Derby Dead Pool 2016

[Handrejka 1,904]

I went for a theme team only this year

 

Team Name - Protectors, Persuaders and Prisoners in a Suitcase (deceased)

 

Theme - People associated with ITC drama series.

1.Rodney Bewes (joker)

2.Kenneth Cope

3. Peter Wyngard

4.Cyril Frankel

5. Dudley Sutton

6. Sylvia Syms

7. Burt Kwouk

8. Keith Baxter (Welsh actor born 1933)

9. Roger Moore

10. Fenella Fielding

11 Jacqueline Pearce

12. George A Cooper

13 Henry Woolf

14.John Fraser

15. Peter Vaughan

16. Gerald Harper

17. Peter Sallis

18. Tony Booth

19. Martin Landau

20. Geoffrey Bayldon

 

Reserves - John Savident, John Stride, Richard Bradford

 

I also requested Mark Eden to replace Keith Baxter but not sure if that happened. I meant to put Mark Eden but was looking at an old list when I sent my team in.

[Spade_Cooley 9,540]

 

Here we go then, David Quantick's Showbiz Pals 2k16:

 

1. Asif, Hassan (captain)

2. Angelil, Rene

3. Brinson, Monty

4. Christie, Errol

5. Crowe, Martin

6. Delpech, Michel

7. Diski, Jenny

8. Edhi, Abdul Sattar

9. Ellis, Bob

10. Esterhazy, Peter

11. Feek, Joey

12. Fekete, Thomas

13. Granger, Kate

14. Haggerty, Dan

15. Halpin, Luke

16. Harrington Jr, Pat

17. Kincaid, Rowena

18. Marks, Howard

19. Mother Angelica

20. Travis, Kris

 

Surprisingly (to me), the only one of those I didn't know was ill is Luke Halpin. Must say something about doing even a modicum of research or something.

 

Brinson/Christie/Ellis/Fekete were all cut from my final list of forty or so. Brinson due to a choice of candidates, Christie because I couldn't find out how bad his cancer was, Ellis because there was rumours he's doing better.

 

 

Halpin and Mother Angelica were my predictions for uniques this year, Halpin's illness I stumbled across by total fluke and if it's as bad as it sounds then he's a goner in 2016 and surely a definite obit.

[Garn2 34]

Poochie Died On The Way Back To His Home Planet

 

1. Rene Angelil

2. John Bain

3. Bonnie Brown

4. Martin Crowe

5. Jenny Diski

6. Bob Ellis

7. Joey Feek (J)

8. Rob Ford

9. Kate Granger

10. Kristin Hallenga

11. Gregory Hudgens

12. Clive James

13. Bruce Langhorne

14. Howard Marks

15. Jose Manuel Mourinho Felix

16. Reverend Sandy McDonald

17. Miriam Defensor Santiago

18. Ian St. John

19. Kris Travis

20. Joost van der Westhuizen

 

We'll see...

[msc 18,480]

Yeah, I saw his Go Fund Me page on a quick google of "Luke Halpin cancer" and he does sound fecked.

 

And Garn posts to confirm the only person I thought might be unique if the cards went right isn't - David Tennant's dad. Still, I think uniques and their worth are overestimated by the also rans from 30th place downwards.

[DevonDeathTrip 2,358]

Here's my team for 2015. I've sacked all survivors from last years squad, apart from Martin Crowe.

The Living End

Joey Feek (Joker)
Jenny Diski
Phil Gartside
Mary Lucas
Kris Travis
Martin Crowe
Louise Plowright
Gary Haggarty
Peter Esterhazy
Bonnie Brown
Eric Lubbock, Lord Avebury.
Rob Ford
Věra Čáslavská
Thomas Fekete
Ronald Mulkearns
Errol Christie
Aden Hailu
Rene Angeli
Sir Peter Maxwell-Davies
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

[Going Underground 74]

Finally made the top 5 (i think) in 2015

 

Not confident about this team for 2016 but lets see how it goes.

 

Team Name: Going Underground

 

Joker (Pick 1): Joey Feek
Pick 2: René Angélil
Pick 3: Martin Crowe
Pick 4: Sharon Lafaye Jones
Pick 5: Valerie Harper
Pick 6: Bonnie Brown
Pick 7: Gordon Banks
Pick 8: Howard Marks
Pick 9: Robert "Bob" Ellis
Pick 10: Karel Gott

Pick 11: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Pick 12: Gene Wilder

Pick 13: Kate Granger
Pick 14: Clive Derby Lewis
Pick 15: Johan Cryuff
Pick 16: Sinead O'Connor

Pick 17: Paul Madeley
Pick 18: John Bain (Totalbiscuit)
Pick 19: Helen Fawkes
Pick 20: Mary Tyler Moore

[Death Impends 8,003]

Bit of a shame to see the Langhorne unique go, but I knew someone else would catch that...

 

Team Name: Thomas Jefferson Survives

Joker (Pick 1): Joey Feek
Pick 2: Rene Angelil
Pick 3: Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros
Pick 4: G. Monty Brinson
Pick 5: Bonnie Brown
Pick 6: Errol Christie
Pick 7: Martin Crowe
Pick 8: Johan Cruyff
Pick 9: Jenny Diski
Pick 10: Peter Esterhazy
Pick 11: Mark Farren
Pick 12: Rob Ford (feels 50/50 to me but too big to miss out on, in more ways than one!)
Pick 13: Phil Gartside
Pick 14: Sharon Jones
Pick 15: Bruce Langhorne
Pick 16: Eric Lubbock
Pick 17: Yoshiro Nakamatsu
Pick 18: Kris Travis
Pick 19: John Wicks
Pick 20: Suzanne Wright

Reserve Pick(s): Howard Marks, Kate Granger, Steve LaTourette

[viGnoS 18]

here are my picks for 2016, hope there will be some uniques

 

P@F deathlist [main list]

Joey Martin Feek (joker)

Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Lynne Stewart

René Angelil

Superstar Billy Graham

Françoise Hardy

Michel Delpech

Johan Cruyff

Keith Farnham

Martin Crowe

Nick Robinson

Helen Kelly

Scott Putesky

Abou Bakr al-Baghdadi

Shan­nen Doherty

Vincent Lambert

Katie Maytum

Mark Farren

Kris Travis

Salah Abdeslam

subs : Jimmy Carter / Michael Schumacher / John Bain

P@F slain by sin [theme list]

Rob Ford (joker)

Hugh Hefner

Tommy Chong

Johnny Hallyday

Howard Marks

John Wetton

Renaud

David Hasselhoff

Joaquín Guzmán

Michel Houellebecq

Caroline Aherne

Wesley Pipes

Joost van der Westhuizen

Brooke Ashley

Fernando Ricksen

Brooke Mueller

Loana Petrucciani

Lamar Odom

Tila Tequila

Robert Nkemdiche

subs : Mia Khalifa / Chris Brown / Lara Roxx

[deadsox 894]

Might as well post my entry, Deceased Hose. Jimmy Carter is in for Howard Davis Jr. of course.

 

Rene Angelil (Joker)

Caroline Aherne

Rev. Sandy McDonald

Mark Farren

John “Totalbiscuit” Bain

Martin Crowe

Rob Ford

Dr. Abdul Sattar Ehdi

Peter Esterhazy

Joey Feek

Mother Angelica

Jenny Diski

Susan Gubar

Pat Harrington Jr.

John Hurt

Howard Marks

Howard Davis Jr.

Jannes Eisalen

Lynne Stewart

Desmond Tutu

 

Subs:

Jimmy Carter

Michel Delpech

[msc 18,480]

Bit of a shame to see the Langhorne unique go, but I knew someone else would catch that...

 

 

I know you were pessimistic about your chances last night, but that team looks like another one to go far.

 

Naturally, I think nine of them are, in particularly, very wise.

 

The only query would be on John Wicks and Suzanne Wright getting qualifying obits. They're certainly sick enough.

[Death Impends 8,003]

Yeah, I think I fall into the mindset of "can't seem to find a ton of good off-forum names so my research must be lacking", and then I forget that people were a lot more generous this year with sharing names...

 

Wright I'm fairly confident will get an obit because the Autism Speaks press announcement of her pancreatic cancer diagnosis made Reuters UK, so surely Autism Speaks would also have a press announcement of her death that likewise makes it to said site? The biggest problem may very well be that I can't seem to find any evidence of her year of birth so I'm hoping that'll turn up when she goes. Wicks, along with the Cuban trumpeter, is a "let's hope to God the Independent considers them worthy of a slow day backlog obit" gamble.

[Spade_Cooley 9,540]

Are people talking Phil Gartside's "illness" seriously then? It struck me as a classic "welp, I've got Bolton into massive financial shit and everyone hates me, better find an excuse to vanish from the public eye for a few months" deal.

[Eesti 151]

Here is my list. Hope to get 3 or 7 hits.

1. Joey Feek 40 (2016)

2. Tony Adamowicz 74 (2016)

3. Martin Crowe 53 (2016)

4. René Angélil 73 (2016)

5. Kris Travis 32 (2016)

6. Howard Marks 70 (2016)

7. Kate Granger 34 (2015-2016)

8. Rob Ford 46 (2015-2016)

9. Helmut Kohl 85 (2016)

10. Keith Farnham 68 (2016)

11. Pat Harrington, Jr 86 (2016)

12. Eric Lubbock 87 (2016)

13. Joost van der Westhuizen 44 (2014-2016)

14. Johan Cruyff 68 (2016)

15. Randy Romero 58 (2016)

16. Clive James 76 (2013-2016)

17. Muhammad Ali 73 (2012, 2014-2016)

18. Jimmy Carter 91 (2016)

19. Zsa Zsa Gabor 98 (2011-2016)

20. Helen Fawkes 44 (2015-2016)

[machotrouts 828]

I debut with 3 theme teams, because I have got no respect for the spirit of competition

#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).

1 (JOKER): Sinéad O'Connor

2: Vera Lynn

3: Peter Macbeth (The Foundations)

4: Mike Elliott (The Foundations)

5: Jane Morgan

6: Peter Sarstedt

7: Melissa Bell (Soul II Soul)

8: Marcia Barrett (Boney M.)

9: Billy Connolly

10: Ke$ha

11: Rolf Harris

12: Lena Martell

13: Robert Lee Smith (The Tams)

14: Craig Douglas

15: Charles Aznavour

16: Kenney Jones (Small Faces)

17: Kitty Kallen

18: Norman Greenbaum

19: Ian McCredie (Middle of the Road)

20: Judith Durham (The New Seekers)

Spectres-to-Be

A theme team of cast and crew members of James Bond films.

1 (JOKER): Sean Connery

2: Roger Moore

3: George Lazenby

4: Guy Hamilton

5: Lewis Gilbert

6: Clifton James

7: Earl Cameron

8: Ken Adam

9: Albert Finney

10: Joe Don Baker

11: Michael Lonsdale

12: Topol

13: David Hedison

14: Monty Norman

15: Burt Kwouk

16: Julian Fellowes

17: Akiko Wakabayashi

18: David de Keyser

19: Geoffrey Palmer

20: Johanna Harwood

Unpersons

A theme team of Big Brother (or, mostly, Celebrity Big Brother) housemates.

1 (JOKER): Rebekah Shelton (BB10 – competed as Rodrigo Lopes)

2: Jackie Stallone (CBB3)

3: Bruce Jones (CBB12)

4: Carol McGiffin (CBB12)

5: Julie Goodyear (CBB10)

6: Lauren Harries (CBB12)

7: Lionel Blair (CBB13)

8: Jeremy Jackson (CBB15)

9: Dustin Diamond (CBB12)

10: Alicia Douvall (CBB15)

11: Alexander O'Neal (CBB15)

12: Michael Barrymore (CBB4)

13: Paddy Doherty (CBB8)

14: Big Ron Atkinson (CBB12)

15: Katie Hopkins (CBB15)

16: Gary Busey (CBB14)

17: Paula Hamilton (CBB11)

18: John McCririck (CBB3)

19: Germaine Greer (CBB3)

20: Derek Laud (BB6)

 

[Grande Pablo 109]

M6 Toll(ed) is back from a respectible part of Brownhills - yes, it does exist:

 

Joker (Pick 1): Ed Doolan
Pick 2: Kenny Baker
Pick 3: Edward Clayton
Pick 4: David Daker
Pick 5: Sir Doug Ellis

Pick 6: Ann Haydon Jones

Pick 7: Anne Heywood
Pick 8: Geoffery Hill
Pick 9: Vince Hill

Pick 10: Elgar Howarth
Pick 11: Ace Kefford
Pick 12: Brian Matthew
Pick 13: Valarie Minifie
Pick 14: Anna Quayle

Pick 15: Ron Saunders

Pick 16: Richard Shepherd

Pick 17: Peter Vaughan

Pick 18: Murray Walker
Pick 19: Leila Williams
Pick 20: Frank Windsor

[time 8,624]

My untheme team, which is mostly the same as last year's team (which was mostly the same as 2014, which was mostly the same as 2013 etc.)

 

Daphne Fowler (Joker)
Emile Ford
John Glenn
Bernard Haitink
Gerald Harper
Buck Henry
Colin Jeavons
George Johnson
Patricia Knatchbull
Tommy Lasorda
Sheila Mercier
Cormac Murphy O’Connor
Pete Murray
Christy O’Connor Snr
I.M. Pei
Dudley Simpson
Nobby Stiles
Joseph Wapner
Peter Wyngarde
Jimmy Young

My Theme Team (Five new Rons to replace the late Rons)

 

Ronald Atkins (Joker)
Ronald Blythe
Ron Brown
Ronald Chesney
Ronnie Corbett
Ronnie Walter Cunningham
Ronnie Dawson
Ron Ely
Ronald Baron Fearn
Ron Flowers
Ronald Harwood
Ronald Hines
Ron Isley
Ronnie Moore
Ronnie Moran
Ronald Pickup

Ron Saunders
Ron Smith
Ronnie Taylor
Ronald Venetiaan

 

All coming to a sig near you soon.

[Youth in Asia 1,087]

Firstly congrats to Mr Quantick for a quite remarkable finish to the 2015 competition - candidate for best last week twist ever?

 

Secondly I'm just wondering if some of the picks might not get obits this year. Even Ms popular Joey Feek?

 

Case in point: Jennifer Glass. Featured in the Daily Mail in 2014:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2599587/My-year-lung-cancer-pictured-day-day-Woman-diagnosed-disease-documents-journey-diagnosis-hair-loss-recovery.html

 

However Glass died on 11 August 2015, and would have been a unique pick for "Beatles are dying in the wrong order" however the Daily Mail didn't report it, neither did other UK sources.

http://www.smdailyjournal.com/articles/lnews/2015-08-14/right-to-die-advocate-dies-without-reprieve-san-mateo-resident-jennifer-glass-fought-for-new-legislation/1776425148475.html

 

The Beatles could have gone up from 63= to 30=.

 

ps MIB, her death is not yet updated on the relevant list (list of those who didn't get obits)

[Youth in Asia 1,087]

Finally made the top 5 (i think) in 2015

 

Not confident about this team for 2016 but lets see how it goes.

 

Team Name: Going Underground

 

Joker (Pick 1): Joey Feek

Pick 2: René Angélil

Pick 3: Martin Crowe

Pick 4: Sharon Lafaye Jones

Pick 5: Valerie Harper

Pick 6: Bonnie Brown

Pick 7: Gordon Banks

Pick 8: Howard Marks

Pick 9: Robert "Bob" Ellis

Pick 10: Karel Gott

Pick 11: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Pick 12: Gene Wilder

Pick 13: Kate Granger

Pick 14: Clive Derby Lewis

Pick 15: Johan Cryuff

Pick 16: Sinead O'Connor

Pick 17: Paul Madeley

Pick 18: John Bain (Totalbiscuit)

Pick 19: Helen Fawkes

Pick 20: Mary Tyler Moore

Gutted that someone else picked up on Karel Gott. I was hoping to get a second Czech unique after getting Vaclav Havel himself a few years back.

 

Incidentally, before he hit the big time as a singer he was prosecuted for exposing himself on a bus, some say it was this conviction that enabled the communists to keep him under their control through the normalisation era. Perhaps in another time another place, he might have ended up on Yewtree?

[msc 18,480]

Joey Feek will obit. I've counted 14 articles in the Daily Mail on her...from the last month. There's much more in the time since diagnosis. That's more than there has been in the last year about Dennis Skinner!

[Toast 16,155]

Firstly congrats to Mr Quantick for a quite remarkable finish to the 2015 competition - candidate for best last week twist ever?

 

Secondly I'm just wondering if some of the picks might not get obits this year. Even Ms popular Joey Feek?

 

Case in point: Jennifer Glass. Featured in the Daily Mail in 2014:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2599587/My-year-lung-cancer-pictured-day-day-Woman-diagnosed-disease-documents-journey-diagnosis-hair-loss-recovery.html

 

However Glass died on 11 August 2015, and would have been a unique pick for "Beatles are dying in the wrong order" however the Daily Mail didn't report it, neither did other UK sources.

http://www.smdailyjournal.com/articles/lnews/2015-08-14/right-to-die-advocate-dies-without-reprieve-san-mateo-resident-jennifer-glass-fought-for-new-legislation/1776425148475.html

 

The Beatles could have gone up from 63= to 30=.

 

ps MIB, her death is not yet updated on the relevant list (list of those who didn't get obits)

 

As far as I can see, this Jennifer Glass is not notable for anything unconnected with her illness. Joey Feek otoh is a Grammy-nominated popular entertainer.

[Vinegar Tits 606]

Mine are in my signature.

 

The almost certainly a unique pick I spoke about earlier is Silvio Ciccone aka Madonna's dad. My sister has tickets to see Madge in Melbourne, where she hasn't played for donkeys years and has form in scrapping Down Under tours before so it'd be typical if something happened on the eve of it.

[Banshees Scream 110]

New Years And Drinks All Night!

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (Joker)
Rene Agelil
John Jay Hooker
Bonnie Brown
Lynne Stewart
Rob Ford
Kate Granger
Peter Esterhazy
Thomas Libous
Joey Feek

Howard Marks
Gino Odjick

Johan Cruyff

Thor Hansen
Joao Havalange

Clive James

John Rigas

Steve La Tourette
Martin Crowe

Zsa Zsa Gabor

[Guest pedro67]

Here,s my Catacomb ensemble for this year, get 4 go out of this lot and I'll be happy 1 Joey Feek (joker)

2 Rene Angelil

3 Tony Booth

4 Pat Harrington Jr

5 Yves Bonnefoy (poet)

6 Zsa Zsa Gabor

7 Lily Safra ( Philanthropist )

8 Neil Cunningham (racing driver)

9 Daisy Berkowitz

10 Jenny Diski

11 Sandy Gall ( newsreader)

12Terry Moore (actress)

13 Clive James

14 Kirk Douglas

15 Eric Lubbock

16 Joost van der Westhuisen

17 Brigitte Auber (actress)

18 Liam Cosgrave

19 Howard Marks

20 Martin Crow

[Guest kiwi]

Damn. Missed out on this. Guess I should have read more of the website pre-31 December. I run a similar, but less well organised version on another forum. If I knew this existed, I could have saved myself the effort

[gcreptile 10,979]

Alright, here are mine:

 

The Love Boat

1. Joey Feek (joker)

2. Peter Esterhazy

3. Pierre Boulez

4. Vera Caslavska

5. Rowena Kincaid

6. Paul Cox

7. Ronald Mulkearns (a unique? time doesn't have him. Edit: No, DDT has him. I already realized we think too much alike, see: Gary Haggarty.)

8. Linda Horan

9. Bonnie Brown

10. Kris Travis

11. Geoffrey Robinson

12. Yoshiro Nakamatsu

13. Andrew Yeaman

14. Martin Crowe

15. Jackie Storrar

16. Errol Christie

17. René Angelil

18. G. Monty Brinson

19. Michel Delpech

20. Gary Haggarty

 

The B-Team

1. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (joker)

2. Henri Richard

3. Roh Tae-Woo

4. Goran Hadzic

5. Sandy McDonald

6. Betty Cuthbert

7. Jim McLean

8. Thomas Libous

9. Sumner Redstone

10. Phil Gartside

11. Ross Hannaford

12. Stan Mikita

13. Fast Eddie Fryer

14. Nikolaus Harnoncourt

15. Louise Plowright

16. Terri Roberts

17. Mother Angelica

18. Eric Lubbock

19. Brian Shivers

20. Edwin Drummond

 

Shameless (terminal illness fame theme team)

1. Sarah Jones (joker)

2. Tom Bradshaw

3. Mark Nurthen

4. Jordan Lotter

5. Helen Hutchinson

6. Kristin Hallenga

7. Craig Lyons

8. Jake Bailey

9. Margaret Lowbridge

10. Kelly Morris

11. Debbie Blackhurst

12. Lisa Brown

13. Jack Wells

14. Connie Johnson

15. Sarah Swindells

16. Charlotte Eades

17. Andy Haworth

18. Steven Monks

19. Angela Sykes

20. Kate Granger

 

Funny how I ended up with 2 australian bishops (could have chosen Pell as well), two UK club owners (could have chosen Kenwright as well), two canadian hockey players, two Irish criminals, two conductors, two major olympic champions...

Edit: Oh, and I'm obviously setting myself up for a scenario in which the combined hits of my teams make me a winner, but each single team doesn't. I say, bring it on!