‘I don't watch it' – Damon Heta slams Premier League Darts in brutal assessment and reveals two ways to improve it
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DAMON HETA has delivered a brutal assessment of the Premier League and admitted he doesn't even watch it.
The Aussie believes the current format has become far too repetitive and has lost its excitement.
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Heta claims the Premier League is too repetitive with Luke Humphries and Luke Littler always facing each other
World No1 Luke Humphries and World Champion Luke Littler have faced off seven times in this year's campaign.
But Heta hasn't tuned in once this season and says he prefers to spend his Thursday nights on the practice board instead.
He told Sporting Life: 'No I don't watch it. I haven't watched it this year.
'I see the results obviously they come up on social media all the time.
'But I didn't watch it. I might have watched a few games last year.
'I think it's too much. It's the same people in the match ups and then I'm seeing them every week at darts.
'I'm on the dartboard practicing when they're playing the thing.
'I mean you are getting those prestigious games but all the time so you're flooding the good darts.
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'The Luke [Littler] vs Luke [Humphries] you're going to see them twenty plus times a year probably play each other.
'I'm not even sure how many times we have seen a Phil [Taylor] vs MvG [Michael van Gerwen] game.
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'It just makes it more prestigious.'
Aussie thrower Heta called for the return of relegation - a system scrapped after the 2021 season - to raise the stakes for struggling players.
He revealed: 'I did like the relegation back in the day. I thought it was pretty good.
'Because the first half of the season they are playing to stay in it.
'And then the people probably towards the back end — when you've got a long season — if they're doing bad, you know they're probably not going to show up or put 100 percent in.
'B League'
'It's like, what are they playing for if they are not making the top four?
'I mean for £10,000 — but is that enough for them?'
World Cup winner Heta even floated the idea of a potential 'B League' — giving more players a shot at proving themselves and earning promotion to the main Premier League stage.
He added: 'Yeah I think that would be alright. Whether the B League plays behind closed doors to get to that stage.
'It gives that person — whoever wins the second league — that chance to prove themselves.
'I've done it for 17 weeks and now I've won it, then you get the promotion into the Premier League.'
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