Aberdeen rolls out the tartan carpet on fifteen May when the Premier League touches down at the P and J Live and Peter Wright finally enjoys a true Scottish homecoming. Dropped from this year permanent field Snakebite secured a challenger slot for Night Fifteen and insists he can still gatecrash the title narrative despite starting from zero points. His recent European Tour win in Graz suggests the possibility is more than pipe dream.

The Aberdonian faithful have waited two full seasons to cheer their hero on home soil and ticket demand forced promoters to install six hundred extra temporary seats. Wright has teased a special granite city inspired mohawk and will throw a brand new forty two gram tungsten prototype that produced a one hundred and five practice average during a closed session at the nearby Hilton.

His quarter final opponent is Gerwyn Price who currently sits third on twenty four points and views Aberdeen as a launch pad toward a second league phase crown. Price leads their head to head this season three one but Wright believes slower dart stems have steadied his release and could flip the script. Victory would gift him a crack at either Luke Humphries or Chris Dobey and five points would keep a mathematical route to London alive heading to Sheffield.

Away from the oche Wright takes centre stage in a series of community clinics with Scottish youth clubs and will donate his match shirt to a local mental health charity auction. He says the initiative keeps him relaxed and reminds him why fans first fell in love with his colourful persona.

The numbers say the two time world champion must win both Aberdeen and Sheffield and hope rivals stumble. Yet darts history is littered with improbable comebacks. If the Hydro roar earlier this year was loud the north east salute promises to be deafening and that may be the fuel Wright needs for one final charge.