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If you're good at pitching you don't flop like Mark did with Tesco, frankly I'd have fired him for that. That would be like a TV presenter just not being able to do their job one day and standing like an idiot on camera.
If you want to big yourself up then you better be damn good at it. |
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The same goes for him, he wanted to do the pitch but he isn't good at them. She isn't either but that's not the point, he is equally delusional to think he is good at them.
April should have public speaking skills if she won a national beauty pageant and likely was coached before Miss Universe so she must be deliberately laying low but if I was PM I'd suggest her to do the pitch. Perhaps, but a thank you speech after being crowned Miss Universe would be quite different to delivering a pitch in this type of field. From what I've seen of her communication skills thus far I think she'd deliver a good pitch, but it remains to be seen. |
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I think Richard is all right, sometimes he's too pompous but when he states his opinion about something, most of the times I agree with him. I dislike Charlene and Vana more.
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The same goes for him, he wanted to do the pitch but he isn't good at them. She isn't either but that's not the point, he is equally delusional to think he is good at them.
April should have public speaking skills if she won a national beauty pageant and likely was coached before Miss Universe so she must be deliberately laying low but if I was PM I'd suggest her to do the pitch. |
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It's interesting that Richard is being compared to Mark as I really liked Mark last year and wanted him to win, while I don't like Richard.
I think the difference could be that Richard comes across as pompous and not a team player. He also has shown less ability than Mark did while having the same level of self belief, which makes him more similar to Daniel out of last year's candidates. |
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I think the difference could be that Richard comes across as pompous and not a team player. He also has shown less ability than Mark did while having the same level of self belief, which makes him more similar to Daniel out of last year's candidates.
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It's interesting that Richard is being compared to Mark as I really liked Mark last year and wanted him to win, while I don't like Richard.
I think the difference could be that Richard comes across as pompous and not a team player. He also has shown less ability than Mark did while having the same level of self belief, which makes him more similar to Daniel out of last year's candidates. ![]() Are you not confusing him with the Strictly one ![]() Think that Richard is far more direct then Mark, who was basically doing it Katie Hopkins style (slamming team members left and right in the bits to the camera). |
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Mark Wright was a team player
![]() Are you not confusing him with the Strictly one ![]() Think that Richard is far more direct then Mark, who was basically doing it Katie Hopkins style (slamming team members left and right in the bits to the camera). |
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It's interesting that Richard is being compared to Mark as I really liked Mark last year and wanted him to win, while I don't like Richard.
I think the difference could be that Richard comes across as pompous and not a team player. He also has shown less ability than Mark did while having the same level of self belief, which makes him more similar to Daniel out of last year's candidates. |
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If you're good at pitching you don't flop like Mark did with Tesco, frankly I'd have fired him for that. That would be like a TV presenter just not being able to do their job one day and standing like an idiot on camera.
If you want to big yourself up then you better be damn good at it. |
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Very smug character but one who has performed consistently well. Richard will come close but don't see Lord Sugar going for him
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Richard is a good candidate. That I can't deny. He's articulate, he's shown himself to be good at creating a vision and following it through into an end result. He managed a team well - he got them all to do what he wanted. And, whatever anybody might say, he pitched well from what we saw.
I can't bring myself to like him though. Nothing to do with his credibility as a candidate and everything to do with him bearing a close physical resemblance to a former manager of mine who shared many attributes - most notably, "delegating" tasks to others with such strict guidelines that they could only possibly do exactly what he wanted. |
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Richard is a good candidate. That I can't deny. He's articulate, he's shown himself to be good at creating a vision and following it through into an end result. He managed a team well - he got them all to do what he wanted. And, whatever anybody might say, he pitched well from what we saw.
I can't bring myself to like him though. Nothing to do with his credibility as a candidate and everything to do with him bearing a close physical resemblance to a former manager of mine who shared many attributes - most notably, "delegating" tasks to others with such strict guidelines that they could only possibly do exactly what he wanted. It does appear that, as with Mark last year, some viewers are downgrading Richard's chances on the basis that they don't like him. But Sugar won't care about that one jot. Can he get the job done in tasks, and does he have a good business plan? That's all that matters. As I've said elsewhere, I don't believe that Richard can win if his business plan is in his area of expertise, digital marketing - solely because that would put his business a little too close to Mark, and I suspect Sugar will want his new investment to be different from his previous ones if possible - a diverse portfolio. |
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Richard's likeability problem might be a factor in the interview rounds, where four strangers will each have half an hour or so to like or dislike Richard. It is hard for us to predict how that will turn out because it is not really obvious what is the problem -- which might of course be external to Richard himself if it is really due to others forming a clique, though the fact that Karren was moved to comment does not augur well.
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Richard's likeability problem might be a factor in the interview rounds, where four strangers will each have half an hour or so to like or dislike Richard. It is hard for us to predict how that will turn out because it is not really obvious what is the problem -- which might of course be external to Richard himself if it is really due to others forming a clique, though the fact that Karren was moved to comment does not augur well.
Sugar doesn't have to like his new partner (although, of course, it helps). It's not even as if he will have to deal with him on a day-to-day basis, really. I imagine that, once the business is up and running, Sugar probably doesn't meet with the winners more than a handful of times a year. |
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Smug and arrogant, I can't stand him.
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I love it when someone praises him and he starts to blush like a 5 year old.
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I almost can't believe I am saying this but Richard is actually growing on me! Most of this is down to how Charleine treated him last week mind, I was a fan of hers up till then but she was just so unprofessional and came across as a total bully to be honest. He got his hands dirty tonight and listened rather than try to make everything about him, hopefully he's learned a lesson!
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I almost can't believe I am saying this but Richard is actually growing on me!
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he is really growing on me
![]() ![]() ![]() and he is the fittest one, being very superficial ![]() I think he gets a lot of bad editing but he is willing to pick up where others fade in the background |
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I was v impressed with him getting stuck into the physical work, I'm always shocked at people who just dont do manual labour for no good reason. Brett had a good work ethic too-I'd hire him to build a patio and I'd end up with a new garage
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I was v impressed with him getting stuck into the physical work, I'm always shocked at people who just dont do manual labour for no good reason. Brett had a good work ethic too-I'd hire him to build a patio and I'd end up with a new garage
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Nobody, but nobody, comes anywhere near Katie Hopkins in the unlikeable category.
I think Richard's ok and that he'll probably win. |
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Interesting you say that, as I think Richard is more of a team player than Mark was. I mean there's no doubting Mark carried a lot of his teams but he was also forever looking for ways to stab his teammates in the back had they ended up losing the task.
Richard clearly wasn't too liked by his fellow contestants to begin with (something that didn't appear to bother him at all) although he has a tendency to win people over when they actually work around him. Having said that, I think he definitely has the potential to bring up flaws and throw a competitor under the bus should he be in the boardroom. |
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Richard was a good laugh last night, to be honest not sure if that was with him or at him (I mean, his own project manager left him behind
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