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Tour de France - Stage 9
Right high mountains! Missed the deadline this morning, don't want to make the same mistake twice so doing my team now.
Worth getting froome in for tomorrow?
With a flat then itt stage after bit worried about bringing in too many climbers!
Anyways discuss! !
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Mollema definitely in there. A crash or bad day can change anything. He's in my roaduk team and as he's cheap I'll keep him in there. Thanks for reminding me that he can TT a bit.
I think Fulgsang will lose too much time in the high mountains but could be top 10. His team are dropping like flies though; 3 out already. What's Mont Ventoux going to do to the peloton if it's hot? Not much shade up there.
Same at least I replaced him with Rolland, I also took Navarro out for Nieve, bad choice and I now have 2 greyed out riders, but they are gonna have to stay in for now at least
Hows kennaugh after his trip off the side of the mountain?
sky still doping today? just askin'
Nah, it's Movistar's turn today
Took out Dan Martin - replaced him with Potre...
Sums up my fantasy TdF '13.
No disasters for me, but the 2 I brought in scored about the same as the 2 I dropped, so could've saved a couple of transfers. Still, 7 consecutive days of green arrows puts me up to 52nd overall - considering I was outside the top 200 in the Giro thats a considerable improvement...
Stuck now - keep Froome for the TT or sub him out and back in again?
Anyhow - as I learnt to my cost last year, rest days are primetime for doping eliminations, so I won't be doing anything til tomorrow morning...
if i'd have kept martin and save the transfer i'd have been top ten with 5 free changes. c'est la vie
Actuallty, I felt the same way before the stage today...And what a nice surprise it was to be so wrong!
And the answer was, to our delight, a resounding yes! Great race!
Heh heh!
Ha ha ha!
Good one!
If you want Sagan/Cav/Greipel for the sprints you'll have to do the 'Hokey-Cokey' with Froome methinks(in-out-shake it all about!!).
This was the stage that Frank Shrek got caught last season so I might hold fire too......6 transfers so 4 sprinters in then 4 TT'ers the day after trying to leave as many of the sprinters in for the 2 sprint days after(if that makes sense).
You're back!
what a nice surprise! Why wasn't there an announcement? 
I mean you broke some hearts when you "left"!
Glad you're back!
Thanks for the perspective, people!...
Ha ha, I wondered when anybody would notice, certainly not from my woeful team display, guess i'm race rusty.
Well, glad you're back! You've been missed!
Anyways, I feel stupid asking you, but what you wrote early in the race got my attention. So, not to put you on the spot, but, what did you mean above? That Froome should not have gone with Valverde and company immediately and should have let his team pull them back at their won pace?... And for the ignorant, what's FFS?
FFS cannot be said in its actual form on here
I had to look it up. I guess it's related to 'For Goodness's Sake', right? Is that used over there?
mmmm, I have not quoted here, but my Froome comment. I think what I meant was that it should never have happened in the first place, and that sky should have been a leading train from the start, like the Super Compex boys used to do. But this was said without having watched what had transpired before, and I hadn't seen the Sky devistation just prior. I guess he had no choice to go with Valverde. I do think he is tactic naive, but Brailsford isn't, I suppose they knew what might happen but didn't know the weakness in the team. I assumed Froome was calling the shots badly, so probably a call made by me in the heat of the moment, and fuelled By the Eurosport commentators.
BTW it is not the proper place for this, but I am adrenaline fuelled, because I got hit head on by a drunk driver tonight,at 8pm while cycling to shops.He completely cut the corner at a junction. Police involved, can of Budweiser in the drinks holder. I am ok I think, the closing distance was 15-20 MPH. I had no where to go, and all I could think of in the slow motion phase was "how bad is this going to hurt." He left the scene of the accident on foot after witnesses pulled him out of the car as he tried to drive away. I have some hurts, road rash, no head contact, but how I got out of the situation I just don't know. I made sure in the short time I had that the contact was going to be dead head on. He didn't break after he hit and was pushing me up the road, I managed to shiimy round then he hit me a glancing blow to the hip. Bike ended up somersaulting 180 degrees as I hit the deck. The Specialised is surprisingly lightly damaged. Twist to the rear mech , but the wheels still in dead alignmet.
Sorry for the war and peace, and any spelling errors.
Oh I forgot, decided to stay true to the purist ideal with my team what will be will be. only 6 riders left, and Taaramie next I venture.
Bloody hell, i'm glad you walked away from that, let's hope the witnesses can identify him if he can be traced.
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