Hi I have just found your forum while looking for information on how Andy Fordham is doing. I started playing darts when I was 17 after watching my parents play.When I started playing the oche was 8ft and seemed so far away. We migrated to Australia in the 70s and have been playing here ever since and I have a daughter who plays when she can

Hi and welcome to Darts Nutz

I hope you enjoy the forum, we have several members in Australia so I am sure you will feel right at home

good to have you on board mate, and like rebel said we have a good few aussies on here.

Welcome to the forum.

Did you find the info you were looking on Fordham? The last I heard he had a terrible time of it. He was back up to 24 stone after doing so well losing weight. Then he broke his leg. Then he fell and hurt his knee and it got infected and I believe his daughter was ill as was he father. Luck is not on his side.

mate we love our aussie members- and we have a mod Jimbo21 who is a great guy. Enjoy and posts lots lol

Wow you must be old then! LOL just kidding and warm welcome to the forum so happy to have you join.

Back in the early to mid 70's there was still a lot of varying oche lengths through the UK, some were as small as 6 foot and some as you say were 8 foot, but before that they even threw from 9 foot!

Welcome aboard!

Thanks for the welcome everyone,I am english by the way so I am at home here. Im not that old same age as Eric Bristow whos parents were friends of my parents many years ago, they played darts in london for a while but lost contact when we migrated.How many were impressed with Phil Taylors back from the dead performance in final?

I was impressed but not at all suprised

Thats cool!

Yeah it was an impressive show by Taylor, but I thought he would win at the start of the comp then after MVG started so will I was not so sure.

On a different note, here's an update on 'the viking'

http://www.bdodarts.com/2047/17-01-2013/ANDY_FORDHAM_RETURNS_TO_BDO_DARTS

Hey All, New to this forum stuff. Been playing darts since the late eighties. Still use the same set of Tony Payne signature hammers. Like the grip. They are similar to the Precision Grip for sale now days.

Hello and welcome heaveymetaldarts, thanks for posting, have you got a pic of your darts?

I have some Precision Hammer Heads just curious what the difference may be.

Gday HeavyMetal and Old Dart. Glad you guys found us. Hope you enjoy the forum.

Old Dart, where abouts are you, I'm in Adelaide.

Jimbo21 wrote:

Gday HeavyMetal and Old Dart. Glad you guys found us. Hope you enjoy the forum.

Old Dart, where abouts are you, I'm in Adelaide.

What he said but im in Perth

@heavy > dont let JD push his light darts on you LOL

And both of you

welcome to the forum. I think you will find a lot of discussion on here about some of the players of the past. I hope you take a moment to look around. It's always nice to have a veteran darter sign up

welcome heavy, good to have you. As getagrip said, do you have a picture of your darts you can share? I would be interested in seeing them. You can post a pic here:Show Us Your Darts

USMC80 put together a really good tutorial on how to here: How To: Post Images

Thanks for the link for info on Andy Fordham. Nice to see he is coming back to BDO darts this year hope he does well, remember him playing in a team with Steve Beaton, Ronnie Baxter, Nartin Adams representing England in championships held at the Dome in Perth in 97

Welcome to Darts Nutz old dart, we have a lot in common I'm always being called an old dart, or something close that rhymes Lol

Welcome heavy- watch out for JD hes light headed lol

heavymetaldarts wrote:

Hey All, New to this forum stuff. Been playing darts since the late eighties. Still use the same set of Tony Payne signature hammers. Like the grip. They are similar to the Precision Grip for sale now days.

Heavy?

Sounds like my Lex Luthor.

Thanks shafted I liked old dart as Im from the old dart get it as for old fart I ve probably been called that as well ha