£26,000 was a poor offer. In November 2005, the first season of the show, Jennifer was left with £250,000 and £750. She was offered £120,000, which she took. Like her, Dale played very bravely right through to the end and, at that stage, he should have been offered more like £50,000. Probably, the banker became more devious as the years went on and offered less to try to tempt the player to go on.
Remember watching this, had tears in my eyes by the end of it! Won't spoil the result for anyone but my god what an amazing bloke Dale is! Lots of love lad x
The banker brought it on himself for lowballing the players so hard. This UK banker's strategy cranks out a large number of players going all the way, while a smaller percentage of the players who chicken out sacrifice a larger percentage of fair value. The fact that the UK banker has no qualms about offering half of fair value, and even less, in the final rounds, means he forces the players to take more risk.
Gowan Dale, love this episode glad he got the 100k, but I'm trying to find the Thinking Music when it gets to the 26k offer because it just recently played In the latest Episode of Deal on ITV and still love that serious vibe to that thinking music at such a tight offer.
Thanks so much for posting this james. After 12 years I remember that this was such a wonderful programme throughout. He was a fantastic player regardless of the result. Such super interactions with his family, the other players and the banker. The look Noel gives him
