Giro d'Italia Stage 1 - ITT

.......or none of the above?

Would love to see a Saxo win back home, but i dont see them doing enough damage to be honest. I have a feeling for BMC and Thor in Pink the first week

I wouldn't rule out Boaro, but probably not enough for the win. Same applies for JJ Haedo on Sunday and Monday, I guess.

As far as BMC is concerned, it will be interesting to see how the pink ambitions pan out for Phinney (very focussed to win, explosive, probably best suited for a technical and possivly slippery circuit) and Hushovd (motivated as well, close to home). A few secs on Saturday may decide who will be the lead-out man and who will be sprinting for bonus time in the days to come.

Pinotti will probably settle for pink later on...

Rasmussen/Larssen/Thomas 123 in any order you want

Take out Gustav and I will settle for that

I have the top 6 on my team. Just not telling who :-p

Have you been hacking into my account? I have the top 6 as well.

I have 7 of the top 10

As usual, I was very happy with my team until I started reading the comments on the forum

You didnt read my comment then

I reckon I'll end up with 8 of the top thirty...

Unfortunately, 6 of them will be between 21 & 30...

Now made two more substitutions! I love/hate this game

I really hope the time trial goes well. If not, I got nothin. PS - RIP MCA (not a cycling thing but needs to be said)

morning folks doing a few tweeks again but ive noticed a rider missing jesse sergent of radio shack any chance of adding him in andy

sorry folks found him hes cheap

Transfer 31. Now time for a ride.

Daniele Bennati (RSN)
Geraint Thomas (SKY)
Mark Cavendish (SKY)
Thomas de Gendt (VCD)
Alex Rasmussen (GRM)
Manuele Boaro (SAX)
Taylor Phinney (BMC)
Michal Kwiatkowski (OPQ)
Jack Bobridge (GRE)

I really wanted to fit Larsson & Tuft in there as well, so expect them to finish 1st & 2nd today...

Good news that then Wig as I have Tuft and 5 others the same as you

OK. This is me. Might get a couple of points

Thor Hushovd (BMC)
Geraint Thomas (SKY)
Roman Kreuziger (AST)
Thomas de Gendt (VCD)
Taylor Phinney (BMC)
Dennis Vanendert (LOT)
Tom Jelte Slagter (RAB)
Jack Bauer (GRM)
Alex Rasmussen (GRM)

Wig_Billy - SNAP - we have EXACTY the same team!

RIGHT, i'm like this At the TV just now, When Eurosport need to go through all the riders and refer them back to Contador for his opinion's. Thats when i switch off

Great minds think alike.

And fail to score together

Cmon Aussie Cmon, Bobridge is on the road

After that time from Bobridge, you may be right.

Soo glad Bobridge didn't figure on my team

Jesus ... What happenned with Bobridge ?
Take Jesse Sergent to put Bobrigge

Cav outside top 20.

#9 - Giacomo NIZZOLO
That's me done

Phinney!

Geraint Thomas (SKY)
Mark Cavendish (SKY)
Robert Hunter (GRM)
Matt Goss (Gre)
Gustav Erik Larsson (VCD)
Taylor Phinney (BMC)
Andrea Guardini (FAR)
Alex Rasmussen (GRM)
Jon Izagirre (EUS)

Hoping Basso, and rodrigez don't throw a spanner in the works as both got themselves transferred out.

Currently got 1,2,3,5 and 9

yh my team has gone to pot

Phinney
Thomas
Rasmussen
Boara
Larsson
Navardauskas
Lancaster
Pinotti
Sergent
Oliveira
Vaitkus
Clement
Hunter
Bauer
Bodnar
Gaparotto
Hesjedal
Kwiatkowski
Cataldo
Pozzato

Thats your top 20, Really annoyed that i didn't stick with Navardauskas and i swapped Hushovd in for Pinotti

Got 1,2,3,5,12 +5

Posn. Name Country Team Time d Time bonus
11 VAITKUS Tomas LTU OGE 10:53 0:27
12 CLEMENT Stef NED RAB 10:54 0:28
13 HUNTER Robert RSA GRM 10:54 0:28
14 BAUER Jack NZL GRM 10:54 0:28
15 BODNAR Maciej POL LIQ 10:55 0:29
16 GASPAROTTO Enrico ITA AST 10:55 0:29
17 HESJEDAL Ryder CAN GRM 10:55 0:29
18 KWIATKOWSKI Michal POL OPQ 10:55 0:29
19 CATALDO Dario ITA OPQ 10:57 0:31
20 POZZATO Filippo ITA FAR 10:58 0:32
21 NIZZOLO Giacomo ITA RNT 10:58 0:32
22 DE GENDT Thomas BEL VCD 10:58 0:32

1,2,3,5,8 & 9.

1,2,3,5,6,8 .... Boaro out for Bobridge.... grrrrrr

Might win?!

1,2,3 & 14 + 5. That's not a bad start. Hoping I've made the right call for my transfers now

1,2,3,4,18 = 149 points - quite pleased with that . I had a couple of disappointing performers today, but at least I don't have any transfer dilemmas for tomorrow now.

158 for me 1,2,3,5,9,20
Now for sprint transfers

185. That'll do.

157 for me, enough for = 110th

Big scored today, but already 60 behind the leader

1, 2, 3, 4 and 8. Couple of either/or calls went wrong way and could have resulted in totally bumper day. Not complaining mind.

Upgraded to premium account but not on the 'premium leaderboard'. Anyone else the same?

I don't think the premium leaderboard has formed itself yet, no-one is on it

Thanks, let's hope it's up and running soon.

bit of mess up and by the looks of my team for tomorrow i wont gain any points and am more likely to loose ground again

premium leaderboard should be up and running now

Not a bad result - 120 points, but i've got my main sprinters in for the rest of the week without any difficulty so hopefully when the mountains arrive i will have built up a few extra transfers.

I did the same as you, dropped pinotti for hushovd and brought in bobridge for boaro...

My hope is the those at the top of the leaderboard are really TT heavy and won't get many sprint points in the next stages. That's what happened when I had a blinding opening prologue in the Paris-Nice but couldn't transfer sprinters in fast enough and lost ground.

On a side note, my purist team scored a nice round 0. Thinking Phinney might have been a good pick as he'll surely keep the jersey a while and score well in the TTT and final ITT (assuming he gets there).