An exclusive with Stephen Bunting from the Grand Slam of Darts who comments on his game and rumours on whether he’ll be included in the 2025 Premier League lineup.
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00:00Obviously the TV tournaments help push that ranking up so who knows I have a
00:04good tournament here and the players the Wales and God knows where we'll be in
00:09in the next two three months but that's my aim that's that's what I need to work
00:13hard on behind the scenes I'm working really hard going into the Wales I'm
00:18gonna start practicing with Luke Humphries as well so yeah I believe my
00:21game's in a good place but I do believe there's a there's a few more notches
00:24that I can put on that and then yeah if I move up the rankings then that's
00:29definitely the aim. You've been playing darts for an awful long time and earlier you said that
00:33now you're playing the best darts of your career we all know that you've
00:36changed the weight of darts you've increased that but is there any other
00:39reason why all of a sudden it's just clicks you're making finals you're going
00:43deep in tournaments Masters champion and 106 average year? Yeah I think I think the
00:48main difference obviously to change the weight in my dart was the the variation
00:53of the venues that we play in I think some some of the the air in the venue my
00:58my darts especially a 12 gram dart was flying different through the air and I
01:02just couldn't control them as well as I can control the 18 and I feel really
01:06comfortable now with the width of darts that I'm throwing the 18 grams seem to
01:10be flying well and yeah I'm really really happy I wish I'd have done it 10
01:14years earlier who knows where I might have been retired now but yeah no I'm
01:19thankful that I made that change and yeah going up 50% in a way to dart is
01:24unheard of really it's unique and it's paid dividends for me and yeah I'm not
01:29planning on going up anymore so I'm gonna stick on the 18.
01:32Steven Bigg well done, thank you.
01:34Steven just on the fans and the support that you receive it's been massive over the last sort of year or so how have you sort of
01:40taken to that I mean it's brilliant to see when you come out of every time you
01:44play. Yeah and I was as soon as I walked on the stage tonight you could hear them
01:47all singing let's go Bunsen mental it's very emotional to be honest I've got a
01:50I'm an emotional guy so I had to check myself back and make sure that I didn't
01:54cry and I even said to Mark Webster there don't be mentioning anything here
01:58that you're gonna make me cry on Sky again so yeah and all the crowd is
02:02exceptional to be honest and here when we played in the Grand Prix last time
02:08and wherever I'm playing now I've got my own set of fans and it's so important we
02:14talk about it for Liverpool Football Club the 12th man it's even more
02:17important for a player who's up on that stage and there's nothing you can do
02:21it's only you that can can bring that performance out and sometimes even when
02:27it's not going well a couple of cheers from the crowd and it cheers you right up
02:31and that's what happened tonight and I just raised off the crowd and that helped me.
02:35And we mentioned your high ranking your form fantastic have you thought
02:40yourself about the 2025 Premier League yet obviously coming back to Liverpool
02:44would be amazing for you and the fans? Yeah no I think Trent Alexander's
02:47playing well so I don't think there's any room. Yeah of course I'd love to be
02:54back in that but listen I won the Masters great I'm in the top eight now
02:57in the world I've just got to keep doing what I'm doing I'm confident I believe
03:01in me ability I've got a lot more tournaments to go before they announce
03:04that and yeah it's on people's lips but it's down to me to keep doing what I'm
03:09doing and obviously the fan base is there the walk-on's great but I'm saying
03:15nothing until they say you're in the Premier League so yeah it'd be a dream to
03:18be back in there but yeah I'm not holding any any any thoughts until until that happens.