Derby Dead Pool 2011

[Bert Trautmann 58]

Here's my attempt:

 

1. Neil Young (former footballer)

2. Hitchens

3. Biggs

4. Megrahi

5. Thatcher

6. Sharon

7. Falk

8. Geoffrey Hughes

9. Zsa Zsa

10. Hazel Hawke

11. John Higgins snr.

12. Vasily Aleksanyan

13. José Alencar

14. Yao Defen

15. Tanya Jones

16. Steve Prescott

17. Hawking

18. Aretha Franklin

19. Donald Neilson

20. Clive Derby-Lewis

 

Was hoping Tanya Jones and Neil Young would somehow be unique picks, there's still a chance with Tanya but Neil has gone!

[Octopus of Odstock 2,196]

18. Audrey Totter

Dokes, Tovey, and Totter were all my attempts at uniques.... we'll see.

 

Good pick Totter. She was in the top 40 for me, but she missed out solely on the fact I already had two 90+ illness ravaged picks. I fully suspect that, if it is a UP, to be a successful well-chosen one.

[time 8,599]

As some are declaring their attempts at uniques, I will too:

 

Sir Eldon Wylie Griffiths

Asil Nadir

Gerald Harper

Dudley Simpson

Emile Ford

Mansoor Ali Khan

Nosher Powell

Francis Matthews

 

I reckon my best chances are with Griffiths, Khan and Powell, but as the man said, we'll see.

[DevonDeathTrip 2,358]

Here's my team. I don't care where I finish this time, I'm more concerned that everyone was still alive when the starting gun went off. Having effectively started with a team of 17 last year, I never really stood a chance. My former joker Hakimullah Mehsud's Lazurus like reappearance was the icing on the cake, so he's sacked.

 

1) Dr Ann McPherson - Joker

2) Abdelbaset Al-megrahi

3) Archbishop Faustino Sainz Muñoz

4) Norman Spinrad

5) Tom Lubbock

6) Sara Douglass

7) Colette Adams

8) Charlie Louvin

9) Danny Fiszman

10) John Higgins Snr

11) Mick Karn

12) Jim Stynes

13) Brian Haw

14) Christopher Hitchens

15) Jose Alencar

16) Diana Wynne Jones

17) Brian O'Connor

18) Aretha Franklin

19) Elvis Gordon

20) Nat Lofthouse

Sub: Chris Woodhead

[Octopus of Odstock 2,196]

It should be safe now;

 

The UP attempts are: Chukuwemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Mike Porcaro, Jock Hobbs, Adolfo Suarez and Shashi Kapoor. However I will be very surprised if any of these actually end up being UP's because ironically the year after winning it, I've scrapped the "interesting" and gone for "Ill".

 

Theme Team:

(Having missed, Neil Young, dammit)

 

Lofthouse, Broadbent, L Phillips, Swan, Cox, di Stefano, J Hall, J Neal, D Ellis, Wilby, Turnbull, Borgonovo, C Clarke, P Taylor, Balcazar, Foulkes, Havelange, Flohe, Ablett and Populhar

 

Referee: TheManInBlack

Att: 500

[Handrejka 1,904]

As some are declaring their attempts at uniques, I will too:

 

Sir Eldon Wylie Griffiths

Asil Nadir

Gerald Harper

Dudley Simpson

Emile Ford

Mansoor Ali Khan

Nosher Powell

Francis Matthews

 

I reckon my best chances are with Griffiths, Khan and Powell, but as the man said, we'll see.

 

I hope you strike lucky with Griffiths, he's a nasty little man and I've often thought of putting him in a dead pool but never have.

[Lard Bazaar 3,799]

I'm hoping my uniques are Anthony Nicklinson and Chris Jefferies.

[Canadian Paul 97]

It should be safe now;

 

The UP attempts are: Chukuwemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Mike Porcaro, Jock Hobbs, Adolfo Suarez and Shashi Kapoor. However I will be very surprised if any of these actually end up being UP's because ironically the year after winning it, I've scrapped the "interesting" and gone for "Ill".

 

Theme Team:

(Having missed, Neil Young, dammit)

 

Lofthouse, Broadbent, L Phillips, Swan, Cox, di Stefano, J Hall, J Neal, D Ellis, Wilby, Turnbull, Borgonovo, C Clarke, P Taylor, Balcazar, Foulkes, Havelange, Flohe, Ablett and Populhar

 

Referee: TheManInBlack

Att: 500

 

No luck for you on Kapoor, I had him too. In fact, here's the squad:

 

1. Neil Young (the Manchester City footballer, born 1944)

2. Abdelbaset Ali Al-Megrahi

3. Jack Kyle

4. Ronnie Biggs

5. Vasily Aleksanyan

6. José Alencar

7. Billy Graham (the preacher)

8. Milivoj Ašner

9. Aretha Franklin

10. Steven Hill

11. Shashi Kapoor

12. Otto von Habsburg

13. Hiroo Onoda

14. Jack Ramsay

15. Joe Weider

16. Vo Nguyen Giap

17. Martin White (hurler)

18. Stephen Hawking

19. Ronald H. Coase

20. Yitzhak Shamir

 

I didn't have much time to do research this year, and I refused to pick Alex Stobbs, so I don't really see a Top 10 finish in my future this time... but anything's possible!

[Eesti 151]

This is my first year, here is the list:

 

1. Abdelbaset al-Megrahi (joker)

2. Michael Douglas

3. Zsa Zsa Gabor

4. Kirk Douglas

5. Eli Wallach

6. Oscar Niemeyer

7. Aretha Franklin

8. Ronnie Biggs

9. Margaret Thatcher

10. Kim Jong-il

11. João Havelange

12. Nelson Mandela

13. Fidel Castro

14. Yitzhak Shamir

15. Prince Phillip

16. Ariel Sharon

17. Jack Nicholson

18. Amy Winehouse

19. Jimmy Saville

20. Dick Van Dyke

Subs: Keith Richards, Paul Gascoigne

[Garn2 34]

Fairly suprised to finish in the heights of joint 23rd last year, didn't expect to do anything like that...

 

1. Tom Lubbock (Joker)

2. Abdelbaset al-Megrahi

3. Jose Alencar

4. Ronnie Biggs

5. Yao Defen

6. Bishop Michael Evans

7. Harlan Ellison

8. Aretha Franklin

9. Dennis Frederiksen

10. Annette Funicello

11. Superstar Billy Graham

12. John Higgins Sr.

13. Christopher Hitchens

14. Guy Innes-Ker

15. Terry Jenner

16. Diana Wynne Jones

17. Mick Karn

18. Hosni Mubarak

19. Doug Rollerson

20. Norman Spinrad

[maryportfuncity 10,646]

If I've got any chance of a unique pick it's Lianne Smith or Lee Kerslake, kicking myself (heh heh) for missing Neil Young, and also wondering if Gerry Rafferty should've made the final list. But in the end it came down to...

 

Carkers Convention 2011:

 

 

Tom Lubbock – terminally ill journalist (JOKER)

 

Lianne Smith – Infanticidal and suicidal

 

Frankie Buckles

 

Christopher Hitchins

 

Dick Cheney

 

Nat Lofthouse

 

Claude Choules

 

Eunice Sanborn – World’s oldest

 

Geoffrey Hughes

 

Steve Prescott

 

Margaret Fish – UK’s oldest

 

Penny Marshall

 

Lee Kerslake – Drummer, Uriah Heep

 

Bert Trautmann

 

Dennis Frederiksen

 

Robert Edwards

 

Michael Douglas

 

Harlan Ellison

 

Zsa Zsa Gabor

 

Aretha Franklin

 

 

 

Subs bench

 

Billy Graham

[themaninblack 2,112]

Hello everyone. I've got a daunting amount of entries to load in over the next week as I didn't get enough time to really work

on it during the Christmas period.

 

Hopefully my team this year will improve on a poor 116th place:

 

Christopher Hitchens (Joker)

Stefano Borgonovo

Michael Douglas

Ariel Sharon

Kim Jong-Il

Paul Virilio (French thinker)

Zohra Segal (Indian actress)

Judith Kerr (Mog author/ widow of Nigel Kneale)

Reginald Turnill (BBC Space age reporter)

Geoff Strong (Liverpool player, now has Alzheimer's)

James Prior

David Bailey (I thought he looked worse than Brian Duffy in that documentary last year..)

Mick Karn

Dick Cheney

Boris Spassky

Harlan Ellison

Robert Mugabe

Margaret Thatcher

Donald Neilson

Anthony Armstrong-Jones

 

Good luck everyone

[The Miser 18]

Hello everyone. I've got a daunting amount of entries to load in over the next week as I didn't get enough time to really work

on it during the Christmas period.

 

Hopefully my team this year will improve on a poor 116th place:

 

Christopher Hitchens (Joker)

Stefano Borgonovo

Michael Douglas

Ariel Sharon

Kim Jong-Il

Paul Virilio (French thinker)

Zohra Segal (Indian actress)

Judith Kerr (Mog author/ widow of Nigel Kneale)

Reginald Turnill (BBC Space age reporter)

Geoff Strong (Liverpool player, now has Alzheimer's)

James Prior

David Bailey (I thought he looked worse than Brian Duffy in that documentary last year..)

Mick Karn

Dick Cheney

Boris Spassky

Harlan Ellison

Robert Mugabe

Margaret Thatcher

Donald Neilson

Anthony Armstrong-Jones

 

Good luck everyone

 

Boris Spassky

 

I like that pick.....

[Vaagheid 141]

man in black, I was to late to submit a team this year.

So could you take me of the mailing list?

[Estuarian Float 97]

man in black, I was to late to submit a team this year.

So could you take me of the mailing list?

 

Also, if I could discreetly slip this in your question queue... because Im sure youre very busy and I dont want to bother you MiB, but I didnt get a confirmation for my main team. I got one for my theme team, so I guess its alright? I just wanna be sure.

[themaninblack 2,112]

man in black, I was to late to submit a team this year.

So could you take me of the mailing list?

 

Also, if I could discreetly slip this in your question queue... because Im sure youre very busy and I dont want to bother you MiB, but I didnt get a confirmation for my main team. I got one for my theme team, so I guess its alright? I just wanna be sure.

 

Yes.

[Estuarian Float 97]

Now I will unveil my intended unique picks!....

 

Douglas Engelbart -inventor of the computer mouse. (born 1925)

 

Michele Ferrero -owner of the chocolate maker Ferrero SpA; Italy's richest person. (born 1925)

 

Helen Gurley Brown -editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan for 32 years. Lost her husband of 50 years in 2010. I know she's appeared on the DDP before, but not recently. (born 1922)

 

Arte Johnson -American comedic actor who regularly appeared on 'Laugh-In.' Hasn't made a credited TV appearance since 2005. (born 1929)

 

Laura Ziskin -producer of the Spiderman films. Diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer in 2004. (born 1950)

[Tomb raider 9]

It had been very hectic at work lately, so I completely forgot my entry for the DDP 2011. Would you believe it!?

 

The bright side is that with every celeb's death I can easily claim that I would have picked him/her for the DDP, so I firmly expect myself to (virtually) have won the contest by the end of the year.

[Godot 149]

One should never pander to the urgings of individual entrants but I was just kind of curious if anyone else had Pete Postlethwaite in their teams and, if not, that being the case, whether the team with Postlethwaite in it might have grabbed an early lead in this year's contest which it doesn't plan to relinquish anytime soon?

 

Perhaps just a small gloat could be permitted by some confirmation, hey TMIB, your poolership, if you can look up from your endeavours for just a nanosecond?

 

I had him as my joker until I reinstated Al Megrahi at the last minute and then gave it to the younger man which, on reflection, wouldn't have earned more points if PP turns out to be a unique pick.

[themaninblack 2,112]

One should never pander to the urgings of individual entrants but I was just kind of curious if anyone else had Pete Postlethwaite in their teams and, if not, that being the case, whether the team with Postlethwaite in it might have grabbed an early lead in this year's contest which it doesn't plan to relinquish anytime soon?

 

Perhaps just a small gloat could be permitted by some confirmation, hey TMIB, your poolership, if you can look up from your endeavours for just a nanosecond?

 

I had him as my joker until I reinstated Al Megrahi at the last minute and then gave it to the younger man which, on reflection, wouldn't have earned more points if PP turns out to be a unique pick.

 

 

Well, from what I've been looking at so far, it could be that Mr Postlethwaite may be a unique pick, but I can't confirm yet as I still have over 300 teams to process.

 

Gmail is a git an' all. It seems to tag loads of seemingly unconnected emails together, so I have to pick through each of them to see each individual email within...

 

Since you are one of the contenders, you could emulate what a couple of winners have done in the past, first hit then win the thing!

[themaninblack 2,112]

One should never pander to the urgings of individual entrants but I was just kind of curious if anyone else had Pete Postlethwaite in their teams and, if not, that being the case, whether the team with Postlethwaite in it might have grabbed an early lead in this year's contest which it doesn't plan to relinquish anytime soon?

 

Perhaps just a small gloat could be permitted by some confirmation, hey TMIB, your poolership, if you can look up from your endeavours for just a nanosecond?

 

I had him as my joker until I reinstated Al Megrahi at the last minute and then gave it to the younger man which, on reflection, wouldn't have earned more points if PP turns out to be a unique pick.

 

 

Well, from what I've been looking at so far, it could be that Mr Postlethwaite may be a unique pick, but I can't confirm yet as I still have over 300 teams to process.

 

Gmail is a git an' all. It seems to tag loads of seemingly unconnected emails together, so I have to pick through each of them to see each individual email within...

 

Since you are one of the contenders, you could emulate what a couple of winners have done in the past, first hit then win the thing!

 

 

Incidentially, looks like we have a major absentee in this year's DDP, unless his email has fallen down the back of the armchair...

[Godot 149]

One should never pander to the urgings of individual entrants but I was just kind of curious if anyone else had Pete Postlethwaite in their teams and, if not, that being the case, whether the team with Postlethwaite in it might have grabbed an early lead in this year's contest which it doesn't plan to relinquish anytime soon?

 

Perhaps just a small gloat could be permitted by some confirmation, hey TMIB, your poolership, if you can look up from your endeavours for just a nanosecond?

 

I had him as my joker until I reinstated Al Megrahi at the last minute and then gave it to the younger man which, on reflection, wouldn't have earned more points if PP turns out to be a unique pick.

 

 

Well, from what I've been looking at so far, it could be that Mr Postlethwaite may be a unique pick, but I can't confirm yet as I still have over 300 teams to process.

 

Gmail is a git an' all. It seems to tag loads of seemingly unconnected emails together, so I have to pick through each of them to see each individual email within...

 

Since you are one of the contenders, you could emulate what a couple of winners have done in the past, first hit then win the thing!

 

Gloat over.

[Godot 149]

One should never pander to the urgings of individual entrants but I was just kind of curious if anyone else had Pete Postlethwaite in their teams and, if not, that being the case, whether the team with Postlethwaite in it might have grabbed an early lead in this year's contest which it doesn't plan to relinquish anytime soon?

 

Perhaps just a small gloat could be permitted by some confirmation, hey TMIB, your poolership, if you can look up from your endeavours for just a nanosecond?

 

I had him as my joker until I reinstated Al Megrahi at the last minute and then gave it to the younger man which, on reflection, wouldn't have earned more points if PP turns out to be a unique pick.

 

 

Well, from what I've been looking at so far, it could be that Mr Postlethwaite may be a unique pick, but I can't confirm yet as I still have over 300 teams to process.

 

Gmail is a git an' all. It seems to tag loads of seemingly unconnected emails together, so I have to pick through each of them to see each individual email within...

 

Since you are one of the contenders, you could emulate what a couple of winners have done in the past, first hit then win the thing!

 

 

Incidentially, looks like we have a major absentee in this year's DDP, unless his email has fallen down the back of the armchair...

 

 

Not Football Fan?

 

Banshees?

[themaninblack 2,112]

One should never pander to the urgings of individual entrants but I was just kind of curious if anyone else had Pete Postlethwaite in their teams and, if not, that being the case, whether the team with Postlethwaite in it might have grabbed an early lead in this year's contest which it doesn't plan to relinquish anytime soon?

 

Perhaps just a small gloat could be permitted by some confirmation, hey TMIB, your poolership, if you can look up from your endeavours for just a nanosecond?

 

I had him as my joker until I reinstated Al Megrahi at the last minute and then gave it to the younger man which, on reflection, wouldn't have earned more points if PP turns out to be a unique pick.

 

 

Well, from what I've been looking at so far, it could be that Mr Postlethwaite may be a unique pick, but I can't confirm yet as I still have over 300 teams to process.

 

Gmail is a git an' all. It seems to tag loads of seemingly unconnected emails together, so I have to pick through each of them to see each individual email within...

 

Since you are one of the contenders, you could emulate what a couple of winners have done in the past, first hit then win the thing!

 

 

Incidentially, looks like we have a major absentee in this year's DDP, unless his email has fallen down the back of the armchair...

 

 

Not Football Fan?

 

Banshees?

 

 

Let's just say, he's a former champion..

[Spade_Cooley 9,525]

Gonna guess OoO went out on top like Rocky Marciano.