"Get Ross Smith in the Premier League": Unequivocal plea after European Championship win and is Luke Littler fear factor waning?

The European Championship firmly had it all. Ross Smith winning yet another major title, Luke Littler losing late in his bid for darting supremacy and even Luke Humphries going out before a dart was thrown with stomach flu.

But what are the main points to divulge from this weekend? Ourdiscussionas ever looks back on the past few days in Dortmund with the controversy and also the big takes from the weekend as we head on towards ProTours and the Grand Slam of Darts in the next few weeks.

Praise for Smith and Schindler and bold Woodhouse takes Samuel Gill, Head Editor for DartsNews. com, praised Smith and Schindler as well as giving a big take for the future of majors.

I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so. I feel like Chris Mason is picking Ross Smith as his dark horse.

In our predictions for the pre-event, my winner was Ross Smith. He has been exceptional as of late and is one of my favourite players to personally watch.

It has been a long time, so to finally see him win more titles is brilliant, and I always get the feeling in my waters about him that he will do more than he has, and he is showing that. Smith and Schindler made Samuel Gill very happy indeed.

I also have an ongoing bit in our predictions picking Martin Schindler on the European Tour for the past two years. Often he has been in the bank when it comes to these events, and to see him finally back to it makes me overjoyed.

A brilliant player when he is on and a true trailblazer for German darts - just what is needed. I have also said in the past that Luke Littler for me will go through a dip and then likely win the Grand Slam and the World's.

In my view that will still happen; every player has a bump in the road. While Luke Woodhouse, as ever, was one of those to impress me, like Smith, I think his breakthrough is coming very soon.