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Starting to regret not getting greipel the other day.
Why is Greipel getting most combative a joke? There was no break and he won both the stage and the intermediate sprint. Who would you have given it to?
Agreed Dan! Its hardly the organiser's fault that no-one attacked all day. (Well, Mate did, but you can't give the combativity prize to someone called Mate, it just doesn't sound right...)
Mate didn't even manage to stay out in front until the TV coverage started so his was only a half-hearted effort.
Greipel faught for the intermediate points (he appears to be chasing the Green jersey) and the stage win. It was impressive and given the lack of action elsewhere thoroughly deserving of the most combative prize.
agreed....Henderson the only alternative.
Greipel with 64 points just fraped anybody who did not have him in their squad today. Also it's a joke giving him most combative. I am currently rethinking my strategy as regards sprinters and penalty transfers...
My stick strategy hasn't gone well at all!! oh well nevermind ay
Same here, today was a nightmare for me...Knew that I had dropped a clanger when we did not get a breakaway...And then the expected crosswinds were more of a tailwind... Hurry up mountains, I need you...
hmmm no sagan/kittel has cost me today. dropped down 20 places but have 4 in the bag for tomorrow.
Struggling to work out if the sprinters will want one last pop at tomorrow?
currently have can,greipel,V Poppel, gerrans and Kwiat
hmmmm
decisions decisions!
Far from awful day - 2,3,6 plus Gerrans and Kwia. Kicking myself a bit for not having the stones to pick Impey over Gerrans a couple of days ago but not that many points in it and he may well hand race lead over to someone else tomorrow. Not the lumpiest of MM stages but still think it'll take too much out of the pure sprinters to contest the finish.
I reckon OPQS will want their turn in yellow come Saturday...
EBH is even closer, only 3 secs back but Chava and Kwia might make a break for it I suppose but doubt if it'll succeed. Reduced bunch sprint probably but no time gaps. Not having Greipel today has really cost me, went for EBH as I thought he'd be better over the two stages but he'd have to win tomorrow with Greipel nowhere to make up on the points lost today and that is very unlikely.
No changes tonight but glad I brought in Kristoff and at least today Kittel and D van Poppel got some points as well. Could have been worse, could have been Cav, Greipel 1, 2.
A Greipel/Sagan one-two when I've got Cav and Kittel......damn
1,2,3,6 plus Gerrans - best day so far. Would've preferred a Cav win, but was the ideal result for my fantasy teams!
180.
Pretty happy with that.
extra 10 points for Greipel combativity.
oh nice bonus that gives me 172 Then
Our teams only had 2 riders in common Nick but we may well have got precisely the same score. Close anyway. Happy Daze!
no Millar!
162 for me
much better day for me. Glad i choked and used my 2 transfers 
I make my tally 139 points and I'm pretty happy with that result. I'll drop more places but in the end it wasn't worth dropping Chava/Kwiatkowski for Cav so I made the right call (for once).
1.GREIPEL André
2.SAGAN Peter
3.KITTEL Marcel
4.CAVENDISH Mark
5.LOBATO DEL VALLE Juan José
6.KRISTOFF Alexander
7.ROJAS José Joaquin
8.VAN POPPEL Danny
9.FERRARI Roberto
10.DUMOULIN Samuel
11.LEMOINE Cyril
12.BOASSON HAGEN Edvald
13.IMPEY Daryl
14.FLECHA GIANNONI Juan Antonio
15.GOSS Matthew Harley
16.HENDERSON Gregory
17.EVANS Cadel
18.FROOME Christopher
19.PORTE Richie
20.BAUER Jack
Impey in yellow.
No-one dropped out of my purist or 3 Frenchmen yet, although Gallopin has been affected by his stage 1 crash I think. Got quite a few sprinters today but with an eye on tomorrow as well so no Cav or Greipel. Hope Purito is ok as I was going to pick him for Sat.
In 99th position but already 170 points behind the leader. In fact you have to be in the top 12 to be within 100 of that team and they have plenty of sprinters for today as well.
Cav taken a tumble but back in. Will it affect him?
Not just purist's but a few of the pick 3 French rider's game will be suffering too!?
Bouhanni abandons, J-Rod crashes.
EDIT: Kessiakoff quits as well. Today will be hurting a few purist teams.
Siutsou took the cat 4 for 3 fantasy points......that should be it till 'sprint o clock' except to say that Quintana's had a minor fall and Bouhanni's being distanced by the 'gruppo compatto'.
col de la Vayède (cat-4)
Kanstantsin Siutsou 3pts
Results of the intermediate sprint
The intermediate sprint points for stage six have been won by:
1. Greipel (LTB) 15 fantasy pts
2. Cavendish (OPQ) 14pts
3. Kristoff (KAT) 13pts
4. Sagan (CAN) 12pts
5. Steegmans (OPQ) 11pts
6. Flecha (VCD) 10pts
7. Sabatini (CAN) 9pts
8. Kwiatkowski (OPQ) 8pts
9. Chavanel (OPQ) 7pts
10. D. Van Poppel (VCD) 6pts
11. Velits (OPQ) 5pts
12. Brookwalter (BMC) 4pts
13. Tuft (OGE) 3pts
14. Burghardt (BMC) 2pts
15. Lancaster (OGE) 1pt
Ummmmm the stage has started and transfer window is still open?
As much as i wanted to make transfers i've held back, hoping no crash or split in the peleton to mess with the sprint!?
These guys should score me a few points
Griepel (Kwia)
Kittel
D V Poppel (Simon)
Impey
JJ Rojas
EBH
Willems
Mederel
Ugalde
Edit: i've choked and made 2 changes....
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