2024 US Darts Masters Price v van Dongen

[@M30038]

Nice to see that Ryan Searle did Jules's walk on music

[@NedMethod]

usa need to get off the soft tip boards if they wanna get good

[@TedBarton91]

They should also try having actual American players represent them…….

[@garyjbaker]

​@@TedBarton91 what is an "actual American"? An American Indian I assume? The people who were here before Columbus arrived? Everyone else, *everyone*, is an immigrant or a descendant of an immigrant. Or is it someone who holds US Citizenship? Because Jules has that too.

[@TedBarton91]

I cannot accept this “multi nation” representation, it’s just crap to me. I was born in England, I’m English, no matter how long I live in Germany I will be English. Jules is literally the perfect representation of the ridiculousness of this. He has a Dutch name, his nickname is “The Dutch Dragon”. He’s as Dutch as MVG or RvB and yet he represents a country where he can be higher. Jeffrey de Graff did it. How the hell you represent one country, disappear for a couple years then come back representing another? Makes a mockery of the whole thing. There is no relevance to which nation has the higher numbers of better players if all we have to do is move the top players to another country for a couple of years and the talent suddenly comes from there. Let’s move all the PDC top 64 to Malaysia for 4 years and then they’ll have more national talent than anyone else in the world. “Here comes Nathan Aspinall from Malaysia”. Stupid. The World Cup becomes ridiculous when this is allowed to happen, in any sport. Why bother with national pride when anyone can come from anywhere? 😂

[@roberth5611]

You have a lot to learn about America, then you will understand.

[@TedBarton91]

My opinion applies to all multi National people. Be they Scottish-English, Japanese-Korean or anything else. But of course everything is about America 😂 the only country when, if you ask where people are from on a national level, they’ll tell you their state.

[@TedBarton91]

And before you start a “nation of immigrants” argument, remember it applies to every country currently in existence, so it’s moot. We all came form somewhere else many moons ago, but now we don’t, hence national pride

[@garyjbaker]

Like you, I too am English (Kent, to be specific), and proud to be so. I spent the first 29 years of my life in England. I moved to the USA shortly before my 30th birthday and have been here for over 20 years now. I am a naturalized US citizen. I'll always be English by origin, but that doesn't mean I can't also support and take proud in my adopted nation of the USA. Nothing wrong with that.

[@JosefHerrenhäusermann]

Yeah, well, that’s the problem with with hodgepodge of cultures and ethnicities that make up countries like the USA wich aren’t really based on any one ethnicity or identity - well, “American,” whatever the fuck that is haha. I get what you’re saying for sure about world cups etc. I’ve always hated that about America.