 2025
at 10:05 15 Jan 2025
Re: Fifth Element, you're forgetting the randomest British person in and a QPR connection to boot - One Size Fitz Hall is in it! |
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