Right OK time for another post on the latest episode of The Apprentice, episode 9, which sees the series now get closer and closer to the end where Lord Sugar will eventually make the decision to hire his new business partner. So let's get on and give this a look.....
So this week's task saw both teams, Tenacity and Summit being tasked to buy a set of listed items (this has been a previous task in all the past series) and they must buy them at a discount price and the team that will win has to get all the items and spend the least money and any items they don't will incur a fine. So the two teams were lead by Sanjay (Summit) and Daniel (Tenacity) and they both had different ways of leading the teams. Sanjay decided to do some research to locate the items before they decided to go out and starting looking for them, whereas Daniel did little research. Sanjay however wasted more time than he should have in trying to locate the items and he ended up randomly going to places. Sanjay's subteam however performed better as Bianca and Solomon got their items, despite Solomon wasting time during negotiation to purchase the skeleton from a store. Roisin also managed to secure an excellent bargain a diamond as she eventually managed to hagel it down to £50. However due to Sanjay's disorganised dithering they ended up not securing one of the items and being late in heading back to the boardroom.
Daniel's team however where more efficient as Daniel worked with Felipe and Mark and Katie worked together to secure the items they needed. However the specification for the skeleton on the list was not overly explicit in terms of specification, which prompted Felipe to purchase a paper anatomical skeleton, which he saw as thinking outside the box item listed was open to intepretation as far as he was concerned as to the type of skeleton required. Mark and Katie also whilst they managed to get a length of rope for free, it was not the correct length and they did not find a way to cut it to the right length (1 metre). Despite this Daniel's team overall worked well and he managed to change his attitude to them as he showed a more professional approach than before and they also managed to get all 10 items and back to the boardroom in time.
In the boardroom Lord Sugar had Summit immediately fined for being late and also for not securing one of the items on the list, which could have cost them the task. Tenacity however despite having got all the items required and being back on time incurred Lord Sugar's wrath as he was totally bemused by their choice of the paper skeleton as opposed to an actual model one. Lord Sugar then decided to fine Tenacity £310 for the item as he disallowed it, which meant that they had lost the task by £64 and it saw Summit take the win, much to their surprise, and their treat was a group trip to Silverstone where they all raced each other.
When Tenacity where brought back into the boardroom Felipe instantly came under fire for his choice of the paper skeleton and Daniel also tried to claim that Felipe had duped him, but ultimaltey it was his decision to go with it. Mark and Katie however pleaded ignorance as they did not see the skeleton and they were later outraged when they saw what had happened. Daniel also made the surprise decision to bring Katie back into the boardroom with Felipe, instead of Mark (despite their tense past history) as he held her responsible for the problem with the rope being the incorrect length. Lord Sugar however decided that Katie had done well so far in the process and he decided to let her stay on, but Felipe wasn't so lucky as he thought that he had made a fatal mistake with the paper skeleton and with that Lord Sugar fired him. Lord Sugar also decided to give Daniel one more chance as he felt that he had made some progress and lead his team well.
I have to say I'm in two minds as to if Felipe deserved to go or not as on one hand he did because the failure of the task essentially came down to him and his poor decision to go with the paper skeleton, but on the other Daniel also let him make the decision to get the paper skeleton and he surely is also to blame for the failure of the task aswell. But in the end I think given the other candidates in the process, Felipe it has to be said wasn't the strongest of them and in the end he was sure not to win the process, however he did well to get this far and is a nice guy and it even showed that he was like the "daddy" of the group as he often made the other candidates dinner in the house! As for Daniel well he dodged another bullet this week but he did also show some signs that he had grown in the process as he finally put aside all his squabling on this task to try and win it (or blow it out of the water as he fondly put it!). But I think Daniel is now on borrowed time for sure and he may not make it into the final five as with seven candidates left, next week two will go as it is week 10 and week 11 is the penultimate interview stages (which has always been my favourite part of the show!) so it remains to be seen if he can hold out much longer, unless of his team wins next week, but we'll see.
Right so that's it for now and I will be back with another post sometime soon and next week's Apprentice should be fun as both teams have to come up with a brand of premium puddings, but we'll soon find out who the dumplings will be!
Until then next one bye the now!
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