Tour of Poland stage 4

13th on stage and a full house to. Not a bad days work

3,8,9,12 from the top 20 plus the gc boys.

here's your 11 -20 as well.
11 - Leonardo Duque
12 - Ben Swift
13 - Michal Golas
14 - Grega Bole
15 - Zdenek Štybar
16 - Arnaud Courteille
17 - Georg Preidler
18 - Francisco Ventoso
19 - Ángel Madrazo
20 - Mark Renshaw

2,3,6,7,12,20, + majka&henao points. quite dissapointing i must say whatever happened to renshaw? poor show

6,7,8,12,13 for me, plus Hushovd bonus pts, and GC/jersey for 3 others. At first thought not great, but actually with Renshaw/Howard missing out and not many people having 1,4 or 5, it might be OK...

swift definitely doesn't pay as a roadcc pick, that's for sure. i cant believe they gave kruopis the green light after i'd swapped him out for howard
Also seems argos gave JVR the nod ahead of Mezgec ? or boxed in?

well anyway, my big gamble didn't quite pay off, but not a total disaster either.

And big up to big man Phinney for that, its not often the solo break-away so close to the end wins out!

Oh, I've missed it then.....crap, I just came home hoping to catch it.....

I'll go kick the scores around and see what I come up with today

1 PHINNEY Taylor BMC Racing Team
2 VON HOFF Steele Garmin - Sharp
3 HUTAROVICH Yauheni AG2R La Mondiale
4 KRUOPIS Aidis Orica GreenEDGE 1 13
5 JANSE VAN RENSBURG Reinardt Team Argos - Shimano
6 HUSHOVD Thor BMC Racing Team
7 MEZGEC Luka Team Argos - Shimano
8 MATYSIAK Bartlomiej CCC Polsat Polkowice
9 RATTO Daniele Cannondale Pro Cycling Team
10 SCHORN Daniel Team NetApp – Endura

who the hell is matysiak ?!? lol

Good shout - that was brilliant when he appeared out of nowhere at the finish of MSR after that picture he'd tweeted earlier on, thanks for reminding me!

Matysiak came in 8th according to the telly, that one's turning out to be a very lucky pick!

phinney takes it solo from 7k out! shades of his heroics in MSR that nearly saw him bridge to front group for final? what an engine

chrisdstripes, dont hold your breath mate, i seldom get these right

Well after only bringing swift for yesterday i still ended up 43rd on stage so quite happy. Brought in Ratto and Hutarovich for today. I think Ratto might be there or thereabouts today and i dont think he will be picked by many.

The break is settled according to the Twitter feed...

Benedetti
Ladagnous
Minguez
Bellemakers
De Greef
Duarte
Morajko
Gradek
Fronczek

Can't see that affecting many, although Benedetti and Bellemakers are the kind of people that someone chasing the break might go for...

Kept my sprinters from yesterday but made 2 GC related transfers. which should get me a full house

Howard
Renshaw
Von Hoff
Swift

Henao
Majka
Izagirre
Rohregger
Capecchi

points from 5 GC riders is as good as a win from sprinter i don't have, meaning one less rider to transfer out tomorrow

Well, i've pushed on with my gamble on a sprint finish and gone for a full 7 man sprint team:

Hushovd
mezgec
swift
hutarovich
renshaw
howard
van off

+
henao
majka

going for the stage win!! the die is cast...

Playing it cautious - expecting a bunch sprint but its not exactly pan-flat and I want to keep transfers in hand for Fri/Sat. With 6-man teams and big time gaps on GC, a break could definitely stay to the finish today or tomorrow. So just one change for me...

Majka
Henao
Huzarski
Matysiak
Swift
Hushovd (in for Kruiswijk)
Golas
Mezgec
Rebellin (hmm...)

Kruopis won this stage last year, but looks like Howard might be favoured above him this time round...

i'll tell you my thoughts in 46 mins