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    #212
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,815 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Trampas wrote: »
    A team shouldn’t be able to take advantage of when a person on their team drops out.


    They do bull about distances on it. So take take everything with a handful of salt. No way the distance for plane event is right. Not even close. So sand dune I wouldn’t trust either and a good camera angle can boost it also
    I don't think the team "took advantage" of their mother being injured (she didn't "drop out"!) - she just happened to be the least strong/fit of them.



    The other team get to pick who they don't run in the eliminator. Last series (or at least in a recent series) one team lost their strongest member by a mile, and the other team didn't run their weakest. I think it led to a wild imbalance of female/male in the eliminator, can't remember exactly. Or maybe it was the opposite - they decided to do the decent thing and also didn't run their strongest?? I've the memory of a goldfish for these things. Anyway, I do remember a huge debate about it, so it could in theory work seriously well for one team.


    Anyway, it just so happened to suit the team that eventually won tonight!


    And I really, truly, strongly believe that that sand dune was ten times worse than it looked on screen! (Can't offer an opinion on the plane)


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    #213
    RuckingSwimmer
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    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    I don't think the team "took advantage" of their mother being injured (she didn't "drop out"!) - she just happened to be the least strong/fit of them.

    The other team get to pick who they don't run in the eliminator. Last series (or at least in a recent series) one team lost their strongest member by a mile, and the other team didn't run their weakest. I think it led to a wild imbalance of female/male in the eliminator, can't remember exactly. Or maybe it was the opposite - they decided to do the decent thing and also didn't run their strongest?? I've the memory of a goldfish for these things. Anyway, I do remember a huge debate about it, so it could in theory work seriously well for one team.

    Anyway, it just so happened to suit the team that eventually won tonight!

    And I really, truly, strongly believe that that sand dune was ten times worse than it looked on screen! (Can't offer an opinion on the plane)


    I've climbed that sand dune - it's definitely harder than it looks!!!

    Pretty sure the team last year did the "decent thing", dropped their strongest member and ended up being eliminated


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    #214
    Galwayguy35
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    I think Davey is by far the best coach, Anna And Dervla seem to have no advice at all to offer to the families either before or during the course.


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    #215
    funkey_monkey
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    Hoping Davey's team makes it through. Would like to see Anna's team go out as I find her unlikeable, nothing against the family.


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    #216
    Azatadine
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    funkey_monkey wrote: »
    Hoping Davey's team makes it through. Would like to see Anna's team go out as I find her unlikeable, nothing against the family.

    Anna loves the camera.


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    #217
    wirelessdude01
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    It Dunners wearing eyeliner?


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    #218
    Azatadine
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    That poor woman should not have entered.


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    #219
    tayto lover
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    That poor black family??
    The mother could hardly walk.
    Fittest families how are ya.


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    #220
    funkey_monkey
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    Azatadine wrote: »
    Anna loves the camera.

    Loves herself.


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    #221
    pjohnson
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    Fair fúcks for completing the course but that poor woman.

    There had to be someone else that could enter instead of her?


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    #222
    funkey_monkey
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    pjohnson wrote: »
    Fair fúcks for completing the course but that poor woman.

    There had to be someone else that could enter instead of her?

    That was a tough one for her.

    Davey's passion is great.


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    #223
    funkey_monkey
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    Anna's team for a handy win here.

    Painful to watch this.


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    #224
    Andrew00
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    How have they allowed the aul wan belonging to the Mandyangoos to participate


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    #225
    Andrew00
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    tayto lover wrote: »
    That poor black family??
    The mother could hardly walk.
    Fittest families how are ya.

    We all know why they're on the show. Madness to put the poor family through this


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    #226
    Weepsie
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    Andrew00 wrote: »
    We all know why they're on the show. Madness to put the poor family through this

    Because they applied??

    There's been bad contestants on this before. The 3 kids are grand. The mother isn't able for it.


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    #227
    tayto lover
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    Andrew00 wrote: »
    We all know why they're on the show. Madness to put the poor family through this

    RTÉ being politically correct. Have to have ethnicity even if they were the unfittest family ever In the competition. Ruined it.


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    #228
    pjohnson
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    It wasnt the mother in the end that cost them. The brothers made shíte of the wall and the sister ditched the lot of them.


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    #229
    Andrew00
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    Weepsie wrote: »
    Because they applied??

    There's been bad contestants on this before. The 3 kids are grand. The mother isn't able for it.

    There's been bad contestants but jesus this is on a different level and you have to admit that. Where's the aul lad or could they have no got anyone else


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    #230
    Weepsie
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    Victory for Anna Geary is a loss for us all.


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    #231
    Andrew00
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    Weepsie wrote: »
    Victory for Anna Geary is a loss for us all.

    How do the lads on the show concentrate when Anna is their trainer? I'd be staring at her hole all day haha


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    #232
    touts
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    tayto lover wrote: »
    That poor black family??
    The mother could hardly walk.
    Fittest families how are ya.

    It's nuts. They were lucky she didn't get injured.


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    #233
    Harry Palmr
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    Ridiculous, surely the preliminaries should weed out someone so unsuitable for physical challenges.


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    #234
    salmocab
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    tayto lover wrote: »
    RTÉ being politically correct. Have to have ethnicity even if they were the unfittest family ever In the competition. Ruined it.

    Thought the three siblings were fit as, don’t normally watch so don’t know about other years but watching on fast forward as I know one of this years families. Although have to watch the start to see if they are on.


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    #235
    tayto lover
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    I really doubt that family applied to take part.
    Looks more like they were approached and persuaded.


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    #236
    Big Ears
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    touts wrote: »
    It's nuts. They were lucky she didn't get injured.

    Tbf she probably is broke up from her son kicking off her back to try and jump a wall......twice.

    She got some of her own back by standing on his head !


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    #237
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    tayto lover wrote: »
    I really doubt that family applied to take part.
    Looks more like they were approached and persuaded.

    Ah the conspiracy theories have arrived. Give your head a wobble unless and until you know that is the case.


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    #238
    funkey_monkey
    Registered Users Posts: 8,068 ✭✭✭funkey_monkey


    She didn't even manage to get to the plane last week.
    I'm sure they do fitness checked on the competitors. However they got the tactics wrong and Dervla didn't coach them right for it.
    Poor all round.


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    #239
    pjohnson
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    tayto lover wrote: »
    I really doubt that family applied to take part.
    Looks more like they were approached and persuaded.

    Conspiracy theories now :pac:


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    #240
    tayto lover
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    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Ah the conspiracy theories have arrived. Give your head a wobble unless and until you know that is the case.

    Ah gullible Harry has arrived.


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    #241
    tayto lover
    Registered Users Posts: 51,497 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    pjohnson wrote: »
    Conspiracy theories now :pac:

    Unless no other families applied.


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