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Originally Posted by StGeorge

Cheryl decision has been the most controversial, but Simon picking the two made-up groups ahead of all the other groups is a slap in their faces too, and the change of age for the overs cat' from 25 to 28 means that better singers like Treyc & Marlon are out.

Absolutely. Dannii's decisions were hard to swallow but were at least well thought out; Louis made the best of a bad bunch, but Simon and Cheryl just took a dump from a great height on those who didn't get through. I think it was obvious when Simon got landed with the groups that he was going to pick his two crafted groups; he never likes to admit he's wrong so of course he was going to pick them. At least FYD got through, they deserved it. I can't get over his criticism of Husstle though, in two respects:

1) He had the nerve to invite Nicole Scherzinger onto the shows as a recurring guest judge yet used the fact it's one main singer in Husstle and the rest are glorified backing dancers as a valid criticism?!
2) His boyband, One Direction, had two guys singing and three in the background doing very little - the one who messed up his foot was literally standing there bobbing his head with an inane grin on his face and, to me, looked like he wasn't even singing.

As for Cheryl... don't get me started.