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Not a podium badge though?

After Stage 2:
Livestrongnick takes over in Gold for the Forum's Scorum's ToQ but Stumps is showing great form currently 2nd and 4th for his standard and purist teams respectively.....obviously he leads the purists in Qatar.

Top 3 overall(Kenny106,Alan Tullett and Wig_Billy) remain the same but it has certainly tightened up a bit and dare I say I was the improver of the day moving into the top 10(8th)after a pretty good TTT. GKam remains more than 160pts clear of the nearest overall purist rival.

I bought in Blythe and Delle-Stelle for Van Avermaet and Rast for stage 3 thinking that with Modolo out Delle-Stelle may be the go to sprinter on his team and Blythe over Van Avermaet purely on youth points.

After ToQ Stage 3:

Wig_Billy's purist team hits the front in the Forum Scorum Tour of Qatar with simon F 'first wheel' so to speak...it would be a big ask for him to hold on to the Gold with a purist team of Cav,Kruopis,EBH,Haussler,VanKiersbuilk,VanAvermaet,Blythe,Devolder and Rasch but let's see?

In the Forum's Scorum's overall Alan Tullett has retaken the lead from Kenny 106 and is the first man to 1000pts....whilst Gkam's 818pts leads the purists.

For my part I'm more than happy with 5th in the whole game on that stage and even my modolo-less purists managed a very creditable 119pts

Multi-Tasking starts tomorrow with the Tour Med and I'm thinking that Europcar haven't bought Tivo AND Rolland to muck about but a bit disappointed that Pinot is so pricey(although he was my favourite rider last year).......any bargains out there?

At just 3 credits he's got to be a bargain? How many other 3 pointers are actually capable of winning a summit finish?

For me....more likely than say,Pierre-Luc Perichon who is the same price!!

Even that would be worth 3.0 credits.....particularly over a few hills?

For the record my starting standard team is:

Greipel(1st stage only)
Rogers
Pauriol
Chaves
Talansky
Mollema
Monfort
Pellizotti
LeMevel

Nice to see a bit of banter within the Forum's Scorum's league......it's the reason I set it up

Meanwhile I'm making NO changes to my ToQ team for stage 4.....anyone else being a bit less conservative?

I'm figuring that most of us now have pretty similar teams.

After TOQ Stage 4:
Surprise-Surprise yours truly now leads the Forum's Scorum's ToQ....definitely a day to stick and NOT twist.Wig_Billy has a 44point lead in the purist comp(and 4th overall...impressive!!).

After TourMed Stage 1:
Well Greipel smoked the competition and that man again Wig_Billy smoked the Forum's Scorum's competition as well to lead with a mighty 153 pts but unless everyone else has massively misread the course his sprint-heavy team could easily get exposed. JulesW leads the purists but has the withdrawn Taaramae.

Overall;
Unsurprisingly Wig_Billy has taken the Maillot Jaune from Alan Tullett in the Forum's Scorum's Overall with Kenny 106 suffering for lack of premium and dropping to 6th.
GKam still has a commanding lead in the purist overall-however no Talansky or Rogers in the Tour-Med ).

Incidentally I've made 3 changes for ToQ stage 5 and the biggest risk involves taking out EBH.....if he wins the stage I'll be furious

I dropped EBH,Bookwalter and Delle Stelle in favour of Phinney,Markus and Gallopin.

Over in the Med I dropped The Gorilla and Chaves to bring in Kreuziger and Lofqvist.

After TOQ Stage 5:
Simon F(new Gold Jersey in he Forum's Scorums) and I have basically swapped places whilst Wig_Billy increases his lead in the purist to 63pts from Soun_Dax 7 .

After TourMed Stage 2:
Wig_Billy is ruling the Forum's Scorum's here but for me the star so far is TERatcliffe with 2nd standard and 10th purist.

Overall it's Wig_Billy(test that man for EPO) leading Alan Tullett and he's even closed the gap on GKam in the purist to less than 60pts..... JulesW is the Lanterne Rouge

Antone got ANY idea what's happening in the TourMed tomorrow?

After ToQ final stage:A Cav-Like kick from enrique saw him score 209 pts and blow past simon F and livestrongnick to win the competition in the Forum's Scorum's with Wig_Billy just holding on to the purist title......and they go on the first post honours board.

TourMed Stage 3 was cancelled and the extra set of transfers may help bail out a few sprint/TT heavy teams.

In the Overall Forum's Scorums the mover I noticed was obutterwick with a 4 place jump into 7th but Wig_Billy still holds a 60pt lead over 2nd placed Alan Tullett.192pts for GKam's purists stretched out his big lead even further in the Purist division.