Adams honest on demise of BDO: "It's gone and I think we buried it with Olly Croft"

Martin Adams was recently taking part in the MODUS Online Live League and caught up with Online Darts to discuss the demise of the BDO.

Adams spoke about the reign of Des Jacklin as chairman and the move away from Lakeside to the O2 which proved to be the last foray from the organisation.

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"Not so much a sour note, it's a very sad note. My loyalty was not just to the BDO as an organisation, it was very much to Olly Croft," said Adams to Online Darts.

"It was more the last one (Des Jacklin) that took over. What possesses a chairman of an organisation to walk away from over £300,000 worth of prize money is just beyond my belief and I just can't see why. I did speak to Mr Potter about it, the owner of the Lakeside, his comment was I cannot negotiate with that man which is quite a sad statement in many ways from the BDO's perspective."

"It's gone, it's dead and buried and I think we buried it with Olly Croft."

"People would book their tickets as soon as they became available. They would book their hotel rooms every year and they would save up the whole year so they could spend the whole week there. Moving it to the O2 I think was just a major mistake. It was not a venue that's necessarily easy to get to."

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Jacklin was voted back in again after previously resigning and Adams said that the World Masters was the beginning of the end.

"I could not believe what I was reading. I thought there's a man you've got there who's effectively driving the company into the ground, that's the way it seemed. I don't know the full facts, I don't know the full figures. Not sure I want to know."

"One of the biggest errors was at the World Masters where there was a redraw which is totally against the rules of the World Masters. In many ways that was the first nail in the coffin."