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Volta Catalunya
Looks like we're climbing again.
Just never got to grips with Tirreno Adriatico somehow...onwards and upwards for this one.
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WTF? Catalunya game closed but no points at all for todays stage 7? I smashed it today as well.
Is somebody going to correct it then?
Give them time.
We update the stage scores manually and we're not always on hand to update immediately once a race finishes. Patience is a virtue, they always get done.
And your efforts are much appreciated!
Guess who took TdG out this morning? Wish I'd missed the deadline now!
If it makes you any happier I took Bling out to thicken up my picks. Tying up too much in MVDP, Bling and WVA hurt me last time...and now he bites me back.
....and....I don't pick him anymore. At one time you could guarantee he would go on maybe 50% of the likely breakaway stages that looked good for him and make a good fist of it....I doubt it's even 25% now and even then he backs off in most of them.
He is definitely a bit haphazard nowadays. I always get sucked in if he's about 10 million. In truth I never considered keeping him in for today so I can't complain!
Really hard to predict today. I did a risky Porte > Woods. Lost out by a single point.
Definitely hard to call. I even ended up with two spare transfers. Was going to go full GC for final stage with three changes in the bank. Decided against and only made the one..... TdG for Woods.
My biggest dither of the game was whether to get Sagan and Impey for Simon Yates and Mohoric...leaving no last day transfers....or keep Mohoric and just do Simon Yates to Dion Smith...leaving me with Mohoric and Smith. Sagan and Impey got 75pts over two days whilst Mohoric and Smith got exactly the same....and then I lost one point with Porte > Woods with my extra transfer. Pffft.
It does always amaze me the number of times that doing nothing would actually be the better call. None of my transfers today, over both races, improved my score. It does require discipline and nerves of steel!
I'd do the same Porte > Woods again with a spare transfer. Porte isn't renown for driving to the line, he's been around too long for that....but...the transfer would have been better used earlier for a possible bigger upside.
Same here,and to add to the misery I would of won standard Volta Castalunya.
That's a tough one to take - I am just mid-table so no real damage. Kept leaving him in and eventually lost patience with him today. TdG is one to either keep in all race or not bother with at all!
He had tackled this 7th stage five times in the past, finishing 6mins down, DNF, 1min down, 5mins down, and another DNF. The stage did seem not to be to his liking. But as we all know this sport can make a fool of you, and still we love it.
What makes that worse is the fact that the changes this year, to the circuit, looked less likely to suit him than previously. He's fabulous...just less predictable now.
Thank you much appreciated
Anytime. Would of been a hat-trick of stage race wins this year too.
Sagan clear favourite with bookmakers, and seems no one brings him in Must be a first..
It was Meeus that put me off, just in case they ran for him. Proves that the bookies generally get it right, unlike me who had Arensman at 200-1 each way - still riding I think......
He was without a doubt the favourite. I went for Dion Smith instead. I thought he would do better today and definitely a better pick for tomorrow...my thinking was over the two days he was the better pick. Sadly...
I wasn't actually that sure Sagan would be in the hot seat for the sprint..I thought they would have fought harder to displace him.
Bonkers stage in Catalunya. Mohoric looks like he wants the win today but setting about it in an odd way. Gonna have no legs left at the end.
And Soler looking interested today.....presumably he saw that we had both taken him out!
What a great ride by Chaves. Fantastic.
Good pick for you as well! Less said about my day the better - went all in on a breakaway day......
I very rarely go for breakaway picks until I know they're going for KOM pts for certain. Broke my rule with Soler last night...stupid pick...Chaves bailed me out nicely. Who did you go with?
Picked Soler like you but had a Chavez/Vanhoucke for GC or LLSanchez/Champoussin for breakaway decision. Went breakaway and went Sanchez feeling he could fancy the kom points. To be honest, if I'd gone GC, I would have probably gone Vanhoucke....
I didn't have any doubts about Chaves after yesterday. Soler or Vanhoucke was my dither. He's a really reliable, if relatively low scoring, pick. I like him.
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