Notice Board

17th August 2018

It is with deep regret to inform you that Dave Hales wife has passed away. All our sympathy goes to Dave and his family.

14th August 2018

The Venue for the Final of the Summer Cup will be The Victoria Tavern

3rd August 2018

The Alan Butler Charity Trophy

Due to unforeseen circumstances The Alan Butler Trophy has been moved from Thursday 30th August 2018 to Thursday 27th September 2018 with a 9pm Start. We do hope this does not inconvenience anybody too much and we look forward to seeing as many teams as possible entering the competition and raising as much Money as we can for The Butler Families chosen Charity. There will be a £9.00 Team Entry Fee with the format being the Best of 9 Single Games. This Competition will be held at The Community Road Club.

3rd August 2018

Some Notes for Your Diary:

The League AGM is on Thursday 20th September 2018 at The Community Road Club with a 9pm Start.

The League Presentation Night is on Saturday 29th September at The Community Road Club from 7.30pm until late. No Tickets needed this year, so all are welcome.

Notice From The Committee

The East London Darts League has existed in one form or another for over 50yrs. It has always considered itself to be a friendly league. The League has a set of rules to act as guidelines so that the game can be played on even terms with no bias to any team. Over the years the Rules have been amended and adapted to suit the changes in the League format and to address any circumstances that have arisen which caused disruption to the game. THEY ARE NOT THE LAW. Generally speaking any disputes that have arisen have been sorted out on the night between the teams themselves and/or the next day after consulting the committee.

Over the past couple of seasons it seems that several people in the league rather than discuss any issues refer to the rules and try to manipulate them to gain their team a points or even a monetary advantage (even thou there is no mention of gaining points or monies in the rules). On several occasions, to try and justify their case, players have even been arguing and shouting non-existent rules down the phone to members of the committee.

We simply cannot have rules for every possible eventuality that happens and common sense must prevail somewhere. We currently have 100 rules in our league, a quick browse of the internet shows that most other leagues have about 20 to 30 rules, even the WDO and the BDO only have slightly over 100 and they seem to manage without all this nonsense.

This behaviour is unacceptable and will no longer be tolerated. In the future, should the committee continue to be verbally abused and accused of being bias to one team or another, the guilty parties will be suspended.