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BBC obit for the two DDP teams that picked her Given her multiple hospital stays in recent months, definitely one stricken from a fair few 2017 longlists. Aye, sure we wont be the only ones to have assumed "2017 or later". Still, fortune favours the brave Poochie, as someone once said.

Graham Hawkins, who managed Wolves to the top flight in 1983 (and to relegation in 1984), dead at 70.

She gave it a shot, but dead.

He's still living off the £1m Leicester gave him. You could say he's learning fast. Trouble with Pearson is its hard to tell if he's been suspended due to getting caught in this Telegraph sting, or if its just because he's shit. Could go either way.

I was thinking crap ex-international manager currently doing shit at a top flight Midlands club, if I had to think of people daft enough to fall for this.

Word is 5 English managers, and 2 ex-international managers. If currently working in England, thats a very short shortlist of suspects!

The final word on Ryan Buell (not deceased). What a cunt.

and Shaun Woodward was MP for Whitny which is the only way they would ever get a Labour MP. Was he MP for Whitney because he thought she would always love him? Nah, he wanna dance with somebody.

I only know of a few NASCAR drivers off the top of my head: Dale Earnhardt, his son, Richard Petty (thanks to being name checked in Rap is Crap, Curt Hennig's WCW song), and perhaps that Adamowicz chap you have on the DDP if he counts. NASCAR gets sod all coverage here to my knowledge. whereas the NHL and NBA have their fans, and the NFL seems to grow in support every year.

and Shaun Woodward was MP for Whitny which is the only way they would ever get a Labour MP. It was Shaun Woodward - even then, it's still debatable!

Shaun Woodward didn't. There is a Wiki list of politicians who "crossed the floor" but its badly written as they've included folk who had the whip removed from them for stuff like Nadine Dorries. Quentin Davies jumped from Tory to Labour in 2007 and didn't resign either.

Nice are in Europe this season, but back in November 2011, they were in the relegation zone in the French Ligue 1. So they sacked their manager and replaced him with Rene Marsiglia. Marsiglia kept them up by 4 points, but he was subsequently sacked because they saw a chance to sign Claude Puel. Anyhow, Marsiglia dead aged 57 after long illness.

Rewatching Yes Minister thanks to the recent BBC2 repeats. One of the best episodes has a sort of postmodern edge through this site. "We've found your name on a Death List, Minister."

Without giving the man an ego, it does remind me of Sir Creeps "only dead people obit" comment. Although it does feel sometimes like some editors read this forum, with some of the obscure folk who get QOs these days. Which brings up the modern DDP gamble: do you announce on the forum someone obscure you found being ill, and almost secure them a QO, or do you keep quiet on the offchance its unique and hope for the best? With that and the potential new points system, it's going to be more of a tactical game to my mind next year.

Head to head with Terry Jones, then Be bad taste to go as far as starting a poll, though, eh? Not as bad taste as someone saying "he previously suffered from being related to David Baddiel", mind you.

Daily Mail, even. This puts the gimme I stumbled across the other night direct into my draft team. Bound to get a Mail obit at this rate.

Of Course he will, the man is indestructible if there was a nuclear blast the only things that would survive would be Keith Richards and the cockroaches and probably Zsa Zsa as well, it is a miracle he has lived as long as he has given the amount of booze and Drugs he has consumed over the last 40 to 50 years. Dont forget Stephen Hawking and Ozzy Osbourne they would probably be left. Aye, but we'd have included Lemmy in that list a year ago I'd have still included him on that list on Boxing Day last year!

There's a time of year effect which would also support your prediction. On the shortest period, never say never. Truly, a day to remember.

There'll be an 8th hit by last week of October/first week of November. My entirely unscientific reasoning is that there has been three gaps of 70-80 odd days between successive hits so far this year (between Schmidt and Vigoda, Michelmore and Ali, and Ali and Havelange) which would take us to that time period. I like patterns in things. Otherwise, the longest drought between hits in the time I've visited the site was 152 days in 2011! (The second longest was 105 days, also in 2011 - there was a period of 257 days in which Betty Ford was the only Deathlister to snuff it.) Shortest time period between hits I've witnessed, on the other hand, will never, ever be beaten. 9 hours! Just musing.

Brexit windfall money.

If I were Tory leader, I'd be well aware of what tends to happen to party leaders who have the option of an early election and then don't go for it. As for Witney, I'd expect some unwinding of the large incumbency factor, but its a comfortable Tory seat, and we're in a comfortably Tory government incumbency period. For most of its lifetime as a seat, it's been held by two men with high profiles - Cameron and Douglas Hurd. However, when it was contested by Shaun Woodward in 1997, during the Labour landslide, it still maintained 43% of the vote for the Tory party, so that's pretty much the low bar for them. Now, without a "name" candidate, but with comfortable government incumbency, I think the Tories will get 50-55% of the by-election vote. UKIP, I think, will stagnate somewhat - who needs to vote for them now they have Brexit, when they harry the main parties to actually put it into action? Plus they no longer have that "awfully nice man" Mr Farage. Poisoned chalice for the new leader there. The English Democrats and Greens are also runs. Which leaves Labour and the Lib Dems fighting it for 2nd. The Lib Dems seem overly buoyant about it, but then, Lib Dems tend to be hugely overoptimistic at the best of times. At a guess, Labour 2nd, Lib Dems 3rd but within 3 percent of each other (on c. 13-16%), UKIP (if they run) around 7%, and everyone else fighting for their lost deposits.

David Baddiel's dad is suffering from Pick's disease,a fast acting form of Alzheimer's.

He was on the long list with a large "?" around his QO capabilities. (Also known as my Deathrace short list, then...)

Anyone who was thinking of a sneaky DDP pick next year with Guy Poirier, Celine Dion's brother in law with metastatic bone cancer... He's dead.

There have been whispers about Jones's health for some time now though... Note - aphasia is often reversible, Primary progressive aphasia is not. If caused by cancer or a serious stroke, the outlook is very grim. What whispers did you hear?I only heard he had cancer a few years back and was needing cue cards during the Monty Python 2014 tour. That the 2014 event, at the time, was likely to be the last "due to Terry's health" (not specific). And today's news is confirmation of open secret among some journos.