The Apprentice (IRL)

calex71 · 06-10-2008 11:40pm

Utopia Parkway wrote: »

Who goes in to eat in Supermacs at 10 in the morning anyway?

who goes there sober ;-)

deadwood · 06-10-2008 11:41pm

Utopia Parkway wrote: »

Who goes in to eat in Supermacs at 10 in the morning anyway?

Boardsies?

KerranJast · 07-10-2008 12:13am

Am I the only one who noticed that their window poster in the Galway shop advertised "Galway Rose and Galway Hurler" as special guests? "Galway Hurler"? The guy has a name, a pretty damn famous name now. In fact they should have put a giant neon arrow saying "MEET JOE CANNING!1! and buy some Supermacs" over the shop. It was the brother of a lad I know giving the whole Braveheart speech there. Brilliant stuff. He's a cute hoor keeping his head down so far.

Gekko · 07-10-2008 2:15am

very poor episode tonight I found. Not really riveting or entertaining

Our man in Havana · 07-10-2008 3:14am

estebancambias wrote: »

remember when bill got all tough? Found that hilarious.

I was bursting my hole laughing at him. Alan Sugar he is not.

iseegirls · 07-10-2008 7:54am

jaffa20 wrote: »

Didn't make any sense to me how Galway team won. It didn't show much of galway and it seemed lifeless there when they did. Dublin was much busier and supermacs are bound to make a trade on O' connell st. I guess the bunny suit scared them off. Galways spent all their money on flyers too wheras Dublin kept it. How much food did they buy 900euro seems like a lot to lose by

FIX!!:mad:

They had to better the average that the stores make on that particular day. Yeah obviously Dublin will make more more money - but did the team improve the profit by much? And the answer was no. The team in Galway did increase profit - and so they won.

Simple

VERYinterested · 07-10-2008 10:54am

Imagine how simple it would have been for one of the Galway crew to phone Galway Bay FM in advance and announce on the airwaves that Canning and the Galway Rose were going to be present and that they were going to be giving out free stuff. The place would have been heaving, instead of relying on a stall similar to kids having a sale of work, they really would have wiped the floor good and proper with the O'Connell St crew who would then all have been fired. Imagine going in to the GPO?? Civil Servants and Guards (Fruit episode) are least likely to be taken in by this sh1te!

kmick · 07-10-2008 11:04am

The show is not bad but the the seed money they are given 550 for last nights show seems very low. You cant do much with that. Agreed though both teams are pretty poor on ideas and none of them seem like good sales people. The girls are surviving by just keeping their heads down and the lads are dropping like flies. That guy Ronan the "master strategist" could not even get a crowd for a computer game launch in Temple Bar - he was worse than useless.

Most of the men seem like bluffers/spoofers and girls are mostly nutjobs as far as I can see.

Sabre0001 · 07-10-2008 11:12am

Anyone think they have an eye on Season 2 - team leader hasn't been fired yet no matter how big the error. Like last night Bill kept saying that it was the biggest error, etc and then just picks another person. Whereas other versions the buck often stops with the Team Leader.

So it seems that they are trying to encourage people to become team lead - you get a safety net of being able to learn from a mistake...

Also, to echo some thoughts above there was a very nice shot of the door of the Radisson for no reason at all - ok, they are staying there.....Did we need to know that, does it add anything to the programme?! No!

KhanTheMan · 07-10-2008 11:17am

TV3 messing up a good format of a show
€50000

Having your business featured on this show
-€50000

having clips of what a knob you are (and they are all knobs cullen etc included) on youtube for all of your potential employers to see FOREVER.

Priceless

A friend of mine is actually editing the parts of each contestant together to make their very own youtube video for them and any potential employers to look at. They are brilliant. I'll post them when he puts them up after the series is finished.

Our man in Havana · 07-10-2008 11:22am

Excellent good man!

I see they shot that on the 12th of August. I reckon the selection processs was about as rigerous as selecting the contestants from the first 14 emails they received. I don't think they used anything more than that. Compared to the USA/UK it is a very poor effort.

SEPT 23 1989 · 07-10-2008 1:40pm

Penny Apples Cullen:D

Sizzler · 07-10-2008 2:05pm

kmick wrote: »

The show is not bad but the the seed money they are given 550 for last nights show seems very low.

Don't you mean "seed capital", thats what the fruit seller calls it

Bullshoite bingo at its best!

Bond-007 wrote: »

Excellent good man!

I see they shot that on the 12th of August. I reckon the selection processs was about as rigerous as selecting the contestants from the first 14 emails they received. I don't think they used anything more than that. Compared to the USA/UK it is a very poor effort.

ROFL ! But they said that the application process was "rigorous"

toiletduck · 07-10-2008 2:07pm

Utopia Parkway wrote: »

Who goes in to eat in Supermacs at 10 in the morning anyway?

"They say a good breakfast is the start to a good day, I'll have a large garlic cheese chips and two Mighty Macs please."

niceirishfella · 07-10-2008 5:12pm

Would you like a drink with that?

LOL -upsell...!

Mr E · 07-10-2008 8:26pm

Just watched it now... Definitely a shadow of the UK version.

Jackie is going to love those really close close-ups of her face. Every wrinkle, every crease, every blemish.

Our man in Havana · 07-10-2008 8:29pm

Be thankful that it is not filmed in High Def. :eek:

Also why did no one think to corner the breakfast market? Were they only allowed to sell during certain hours?

DEMON 90 · 08-10-2008 12:49am

if these 14 candidates are the cream of the crop, there is no hope for the future of the country, they couldnt manage to get there way out of a wet paper bag, they are all talk( the usual business sales/moorketing strategy talk)very little action!!

subway · 08-10-2008 8:33am

DEMON 90 wrote: »

if these 14 candidates are the cream of the crop, there is no hope for the future of the country, they couldnt manage to get there way out of a wet paper bag, they are all talk( the usual business sales/moorketing strategy talk)very little action!!

in all fairness to them , there isnt an awful lot of scope for innovation in the tasks.
how many ways are there to improve the fortunes of a huge and established fast food chain in 6 hours with 350eu.

the contestants may not be coming off in the best light, but to be completely fair to them, they havent had an apportunity in the past 3 weeks to show anything of their skills and im starting to think its the narrow scope of the challenges, rather than every last one of them being incompetent.

When in a situation like that (short time frames + tighht competition) people are more likely to focus on achieving the goal of the task, than questioning the merit of what they are doing (in terms of the actual task).

Cyrus · 08-10-2008 8:47am

DEMON 90 wrote: »

if these 14 candidates are the cream of the crop, there is no hope for the future of the country, they couldnt manage to get there way out of a wet paper bag, they are all talk( the usual business sales/moorketing strategy talk)very little action!!

cream of the crop that actually applied.......

Toto Wolfcastle · 08-10-2008 2:29pm

Cyrus wrote: »

cream of the crop that actually applied.......

Yeah, I'm going to guess that the actual cream of the crop in this country wouldn't go near the show.

KhanTheMan · 08-10-2008 2:35pm

DEMON 90 wrote: »

if these 14 candidates are the cream of the crop, there is no hope for the future of the country, they couldnt manage to get there way out of a wet paper bag, they are all talk( the usual business sales/moorketing strategy talk)very little action!!

There are 2 things that rise to the top. I think the missed the cream but the definitely got the sh!te.

rod flanders · 08-10-2008 2:50pm

Are the bookies taking bets on this show? My friend says he knows who won.

Our man in Havana · 08-10-2008 3:06pm

Not a hope a bookie will take a bet. The whole thing is prerecorded. The amount of camera people, directors, producers etc that already know the result would destroy a bookie if one was that stupid enough to accept a bet.

Sizzler · 08-10-2008 4:11pm

rod flanders wrote: »

Are the bookies taking bets on this show? My friend says he knows who won.

Go on then, post it as a spoiler and we can have a look and see if he was right

PP are taking a lot of bets on it, but that aint one of them!

http://www.paddypower.com/bet?action=go_type&category=SPECIALS&disp_cat_id=&ev_class_id=72&ev_type_id=10432&ev_oc_grp_ids=86977&bir_index=

EKRIUQ · 08-10-2008 7:31pm

I don't know if this true but someone said that

cullen jnr and your one that was the project manager in the first task were in the final

Elmo · 08-10-2008 7:41pm

Namesco wrote: »

I don't know if this true but someone said that
cullen jnr and your one that was the project manager in the first task were in the final

I said that at some stage on this thread. I take it back as this weeks show was about supermacs and they mixed the guys and the girls up. I thought Supermacs would have been near the end.

Pigletlover · 10-10-2008 11:05am

estebancambias wrote: »

what do we want? Supermacs. When do we want it? Now.

*Cringe*

The editing is awful, they keep leaving out the most important parts so I'm left watching it wondering if I've missed something.

KnifeWRENCH · 10-10-2008 1:24pm

I haven't seen this since the first episode and prob. won't see it again (clashes with college stuff)

By the looks of this thread, I'm not missing much. Is it really that bad, or is it just bad when compared to the (rather brilliant) UK version?

OPENROAD · 10-10-2008 9:04pm

square_igloo wrote: »

I haven't seen this since the first episode and prob. won't see it again (clashes with college stuff)

By the looks of this thread, I'm not missing much. Is it really that bad, or is it just bad when compared to the (rather brilliant) UK version?

I saw the first two episodes but not really interested in it to be honest, it is not a patch on the UK version which I absolutely love.

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