Edgar believes changes needed to Q-School and Challenge Tour system: "That's a stamina test rather than an ability test"

Matthew Edgar lost his PDC Tour Card and didn't regain it at Q-School but takes the pragmatic approach into his first year in some time not on the ProTour.

Edgar believes he would have lost his Tour Card anyway even if he hung on and that he is glad to be playing constant darts again.

"I'm really happy with how things are going. I did lose my Tour Card but I knew at the time, that wasn't the end of the world. There's a lot of things going on in the darts world at the moment and it's nice to have a bit of time without that pressure of the PDC hanging over all the time as well," he said to Online Darts.

"If I didn't lose it last year, I'd have lost it this year. If I made the World's and hung onto that, I was defending a fifth round at the UK Open, a second round at World Championship then the Euro Tours kick in so it would have been an even tougher year."

"I think the toughest thing for me was the events being so spread apart. They bundled them all together. I left my house to play darts seven times last year. I've played more competitive games this year and it's March."

For Edgar though, he believes putting his hat on that he would when doing his YouTube videos that changes are needed in the PDC system.

"We are a bit restricted with what we can do when we've got a Tour Card. Maybe there needs to be something that maybe the bottom 64 of the PDC, there's opportunities that maybe they can come to the Live League and then when you get in the 64, you're under a stricter contract."

"If you're below 64, you're not on TV, you're not going to be seen. Your events are mostly going to be behind closed doors. So something like this would help these players."

This includes at Q-School with the Challenge Tour seen as mirroring the ProTour and for Edgar, he doesn't believe that's the case and thinks Q-School should be used to qualify for the Challenge Tour mostly, not the top 128.

"I do plan on not going to Q-School next year and that's because I fully am aiming for the top two on the Challenge Tour. That's the aim," he added.

"You've got a system that's based over one year, you've got a system based over four days. Why are we using the system based over four days to give professional status when we've got a one-year system where them players are playing each other on a regular basis. I'd like to see the Challenge Tour restricted to 128 players, does not replicate the ProTour. I've played the ProTour for 10 years, they're not the same."

"More boards, more clustered together. Less preparation time. It's not the same. I lost the first one in the Last 16 and then they start the next event. I'm like right I need to go for some food now and they're like you're first on in the next event."

"That's a stamina test rather than an ability test. So I'd like to see that restricted then Q-School is to qualify for the Challenge Tour. If you win a day at Q-School straight through (to the ProTour), if you go by the Order of Merit, the Challenge Tour."

He also discussed Michael van Gerwen's downturn and believes that it is mainly to do with the diary put in front of him as opposed to a form slump and believes it would be chaos for anyone no mind the top players.

"I think he probably is the best player in the world but he doesn't have the capacity to do what the PDC Calendar suggests that he should be able to do that. Everyone's only the best in the world to a capacity."

"I think the calendar's grown that big that you can't do the ProTour, the Euro Tour, the World Series, the Premier League, the Majors. I think it's too much. Diary management is vital."