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3 minutes ago, msc said:

Pan Breed to be revealed later. But here's the Doctor Who theme team, for the (very few) interested in it.

 

The Gallifrey Regeneration Game

 

June Bland (JOKER)

Barbara Clegg

David Garfield

John Gorrie

Janet Henfrey

Mary Peach

Edward de Souza

Cy Town

Tristan de Vere Cole

Gabriel Woolf

Christopher Benjamin

Warris Hussein

Milton Johns

Terrence Hardiman

Ian Hogg

Sheila Reid

Michael Kilgarrif

Donald Douglas

Gawn Grainger

Roy Evans

 

 

Surprised you didn't go for William Russell.

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1 minute ago, Sean said:

Surprised you didn't go for William Russell.

 

With only 20 spots per theme team I try and use them to put people on the DDP who otherwise would miss out. William Russell, Arnold Yarrow and Richard Franklin all felt like names which other people would have, easily.

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Here are my 3 teams. I hope to at least improve upon my dismal tied for 354th place finish in 2022.

 

Team name: Captain Hemlock's Twenty:

Steve McMichael (Joker)

Ady Barkan

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

Jimmy Carter

Mary de Rachewiltz (Poet)

Jules Feiffer 

Frederic Forrest

Louis Gossett Jr.

Polly Holliday

Earl Holliman

Bernard Kalb

William Leuchtenburg

Edie McClurg

Ronnie Milsap

Yoko Ono

 William "The Refrigerator" Perry

 Richard Riordan (Los Angeles Mayor)

Mark Russell

George Schlatter

Gay Talese

 

Rigor Mort Us (a "B" team to Captain Hemlock's Twenty)

Ruth Buzzi (Comedienne-Laugh-In) (Joker)

George Alagiah

Rico Carty

Ronny Cox

Sam Donaldson

Roy Estrada

David Hartman

Whitey Herzog

Daisaku Ikeda

Toby Keith

Mirtha LeGrand

Robert MacNeil

Malachy McCourt 

Dikembe Mutombo 

David Newell 

Sidney Offit

John Okafur (Mr Ibu)

Norman Podhoretz

Mason Reese

Wendy Williams

 

Team: Rolls Off The Tongue-(theme) People with interesting sounding names

Esteban Volkov (Joker)

Maude Apatow

John Wayne Bobbitt

Young Boozer

Dick Butkus

Bambos Charalambous 

Hopewell Chin'ono

Marlin Fitzwater 

Slinger Francisco (Calypso Musician-Mighty Sparrow)

Norm Hitzges

Jerry Kill

Pops Mensah-Bonsu

Fatos Nano

Mumilaaq Qaqqaq

Socrates Rizzo

Ludwig Scotty

Otis Sistrunk

Anna Smashnova

Bill Tush

Reality Winner

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2 minutes ago, maryportfuncity said:

 

 

I think he'll gather a few other fanciers, dead pooling is the one place he remains at least a borderline celebrity. 

Maybe really difficult to find potential uniques for a main team.Much easier to predict the Drop 40.

 

I was also looking at  picking a celebrity in their 70s who hadn't been picked last year but is on record as being seriously ill however decided against them as couldn't be sure that they were likely to expire within 12 months or not be picked by anyone else.

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Don't feel confident about them but my teams: 
 

Funk Pop a Roll (Music theme team)

Clive Wearing

Dennis Lotis

Cledwyn Jones (Triawd y Coleg)

Burt Bacharach

Randy Jackson 

Phyllis Kinney

Craig Douglas

Rosemary Squires

Wee Willie Harris

Dizzy Reece

Dave Lee 

Mindy Carson

Yoko Ono

Steve Rowland

Chas McDevitt

Leo Caerts 

J. J. Jackson

Steve Lawrence

Cleo Laine

Brian Wilson

Tragic, our Maurice (no theme)

Rolf Harris

Michael Parkinson

Stanley Baxter

William Russell

Ruth Buzzi

Haddon Salt

Joan Plowright

David Graham

Roy Clarke

Oscar Quitak

Jean Marsh

Bill Tidy

Raymond Llewellyn

May Britt

James Bolam

Gene Shalit

Chaim Topol

Colin McDowell

Joseph McGrath

Alan Garner

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54 minutes ago, maryportfuncity said:

Subs

Billy Dib

Ah, I see Maryport didn’t want to claim dibs on that name then. :D 

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1 hour ago, Captain Hemlock said:

Here are my 3 teams. I hope to at least improve upon my dismal tied for 354th place finish in 2022.

 

Team name: Captain Hemlock's Twenty:

Steve McMichael (Joker)

Ady Barkan

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

Jimmy Carter

Mary de Rachewiltz (Poet)

Jules Feiffer 

Frederic Forrest

Louis Gossett Jr.

Polly Holliday

Earl Holliman

Bernard Kalb

William Leuchtenburg

Edie McClurg

Ronnie Milsap

Yoko Ono

 William "The Refrigerator" Perry

 Richard Riordan (Los Angeles Mayor)

Mark Russell

George Schlatter

Gay Talese

 

Rigor Mort Us (a "B" team to Captain Hemlock's Twenty)

Ruth Buzzi (Comedienne-Laugh-In) (Joker)

George Alagiah

Rico Carty

Ronny Cox

Sam Donaldson

Roy Estrada

David Hartman

Whitey Herzog

Daisaku Ikeda

Toby Keith

Mirtha LeGrand

Robert MacNeil

Malachy McCourt 

Dikembe Mutombo 

David Newell 

Sidney Offit

John Okafur (Mr Ibu)

Norman Podhoretz

Mason Reese

Wendy Williams

 

Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't you only allowed one regular team?

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Just now, Salmon Mousse said:

 

Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't you only allowed one regular team?

 

Wrong, there's a general three team limit but they can be all regular, all theme, or a mixture of both.

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Just now, Death Impends said:

 

Wrong, there's a general three team limit but they can be all regular, all theme, or a mixture of both.

 

Well, damn.  I've been undercutting myself.  Certainly could've used a secondary lineup this year.

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3 hours ago, Salmon Mousse said:

 

Well, damn.  I've been undercutting myself.  Certainly could've used a secondary lineup this year.

 

Same here! I thought you could only have one regular team. If I'd known that, then I'd definitely had entered a second team. Ah well.

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7 hours ago, Joey Russ said:

Ah, I see Maryport didn’t want to claim dibs on that name then. :D 

 

 

I know who he is from his fights, especially with Amir Khan. Bit of a long shot, frankly, and he won't count for me because he's a sub and the 20 above him are alive. I've got family in Oz who also discussed the coverage with me when it made the news over there. He could prove a useful hit (only 37) on the DDP if things go to shit and I'm thinking you'll find a few people picked him for main teams and sports theme teams without posting about it too much on the main topics.

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Full teams are list in signature. Regular times-up team sees 5 changes from 2022, with 4 deaths and Otto Rehhagel dropped to the subs bench (not even at first sub, so even the death of Mike Hodges couldn't get him a place). New in this year are Lynn Davies, James Martin, Jan Tomaszewski, M. Emmett Walsh & Paul Young.

 

The "Rons" features 3 new faces, Ronny Cox, Ron Headley & Ronnie Schneider.

 

My new team is Five-minute Bell Ends. These are all people who've rung the five-minute bell at Lords, so are predominantly cricketers, with the odd non-cricketer but 'cricket-adjacent' name. I did intend to enter this last year but never got it together in time, with a couple of names dying in the interim. C'est la mort!

 

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Alright, let's get it done...

 

Derby Dead Pool 2023 The Love Boat

1 Gianluca Vialli (joker)

2 George Alagiah

3 Joe Doering

4 Mutulu Shakur

5 Johnny Ruffo

6 Jeanette Lee

7 Rolf Harris

8 Steve Mongo McMichael

9 Troy Stolz

10 Ryuichi Sakamoto

11 James Whale

12 Mike Sertich - sub for Pope Benedikt XVI

13 Ted Kaczynski

14 Roberta Flack - Sub for Christina Strutt

15 Graham Caveney

16 Jonnie Irwin

17 Chris Snow

18 Frank McGarvey

19 Andrea Gibson

20 Rob Burrow

 

Subs: 

Zoleka Mandela

 

    The B-Team 2023
1    Nigel Starmer-Smith (joker)
2    Teresa Taylor
3    Luis Garavito
4    Roland Griffiths
5    Charlie Bird
6    Mary Louise McLaws
7    Chris Stone
8    Steve Woodmore
9    Franz Beckenbauer
10    Marc Valentine-Morton
11    Michael Tilson Thomas
12    Carolyn Bryant Donham
13    Faye Fantarrow
14    Christopher Fowler
15    Menahem Pressler
16    Andy Taylor
17    Arash Sadeghi
18    Haris Ibrahim
19    Simon Cowell (SOS Wildlife)
20    Jango Edwards
    
Subs:    
    Henry Kissinger
    Gordon McQueen
 

   (THEME) Just in case
1    Vladimir Putin (joker)
2    General Evgeny Nikiforov
3    Alexej Nawalny
4    Ramzan Kadyrov
5    Yevgeny Prigozhin
6    Sergei Shoigu
7    Sergei Surovikin
8    Dmitry Medvedev
9    Leonid Pasechnik
10    Yevgeny Balitsky
11    Denis Pushilin
12    Sergey Aksyonov
13    Alexander Dugin
14    Patriarch Kirill
15    Roman Abramowich
16    Aleksandr Lukashenko
17    Andrey Mordvichev
18    Valery Gerasimov
19    Alexander Bortnikov
20    Igor Sechin
 

I assume one name still needs to find approval of the other committee members.

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TJS for 2023:

 

Gianluca Vialli JOKER

George Alagiah

Carolyn Bryant

Jimmy Carter

Philip Casson

Simon Cowell

Roberta Flack

Johnny Gilbert

Rolf Harris

Clarence "Frogman" Henry

Jonnie Irwin

Steve McMichael

Napoleon XIV

Linda Nolan

Stu Phillips

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Andy Taylor

Michael Tilson Thomas

Harrison Ruffin Tyler

James Whale

 

Philip Casson directed about 40% of The Muppet Show episodes (as well as 171 EastEnders episodes). The other Muppet Show director died in 2021 and would've QOed, so hopefully Casson does the same.

Stu Phillips did a lot of TV theme music - Knight Rider, Battlestar Galactica, etc. Discovered him while reading Ronnie Spector's book as he was also the Ronettes' original producer. Was amazed he was still alive given the description of him in the book (nice guy, but produced groups like it was still 1955) felt like someone who died in the 90s!

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Here's mine:

Gianluca Vialli (JOKER)
Princess Bajrakitiyabha
Rob Burrow
Roberta Flack
Eric Lamaze
Jonnie Irwin
Steve McMichael
George Alagiah
Frank McGarvey
Nick Anderton
Simon Cowell (WIldlife)
Mutulu Shakur
Andy Taylor
Jimmy Calderwood
Nigel Starmer-Smith
Ryuichi Sakamoto
James Whale
Kate Keltie
Natalie Fornasier

Tongo

 

Only one team this year

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^ FWIW Natalie Fornasier has been DQed by the committee for not having sufficient social media following. So the first sub for any Fornasier pickers would be going in.

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OK, here's the disappointing follow-up to DQSP's record-breaking year:

 

Gianluca Vialli (joker)
Mark Stokes
Joe Doering
Jonnie Irwin
Johnny Ruffo
Dikembe Mutombo
Adrian Sutton
Jeanette Lee
Steve McMichael
George Alagiah
Frank McGarvey
Roberto Dinamite
Chris Stone
Simon Cowell
Ryuchi Sakamoto
James Whale
Denny Crum
Frank Field
Bill Steel
Rolf Harris

 

I think Chris Stone and Denny Crum are the only two picks not previously discussed on the forum, Stone probably my only shot at a unique and even then I'd be surprised.

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It seems that Brazillian World Cup forwards are the new black.

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Just now, Commtech Sio Bibble said:

Is there any idea when the website is likely to update.

 

2022 will have the final update (year in review) tomorrow. 2023 teams typically are up around two weeks in? Will keep updated as we get closer.

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35 minutes ago, Spade_Cooley said:

I think Chris Stone and Denny Crum are the only two picks not previously discussed on the forum, Stone probably my only shot at a unique and even then I'd be surprised.

 

Knew about both but only picked Crum... so, at very least, we've screwed each other out of a possible 4 points there.  Figured Crum would end up a relatively useless 6-pointer but I just couldn't let go of him as a pick.  Will post and analyze my full team after the morning workout.

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