1) Roisqueen Hogan
2) Sanjay Sood-Smith
3) Solomon Akhtar
4) James Hill
5) Daniel Lassman
6) Katie Bulmer-Cooke
7) Felipe Alviar-Baquero
8) Mark Wright
9) Bianca Miller

1. Solomon Akhtar
2. Roisin Hogan
3. Katie Bulmer-Cooke
4. Bianca Miller
5. Mark Wright
6. Felipe Alviar-Baquero
7. Daniel Lassman
8. Sanjay Sood-Smith
9. James Hill

1. Roisin - seems the most complete candidate to me by some considerable distance. Was a very good PM, despite her team losing.
2. Mark - think he's getting a hard deal on here tbh. No where near as arrogant or deluded as James and Daniel. Sly, yes, but it's nothing we haven't seen before, and he's very competent and complete as a candidate.
3. Solomon - seems on the surface very quiet, yet often has the right idea. Could be the dark horse.
4. James - Highly irritating, but he pulls it off (just about). Can sell, and was a good PM.
5. Katie - Seems good, but hides in the background a bit. Very quick to point out the flaws of others in the board room, yet can never claim ownership of anything herself. Good PM though.
6. Bianca - Made two howlers over the past few weeks, and spearheaded that awful ad campaign, but I think she has talent. She seems to panic a bit which I think will be her downfall.
7. Sanjay - Hasn't done much. Ineffective PM and seems to have coasted through a bit. Intelligent, yet not much killer business instinct.
8. Felipe - Seems out of his depth. Coasts through and doesn't seem to contribute.
9. Daniel - Too deluded and arrogant to take seriously. Can't sell, can't pitch, can't brand - the list is endless. I feel he gets let off because people feel Mark is "bullying" him. Yet Daniel's behaviour towards some of the others is very disrespectful and dismissive to the point of being slightly bullyish. Should have gone over Lauren.

1. Roisin
*gap*
2. Solomon
3. Katie
4. Sanjay
5. Felipe
6. Daniel
7. Bianca
8. Mark
9. James

1) Roisin (although she's very 'safe')
2) Solomon
3) Sanjay
4) Katie
5) Daniel
6) Bianca
7) Mark
8) James
9) Felipe

1. Roisin
2. Bianca
3. Mark
4. Katie
5. Solomon
6. Sanjay
7. James
8. Felipe
9. Daniel

1. Roisin
2. Sanjay
3. Katie
=9. Mark, Daniel, James

Katie (basic business sense, no reason now to think she isn't a viable proposal)

Roisin ( needs a PM win to catch up )


Solomon (wins with the right technology based proposal - nothing great seen so far - another Leah? )

Sanjay (invisible)
Bianca (howlers, but has drive. didn't lose PMing the task in her specialist field)
Felipe (nice)



Daniel (101 uses for a Daniel? One ? )
Insert 5 lines

Mark (you would need a stab vest)

(insert 25 lines )
James.(would you invest £2-50? )

Roisin
Katie
Sanjay, Felipe, Solomon - fairly even
Bianca
Daniel
Mark
James

Roisin, was my dark horse at the start and boy has she moved to the front, being cool, calm and able to see the big picture. She didn't throw a hissy at being left in London, so extra points for her eyes on the prize attitude.

Katie, sensible but fading into the background a bit by being on a team with Mark and Daniel.

Mark, for some reason i still like him even though it was a poor week for him.

Daniel, Solly and Sanjay, honestly is there any beginning to their talents?

James, winds me up something cruel, I think his business plan may be a pyramid scheme cunningly disguised as a hexagon.

Bianca, I don't know why I'm not feeling any love for her, but I feel she's been poor for weeks then ultimately saved by her team time and again.

Felipe, he's fun to watch but he really doesn't seem to do anything well. I think he may be on the chopping block next week.

1) Roisin
2) Solomon
3) Mark
4) Bianca
5) Katie
6) Daniel
7) Felipe
8) Sanjay
9) James

Last night demonstrated that none of them have any real creativity. I am distinctly underwhelmed this year. Roisin, Solomon and possibly Katie are at the top. The rest seem to be made up of the usual BS meh!

Do you need creativity if you have already created a good proposal? Tom may need creativity to invent his next product , but he showed little creativity on tasks outside his own area. Leah just needs to use what expertise she has and replicate it. Otherwise she doesn't need creativity - she wanted to call her clinics (k)nicks if you recall - till his Lordship pointed out that Sweeney Todd wasn't the right image. Bizarrely, most tasks seem to be testing advertising something else, and presenting your product- rather than what they each need to do to achieve their proposal. At best, you learn indirectly who doesn't understand strategy, who lacks focus, who is error prone, who he wouldn't trust, or get along with, and who doesn't have the capabilities they argue they have, or would need.

If you eliminate the people who show major flaws on task, you end up with the same 3 on the list. and the quiet invisible ones - who neither shine or sink. . But there's still no saying if those with pre-show specific expertise could also be good candidates to invest in. We don't know that Felipe can't do anything connected with law really well, or that someone like Lindsay couldn't organize more swimming schools.

1. Solomon
2. Roisin

The rest are just making up the numbers and have no chance of winning whatsoever...but I'll rank them nevertheless:

3. Biannca
4. Sanjay
5. James
6. Daniel
7. Felipe
8. Katie
9. Mark

1. Roisin
2. Bianca
3. Solomon
4. Katie
5. Daniel
6. James
7. Felipe
8. Sanjay
9. Mark

1. Roisin
2. Bianca
3. Solomon
4. Felipe
5. Sanjay
6. Katie
7. Daniel
8. Mark
9. James

Being someone who isn't particularly business-savvy myself, I rank strictly based on how much I like them personality-wise.

1. Roisin
2. Solomon
3. Katie
4. Mark
5. Bianca
6. Sanjay
7. James
8. Filipe
9. Daniel - I can't understand why Lord Sugar hasn't already booted him out ...

1: Rosin
2: Solomom

3: Mark has an outside chance

The rest I wouldn't even consider . Must be the worst bunch of candidates ever assembled for the show .

1. Roisin

(huge gap)

2. Bianca
3. Solomon
4. Daniel
5. James
6. Felipe
7. Katie
8. Sanjay

(mahoosive gap)




9. Mark

No 1 BEST Candidate = ROISIN Or ROSLIN Hogan

2 = Katie

3 = Daniel

4 = Bianca

UTTER GARBAGE TO BOOT

Sanjay, Solomon, Felipe , Mark , James

I am DISGUSTED by arrogant puny bearded
bitter Sugar (y) firing 5 talented GIRLS IN A ROW , this badly spoken filthy rich man has
ruined the show by his irrational anti girl firing.

1 Roisin Hogan - Wouldn't be too surprised if she wins or at least makes runner up
2 Katie Bulmer-Cooke - Seems pretty competant
3 Solomon Akhtar - A bit quiet but possibly one to watch?
4. James Hill - I surprise myself to put him this high but i find myself warming to him slightly now
5. Sanjay Sood-Smith
6. Bianca Miller - I quite like her but she makes too many silly mistakes and does seem a bit bossy and doesn't like to listen to others much
7. Daniel Lassman - Thinks hes better than he really is
8. Felipe Alviar-Baquero - I find him really bland and nondescript. I think he was trying to be entertaining and quirky shooting the video in this weeks task and crying at the billboard advert and was failing miserably
9. Mark Wright - Too obnoxious, too arrogant, not a fan

1. Felipe
2. Katie
3. Daniel
4. Roisin (totally getting the winner's edit, in reality a bit overrated)
5. Sanjay
6. Solomon
7. Bianca
8. Mark
9. James (violent criminal)

1. Solomon - Hasn’t really excelled at anything in the tasks, but is clearly an intelligent guy, gets on well with the others and I suspect his business plan will be solid.

2. Katie - Seems competent for the most part, although admittedly she probably has the second lowest profile after Sanjay this year. Hasn’t even been close to being brought back into the boardroom and for some reason she strikes me as the type to have a good business plan.

3. Mark - Could actually be a very good candidate if he concentrated more on the tasks and less on arse-covering and game plans. By a mile the best seller left and seems to have a good manner about him when dealing with clients/customers. Personally I think this week could be a turning point for him.

4. Roisin - Seems controversial given a lot of people seem to be ranking her top. She’s sensible but a bit dull and I think she has been made to look far better than she actually is by the other candidates’ incompetence. Let’s not forget she led her team to a loss as PM and wasn’t too far away from being fired. I wouldn’t be surprised if her business plan was an absolute clanger.

5. James - Probably being kept in to serve as Claude-bait in the interviews. Industrious, but a bit out of his depth overall.

6. Daniel - Doesn’t seem to be particularly good at anything in the tasks but is decent in the boardroom. At least he seems to be the only one who’s sussed Mark out.

7. Sanjay - I can’t recall any candidate from any series lasting this long but making so little an impression. He’s apparently a finance guy but plucked random prices from thin air when he PM’d the coach task - resulting in the loss. Has been portrayed negatively by the edits so I doubt he has long left in the competition.

8. Felipe - Going by the edits this guy is there purely for comic relief. Has survived this far because the other candidates regard him as a harmless clown, and might continue to do so for another couple of weeks yet. Don’t be surprised if LS forces him to PM a task soon… then you know elimination beckons.

9. Bianca - Her sole contributions seem limited to the occasional howler - e.g the exclusivity debacle, telling that group they were the teams’ last chance to sell the coach tickets and of course, that dreadful advert. As soon as she’s in the final 3 she’s gone imo.

My post would look much like yours. Except I'd have James as 8. Not as useless as Daniel but unmanageable, unprofessional, aggressive, limited competence, and a total liability in terms of potential damage. His 'cheeky charm' is an acquired taste but is the only thing he seems to have going for him.

And I share your comments about Bianca and Sanjay but would switch their rank. Neither is especially good but he's not proved high risk like she has with her howlers.

All of the best business people I've worked with have been creative thinkers. I don't mean in terms of producing a pretty brochure or conceiving an initial product but thinking outside the box, devising strategy and solving problems on the hoof.

Here's a definition:

"Creativity is characterised by the ability to perceive the world in new ways, to find hidden patterns, to make connections between seemingly unrelated phenomena, and to generate solutions."

Creativity is, IMO, a fundamental and supporting aspect of several traits an entrepreneur needs: vision, strategic and lateral thinking, empathy, persuasion, problem-solving. It's not a trait that's only used upfront in a project then not required in favour of, I dunno organisation skills. It's a driving force.

On that basis, any candidate who demonstrates creativity is ahead of the others in my book.