The Guardian's previewer described the team as "10 teenagers of varying degrees of hopelessness". She was disturbed by their "shockingly bad tempers" - which shows her to be an oddly sensitively flower for a working journalist.
Even the ones she approved of were damned with faint praise: "Some of the youngsters haven't yet realised that they left the playground some time ago, while others just want to get on with the job and try to learn something without looking too inept."
The Independent was more positive. The paper interviewed Philip Ashton, the one-time joiner who led the team. Its verdict of his view is a welcome antidote to the usual negativity: "He has come away with more optimism about the motivation of today's teenagers than how well prepared the industry is to face the challenge of building hundreds of thousands of new homes."
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