Tour of Qatar Stage 6

rather similar to mine, im 4th overall but having a terrible ToQ after a good TDU.

I have Farrar, Wagner and Blythe instead of Renshaw, Galimzyanov and Demare compared with your team

Your starting to pull a handy little gap in the overall but im gonna strike back at the ToO next week

A lot of things can change in a short time. I have dropped 68 places in 2 days because of the farrar / Cav swapping around and it's cost me dear.

Never mind though it's only feb and a long way to go.

I've settled for;

Cav
Boonen
Oss
Wagner

Chicci
Phinney
Bauer
Eisel
Blythe,

Liquigas, BMC and Radioshack have done nothing so far so i'm hoping one of them might have a go tomorrow.

Ending with Cav, Boonen, Oss, Farrar, Kruopis, Guardini, Bauer, Selig, and Blythe.

Bauer was my only non scorer today so I wouldn't be disappointed if Farrar won tomorrow. Can't see it though, I think Cav will make it 3.

Well Kohler has finally been removed from my team. What a waste of time he's been. He was awesome in TDU. Bet he smashes it now.... would be my luck!

My team is *so* amazing for tomorrow. I'm gonna clean up.

My team is similar to Squiggles: Cav, Boonen, Farrar, Oss,
Kruopis, Selig, Navardauskas, Blythe.

Cold gone away now and score went over 100 for the first time in this tour. Hope I can claw my way back up the overall in the TdO. More interesting tour by the look of it.

I've done useless this tour, but i've had great riders throughout, just shows how competative this season is going to be.

You must have the same riders as me.

Cav
Boonen
Sagan
Veelers

Selig
Blythe
Bauer
Kruopis
Vangenechten.

Swapped Farrar for Sagan!

My final team hey hey

Mark Cavendish (SKY)
Tom Boonen (OPQ)
Tyler Farrar (GRM)
Tom Veelers (1T4)
Danilo Wyss (BMC)
Gert Steegmans (OPQ)
Rodiger Selig (KAT)
Ramunas Navardauskas (GRM)
Maarten Wynants (RAB)

rjl

Stay and banter with us sad cycling blokes, we like folks like you.

Join the last years rivals league GKam will give you the code.

Boonen
Farrar
Oss
Cavendish
Kruopis
Selig
Wynants
Navardauskas
Blythe

come on our team

Only one rider different from me. We'll have to see if Demare does better than Wynants.

can't do any worse

Mark Cavendish (SKY)
Juan Antonio Flecha (SKY)
Tom Boonen (OPQ)
Robert Hunter (GRM)

Giacomo Nizzolo (RSN)
Aidis Kruopis (GRE)
Arnaud Demare (FDJ)
Adam Blythe (BMC)
Ramunas Navardauskas (GRM)

Bit different. Hoping Flecha might try and improve on his 3rd place with a few ssprints..

Tyler Farrar
Mark Renshaw
Tom Boonen
Daniel Oss
Aidis Kruopis
Baden Cooke
Martin Kohler
Andrea Guardini
Adam Blythe

Did have more hope for Mehdi Sohrabi, maybe next time

Mark Cavendish
Tom Boonen
Daniel Oss
Mark Renshaw
Aidis Kruopis
Gert Steegmans
Adam Blythe
Ramunas Navardauskas
Rodiger Selig

hoping for a grand finale

Today i have

Mark Cavendish
Mark Renshaw
Tom Boonen
Daniel Oss
Nikolas Maes
Roger Kluge
Ramunas Navardauskas
Bernhard Eisel
Rodiger Selig

The leader of ToQ goes with:

cavendish
boonen
farrar
oss
steegmans
guardini
selig
sohrabi
blythe

while the 2nd (my team):

cavendish
boonen
renshaw
galimzyanov
steegmans
guardini
selig
demare
navardauskas

so, (Farrar + Oss + Sohrabi + Blythe + 4 points) VS (Renshaw + Galimzyanov + Demare + Navardauskas)

Can I win? ummmhhh... I don't think so. The current leader is the favourite, I think... but who knows?

Argh, Blythe has been scoring today?? I took him out

I have 7 in common with the leader .... Quite happy that I am probably in the right ballpark!

Henderson and Demare instead of Oss and Navar.... for the record.

Role on Tour of Oman and the £5000 first prize

Tyler Farrar (GRM)
Tom Boonen (OPQ)
Mark Cavendish (SKY)
Daniel Oss (LIQ)
Adam Blythe (BMC)
Matthew Brammeier (OPQ)
Jeremy Hunt (SKY)
Aleksandr Kuschynski (KAT)
Aidis Kruopis (GRE)

That's me for stage 6. Here's hoping anyword on the stage yet?

Well thats that, Cav in a nice tumble

Cav crashed

Demare
Gali
Renshaw

is all i know

how crap for me not happy

Why do i keep on picking Cav? He's let me down again. Should have picked Kluge !

Oh my God:

1. Demare
2. Galimzyanov
3. Renshaw

Demare
Galimzyanov
Renshaw
Kluge
Kristoff
Farrar
Oss
Davis
Kemps
Debusschere

Finally Kluge gets me some points but i took Galimzyanov out yesterday, seems my trend from last year has continued

Cav not been in my team all week
Brilliant rider, but a Diva

Shoulda kept renshaw watch me freefall :(

It looks like rjl will take the overall for the TOQ. Congrats! I am looking forward to the TOO.

Yesterday I was thinking for my last transfer... Oss or Henderson... guess what... picked Henderson

2nd, 3rd and 5th all removed from my team in last two days ...... genius!!

Dave: Can we have another competition for uselessness?!

........or a button for hindsight

@d_jp

thinking the same but went for Oss, lucky!

Had Demare from the start (didn't he do well Dave!) but wasn't expecting 1st today, had Cav though so not perfect, otherwise it would have been a big score.

Still 139 (I think) is my best score for a while so it's coming back. Looking forward to the ToO. Looks to be a more interesting race!

oh bugger

1st 2nd & 3rd - are the people i gave up on and transferred out

Got no points for having Martin Kohler (BMC) today, yet he finished 19th. Two points means a lot ya know!

One word - Crap !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I dont know why i bother sometimes.

111 points today, happy with that.

For future races I'm really gonna have to learn how to play the TTT well, as it seems to be my undoing so far!

OK 90 points. Not brilliant but not bad in the great scheme of things. Gained in the overall league and still in the top 500. Was half expecting to parachute half way down the league. Bring on Oman

Holy moly, I got 111 points
All thanks to Gkam84 & J Andrew Hill guidance
Just wondering how many points if I knew what I was doing

I got 110 today and finally hit the number 1 spot.........in my area league

Beware fluffchucker, begining of the season don't let them lull you into a false sence of security come the grand tours you may find yoursel being stitched up royaly

Nah nah, I'm not playing those games this season, i have different tactics to catch out the "N00b's" who just scour the forum for others tactics and transfers

So much for swapping Sagan for Farrar!

54 today, worst of this tour. No one in the top ten finishers.
Down, Down & Down again.

Farrar had lots of guaranteed points, why swop him? He scored more than Demare who won the stage.

@Dave

up 10 places today, my first upward move for a while. It seems illness interferes with fantasy as well as real cycling! Hope to get back on my bike in a couple of days when I'm completely recovered and the big freeze abates. Had to change my battery on the car and have a winter service yesterday and then had an overheating rad today!! Hate cars, can't wait to get back on the bike!!

Sagan had a good day, stage 5, made the mistake of thinking he was getting some good form , not sure there's anything guaranteed in this game though...