Apologies for missing your post. You've got a good point about Steph, but I suppose she'd never have guessed that it would be HER playing!

A modest money game to end the live shows on - and at least it gave the live shows some sort of happy ending that didn't feel too forced.

Bar a few 2-box decisions having to be made in haste, the live shows have been well managed by the crew, and I can definitely see them aiming to do more in future.

I couldn't remember half the current 22 players today when the normal shows started. I'd have probably just have thought that those players who I didn't recognise were F&F of the player today.

I saw Nicki, Sheila and Syrita too

Thoroughly enjoyed this game as they made it different to the other Live shows, poor girl I thought she was going to crumble under the pressure but she held it together and that's thanks to Noel and everyone else who have done the past 2 weeks brilliantly well.

I hope they do more Live shows in the future.

I don't think any of the pilgrims sitting in the studio waiting for the programme to begin were thinking that a current player was going to be playing. When I saw them there I thought that it was a nice idea to get them back in order to provide a bit of continuity with the pre-recorded games that were about to be starting up again.

However, the lack of 'unknowns' on the wings, together with the fact that Noel mentioned in the trail that they were doing something they've never done before, did prompt the thought in my mind that they were going to surprise somebody there and then to play. I didn't mention it to anybody else there just in case I was wrong, but I did start mentally preparing myself for the unlikely event that it'd be me!

I think you're getting confused with how members of DOND.co.uk think and a normal person would think. Almost certainly most of the pilgrims would have thought nothing of the player line-up.

I personally was expecting them to pluck someone out of the near by Boca Bar or something to play the game.