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These are my three theme teams for 2019.

 

#1 Hits

 

A theme team of people who've had a record peak at #1 in the UK Singles Chart (either solo or as part of a group).

Last year's position is given in brackets, where applicable.

  1. (2) Nobby Stiles (England World Cup Squad '70)
  2. (4) Olivia Newton-John
  3. (new) Richard Tandy (Electric Light Orchestra)
  4. (new) Peter Tork (Monkees)
  5. (5) Vera Lynn
  6. (13) Tony Baylis (Wurzels)
  7. (new) Chris Farlowe
  8. (new) Willie Nelson (USA for Africa)
  9. (new) Little Jimmy Osmond
  10. (10) Doris Day
  11. (15) Jane Morgan
  12. (new) Anita Doth (2 Unlimited)
  13. (re) Rolf Harris
  14. (7) Harry Belafonte
  15. (new) Larry Cunningham (Floaters)
  16. (new) Derrick 'Johnny' Henry (Commonwealth Band)
  17. (new) Phil Creswick (Band Aid II)
  18. (new) Windsor Davies
  19. (new) David Graham (Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band)
  20. (new) Demi Lovato

This team had four hits in 2018: Aretha Franklin (8), Ray Thomas (9), Abi Ofarim (12), and Charles Aznavour (16). Survivors dropped from the team are: Chas Smash (1), DJ Casper (3), Chris Rea (6), Terry Jacks (11), Dave Edmunds (14), Sinéad O'Connor (17), Billy Connolly (18), Peter Kay (19), and Lil Wayne (20).

 

 

Unpersons

 

A theme team of Big Brother housemates (including Celebrity Big Brother and other spin-offs).

Last year's position is given in brackets, where applicable.

  1. (14) John McCririck (CBB3)
  2. (11) Danniella Westbrook (CBB17)
  3. (1) Linda Nolan (CBB13)
  4. (2) Jackie Stallone (CBB3)
  5. (6) Julie Goodyear (CBB10)
  6. (8) Ken Morley (CBB15)
  7. (re) Rebekah Shelton (BB10)
  8. (5) Lionel Blair (CBB13)
  9. (3) Bruce Jones (CBB12)
  10. (9) Gary Busey (CBB14)
  11. (7) Ron Atkinson (CBB12)
  12. (new) Amanda Barrie (CBB21)
  13. (4) Marco Pierre White Jr (BB17)
  14. (10) Lauren Harries (CBB12)
  15. (new) Kim Woodburn (CBB19)
  16. (13) Germaine Greer (CBB3)
  17. (new) The Situation (CBB10)
  18. (new) Rodrigo Alves (CBB22)
  19. (new) Roxanne Pallett (CBB22)
  20. (new) Lewis Flanagan (BB19)

This team had no hits in 2018. Dropped from the team are: Alexander O'Neal (12), Michael Barrymore (15), Jackiey Budden (16), Tina Malone (17), James Cosmo (18), Dennis Rodman (19), and Sarah Harding (20).

 

 

Miscarriage of Popjustice

 

A one-off theme team of people who've had a single nominated for the Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize (either solo or as part of a group).

  1. Greg Gilbert (Delays)
  2. Petula Clark
  3. Sarah Harding (Girls Aloud)
  4. Jessie J
  5. Andy Brown (Lawson)
  6. Tom Chaplin (Keane)
  7. Chris Wolstenholme (Muse)
  8. Clare Maguire
  9. Adam Anderson (Daggers, Hurts)
  10. Neil Tennant (Pet Shop Boys)
  11. Oritsé Williams (JLS)
  12. Michelle Heaton (Liberty X)
  13. Paul Cattermole (S Club)
  14. Will Young
  15. Will Gregory (Goldfrapp)
  16. Craig Powell (Uniting Nations)
  17. Lily Allen
  18. Mutya Buena (Sugababes)
  19. Tracey Thorn
  20. Natalia Kills (aka Verbalicious)

 

 

Those were my three theme teams for 2018.

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The Love Boat:

1 Fernando Ricksen - Joker
2 Paul Volcker
3 Sutopo Purwo Nugroho
4 Chris Doleman
5 Rodion GA
6 Andrew Fairlie
7 Gerard Basset
8 Johnny Clegg
9 Andrew McGahan
10 David Smith (paralympian)
11 Kathleen Blanco
12 Fatima Ali
13 Lloyd Klein
14 Jean-Louis Trintignant
15 Jacci Woodcock
16 Samula Anoa'i
17 Genesis P-Orridge
18 Billy Clayton
19 Lars Hogh
20 Greg Gilbert

 

 

The B-Team:

1 Deborah James (joker)

2 Edmund Capon

3 Pauline Maroney

4 Bob Dole

5 Joe Kadenge

6 Denis Goldberg

7 Barbara Hammer

8 George Alagiah

9 Bill Heine

10 Nick Philippoussis

11 John McCricick

12 Sacheen Littlefeather

13 Lee Kerslake

14 Chris Wilson

15 Dewayne Johnson

16 Johnny Harris

17 Keith Cass

18 Bill Freehan

19 Bob Hawke

20 Tommy Donbavand

 

Theme Team: Coda

1 Sir Peter Jonas - joker
2 George Crumb
3 Franco Zeffirelli
4 Seiji Ozawa
5 Christoph Von Dohnanyi
6 Michael Gielen
7 Kato Havas
8 Colin Tilney
9 John Williams
10 James Levine
11 Sofia Gubaidulina
12 André Previn
13 La Monte Young
14 Mikis Theodorakis
15 Alfred Brendel
16 Anne Parsons
17 Theo Adam
18 Murray Perahia
19 Dame Janet Baker
20 Toshi Ichiyanagi

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Standards have really dropped when a Jonas Brother gets Knighted

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My Teams this year:

Life Flies By So Fast:

1. Leah Bracknell (joker)
2. Johnny Clegg
3. Clive James
4. Fernando Ricksen
5. Nobby Stiles
6. Jill Gascoine
7. John Cocks
8. Jason Becker
9. John Hume
10. John McCririck
11. Valerie Harper
12. Chris Rea
13. Andy Fordham
14. Steave Gleason
15. Bernard Tapie
16. George Alagiah
17. Kathleen Blanco
18. Kamala (wrestler)
19. Stuart Fraser (guitarist)
20. Steffan Lewis (wales) politician with cancer

 

I Hope You Had The Time Of Your Life:
1. Lee Kerslake (Ozzy Osbourne drummer) (joker)
2. Shane MacGowan
3. Noel Conway
4. Bill Turnbull
5. Bart Starr (former footballer)
6. Jimmy Greaves
7. Mike Willesee
8. Tekashi69 (rapper)
9. Denis Goldberg
10. Meat Loaf
11. Christy Dignam (Aslan singer)
12. Monica Vitti
13. George Fernandes (indian politician)
14. Violeta Chamorro (politician)
15. Willie Wood (former Green Bay Packers football player)
16. Otis Taylor (former KS Chiefs football player)
17. Alberto Fujimori
18. Greg Gilbert (British indie musician)
19. John Andretti (racecar driver)
20. Tim Conway (American actor)

 

 

theme team: 'Cause I'm A Creep, I'm A Weirdo.

Ian Watkins (Lostprophets singer) (joker)
Kevin Spacey
Ck Louis
Harvey Weinstein
Jacob Hoggard (lead singer of Canadian band Hedley)
Donald Trump
Thom Yorke
Aziz Ansari
Al Franken
James Toback
Michael Fallon
Bill Cosby
Roman Polanski
Woody Allen
R. Kelly
Jian Gomeshi
Garry Glitter
Larry Nassar
Brett Kavanaugh
James Levine

 

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I won’t reveal my main team till after the final deadline, but as a treat, here’s my B Team, The Whipping Posts: 

  1. John “Cocksy” Cocks (joker)

  2. Gary Bigeni

  3. Spencer Bohren

  4. Christy Dignam

  5. John Dugan

  6. Bill Freehan

  7. Jorie Graham

  8. Larry Langford

  9. Emily Levine

  10. Shane MacGowan

  11. Marijane Meaker

  12. Walter Mzembi

  13. Willie Nelson

  14. T Boone Pickens

  15. Ayatollah Isa Qassim

  16. Harry Reid

  17. Doug Sandom

  18. Candi Staton

  19. Chuck Wepner

  20. Chris Wilson

 

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3 minutes ago, Lard Bazaar said:

Paul Di’Anno interesting pick!

Wheelchair bound and hospitalised earlier this year.

 

Really a complete wildcard pick!

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Wow! These are some great lists! Everyone has done their homework. This game is truly the gold standard of dead pools.

 

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I want some sleep before posting Pan Breed, but here's a un spoilery Theme Team:

 

THEME TEAM

Whatever's Written on your Death (That's All That Matters)

THEME - People who, should they die in 2019, I'd like to see a Spade Cooley obit for.

 

Harley Race (joker) -

Stan Cosgrove - Shergar's doctor

Dietrich Weise - The German football coach

Brian Glanville  - sports journo

Hugh McIlvanney - legendary sports writer

Anne Perry - murderer turned author

Arnold Yarrow- actor

Lawrence Gordon Clark - director of the Ghost Stories for Christmas

Vernon Dobtcheff

David Kenneth Fieldhouse - historian

Aaron Beck - CBT guy

Dick Taverne - politicoo

Derren Nesbitt - alcoholic wife beating actor

Sir Michael Atiyah

Donald Pelmear - aging actor

Piper Laurie - Carrie's mum

Andrew Davies - the TV writer

Lorraine Warren - ghost hunter

Andre Maranne - French actor, Pink Panther etc

David Berglas - magician

subs

Ignacio Trelles

James Garbutt

David H Murdock

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7 minutes ago, Joey Russ said:

I won’t reveal my main team till after the final deadline, but as a treat, here’s my B Team, The Whipping Posts: 

  1. John “Cocksy” Cocks (joker)

  2. Gary Bigeni

  3. Spencer Bohren

  4. Christy Dignam

  5. John Dugan

  6. Bill Freehan

  7. Jorie Graham

  8. Larry Langford

  9. Emily Levine

  10. Shane MacGowan

  11. Marijane Meaker

  12. Walter Mzembi

  13. Willie Nelson

  14. T Boone Pickens

  15. Ayatollah Isa Qassim

  16. Harry Reid

  17. Doug Sandom

  18. Candi Staton

  19. Chuck Wepner

  20. Chris Wilson

 

Larry Langford was one I considered too, but I doubt a former mayor of Birmigham, Alabama would get a UK obit.

 

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I will be revealing the contents of my three crumbles in the next 24 hours! delicious I tell ya! ;):D  Yes I am drunk-Happy New Year everyone !I hope 2019 is kind and good to you.

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23 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Wheelchair bound and hospitalised earlier this year.

 

Really a complete wildcard pick!

I’m a big maiden fan but had totally missed this, you could have made a good shout there!

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Just now, Lard Bazaar said:

I’m a big maiden fan but had totally missed this, you could have made a good shout there!

I'm out of likes, but thanks, found it during my researches for my TOTP theme team.

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35 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Wheelchair bound and hospitalised earlier this year.

 

Really a complete wildcard pick!

 

Shit!! One of the first albums i ever bought was 'Killers'.  Fucking brilliant

 

Ousted out for the commercial plane flying nonce that is Bruce Dickenson

 

Stay strong Paul

 

 

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44 minutes ago, Joey Russ said:

I won’t reveal my main team till after the final deadline, but as a treat, here’s my B Team, The Whipping Posts: 

 

 

Fuck me, I wont sleep tonight lad.

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Ah, the big reveal!

 

Prepare to be disappointed.

 

 

Bleaching the Bottom of the Barrel

Main Team

1. Fatima Ali (chef)
2. Gerard Basset (sommelier)
3. Kathleen Blanco (Louisiana Governer)
4. Violeta Chamorro (Nicaraguan President)
5. Johnny Clegg (anti-Apartheid rocker)
6. Tim Conway (actor)
7. Kirk Douglas (Golden Age of Hollywood survivor)
8. Andrew Fairlie (chef)
9. Bob Hawke (Oz PM)
10. Clive James (author and broadcaster)
11. Deborah "Bowelbabe" James (cancer podcaster)
12. Dewayne "Lee" Johnson (Monsanto man)
13. Lee Kerslake (drummer)
14. Andrew McGahan (novelist)
15. Leslie Phillips (posh actor)
16. Genesis P-Orridge (genderless musician)
17. Fernando Ricksen (footballer) [JOKER]
18. Nobby Stiles (World-Cup-winning footballer)
19. Thuy Thanh Truong (entrepreneur)
20. Jean-Louis Trintignant (actor)

 

 

 

Terror of the Vervoorts

B-Team

1. Samula Anoa'i (wrestler) [JOKER]
2. Anna Mae Blessing (evil murderous bitch)
3. Beth Chapman (reality TV wife)
4. Paul Darrow (actor)
5. Greg Gilbert (musician)
6. Ian Holm (star of stage and screen)
7. Dilip Kumar (Bollywood icon)
8. Meat Loaf (singer)
9. Peter Lorimer (footballer)
10. Cathy MacPhail (Scottish author)
11. James Martin (Scottish actor)
12. Wataru Misaka (first non-white NBA player)
13. Stirling Moss (racing driver)
14. Tom Osmond (deaf Osmond brother)
15. Irene Sinclair (really, really, really old Dove model)
16. Julie Strain (model and actress)
17. Bernard Tapie (businessman)
18. Marieke Vervoort (para-athlete)
19. Doddie Weir (rugby player)
20. Ronnie Wood (rock star)

 

 

 

Waiting for a Star to Fall

Stars who have fallen. Literally. To the floor.

1. Moses Ali (Ugandan General)
2. Ginger Baker (drummer)
3. Bob Barker (presenter)
4. Pope Benedict XVI (Pope Emeritus)
5. Lawrence Block (crime writer)
6. Phil Collins (musician)
7. Barry Cryer (writer)
8. Bruce Dern (actor)
9. Ruth Bader Ginsburg (SCOTUS judge)
10. Miloš Jakeš (communist politician)
11. Jim Leavelle (detective)
12. Gina Lollobrigida (actress)
13. Loretta Lynn (country singer)
14. Robert Mugabe (dictator)
15. Linda Nolan (singer and presenter)
16. Francesco Nuti (former actor)
17. Harley Race (wrestler)
18. Harry Reid (senator)
19. Michael Schumacher (racing driver)
20. Mike Willesee (journalist) [JOKER]

 

 

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2 hours ago, Going Underground said:

 

Shit!! One of the first albums i ever bought was 'Killers'.  Fucking brilliant

 

Ousted out for the commercial plane flying nonce that is Bruce Dickenson

 

Stay strong Paul

 

 

Least likely to die on my team if I'm honest. But I thought that about Geoff Emerick in the Hare's....

 

Anyway, I needed a bloke and his name came up....:)

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After 11 years exclusively playing the AO Deadpool, I've taken the leap and fielded a Derby Dead Pool team for 2019.  It is as follows:

 

Fade to Black

 

1. Fatima Ali (Chef & reality show contestant)   (JOKER)

2. Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi (ISIS leader)

3. John Andretti (American race car driver)

4. Samula Anoa'i (wrestler)

5. Kathleen Blanco (Louisiana Governor)

6. Leah Bracknell (Emmerdale actress)

7. Johnny Clegg (British-South African musician)

8. Norm Coleman (U.S. Senator)

9. Christy Dignam (Irish singer)

10. Barry DuBois (Australian designer)

11. Andrew Fairlie (Scottish chef)

12. Greg Gilbert (British singer)

13. Katherine Jackson (Jackson family matriarch)

14. Andrew McGahan (Australian novelist)

15. Fernando Ricksen (Dutch footballer)

16. Michael Robinson (British footballer)

17. Luton Shelton (Jamaican footballer)

18. Bernard Tapie (French businessman)

19. Bill Turnbull (British presenter)

20. Marieke Vervoort (Belgian paralympian)

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SC's main team:  Cancel My Appointments (hoping we have learned some lessons)

  1. Fatima Ali
  2. George Alagiah
  3. John Andretti
  4. Kathleen Blanco
  5. Shirley Boone
  6. Leah Bracknell
  7. Beth Chapman
  8. Tim Conway
  9. Gabrielle D'Allonches
  10. Barry Du Bois
  11. Christy Dignam
  12. Andrew Fairlie
  13. Pete Frates
  14. Mark Howard
  15. Pauline Hunt (**JOKER**)
  16. Lee Kerslake
  17. Andrew McGahan
  18. Fernanado Ricksen
  19. Fred Rister
  20. Bill Turnbull
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    Sir Creep's theme team extraordinaire, the most anticipated theme team around -- GRIS GRIS

     
    1. Jacques Roger Booh-Booh
    2. Bev Bevan
    3. Eddie 'The Eagle' Edwards
    4. Carl-Erik Eriksson (bobsled)
    5. William 'Flavor Flav' Drayton Jr.
    6. Evans Evans
    7. Albert Fujimori Fujimori 
    8. Glen Glenn (Orin Troutman)
    9. Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond
    10. Jose Jose (**JOKER**)
    11. Kris Kristofferson
    12. Dieudonne M'bala M'bala
    13. Nichelle Nichols
    14. Rafiq Nishionovich Nishonov
    15. U.E. 'Pat' Patrick
    16. Pat Patterson (wrestler)
    17. Phil Phillips (Sea of Love)
    18. Chi Chi Rodriguez
    19. Sirhan Sirhan
    20. Tu Youyou   

     

     

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Oh it's going to be a long and horrible first dead pooling day of 2019 watching team after team publish Fatima Ali as their joker.

 

Totally missed her. :banghead:

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28 minutes ago, Grim Up North said:

Oh it's going to be a long and horrible first dead pooling day of 2019 watching team after team publish Fatima Ali as their joker.

 

Totally missed her. :banghead:

That makes two of us! But I also missed (completely forgotten) Michael Robinson which is even worse.

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Time to make folk feel better about who they missed with my bunch. I've spent the past few days watch cult pick after cult pick I didn't even know was ill when I sent this in come in on the Hares pool after submitting these. Although I didn't actually forget Barbara Knox from Cobbles to a Coffin which I thought I had. Anyway not a DDP entry without the ol' corrie theme team.

 

Deathray's Kervorkian Clinic

  1. Leah Bracknell (Joker)
  2. Lee Kerslake
  3. Jean Louis Trintagent
  4. Gordon Banks
  5. Nobby Stiles
  6. Noam Chomsky
  7. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  8. George Alagaih
  9. Salvatore Greco
  10. Prince Philip
  11. Stirling Moss
  12. Clive James
  13. Ruthie Tompson
  14. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  15. Ray Reardon
  16. Albert Finney
  17. June Whitfield DNS
  18. Carl Reiner
  19. Ayn Rand  DNS died in 1982. Jeez.
  20. Loretta Lynn
  21. Mikhail Gorbachev
  22. Pope Benedict
  23. Kieth Richards


Cobbles to a Coffin

  1. Barbara Knox (Joker)
  2. William Roache
  3. June Brown
  4. Patricia Shakesby
  5. Alan Rothwell
  6. Malcolm Hebden
  7. Julie Goodyear
  8. Andrew Sachs 
  9. Ernst Walder 
  10.  Themla Barlow
  11.  Michael Le Vel
  12.  Johnny Briggs
  13.  Timothy West
  14.   Bernard Cribbins
  15.  Amanda Barrie
  16.  Ben Kingsley
  17.  Neville Buswelll
  18. Geofrey Hinsliff
  19. Maureen Lipman
  20. Andrew Sachs
  21. Amanda Barrie
  22. Madge Hindle

 
 
Shot in the Dark

 

first 20 names I could think off.

  1. Enrique Inglesis (Joker)
  2. Kendall Jenner
  3. Clive James
  4. Randy Diamond (Honduran Footballer)
  5. John Cocks (Australian Builder)
  6. Danni Minogue 
  7. Dani Harmer
  8. Lucy Diamond
  9. Ozzy Osbourne
  10. Richard Overton (DNS)
  11. Tommy Shepherd
  12. Barack Obama
  13. Jimmy Carter
  14. Lionel Richie
  15. Nicholas Parsons
  16. Antony Worral Thompson
  17. Gary Glitter
  18. Rolf Harris
  19. Jude Law
  20. Tom Banks (Australian rugby player) 
  21. David Steel
  22. Andy Murray
  23. Liam Gallagher

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Richard Overton is actually dead, Deathray.

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