Paris-Nice one of my favourite races.

MinardiM189 wrote:

After recovering from a poor start to the race

I messed the final stage up, bringing in DeMarchi for Sanchez. Stupid decision again.

Having transfers left isn’t always a good thing. 🙁

I dropped Kelderman which didn’t prove a smart move either.

stevemarks wrote:

Really felt I had made a mess of this too, so one last throw of the dice and Up pop Martinez and Ciccone. My purist has been dire I am not even in the top 250 before today. lol

Jungels & Kelderman adding to my purist misery today.

I should have brough DeMarch into my standard team rather than Bardet.

But perhaps Bardet goes on a crazy attack tomorrow.

After today, I hope Kwiatowski finally learns that he will never be a GC rider, and goes back to doing what he does well – classics.

Dr Winston wrote:

You think you have problems with purist?…try mine…worst two teams I’ve ever had.  Up to 9th in standard Paris/Nice though…so not all bad.

Your purist team is doing considerably better than mine 🙁

Probably my worst in 3 years.

Dr Winston wrote:

Sniffer wrote:

A better day for me, after being shocking up to now.

De Gendt, Di Marchi and I kept Colbrelli.  With Kwia and Bernal it wasn’t bad.  I am lined up OK for ITT too.

No threat to anyone, I didn’t have Groenewegen earlier in the week as I had decided he wouldn’t cope with the wind.  Don’t get many decisions more wrong.

Safe to say TDG will find his way into a lot of teams now…

He’s been very quiet for a while now…what made you think he would come alive this time?…

I just didn’t think any team would work hard to bring back the break.  Once you have decided that, and if you gamble that you are going to put somebody in the break, who is better that TDG and Di Marchi.  They are definitely serial breakers.

Just when I thought things

Just when I thought things couldn’t get worse.

Jungels, Kelderman and Grosschartner did nothing for me today.

My purist team is now a complete disaster. I’ll be dropping way out of contention in the main competition after an awful week. I dropped out Groenwegen & Kwiatowski for DeMare & Colbrelli for some reason :(.

Sniffer wrote:

A better day for me, after being shocking up to now.

De Gendt, Di Marchi and I kept Colbrelli.  With Kwia and Bernal it wasn’t bad.  I am lined up OK for ITT too.

No threat to anyone, I didn’t have Groenewegen earlier in the week as I had decided he wouldn’t cope with the wind.  Don’t get many decisions more wrong.

Safe to say TDG will find his way into a lot of teams now…

He’s been very quiet for a while now…what made you think he would come alive this time?…

I heard stage 6 could be

I heard stage 6 could be neutralised or cancelled becasue of high winds. 🙁

Finally got something right

Finally got something right in this race, De Gendt and Madouas bringing home some decent points.

Utterly awful organisation by Bahrain Merida & Mitchelton Scott. They had both targetted this stage but neither team was prepared to work for the victory, not for the first that with these two teams screw up and let the break win a stage they shouldn’t.