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Front page is up Yep, we know about the various anomalies in the text that can be fixed in a quiet week in March. The team descriptions will be updated, the names all standardised (though those with a capital surname were last picked in 2017!), and so on. Oh and if it says on the List of Teams your email doesn't work, ignore that... Obviously the LOTL and LOTM pages revert to 2019 because there isn't officially any yet. (Well, there are for the Missed but let's let Reptile sleep for a bit...) All up to date bar Samantha Last who will be in the next update. All thats left for now is to thank Grim for all the data processing over the Christmas holidays, Spade Cooley for hanging around and Agony Uncle-ing every single issue possible, and the man Reptile who sat for 4 days and worked through every single bug and fixed them. Legends, all of them.

Give your full applause to the three amigos who've sweat buckets over the past 21 days to deal with my terrible handover instructions and get the site into a semblance of existence.

Alright fellows, the first version of the 2020 site is up, scoreboard here: http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2020/scores.html At the bottom are the links to other relevant pages. The links on the homepage still link to the 2019 standings, it will be worked on shortly. By the way, yes, we know some birthdays are wrongly set at 1905. It's an excel/access issue... Also the spelling system is not streamlined. As a new committee, we focused on getting the process done for the first time on our own as quickly as possible..... substance first, the style will come! Expect some major improvements over the weekend, and check out your teams and the competition in the meantime! Edit: Current hits are processed, except for Samantha Last (yes, the birthday will be changed). Second Edit: Ah yes, the months in the "hits so far" page are in german. I think I need to get a language pack there.

1 Bill Turnbull 2 Queen Elizabeth II 3 Linda Nolan 4 Dick van Dyke 5 Billy Connolly 6 Paul Gascoigne 7 Angela Lansbury 8 Henry Kissinger 9 Rolf Harris 10 Olivia Newton-John 11 Jean Louis Trintignant 12 Betty White 13 Olivia de Havilland 13 points (what was I thinking) 14 Greg Gilbert 15 Barbara Windsor 11 points 16 Terry Jones 10 points 17 Prunella Scales 18 Stirling Moss 8 points 19 Little Richard 7 points 20 Jimmy Carter 21 Doddie Weir 22 June Brown 23 Bob Barker 24 Bob Dole 25 Mikhail Gorbachev Reserve: Sam Lloyd Got hard to pick anyone towards the bottom of the list. Last three picks were basically random. Thank you for running this again!

I think this is one of blips that needs worked through - we've got everyone's emails. Cheers, GUN

Actually really do like this as a dart throw. If it hits, it's game over.

Great job!

Good work chaps (and/or chapesses). I think you should leave the German months, at least during the transition period.

Lol... well, we are three, you were only one! Goes to show where credit is due.

Very nice job by the new triumvirate! The only disappointment for you is that Maude Apatow does not seem to have been selected this year

So, actually saw Portillo in his new role as an entertaining speaker tonight. He discussed his defeat in 1997, noted the words Portillo moment have gone down in history and described the meaning of the phrase as "eating a massive bucket of shit in public!"

Sods law, Joey, I have done "as it stands" draws ahead of the deadline in the past and the draw you get is ALWAYS better than the actual draw after last minute people enter. Although last year I did the draw 5 times as more unexpected people enter, and 4 times I drew Reptile, who beat me. I was starting to get worried when I looked up my horoscope and it read "A German deadpooler is going to thump you in the Cup..."

1.Dick Van Dyke 2.Paul Gascoigne 3.QE 2 4.Rolf Harris 5.Stirling Moss 6.Babs Windsor 7.Prunella Scales 8.Little Richard 9.Leslie Phillips 10.Linda Nolan 11.Franki Banali 12.Jimmy Carter 13.June Brown 14.John Andretti 12 points 15.Bob Dole 16.Leon Spinks 17.Gianluca Vialli 18.Angela Lansbury 19.Henry Kissinger 20.Terry Jones 6 points 21.Mikhail Gorbachev 22.George Alagiah 23.Bob Barker 24.Greg Gilbert 25.Betty White sub.Pope Benny

It's so interesting how Meghan has been villfied despite it being common knowledge that Harry hasn't been happy as a royal for a really long time. It doesn't seem to have occurred to anyone that he may have wanted to marry her because she had her own career and was supportive of him wanting to live a relatively normal life. Hands up if that's the case then the wedding being funded was uncalled for, but on the flip side, holding fire to wait and see if the marriage is working before breaking away is actually sensible. He knew that marrying some toff with no ambition of their own, wouldn't support him in the same way and would want all the royal perks forever which he doesn't. They want to go and be financially stable good luck to them!

Definitely a tough group to pick from: Good health to all 25 of you! 1. PAUL GASCOIGNE 2. BILLY CONNOLLY 3. DICK VAN DYKE 4. QUEEN ELIZABETH II 5. DODDIE WEIR 6. LINDA NOLAN 7. JUNE BROWN 8. ANGELA LANSBURY 9. BARBARA WINDSOR 10. ROLF HARRIS 11. MICHAEL ROBINSON 12. BETTY WHITE 13. POPE BENEDICT 14. HENRY KISSINGER 15. LITTLE RICHARD 16. JIMMY GREAVES 17. PRUNELLA SCALES 18. GREG GILBERT 19. JIMMY CARTER 20. VERA LYNN 21. MIKHAIL GORBACHEV 22. LEON SPINKS 23. GIANLUCA VIALLI 24. GEORGE ALAGIAH 25. OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN SUBS: Stirling Moss Bob Barker

Inverse Dead Pool 2020 1 Jimmy Greaves 2 Rolf Harris 3 Barbara Windsor 4 Betty White 5 Bill Turnbull 6 Leon Spinks 7 Little Richard 8 Linda Nolan 9 Paul Gascoigne 10 Jill Gascoine 11 Billy Connolly 12 Pope Benedict 13 Olivia Newton-John 14 Angela Lansbury 15 Henry Kissinger 16 Dick Van Dyke 17 Prunella Scales 18 Leslie Phillips 19 Terry Jones 20 Queen Elizabeth II 21 June Brown 22 Jimmy Carter 23 Bob Barker 24 Dodddie Weir 25 Greg Gilbert

Julie Strain turned out to be the victim of a cruel death hoax... However, actor Stan Kirsch, best known for starring in the television series Highlander as Richie Ryan, the protege of Duncan McLeod, is dead. And unfortunately, this is not a hoax...

If you want to increase the weight of your future teams Consider this trio of 80 something tubbies Lebanese Singer "Samira Tawfik" 1970's Us Sitcom star "Johnny Brown" And the Frugal Ex Uruguayan President "Jose Mujica"

Well as promised I've looked through the thread and the results are in. Mike Gapes loses by a country mile, so YoungWillz (Me!) wins for this prediction. Outside the leaders of parties, Sheryll Murray holds on by the largest majority so philheybrookbay wins the wooden spoon. The beasts of the jungle (Swinson, Skinner, Dodds etc ) also went and compared with 2017 there is a veritable sea of red in the losing camp. Well done everybody, pens down for five years. Let's hope in five years we can afford a pen, or even to run broadband!

Love watching Attenburgh on a Sunday evening

Looking absolutely fabulous in an interview on BBC News just now. Wonder if he'll make the 100?

Attenborough says 'I would take my own life if it became 'wretched'.

Surgery was a success and he is "doing well".

David loves the creatures and they love him.