Tashyboy
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SPOTY 2024 - Annual Bun fight and Moan
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Beezerk
Money List Winner
Pin-seeker
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One thread is definitely enough/one too many on this 
Tashyboy
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Unfortunately when you have folk in ignore. It don’t show there posts. Hence me posting it 
Arthur Wedge
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Nah he just has me on ignore
Latest odds has
Hodgkinson a clear favourite
The Littler and Yee just behind
Neilds
Assistant Pro
Never fully understood being allowed to bet on things like this where the public can vote as well as place bets. Surely it would be fairly simple to place bets then manipulate the voting to get the outcome you want?Nah he just has me on ignore
Latest odds has
Hodgkinson a clear favourite
The Littler and Yee just behind
Arthur Wedge
Well-known member
Think that’s prob relevant on anything where it comes to public voting
Not sure how easy it would be to manipulate etc though
Neilds
Assistant Pro
Certainly relevant to other things like Strictly, Celeb, etc.
If gangs can clone cards, steal passwords, etc then they can surely rig a public vote.
They don't need to rig it, just organise a key and loyal demographic. If a key social media person asks their followers to vote for a particular person then that can have a massive effect. People who don't care are suddenly voting for someone. It's so easy to vote by phone, really not tricky to get momentum going.
Arthur Wedge
Well-known member
I don’t think the level of bets coming in for it will make it worthwhile tbh
rulefan
Tour Winner
What about Cavendish?
Neilds
Assistant Pro
Hasn't he already won?
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
Wot? Hold yer horses….No sign in Young SPOTY of a 20yr old amateur female golfer who’s #1 in the women’s amateur golf world; ANWA champion; 10th in the pro Women’s British Open this year, and Curtis Cup winner with the GB&I team? Ah well…Yes I know…Women’s Amateur Golf - yer having a laugh…nobody cares. In fact does anyone outside of golf much care about golf full stop. No matter - she’s SPOTY down my club 
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GreiginFife
Money List Winner
Professional men's golf struggles to get a mention, let along ladies amateur...Wot? Hold yer horses….No sign in Young SPOTY of a 20yr old amateur female golfer who’s #1 in the women’s amateur golf world; ANWA champion, and 10th in the pro Women’s British Open this year? Ah well…Yes I know…Women’s Amateur Golf - yer having a laugh…nobody cares. In fact does anyone outside of golf much care about golf full stop. No matter - she’s SPOTY down my club
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
Quite…I wasn’t being serious about LW but the ‘who cares about golf anyway’ sentiment applies.
That said I don’t have the slightest bit of interest in darts…not since Jocky Wilson anyway
…so it’s Hodgkinson for me - a true star and one with personality.
Eesat 90210
Member
I would estimate that if I walked into a clubhouse on a busy Saturday and gave that description, possibly around 10% of the golfers would know who I was talking about, let alone expecting the general public to have a clue.Wot? Hold yer horses….No sign in Young SPOTY of a 20yr old amateur female golfer who’s #1 in the women’s amateur golf world; ANWA champion, and 10th in the pro Women’s British Open this year? Ah well…Yes I know…Women’s Amateur Golf - yer having a laugh…nobody cares. In fact does anyone outside of golf much care about golf full stop. No matter - she’s SPOTY down my club
Orikoru
Tour Winner
I didn't say that they hadn't, only that I'd never heard of them.
Surely a factor in who wins this award is permeating the general public's consciousness. Luke Littler has certainly done that, because I have heard a lot about him despite the fact I don't watch darts. Whereas Yee and Storey, absolutely no idea - don't recall seeing anything about them in the media. Hodgkinson I vaguely recall is an Olympian but I don't remember which event it was.
RichA
Well-known member
She won a gold at short distance jogging.I didn't say that they hadn't, only that I'd never heard of them.
Surely a factor in who wins this award is permeating the general public's consciousness. Luke Littler has certainly done that, because I have heard a lot about him despite the fact I don't watch darts. Whereas Yee and Storey, absolutely no idea - don't recall seeing anything about them in the media. Hodgkinson I vaguely recall is an Olympian but I don't remember which event it was.
I love darts, but it's a pub game not a sport. Include darts and you have to include dominoes, fruit machine and contract.
Sport needs a ball. SPOTY needs sport, success and personality.
Joe Root's the closest thing this year.
Arthur Wedge
Well-known member
I didn't say that they hadn't, only that I'd never heard of them.
Surely a factor in who wins this award is permeating the general public's consciousness. Luke Littler has certainly done that, because I have heard a lot about him despite the fact I don't watch darts. Whereas Yee and Storey, absolutely no idea - don't recall seeing anything about them in the media. Hodgkinson I vaguely recall is an Olympian but I don't remember which event it was.
I can only guess that you get most of your sport news from Sky sports hence why Littler will be all over it
During this year the single event that had the most viewers was Euros Final - 24 mil
The Olympics had on average of 6 mil a day for 16 days straight with the 800m which Hodgkinson won peaking at 10mil
218mil streams and around 37mil in total watched Olympics
Its grabbed the general public’s consciousness if someone ventures outside sky