Stage 5 Rouen-StQuentin

Sunday is where i wished Casar was actually a star rider at his 16 credit price (due to my credit situation)....

Anyway a diff frenchman will be in for sat/sun

Took out JJ too. I'm crap, have no idea what i'm doing, can't pick a ds to save myself. Thinking that FDJ are going to send a different person into the break every day, so trying Pineau for tommorrow. What stage will Casar go for is the thing bothering me most. 14th of July is nearly pan flat. Maybe casar goes Sunday, I think i'll try him then.

Plan B is to go for 5 2-3 point ds and pile the rest into the stars after the TT, can't do any worse than i'm doing.

Loving the highlights tonight, can't believe Griepel managed to stay upright after bouncing between Farrar and Sagan (although annoyed he took out Sagan X()

Still amazes me how good the riders are at handling their bikes in those kind of situations.

Lampre took Farrar out.

lol

Ha! Fair enough if he did a lot of the work in the break, I only saw the last 20k. Guilty of forming an opinion based on very little knowledge there!
I thought I'd be average today, but actually moved up into the top 100. Can make one transfer today (Boeckmans out) and still have 4 transfers for tomorrow to get rid of my star sprinters - finding it a lot more difficult to pick stars for the weekend though!

Ladagnous took 12th at the line and instigated the break, I think that's fair (plus, he's in my team).

Ah, van Hummel 14th, better than nothing. Ladagnous gets combativity according to the LeTour website - a bit of a French decision I feel - Ghyselinck and Urtasun were the two that really went for it at the end surely?

Van Hummel reportedly finished 14th.

1,2 and not much else, Sagan and van Hummel in the crash I think. Thought the break might hold on for a sec - Phil Liggett was getting a bit confused about how close the finishing line was...

2, 4, 12 and 14 plus 50 intermediate sprint points and hopefuly combativity. Not bad but I suspect once again that someone will be up near 200 for the stage win. Pity Sagan went down.

Getting rid of Cav for Sagan was a great decision...

1 GREIPEL André
2.GOSS Matthew Harley
3.HAEDO Juan Jose
4.CAVENDISH Mark
5.DUMOULIN Samuel
6.VEELERS Tom
7.FREIRE Oscar
8.PETACCHI Alessandro
9.HINAULT Sébastien
10.GENE Yohann
11.MOLLEMA Bauke
12.LADAGNOUS Matthieu
13.BOZIC Borut
14.VAN HUMMEL Kenny Robert
15.MARTINEZ Egoi
16.BRAJKOVIC Janez
17.SANCHEZ Samuel
18.WIGGINS Bradley
19.MILLAR David
20.SCHÄR Michael

typical.....i take out haedo and he comes 3rd!!! not having any luck this tour

Griepel takes it ahead of Goss and Haedo, sounds like Sagan and Farrar caught in the crash with Hutarovich and Van Hummel but it was inside 3km.

Break stayed out until last 500m.

Another fall, sounds like a big one, caused by someone from Garmin. Not sure if it's inside last 3km but sounds like carnage!

Also, Baden Cooke riding the last 5km on a flat tire, what a legend.

LeTour live text suggests Cav's getting a full on lead-out today... this could be interesting

My plan is to make 4 transfers after tomorrow, keep the same team for Sat/Sun, and then 4 more transfers for the TT. Tried to bring in the kind of guys I think will try to get in the break on Sunday, as well as a couple of GC guys for balance...

Sounds like a plan although I'm loath to give up on what could potentially be a huge scoring day on Sunday Picking a breakaway rider on Sunday could be worth more than two rides in the top 3! Decisions decisions...

my plan is no transfers between today and tomorrow, so 4 for saturday (on will be a TT guy also for monday) then no transfers between saturday and sunday yto give me 4 for the TT, then its rest day so can make 4 for after the TT....

Hurrah!

1. Ladagnous (FDJ) 15pts
2. Urtasun (EUS) 14pts
3. Simon (SAU) 13pts
4. Ghyselinck (COF) 12pts
5. Cavendish (SKY) 11pts
6. Goss (OGE) 10pts
7. Renshaw (RAB) 9pts
8. Sagan (LIQ) 8pts
9. Boasson Hagen (SKY) 7pts
10. Van Hummel (VCD) 6pts
11. Hutarovich (FDJ) 5pts
12. Petacchi (LAM) 4pts
13. Gretsch (ARG) 3pts
14. Impey (OGE) 2pts
15. Krivtsov (LAM) 1pt

A tidy 50 points from that sprint, I still don't like it though

Personally I can't see Morkov doing anything this weekend, he's on the track with the Danish pursuit squad at the olympics and I think this week was all about getting Saxo some exposure and getting a jersey for a few days, I don't think he's got any designs on the jersey long term.

I can't decide whether to bring in people like Wiggins and Evans who can climb (but will finish mid pack on Saturday) and TT or to bring in proper climbers/breakaway people. That's my main dilemma.

What's everyone plan for the weekend? Save transfers and have 4 for Saturday is obvious, but on Sunday anything could happen and Monday's a TT!

My plan at the minute is 4 on Saturday, try for two breakaway guys on Sunday and bring in two TT specialists for Monday but I'm wavering.

Thoughts?

Got my team sorted and took a penalty to get them so hopefully it goes well, mind you cant get any worse than previous

Cav
Griepel
Sagan
Oss
Impey
Cooke
Cantwell
Iglinsky
Astarloza

yeah kittels out.

There are four men already out of the Tour of 2012. Three have broken bones (collabone for Rojas, tibia for Sivtsov, hip for Tjallingii) and one has suffered stomach ailments since the start (Kittel).