Yes I had the impression his world consisted of a very particular social strata such that he unknowingly made social gaffs when he stepped outside that.

Yep good idea, that would have been much better to have more than one to do the pricing, especially as it was given to someone who wasn't really a mathematician. Again this is something which falls to Alex for not delegating effectively

I think the way the editing went tonight it was obvious at the start of the task Alex was going to take Nicholas into the boardroom, I'm just disappointed at SAS for being taken in by the ramblings of a man clinging on for dear life

Ah well like you say it's early days and I don't have a favourite I don't think we saw enough of the others to decide who I like as yet. I did see enough of Alex to know I never want to see him again though

Yep you could get Alex on that point. He might not have been adequately familiar with the strengths and weaknesses of the others as individuals (having just met them) which might have made it difficult to allocate tasks. However he could have devoted more people to the crucial tasks.

It would have helped, but as the problem was that they were selling monkfish tails in error for a much cheaper fish, not compleatly. It was Raef who made the mistake on the fish, and he apparently asked for the advice of the others, and they all, including Alex, gave it, wrongly as it turned out. There didn't seem to be a pricing problem with the fish that had been correctly identified.

It's obvious that Nick has never done a supermarket shop in his life if he mixes up £ per kilo with £ per unit.

I didn't like Alex neither and I actually wanted him to be fired until the boardroom where Nicholas started digging himself a hole. I agreed with Nicholas that he was going to be the scapegoat, and I was sort of glad he pounced on Alex in the boardroom before Alex got the chance to make him the scapegoat, but then when Alex, Nicholas and Raef returned to the boardroom, that's where Nicholas really started digging his own grave. Then I didn't mind who got fired as long as it was Alex or Nicholas.

I'm not a business woman, my background is classical music. However, I find myself shouting at the screen when seeing such fundamental mistakes as made by the likes of Alex. If I was a PM, I'd be watching every move made by my team like a hawk! Maybe that's the discipline instilled in me as a musician! I'm not just picking on Alex here, this is a recurring theme on The Apprentice for me. I don't think (I hope I'm not, anyway!) I'm a control freak, but I have a need to know exactly what's going on and exactly who is responsible for what. If I was on The Apprentice, I would be ashamed to have behaved like both PMs tonight tbh. I'd also be ashamed to call myself a barrister if I was Nicholas!

The problem there was that he did give (did he call them 'his boys'?) the sales job with him, after rollocking Nicholas and Raef for getting it wrong. He didn't say anything to the salesmen who weren't selling very much

This, to me, seemed to be where the split occurred

A big problem as I saw it was the decision (in desperation presumably) to try and dispose of their excess fish to a firm of solicitors. Whose decision was that? They were in Islington, a fairly up market area of London and one that is packed with restaurants so far as I'm aware. Maybe they should have got the numbers of a few local fish restaurants and contacted them.

I was about to pick up on that too, although Raef was given the task we saw a few of them looking at the manual deciding which fish were what. Raef and Nicholas were wrongly blamed for this.

Nicholas did try to explain this in the boardroom but Alex just shouted over him to cover his own mistakes up every time Nicholas tried to get his point across

The trouble is, SAS is a bit of a sucker for the 'working class vs posh' thing. In my opinion, Alex was just as much of a tosser as Nicholas - Nicholas just happened to have a few more plums in his gob

I love classical music

I agree with you it's the fundamental mistakes that are the problem with candidates and it's the easy mistakes that are the problem too, saying that I don't think I could do what they do they'd eat me alive

Although I disagree with tonights firing, I agree Nicholas didn't do himself justice in the boardroom, being a barrister I would have expected much more of a fight from him!

Well I certainly agree with your last sentence sezzie

I don't have a management background either and I wonder how closely it's possible to check on people's actions. You can't do their jobs for them, but you do need to keep a handle on the different components of a task to see that they're being performed effectively. I don't know how a project manager strikes a balance. Maybe someone will come along and enlighten us!

I'm not sure whose idea that was but Michael lost them money in that one but yet that wasn't really picked up on! The girls had the best idea going to restaurants, simple really solicitors or restaurant who sells food

As a working class person myself I do think it's unfair that he goes for the working class one especially when they are the worst out of the bunch.

'Relatively speaking' Nicholas is something of a failure - to have a middle class background, a father running a law firm (and hosting his art), and then get a string of A's at GCSE and A Level (excluding the poor B), he should have been in Oxbridge. However, even with his Alpha background he didn't achieve this. King's College is an excellent uni...but anyone going to the Bar knows Oxbridge is the place to go (if one can). Given that he's such an academic snob, he should be more hung up about this glaring career failure rather than his French B.

While he is undoubtably clever, he lacked innate common sense and humility which made him a crap businessman.

They were doing the identification in a rush weren't they, with the consequence it was something of a shambles (as SAS would say). Why were they so much later off the mark than the girls in getting to the market and looking at the stock?

They must have lost quite a lot selling lobsters for just under £5 per lobster - a loss of about £10 per item which could total a lot, depending on how many lobsters they had.

Glad you like classical music. Give us a gig guv

I can't judge this lot yet, but based on past series, I've no idea how the candidates have the jobs they claim to have, cos they've all been incompetent tossers!

Maybe there should be a new RTV show - 2nd Trumpet to Sezzie - SAS, apply if you dare

I was so happy when he got fired.

He did a lot of boasting but very little action

Sir Alan got it spot on

Are you perfect, imperfect, or unfinished?

I would have thought that on a hands-on project, like a fish selling market stall, it would be pretty easy to keep an eye on what your fellow team mates were up to. Nul points Alex

Love to but I'm a pauper

I don't know how they have these jobs either as I can't see half of them managing a p**s up in a brewery, but I have seen a CV of someones today and it's the biggest fairytale since the bible so I suppose it is possible somehow

That's very interesting. Indeed, there's no mention of any failure to get into Oxbridge and with his background that's precisely where he would have been aiming. Instead he plays up a relatively insignificant grade B in GCSE French

Snap - it's bloody patronising

They all do a lot of boasting he's no different to the others. He was given a task which didn't suit him at all, but under the circumstances he didn't do too badly. Alex on the other hand, got everything wrong, he delegated ineffectively, they barely made a profit, he left the decision to sell the last stock to someone else, he blamed others because he panicked over the realisation of how badly he had done

Oh well, Raef will still speak to you

Tell us more about the fairytale CV (is it from Liam of BBCH? )