Well, cracking start to the new series last night.

Poor Nicholas. He definitely deserved to go, but not for his performance on the task. Rather for his boardroom performance.

From what I’d seen, he went in with a strong hand. The team leader had told him to price the lobsters at £4.90, something no one else commented on. He priced the monkfish based on what was written on the box. He was then the one who took the initiative and checked the girls prices and raised the issue that they were selling things way too cheaply.

All he had to do was keep that in mind, and make a big deal of the time Alex wasted assigning blame to anyone other than himself whenever something went wrong.

But the minute he made it about class, he lost the argument. I see what he was trying to say, and there’s a strong argument to be made about the fact that the boys have obviously split into two camps already, but I think he realised straight away he’d made a mistake, and then he tried to get himself out of it, but instead kept digging.

From watching “You’re Fired”, I thought he came over a lot better in that. He seemed a bit more relaxed and able to laugh at himself. From the extra clips shown there, its obvious that he was feeling quite isolated by the other guys from the beginning, so from that perspective I think it maybe worked out for the best for him leaving early. I can’t imagine he’d have found it fun being in that house for the next several weeks, as isolated as he was.

As always, I find it hard to get a feel for who the ones to watch will be this early in the show. Raef, obviously, looks like he should be quite fun to watch though. I hope he goes far, but I also can’t see him winning it. From wht we saw last night as well, the way Alex was trying to shift the blame away from himself constantly won’t go unnoticed for long I’d have thought.

It was a good start for Claire on the girls team as well. Although things were a bit of a disaster at the beginning of the day, she managed to turn things around and reign things in that were getting out of control. Plus she’s gotten her stint as project manager over with early, which can only be a good thing. Lindi seeed to be very strong with the sales as well. She’ll be a big boon to her team in future challenges I think.

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