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Listed below are comments made by Ian-in-Bangkok between Tuesday, 5th August 2008 and Friday, 3rd April 2009.

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-TheApprentice-Candidates-CandidateExpansion-NoorulChoudhury 03:23am on 03 Apr 2009 Did the program editors cut out the footage of this guy in Episode 2 ?

Or was he away doing playground duty when the work needed to be done?
-TheApprentice-Candidates-CandidateExpansion-YasminaSiadatan 03:02am on 03 Apr 2009 And following the indepth analysis of Yasmin's ingredients....

Poppet, when a leader starts off with squeaking "listen to me, listen to me" it shows that they don't twig that a good leader often starts by "listening to others, listening to others."

And what a fantastic job of briefing the sales team so they knew what they were selling. I don't think so.

Socially immature,
Inflexible personality style,
Questionable marketing skills and poor understanding of the sales process.

Back home chopping lettuce by Week 6.
-TheApprentice-Candidates-CandidateExpansion-MonaLewis 03:01am on 27 Mar 2009 Mona needs to understand that good leaders motivate their team.

If this one saw a half full glass she'd criticise the person who
bought the wrong sized glass.
-TheApprentice-Candidates-CandidateExpansion-PhilipTaylor 10:41am on 26 Mar 2009 Based on episode one I wouldn't want this guy in any business of mine. Disruptive and moaning. Get with the team mate... forget control and try some trust.

A is for Attitude.
Comes right at the start of the alphabet.
Losing to the Brits 11:32am on 19 Aug 2008 WHOAAA !!!

60 plus posts and has NO ONE yet mentioned the last two Rugby World Cups?

But seriously, I watched the rowing and cycling on Saturday in an Aussie sports bar in Bangkok. I was the only Brit in there.

And the Aussie blokes couldn't have been more complementary on the performance of the Brits ...and everyone else who played well. Fair do's to them all. They even sang "Lay Down Sally" so yes they can take the pee out of their own rowers.

The majority of us in the bar had at some point in our past played team sports. Once a sportsman always a sportsman.
Testing a space-age swimsuit in a local Beijing pool 02:51am on 07 Aug 2008 Absolutely superb Tom.

A Michelin Man Star awarded for your article.
The odd couple unveil new shoes 09:02am on 06 Aug 2008 Another good one Tom.

The wonders of sports marketing.

If only the 1966 World Cup organisers had had such slick publicity.

Adidas could have got Nancy Sinatra singing "These Boots Were Made for Walking" at Birmingham's Bull Ring, followed by Geoff Hurst answering questions on that dodgy second goal decision by Tofik Bakhramov.
Like the week before Christmas - but far hotter 11:19am on 05 Aug 2008 All the best Frances. I'll be willing you and your crew to take it all the way.

(Suggest you leave your mum's duvet back at the boathouse on the big day. Maybe donate it to an aspiring cox before the winter heads training on the Isis.)
How my lungs coped with a 10k run round Beijing 10:55am on 05 Aug 2008 Great to see you out there blogging again Tom.

Of course, when we were training for the 1936 Olympic marathon we had it tough.

We used to 'ave to get up out of the airport at twelve o'clock at night and lick the runway clean with tongue before they allowed us to put our kit on. We had half a pot noodle for breakfast with no egg on it, work twenty-four hours a day pushing buses up the motorways because they had no engines in them, and when we got back to the Olympic village our trainer would stab us in the eyes wit' javelins.

Right. My mate here in the office has just told me that in 1904…

He had to get out of the plane at ten o'clock at night half an hour before it took off, and at 40,000 feet free fall with no parachute into the training camp, having had his bags lost forever at Heathrow, then drink a cup of sulphuric Lucozade and eat the plastic trays used to hold the BOAC inflight meal, work seventy-nine hours a day building the stadium, and pay the government for permission to wear his running shoes, and when he crossed the finishing line, the founding fathers of the BBC would kill him and dance about on his grave singing Hallelujah.

And you tell the athletes in Beijing that… and they won’t believe you.

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