Special Forces ultimate hell week

Although I didn’t like 22, I think the method of removing him was wrong. To his credit, he must be incredibly strong mentally to still be smiling on the interview. Cockiness will only go so far to hide disappointment.

Ballymun lad saying he would steal your runners as an intro had us roaring with laughter.

The girl 27 is built like a tank and will go far despite getting almost booted off the hill climbs for coming second last.

I’m beginning to really like the DS plant. Very funny man. The scene around the hurling lad snoring was funny.

None of the other recruits had been doing any complaining about 22 either??????

Seems a fast 1 if you ask me

That’s a tough one. I reckon the recruitment usually is about teamwork but this show is a competition.

The DS basically told him he didn’t like him and he was gone.

Now if he told him teamwork was key and he wasn’t helping the team, as was explained by the DS away from the group, and had said that to the whole group instead of “your out of here”, I would have accepted that.

It’s the manner of his dismissal was wrong. I do understand why. Not a likeable personality but he was big enough to recognise that himself.

The blonde one was in bed but noth8ling was said to her, unless she was actually helping out.

22 must have been very bad to be axed like that, don't think I've ever seen someone removed like that before

He came across as a complete tool. Clap Clap boom. WTF. Have you ever heard such shite?

I don't agree with way 22 was let go.

Now I know we are not seeing everything but their reasons for letting him go don't fully stack up for me.

Most of tasks to date all about getting yourself though.

They should have imposed a team task were he was challenged and called out if not a team player at that stage.

Did I read right that it was just 1km? 😲

22 was right to be removed in that manner. I have seen people go through 9 months of a course and on the last day when everyone was was getting ready to complete it, a guy has been pulled aside and told they didnt make the grade. It happens.

They could have instead put him under pressure, tied to humiliate him, pushing him to his limit, and on the last episode, 5 minutes from the finish, took the arm band. But thats not what happened, that would be bad form.

A "DS Watcher" by the way, is someone who performs for the explicit purpose of looking good for them, not the team. Basically a bluffer or a pretender.

This had absolutely zero to do with justifying a premise of having a plant, for the viewer.

It was all about him and his buddy...his ego. There's no room for that in teamwork. Getting into bed when there's still work to be done, I couldn't believe it.

A clear message has been sent, bluff all you want, look after No.1 all you want, hang on as long as you want. If you are not working as part of a team, you are gone. Now the remaining students know it.

Boom boom clap...not sure in what environment that shyte works in. I can categorically say, it doesn't work in the military, maybe as sarcasm. The more sh1t you go through as a team, the more pain you go through as an individual, the more you realise that everyone around you is suffering but is still helping, thats where motivation comes from...boom boom clap is a 2 second soundbite that works for less than the time it takes to perform it.

#11 needs to keep his mantras to himself. None of that shyte works when the pressure is on. It might be enough to get you to go out and walk in the rain or something, I don't know.

I just need to point out, that what they are going through, is less than what a general recruit would go through on a weekly basis. Its very tame.

I hope #27 goes far. She gets it, she stopped feeling sorry for herself, didnt let the pain or brain gremlins get to her and she performed. Really not an easy thing to do. I really hope she makes it to the end. Great work out of her.

The boxer lad pushed himself too, pity he didnt make the time. Seemed like a nice enough lad.

It looks like all these muscle guys from the gym don't last very long every year. The DS's just look like a more normal build.

How do you mean what they are going through is pretty tame compared to a general recruit? Like the narrator said they have only had 2 hours sleep since the start of the course in the last episode and that seemed to be day 3 of the 7 days. 2 hours sleep over 72 hours would seem extreme enough. They are also food deprived on top, one meal a day is what they've had. Do you mean the physical tests they do are pretty tame, like in real life general recruits would be made climb up the mountain 3 or 4 times rather than the two times they did?

On #11 I didnt really get what the DS were on about with his mantras, like I never heard him chanting them out like a yogi. He said 'back yourself' was one of them becasue when he was an alcoholic he never backed himself. It just sounded like a motivational tool for himself and the few others around him and he is always near the front of the group when it comes to the physical events. I think he will make it to the end, seems he really wants it having been in the FCA but not pursing the military becasue his alcoholism got in the way, he is trying to make up for lost time.

Definitely true. On the celebrity version, Peter Stringer was on of the best and he is tiny.

But he must have unreal core body strength.