I've noticed that in the last two series no one has caught my eye as particularly having potential, for example in the series where Stella won, Liz Locke was impressive, Stella was impressive, a lot of very impresive candidates that year actually, and usually by the fourth week up until this series and last years one, there was always at least on candidate who impressed me.

Loads of candidates have shown potential:

Jordan, Alex, Leah, Rebecca, Francesca to name but a few.

Just because the edit doesn't shove it in our faces, like with Liz Locke, doesn't mean candidates don't stand out.

I agree...Jordan showed a good management skill when he was PM and Alex was excellent in the design task.

I really want to see Rebecca as PM. Francesca is a bit invisible. Still unsure about Leah. Here, she seems to be disliked by many forum members after last night.

Rebecca and Francesca will both be interesting to see as PM, IMO. Both have been very under-the-radar with flashes of positivity - edits like that tend to go far.

Leah was mixed this episode but she needs improvement and next week is the week to start. Again we'll learn more about her once she becomes PM.

I think Leah has stood out well, along with Francesca and i thought Sophie stood out.

Jordan has proved to be both a good PM and a real team player. Funny enough, his 'whooping' and backslapping on winning is further evidence of this. He is the standout candidate for me so far.

I agree with Nikki (on YF last night) that Luisa has another layer to her which I think she is holding back. She is not to be underestimated.

I feel Rebecca also has the potential to standout but what will go against her is her unpopularity among the other candidates.

Leah will go far but I didn't like the way she jumped on Natalie's sexist 'bandwagon' last night.

I think I agree that no one's stood out. Some have been consistent but there hasn't been any one moment of shine for a candidate. I think we have some slow burners with these lot and that we may get some good wins and some highlights for individual candidates towards the ends of the series.

I do think Leah is the one to watch. She is calm and firm, and she was really good when she was pitching at the place that really liked them but didn't buy. I also have a theory, she has a well established business going in Ireland in cosmetic surgery, I think that's an angle Lord Sugar hasn't gone down yet (Richard Branson has), so that must have some appeal, especially if she has some new technology in mind. Therefore I think she will go far as he very well may be keen on her idea to expand his empire.

Stella was terrible. She PMed a team that masterminded the Kuuli, shifted a paltry 100 units, and would've been thwarted, easily, by Laura Moore's team of profoundly unmanagable women if Laura only had the presence of mind to accept exclusivity from Boots.

That the producers managed to carve a positive edit out of that is, I've always thought, a little astounding. Honestly, as series full of brilliantly competent candidates go, series six... wasn't!

Yep I agree with the OP. They all just blend in together...nothing outstanding.

The devils in the detail. Alex got commended for the best piece of design ever seen on tHe Apprentice. That should count at some point. Luisa has been strong in most business areas.There's a lot of people who haven't done that much wrong, Myles more or less passed the test this week of whether he could do what he said he could in his proposal - while Zee failed at it. All those who haven't made major mistakes would look good with one big sale or idea.

I can't seem him easily wanting to be linked to cosmetic surgery in the public mind or politically. Its not quite as toxic as hedge funds or call centres were last year, but most people would find it a strange statement that the best entrepreneurial prospect in the country was cosmetic surgery. She may have an very acceptable angle - like dealing with burns victims, injured soldiers, cleft lips and the like - but he can't become known as Lord Sugar the bottom tuck and breast implant magnate. .......

Jordan has been fairly competent, Alex had a flash of genius in Week 2. But what have the other 3 actually done?

That's an opinion we'll differ on, but I'm defiant that the previous series have had stronger candidates than the last 2 series.

Leah has made a significant sale in every task bar the last one and did OK at leading last week. Francesca hasn't overly shone yet but often her contributions are insightful and normally correct. She seems to be quite bright. Rebecca was the leading woman after the first two tasks and was the main person arguing against the Tidey-Sidey in Week 3. She has faded into the background somewhat since then, but she is still a force to be reckoned with. As I say, four out of five of them have yet to PM, so we'll see what they are like over the next two weeks.

I hope Jason, Natalie and Kurt go next, as I feel the remaining candidates are at least credible/competitive/competent/standout and will make for some excellent episodes.


Zee said he didn't know how he will make it big in the taxi, but surely his growing company with 500k turnover could've been the answer, which makes me think his cv is all exagerrated.

There is a lot of potential still left in the remaining candidates. I liked Jordon, though his 'whoof whoof whoofing' was a little juvenile, he seemed to have toned it right down after the gentle chastisement from Lord Sugar last week.

Also, I liked Myles and Louisa as well, though they might just been lucky as PMs, but being able to manage your team members takes some skills.

Alex, despite me freaking out on his eye brows, looks like a guy that could lead well. But in terms of 'standing out' and not necessarily in terms of their potential or capabilites, Alex defintely stood out from the way he looks and his design flair shown in the flat-pack task.

I hope Francesca is the candidate that 'improved' the most in this series. Every year, there is one who didn't start off well and had personality clash with either the team mates or Lord Sugar, and then they reign themselves in and improved dramatically and earned Lord Sugar's approval, to the point that even when they were fired, Lord Sugar would add "with regret". I hope this series it's Francesca.

If Zee stayed, he will be eaten alive at the interview stage.

Think that Alex and Luisa are the only credible candidates still left in this competition. With an outside bet on Myles.

Francesca is lucky to be on the winning team now for a while and Neil is very sloppy due to his arrogance.

Why are people still seeing anything in Dr. Leah, you guys do know she has the second worst task record (1-4) of all the candidates still left, right

Jordan?

If you'd actually watched the show and paid attention, you'd have noticed what they'd done.

Only thing I remember from him are his "come on!" fist pumps in the boardroom :yawn:

I wonder if Jason or Jordan could become a candidate who are fired first time they lose (after having a trackrecord before of 5-0, 6-0 or even 7-0). That doesn't happen too often.

Why does that even matter? I thought by now people would have realized it doesn't matter how many tasks you win/lose! Credibility has to do with how good the candidates are in terms of their business skills! A loss can also be because someone else in the team completely ruined your chances of winning (which is usually the case), bad pm and managing, clash of personalities or the other team having someone/some people more capable. A team's loss has got little to do with a single candidate.

Leah was such a stand out and so was Uzma! However, then Uzma got fired. And Leah turned into that disgusting person on TV. I really liked her until this episode.

But Miles, Neil, Rebecca and Jordan stand out a lot. And Natalie did too until this task.

Led competently in Week 3, made the best deal of the day this week, came up with the task winning idea in Week 4 and made consistent positive, insightful efforts in Weeks 1 and 2.

Jason maybe, but certainly not Jordan, who's one of the front-runners as things stand.

I'll give you Alex and Luisa and Zee certainly failed dismally at his proposal but Myles wasn't actually much better. I wouldn't say he passed at all. He got his team working for him better than Zee did (but then that wouldn't be hard) but it was his subteam not him that really pulled off the win. His own negotiation was fairly rubbish and he also made the daft errors of both paying up front and waiting around while a product was made. I actually think his strategic leadershp was worse than Zee's, it's just his people skills were a lot better. However, people skills are not specifically what his proposal is about.