Tour De Romandie - Stage 2

Yup. I called that wrong. Temporary setback.

SIMON YATES (OGE)
JAKOB FUGLSANG (AST)
RAMUNAS NAVARDAUSKAS (TCG)
MICHAEL ALBASINI (OGE)
REIN TAARAMAE (AST)
JULIAN ALAPHILIPPE (EQS)
LUKE ROWE (SKY)
JONATHAN FUMEAUX (IAM)

Looking pretty good for today, but bringing in Yates and Rowe for some cheap GC points looks a bit of a waste...

Well ive gone for what i have with stages 3 and 4 in mind to also save transfers for stages 5 and 6

Gone for
Spilak
Albasini
Thomas
Navadauskas
Alaphillipe
Keung
Rowe
Bouet

Happy days Fumeaux!

I really can't work out what this stage is going to be. Mountain followed by a downhill finish (which makes me think of Dan Martin's win down into Bagneres-de-Bigorre a while back), or just a lumpy stage that won't be selective because everyone's waiting for the Queen?

I reckon it's the former, so transferred in Dan M, G and Uran. We'll see.

Break looks like its Fumeaux and Belkov (I have Fumeaux in both teams!)

I think think Alaphilippe has been seen as an all-rounder by his team for a while, its just that the few races he rode last season he was used as their sprinter. I get the impression its not suspicious, he's just a top talent.

My standard team...
Albasini
Yates
Chernetski
D Caruso
Frank
Nibali
Betancur (?!)
Fumeaux

Could go any way today. 3 changes for me to remove my two non-starters from stage 1.

STEFAN KUENG (BMC)
RIGOBERTO URAN (EQS)
GERAINT THOMAS (SKY)
JAKOB FUGLSANG (AST)
JULIAN ALAPHILIPPE (EQS)
MICHAEL ALBASINI (OGE)
JONATHAN FUMEAUX (IAM)
BERTJAN LINDEMAN (TLJ)

After yesterdays screwed up team (Poels & Deignan) i've had to make 5 changes

Froome
Albasini
Dan Martin
Spilak
D Caruso
Flakemore
Flens
Vaugrenard

Albasini is favorite with the bookies today. I find this interesting; 2014 stage 3 was very similar to today, and Albasini, who won 3 stages in 2014, (so must have been in top condition) only managed 91st place, at 40 mins down.
Alaphilippe, 2nd favorite, has gone from being a reasonable sprinter to superman in a short time. (Suspicious some might say). Can't see him being in top 20 today, but who knows.
All depends on speed of peleton, but I suspect Astana and Movistar will be trying to stick it to Froome on the last hill or two, hence high speed up Col de la Vue des Alpes.
Anyway we shall see.

For the first time this year I find myself struggling to put a competent team together at 140 credits. Rider values all seem to be shifted too high. Really need 160 credits.

Cheers