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Tour of Oman - Stage 2
Its 45 minutes to transfer deadline and I have no idea what to do
Half tempted to swap out Breschel and Bouhanni for Gilbert and Phinney but my original plan was to make no transfer and have 6 for the Green Mountain stage.
Is today really going to be as tough as it looks?
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Ive took out Ellisonde and GVA for Phinney and Danny Van Poppel. Don't think its gonna be that tough, but I think its gonna be a sprint for Sagan and Boonen rather than a Viviani or Bouhanni
4 transfers for stage 4 for me it will be
Hmmm, now is the point at which I regret not forcing Sagan into my team but I guess if I leave things as they are I'm set for tomorrow. And I have a couple of people who may compete, decision made, no transfers, my team is:
Bouhanni
Kristoff
Kittel
Boonen
Gallopin
Appollonio
Fortin
Iglinsky
Breschel
I think it'll be a Sagan/Gilbert/Meersman day.
I think I may have made an error with my team
I can't see too many having Meersman though, he's bloody expensive at 22 credits.
Haha, I may live to regret putting him in. My 133 yesterday wasn't as good as I'd hoped, after playing safe with selections. Time for a risk...!
Traksel again in a break.
I'm clueless on this - I've worked on the assumption that today/tomorrow may be fairly tough finishes, so if they are full bunch sprints I won't be scoring very high.
I brought in Boonen for Degenkolb but it was more a trigger-happy transfer than something that I can even retrospectively apply any logic to...
So, Degenkolb to win?
Summary of yesterdays stage is on eurosport 2 now
Correction
so
My Team
Peter Sagan
Philippe Gilbert
Nacer Bouhanni
Danny Van Poppel
Joseph Dombrowski
Nikias Arndt
Greg van Avermaet
Davide Appollonio
Dario Cataldo
Taken 10 point penalty dropping Goss, Bewley & Fortin!
tricky stage today i dumepd goss for sagan my gues its to hard for goss
but he did well in TDU so it could be a bad move
boonen has been injuried so i don't think he will be up to it today
as for BMC my gues is they will go for gilbert or greg
degenkolb could even win here or not even be top 10
In the end, that was the decidiing factor for me in not making transfers, it's just too unpredictable.
There's no guarantee that making transfers would put me in a better position today whereas not making them puts me in a solid position for tomorrow and a much better position for the stage to Green Mountain.
Should come back together but it's been slow so far today, does that mean sprinters have a chance or that the climbers and stronger riders will just blast away on the climb with fresh legs?
I made 4 transfers :?. I couldn't leave Kittel, Kristoff, and Viviani in my team knowing they almost certainly won't be fighting for the win today. I also reluctantly got rid of Bouhanni because otherwise I couldn't afford Sagan. I know it's a risk, but it felt like the right decision last night...
Everyone is buying Sagan for today, I guess I'm the only person to cut him after the first stage. Will I look like a fool in an hour's time? Possibly.
Twitter says Sagan was first and Gallopin 2nd in a leading group of 10 that had 19 seconds on the bunch
1 Sagan
2 Gallopin
3 Elmiger
4 Nibali
5 Stybar
6 Froome
7 Bandiera
8 Marcato
9 Impey
10 Bouhanni
1 and 2 this time. I just don't seem to be able to get my Podium badge.
Well, at least I got Sagan right. Now attention switches to Volta ao Algarve.
11. Gianni Meersman.
12. Stijn Vandenbergh.
13. Geoffrey Soupe.
14. Sergey Lagutin.
15. Maciej Bodnar.
16. Rinaldo Nocentini
I think my transfers just about paid off, but it could've been better.
My transfers cost me 2 points. Brought in Meersman for Impey
Ouch, had a shocker today (Sagan aside). Clearly the Middle East disagrees with me.
Got 1 and 2 but made a mistake swapping Bouhanni for Boonen. Gilbert nowhere! Still got an extra transfer though!
http://www.letour.com/2013/TOO/LIVE/us/200/classement/index.html
Traksel got Lanterne Rouge! That man must have a fantasy team, why else would be racking up so many points?!
2 and 10, glad I didn't make any transfers now! Wouldn't have been able to bring in Sagan and anyone else I considered was nowhere.
I'm pretty happy
Edit: 74 points, should keep me up there somewhere and hopefully I might even be top ten in the purist comp.
i was afraid for that to happen when he stopt riding
at the KOM numer 1 GC did a real good pick by taking him:)
Scores are up
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