Premier League Darts 2019

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Outright preview :

We're back into February and it's time for the Premier League to start tomorrow night. Absolutely love this event and having a good batch of darts every thursday night before you're weekend. The big news is that Gary Anderson is not here with his back injury again. Instead of bringing in a Dave Chisnall, Lewis etc Hearn has decided to have a "wildcard" for each week but none of these wildcards can win the event so we're ignoring them for the outright preview

It really does look like it's MVGs already doesn't it? I'm not sure there is anybody that will come close to the title so for me it's all about having a couple of value picks each-way in the hope they get to the Final and then you "never know"

Going through the list of players who could potentially do that, I think we can rule out Smith, Cross, Wright and Wade and Price. We need somebody who scores heavy and is in form and for me that is none of these.This leaves Sulijovic, Gurney and Barney. For Barney this is his final event but the question is his desire? at 50/1 surely it's worth a couple of points to find out. I think with Barney he either finishes bottom of the table or gets to the final and for me that is good enough.

The main each way bet though will be with Sulijovic. I think he just about to come into some good form and had a good Milton Keynes smashing Whitlock with a very good average and taking a few legs from a below average MVG. At 20/1 eachway he's my pick

2pts E/W M.Sulijovic to win the PDC Premier League 20/1 Coral
1p E/W Van Barneveld to win the PDC Premier League 50/1 PaddyPower

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Week 1 Preview : Newcastle

Week 1 we're in the Utilita Arena, in Newcaslte. Our wildcard this week will be Chris Dobey. Here is the line-up :

J.Wade Vs R.Van Barneveld
G.Price Vs D. Gurney
C.Dobey Vs M.Sulijovic
M.Van Gerwen Vs M.Smith
P.Wright Vs R.Cross

Some great matches there and alot of close ones perhaps. Alot hinges on Barneys desire in the first match because even if he is 70% I fancy him to beat Wade and his price is crazy. James beat Barney 11-2 in the World Series of Darts 3 months ago but that Barney just did not care in that match and in the 2017 premier league, Barney beat Wade 7-2 on both occasions. I think there is some value on Barney.

With the fine imposed on Price it really looks to have hit his game and I fancy Gurney to win this tie. Price finished bottom last year and if things go bad early for him, there could be a repeat of that. These two played out a 6-6 draw last year in Newcastle and to be honest it could easily end that way again but Price's mojo seems to have gone and for me it swings in Gurney's favour.

Finally, Mensur has the match-up against Dobey. Dobey actually beat Mensur 6-3 back in 2017 so he has it in his locker for sure but as mentioned before, I fancy Mensur to have a solid campaign and I'm taking him to win this.

I will leave the coin flip of Wright Vs Cross and MVG Vs Smith standard MVG win alone.

4pts Barney to beat J.Wade 7/4 bet365
5pts D.Gurney to beat G.Price 11/10 Coral
6pts M.Sulijovic to beat C.Dobey 4/6 bet365
2pts M.Suljovic (-2.5 legs) to beat C.Dobey 11/8 Paddypower