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I'll bow to any passing OoO here, but I *think* it's Doug Cowie now? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Cowie_(footballer)

Especially now he's gone and died. Sods law.

Why is Deborah James discussed in this thread anyway? Even cancer mum addicts the Mirror call her a BBC Presenter in their headlines and admit she was a journo long before getting the cancer. imo it gaves an unwanted respectability to the complete no name picks by linking the two.

I have 3 uniques, a rarity! Barbour I sort of expected as soon as he wasn't on Spade or DDT's team (you know the sorts to twig the BBC4 producer with cancer is the same guy who is the husband of Muriel Gray what quit all her public roles last summer due to the declining health of her hubby), Seixas falls into the "old and out of the way" picks (but is apparently quite frail), but I was surprised Falzon was unique even with the slight QO risk. The Pan Breed team has never had a unique hit in the DDP.

It was def. marked as the Scotland manager originally, I suspect a victim of the Mass Deletion. It shall be fixed.

Yes, we have everyones emails, and I have put a note on the front page about it and a few other quirks. Although, as I say, the German months amuse me...

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.

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..."

Not unique, no (Bananas's B-team Buddies had him), and currently no DDP QO although we shall keep on the hunt and there's a whole forum of helpers on the case for various deadpools.

Mysteriously as one of the new DDP Triumvirate, I am aware of the QO. As seen elsewhere on this forum its on the Beeb. Incidentally, we had hoped the website would be up by now, but there are a lot of bugs in the system that need squashed. Reptile spent most of today squashing a good chunk of them.

Poor chap. It'd be a shame if Cup stalwarts @Pedro67 and @Heef missed out. (And his rival @John Key while we are at it.)

The mystery of why you never reach the DDP top 10 becomes less of a mystery with each passing day!

We're not going through that rigmarole again!

I'm reasonably confident the papers were alarmist and confusing "bedridden" for "bed rest". Bed ridden is approaching the end, bed rest is common sense after a serious period of ill health.

Sam Last has a QO, which makes yesterdays logjam look mild: You Might be a King or a Little Street Sweeper 22 Bananas Bruises/Joey Russ/Chorizo/Spade Cooley/Clorox 19 Once you go black/house of extravaganza 18 Drol/toast/Reptile/TJS/DDP Tofoa/Poochie/Still Life/Drunkasaskunk logjam on 17 Provisional update.

At least there's no teasing folk like saying Sultan Qaboos was 2 teams off the Drop 40. That'd just be cruel. TMIB used to do a big reveal on forum of the Drop 40 years and years ago when the website took weeks to load. But hopefully the IT glitches will be nuked before too long!

He says blessing, it was more like me going "Huh, what OK are you waiting for?" "Yours!" "Oh right, go ahead then?"

Hits so far (confirmed): David Stern, Don Larsen, Christopher Beeny, Tom Long, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Infanta Pilar, Edd Byrnes, Pete Dye, Qaboos al Said, Roger Scruton. (10) List of the Missed (confirmed): Derek Acorah, Neil Peart, Buck Henry, Tom Alexander List of the Lost (ie no obit so far): Samantha Last Some others might be hiding down the back of a sofa but if so they will be found eventually. Back of the fag pack scores while we wait for the internal calculator: You Might be a King or a Little Street Sweeper 22 Drol/toast/Reptile/TJS/DDP Tofoa/Poochie/Still Life/Drunkasaskunk logjam on 17 House of Soon to be with the Lord 14 about 30 other teams on points between 6-12

1. Frankie Banali 2. Jimmy Carter 3. Olivia de Havilland 4. Bob Dole 5. Chris Doleman 6. Kirk Douglas 7. Ruth Bader Ginsburg 8. Jimmy Greaves 9. David Gulpilil 10. Henry Kissinger 11. Angela Lansbury 12. Vera Lynn 13. Stirling Moss 14. Genesis P-Orridge 15. Prince Philip 16. Leslie Phillips 17. Yoo Sang-Chul 18. Prunella Scales 19. Tom Smith 20. Leon Spinks 21. Nobby Stiles 22. Alex Trebek 23. Jean-Louis Trintignant 24. Dick Van Dyke 25. Gianluca Vialli sub - Pope Benny.

He's trying his best!

Daniel Arap Moi got taken off life support. Then he started to die so got put back on life support very quickly. Sounds like this one will end as soon as they stop trying to keep him on life support. A Drol ancient leader special...

I heard worrying rumours about the Reaper being a super strong enema or what not from the ominous @Gooseberry Crumble!

Sorry, Toast, you're in the peloton with Death Impends but You Might Be a King or a Little Street Sweeper has the actual lead for the second time in 2020, as far as I can see. With 50+ teams all scoring already, manual addition is a tad tricky...

No, but the lead will change again, as at the very least Toast has overtaken the current leader.

Oh ditto, I have an old hotmail account I keep solely for deadpools.