LUKE HUMPHRIES admits he is sick of starting matches like a TRAIN and ending up playing “crap”.
The World No2 has made a low-key start to his Premier League defence having not made a final thus far.
Hump, 31, faces struggling Stephen Bunting in Belfast on Thursday and is striving for more consistency.
After beating Krzysztof Ratajski in the Poland Open, he said: “My game at the moment, I am starting off like a train in every game I play, playing the best darts out of anybody.
“Then, all of a sudden, I am playing the worst darts. It’s just a strange scenario for me. I am playing unbelievably, then playing crap.
“I don’t really know why. I am trying my best. I started off so well on the ProTour when I won it, but then it would drain out.
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“I need to work out why that is happening. But that was really rubbish from myself tonight.
“Hopefully tomorrow I come back a different player and play like I have been.”
Humphries had to survive a “brutal” crowd in Krakow to get past home hero Ratajski.
‘Cool Hand’ was jeered and whistled at by the crowd throughout turning the contest into a cauldron of hostility.
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The Cheshire thrower looked in control at 5-2 up but Ratajski roared back with three straight legs to force a tense finale.
Humphries managed to hold his nerve to silence the arena and break Polish hearts.
He said: “That was brutal. I get it, I understand it.
“It was a great game of darts there. It’s just sometimes, when you get crowds that don’t unfortunately give you that fair game that you want, it’s hard for me to perform.
“It probably put a lot of pressure on Krzysztof at the end there. He probably tried too hard.
“The crowd were fantastic to him, but I am just glad to win, to be honest.”
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