Yes, I have been in the final a couple of times and it is the worst draw bag you have ever seen, everyone is there at a slap up dinner - they have a stage up the front and that bloke from the darts announces your name and you get called up to the stage..... you then draw a peg out and they as you to comment on it - you can immediately tell from everyones faces as they draw what they have got as they know the 2 or three pegs that are needed.
Obviously some anglers take it better than others and thats why they dont show the draw live on TV!!
As for the competition and venue - its about time they upped the prize fund, they should also make the matches bigger or have more qualifers - it has the potential to be massive - they could even take it europe wide. As for the venue I would like to see a purpose built venue but dont think its gonna happen unless Barry Hearn is going to buy my bit of land off me and develop it! It would be nice for it to go around the country - perhaps convert it to a "Premier League" of angling - but would it get the viewers and attendances if there were matches once a quarter, i.e. four matches a year say.
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