Why should he apologise? Anderson set off to a great start,kept the pressure on throughout,down to Anderson winning it through great darts,more than Lewis losing I.M.O.

Richie Burnett doing his best to throw this game away.

A couple of cracking results for Reece Robinson now, hope the draw will be fairly kind to him.

Barney reduced to rubble.

Is there a more stoney faced player than him? Makes King look like one of the Chuckle Brothers.

I've never liked him right back to the BDO days. I get the impression he thinks he's a lot better than he actually is, and sulks when it's not going his way.

If all the Darts 'majors' were held in the North West, Wes Newton would be in the top 4.

But not at Blackpool.

Very true but he looks a different player these days, being 8th seed means he gets Taylor early on (ok assuming he can actually win a game there) but might not be such a bad thing and a good run at Blackpool could see him really arrive as a top 8 player. Guess the likes of Ronnie Baxter, Andy Hamilton and Colin Osbourne have flattered to deceive when in the position Wes is in but hopefully he has the ability to kick on and establish and improve his position.

Blackpool's about the only place Hamilton seems to pop up regularly over the last few years. He's never reached the highs his form of a few years back promised. Osbourne's in danger of going that way too, I was never a big Newton fan but he's growing on me now. He's was brilliant in Bolton.

Wes has the strangest throw,looks like he is about to topple over.