"Either stand by your words, or you don’t post them at all" - Gerwyn Price criticised by Vincent van der Voort after Premier League complaints

Gerwyn Price endured a hugely disappointing night on Night 11 of the Premier League Darts, crashing out in the quarter-finals with a 6-3 defeat to Nathan Aspinall. ‘The Iceman’ didn’t hold back afterward, taking aim at the playing conditions inside Rotterdam’s Ahoy Arena.

The Dutch leg of the Premier League Darts is traditionally held at Ahoy, with around 10,000 fans packing the venue to enjoy the spectacle. While the crowd once again lapped up the action, Price made it clear he's not a fan of the Rotterdam stage. After his loss, he vented his frustration on social media: “Hopefully PDC will now stop coming here and look for alternative venues. Not good for the players, not good for the fans and not good for people that like a bet,” wrote Price, who was particularly unhappy about the wind swirling across the stage. He later deleted the post.

“It’s emotion—when you’ve just lost,” said former pro Vincent van der Voort on the Darts Draait Door podcast. “But you know how the PDC reacts when you voice criticism. So you either stand by your words, or you don’t post them at all.”

“He does this more often,” Van der Voort continued. “And I don’t think that’s very brave. If you have an opinion, stick to it. Now he’s shared it and then backed down.”

“Maybe the PDC reached out to him, or he cooled off on his own. But it happens regularly. You post something in the heat of the moment, but once you realise the impact, you pull it down. Still, you know what you’re doing—so have the courage to leave it up.”

The “wind issue” at Ahoy is a known problem that seems to crop up every year. “The tricky part is that you can’t test it in advance,” said Van der Voort. “The airflow only starts once the crowd is inside. We’ve felt it ourselves on stage. It’s less severe than in previous years, and players threw better, so something must have improved.”

“It’s a fantastic venue,” he concluded, “but after ten editions, the wind problem really should have been solved by now.”