Derby Dead Pool 2018

[gcreptile 10,972]

Alright, not at home so I try to give you my teams from memory. I'm on mobile, so this is a post in progress.

 

Theme Team: Going Down in Down Under (Australia and New Zealand)

1. John "Cocksy" Cocks - joker

2. Vanessa Goodwin

3. Stuart Fraser

4. Kevin "Chalky" Carr

5. Mike Willesee

6. Ted Mack

7. Olivia Newton-John

8. Blazo Vuksanovic

9. David Cervinski

10. Grant Goldman (for Cas Willow)

11. Donna Penny

12. Sara Chivers

13. Peter Thomson

14. Clive James

15. Jeanne Little

16. Conway Savage

17. Barry Du Bois

18. Jessica Falkholt

19. Tommy Raudonikis

20. Thomas Keneally

 

The B-Team

1. Morgan Tsvangirai - joker

2. Charlotte Rae

3. Satoru Anzaki

4. Johnny Hubbard

5. Vanessa Goodwin

6. Dilip Kumar

7. Bobby Zarin

8. Philomena Lynott

9. Dawn Wilson

10. Anna Pavord

11. Franco Zeffirelli

12. Jean-Louis Trintignant

13. Denis Goldberg

14. Patrick Cryne

15. Peter Lorimer

16. Kathleen Blanco

17. Genesis P-Orridge

18. Nicholas Edwards

19. Vanessa LaFaye

20. Lindy Remigino

 

The Love Boat

1. Marieke Vervoort - joker

2. Shalom Ouanounou

3. Thomas H. Monson (for Derek Dudley)

4. Tiffany Youngs

5. Devin Lima

6. Dean Francis

7. Leah Bracknell

8. Thuy Thanh Truong

9. Sara Chivers

10. Liam Miller

11. Tessa Jowell

12. Hector Timerman

13. John McCain

14. Sumner Redstone (for Cas Willow)

15. Pauline Maroney

16. Nobby Stiles

17. Fernando Ricksen

18. Emma Hannigan

19. Rayya Elias

20. Matt Cappotelli

 

[Joey Russ 7,227]

10 hours ago, Going Underground said:

Happy new year guys. Not sure il’ll ever top my 5th place of 2015  again but here it goes. I’m hoping Jordan isn’t spinning us a yarn regarding her mother’s health.

 

Team: Going Underground 

 

Linda Nolan JOKER
Amy Price (Katy Price mother)
Leah Bracknall (Actress)
Paul Madeley (Ex Footballer)
Eric Sun (Facebook Tech)
Ian Toothill (conquered Everest)
Vanessa Goodwin (Politician)
Lil Wayne (Rapper)
Bill Heine (Radio)

Patrick Cryne (Businessman)
King Salman of Saudi

Liam Miller (Footballer)

Satoru Anzaki (Businessman)
Val Kilmer (Actor)

Dean Francis (Boxer)

Tommy Raudonikis (Rugby)
John McCain (US Senator)
David DiChiera (Composer)
Charlotte Rae (Actress)

Jose Jose (Mexican Singer)

Eric Sun died back on the 23rd of November but it wasn’t announced till Christmas. (Near the end of the article). 

[gcreptile 10,972]

Random comments and clarifications: 

The Les Mutrie of 2018: Derek Dudley ("history doesn't repeat itself but it rhymes"). Sadly, already dead in 2017.

The Mao Kobayashi of 2018 - Thuy Thanh Truong, however her BBC profile is from 2015.

My biggest gamble, such a DDT pick: Shalom Ouanounou.

"My few remaining possible uniques are probably shared with DDT": Hector Timerman

And I thought John Cocksy Cocks might have been unique...

Marieke Vervoort: 26pts joker or 32pts?

 

Also, I have three lesbians on my team. Abigail Kawananakoa could have been the fourth.

[Garn2 34]

Not expecting much at all.

 

Team Name: Poochie Died On The Way Back To His Home Planet

 

Joker (Pick 1): Leah Bracknell

Pick 2: Bill Heine

Pick 3: Marieke Vervoort

Pick 4: Rayya Elias

Pick 5: DJ Casper

Pick 6: Dean Francis

Pick 7: John McCain

Pick 8: Devin Lima

Pick 9: Stefan Karl Stefansson

Pick 10: Bobby Zarin

Pick 11: Paul Alcock

Pick 12: John Bain (Total Biscuit)

Pick 13: Jose Jose

Pick 14: Greg Gilbert

Pick 15: Linda Nolan

Pick 16: Patrick Cryne

Pick 17: Olivia Newton-John

Pick 18: Kamala

Pick 19: Tessa Jowell

Pick 20: Liam Miller

 

Reserve Pick(s): Denis Goldberg, Lindy Remigino, Ami Brown

 

 

[Handrejka 1,904]

These are my first two teams, both themes.

 

Team 1 -  From Z- Cars to Dead Stars?

 

Theme - Z-Cars actors

 

Frank Windsor 
Joss Ackland
Geoffrey Hayes
Brian Blessed
Kenneth Cope
George A Cooper
Mark Eden
Barbara Shelley
Henry Woolf
Colin Jeavons
Heather Chasen
Bill Treacher
Yvonne Gilan
Windsor Davies
Doreen Keogh
Dudley Sutton
Geoffrey Palmer
Paul Darrow (joker)
Frank Williams
Carmel Mcsharry

 

Subs - Jean Boht, Milton Johns,  Jeremy Kemp

 

 

Team 2 - Grim Reaper, we're needed.

Theme Avengers (TV series) actors

 

Fenella Fielding
Gerald Harper
Peter Wyngarde
Honor Blackman
Bernard Cribbins (joker)
Liz Fraser
William Gaunt
Jaqueline Pearce
Peter Bowles
Freddie Jones
John Savident
Harry Landis
John Bluthal
Julian Chagrin
Juliet Hamer
Diana Rigg
Linda Thorsen
Julian Glover
Caroline Blakiston
Glynn Edwards

 Subs - Tony Caunter, Donald Sutherland, Anneke Wills

 

Then, inspired by conversations in this thread I submitted a third theme team

 

 

Team Name - Where's me coffin?

 Theme - Carla Lane Sitcom Stalwarts

 Geoffrey Palmer
 Peter Byrne
 Jean Boht
 Rita Tushingham
 Prunella Scales
 Polly James
 Ronald Forfar
 Carmel McSharry
 Wendy Craig
 Bruce Montague
 John Nettles
 Nerys Hughes
 Peter McEnery
 Victor McGuire
 Eileen Pollock
 Damaris Hayman
 Elizabeth Estensen
 Michael Angelis
 Myra Taylor
 Giles Watling

 Subs - Pamela Power, Bill Kenwright, Clive Francis

[maryportfuncity 10,646]

 

 

Carkers Convention 2018

Dean Francis –JOKER

Paul Alcock

Colin Baddiel

Leah Bracknell

Johnny Clegg

Patrick Cryne

Raya Elias

Denis Goldberg

Billy Graham

Eric Harrison

Robin Herd

Tessa Jowell

John McCain

Catherine Nevin

Olivia Newton John

Linda Nolan

Stefan Karl Stefansson

Nobby Stiles

Marieke Vervoort

Tiffany Youngs

 

Subs

Shane MacGowan

Morgan Tsvangerai

[Going Underground 74]

29 minutes ago, Joey Russ said:

Eric Sun died back on the 23rd of November but it wasn’t announced till Christmas. (Near the end of the article). 

 

ah bugger thanks for the info

 

Will my sub Matt Cappotelli come into play?

[Joey Russ 7,227]

Since it’s early days, I believe he will. 

[msc 18,472]

1 hour ago, gcreptile said:

Meh..  Thomas H. Monson for me.

 

Dudley's death brings Masekela directly into the B-team. Sorry about your lack of unique joker, YoungWillz! Blame the guy who... did he even play an actual game for Villa?

[msc 18,472]

Here is Pan Breed 2018. It wont win, it's just here for the fun and games as it were.

 

Pan Breed

1. John McCain

2. Kathleen Blanco

3. Patrick Cryne

4. Rayya Elias

5. Leah Bracknell (JOKER)

6. Greg Gilbert

7. Philomena Lynott

8. Ian Toothill

9. Vanessa Goodwin (Australian politician)

10. Catherine Nevin

11. Carl Piddington

12. Tessa Jowell

13. Matt Cappotelli

14. Stefan Karl Stefansson

15. Liam Miller

16. Cas Willow

17. Satoru Anzaki

18. Pete Frates

19. Steffan Lewis

20. Devin Lima

 

subs

Pete Stokes - the boxing trainer

Dean Francis

Fernando Ricksen

[DevonDeathTrip 2,358]

35 minutes ago, gcreptile said:

 

My biggest gamble, such a DDT pick: Shalom Ouanounou.

"My few remaining possible uniques are probably shared with DDT": Hector Timerman

 

Didn't pick the former and the latter didn't make the final cut.  Will Timerman be a unique pick?   All I can say is beware of the Pelican 

[Spade_Cooley 9,527]

You thought there were too many wrestling theme teams in recent years? This time around there's approximately 2,793 line-ups based around sex offenders.

[gcreptile 10,972]

2 minutes ago, DevonDeathTrip said:

Didn't pick the former and the latter didn't make the final cut.  Will Timerman be a unique pick?   All I can say is beware of the Pelican 

Yes, the Pelican is always interesting.

[YoungWillz 21,046]

9 minutes ago, msc said:

 

Dudley's death brings Masekela directly into the B-team. Sorry about your lack of unique joker, YoungWillz! Blame the guy who... did he even play an actual game for Villa?

FFS!

[Joey Russ 7,227]

1 minute ago, Spade_Cooley said:

You thought there were too many wrestling theme teams in recent years? This time around there's approximately 2,793 line-ups based around sex offenders.

Honestly not that surprised considering the impact that Harvey Weinstein had on this year...

[Deathray 2,940]

5 minutes ago, Spade_Cooley said:

You thought there were too many wrestling theme teams in recent years? This time around there's approximately 2,793 line-ups based around sex offenders.

 

I was originally going to send a sex offender theme team instead if shot in the dark as well. Glad I didn't with that many....

[msc 18,472]

Other teams

Here's Who You Could Have Won

(the reserve team of - even more so - no hopers)

 

1. Jessica Falkholt - yes, gcreptile, I couldn't resist her for the B-team...

2. Marieke Vervoort (JOKER)

3. Fernando Ricksen

4. Dean Francis

5. Kevin Carr - the All Blacks logistics guy with cancer

6. Pete Stokes - who I wanted to pick for my main team, but unsure of the obit

7. Hugh Masekela

8. David Cervinski

9. Peter Overton - footballer

10. Kevin McAllister - Witney Carson's father in law

11. Ami Brown

12. Paul Alcock

13. Mike Pintek - KDKA radio host

14. Angus Sinclair

15. Bernie DeKoven

16. Lindy Remigino

17. Charlotte Rae

18. Lady Mary Wilson - Pan Breed favourite

19. Chris Mortensen

20. Johnny Hubbard - charon's Rangers tip

 

 

 

And the shite theme team....

 

 

And Yet You Had Space for Sinead O'Connor

THEME - people who have never been picked for the DDP before, according to the DDP website. The more actually famous the better.

 

1. Alan Ayckbourn (JOKER)
2. J Aelwyn Roberts - Welsh folklorist and priest
3. David Kenneth Fieldhouse - big name historian
4. David Berglas - magician
5. Edith MacArthur - Scottish actress
6. Steve Ditko - comics
7. Dick Taverne - famous Labour MP splitter
8. Lawrence Gordon Clark - directed the BBC Ghost Story for Christmas series
9. William Goldman - author
10. Joan Lingard - author
11. Jean Carnahan - US politician, won her husband's election when he died in a plane crash.
12. Penelope Lively - author
13. Kenneth Ives - actor
14. Brian Cosgrove - Danger Mouse
15. Vernon Dobtcheff - "Patron Saint of Actors", also in Father Ted and Dr Who
16. George Chakiris - West Side Story
17. Janet Henfrey - actress, Dr Who, other stuff
18. Judy Parfitt
19. Guy Playfair - investigated the Enfield Poltergeist
20. Jehan Sadat - Sadat's widow

 

subs

Michael Frayn, Josef Venglos, Sir Alan Beith (Lib Dem)

[Spade_Cooley 9,527]

Ditko and Dobtcheff having never been picked before are both surprises.

[Joey Russ 7,227]

Honestly not expecting to win this time, especially since I idiotically put Linda Nolan the same way I did Al-Baghdadi last year, and that didn’t do me so well. Especially since I could’ve easily put Nobby Stiles in instead. 

I think I might have a few too many gambles this time, but I’m interested to see how well this does. 

Day In The Death 2018

Pick 1: Marieke Vervoort (joker) 
Pick 2: Leah Bracknell
Pick 3: Matt Cappotelli 
Pick 4: John Cocks 
Pick 5: Patrick Cryne
Pick 6: Rayya Elias
Pick 7: Jacqui Forster
Pick 8: Dean Francis
Pick 9: Stuart Fraser
Pick 10: Greg Gilbert 
Pick 11: Vanessa Goodwin 
Pick 12: Clive James
Pick 13: Tessa Jowell
Pick 14: John McCain
Pick 15: Liam Miller
Pick 16: Linda Nolan
Pick 17: Fernando Ricksen
Pick 18: Mark E Smith
Pick 19: Stefan Karl Stefansson
Pick 20: Morgan Tsvangirai

 

And my much more interesting B Team, named The Whipping Posts.

Pick 1: Olivia Newton-John (joker) 
Pick 2: John Andretti 
Pick 3: Hal Blaine 
Pick 4: Kathleen Blanco 
Pick 5: DJ Casper 
Pick 6: Johnny Clegg
Pick 7: Tim Curley 
Pick 8: Oliver Dragojevic 
Pick 9: Steve Gleason
Pick 10: Jose Jose 
Pick 11: Steffan Lewis
Pick 12: Peter Lorimer
Pick 13: Nobuhiko Obayashi
Pick 14: T Boone Pickens 
Pick 15: Tom Raudonikis 
Pick 16: Holly Rowe 
Pick 17: Bernard Tapie 
Pick 18: Thuy Thanh Truong 
Pick 19: Cas Willow 
Pick 20: Billy Wright Jr (Master chef heartthrob) 

 

 

[msc 18,472]

Ditko was the inspiration for the team, in fact. At one point I thought it was going to be just Trelles and Josip Elic types.

[Death Impends 7,975]

Thomas Jefferson Survives

1. Marieke Vervoort (JOKER)
2. Laura Barry
3. Leah Bracknell
4. Matt Cappotelli
5. Johnny Clegg
6. Patrick Cryne
7. Rayya Elias
8. Dean Francis
9. Greg Gilbert
10. Cynthia Heimel
11. Tessa Jowell
12. John McCain
13. Liam Miller
14. Charlotte Rae
15. David Shutts
16. Stefan Karl Stefansson
17. Nobby Stiles
18. Ian Toothill
19. Morgan Tsvangirai
20. Tiffany Youngs

SUBS: Sophie Sabbage, Fernando Ricksen, Valerie Harper

 

Bobby Zarin's Mack the Knifed

1. Bobby Zarin (JOKER)
2. Neave Brown
3. George H. W. Bush
4. Alva Campbell
5. DJ Casper
6. Denis Goldberg
7. Bill Heine
8. Robin Herd
9. Jose Jose
10. Bruce Lietzke
11. Peter Lorimer
12. Ted Mack
13. Olivia Newton-John
14. Jalal Mansur Nuriddin
15. Nobuhiko Obayashi
16. Naomi Parker-Fraley
17. Genesis P-Orridge
18. Lindy Remigino
19. Bernard Tapie
20. Budi Tek

SUBS: Heinz Mack, Morton Sobell, Francoise Gilot

 

[Death Impends 7,975]

I actually dreamt last night I was viewing this thread, and the only thing I remember from the dream was Tsvangirai was the B-Team's joker.* Freaky...

 

*gcreptile's B-Team, that is

[gcreptile 10,972]

So Tiffany Youngs is this year's cult pick? The Rayya Elias of 2018 (sorry)?

[themaninblack 2,112]

11 minutes ago, Spade_Cooley said:

Ditko and Dobtcheff having never been picked before are both surprises.

Actor who played the first character in Dr Who to mention the Time Lords, don't you know! Did have him on one of my long lost long lists...

[gcreptile 10,972]

I also have to confess something. I now know where DJ Casper hangs out on the internet. He has a vlog. Link coming up.

 

Edit: Can't find something suitable now. Anyway, google "Willie Casper Perry" or"mrctheslideman". He hosts "Classics in the dark".

 

While he looks ok, the statistics alone would still make me pick him.