Criterium du Dauphine

Dr Winston wrote:

MinardiM189 wrote:

Dr Winston wrote:

MinardiM189 wrote:

with another probable sprint stage tomorrow I only made 1 transfer

brought Froome in for Impey 

Big day for you tomorrow.

All depends if some of the sprinters show up. Greipel was dreadful again on Tuesday, as was Manzin. I don’t expect Ballerini to do as well again either.

Van Aert will probably top3 again tomorrow but I can’t use up another transfer with 3 mountain stages coming up.

 

I’ve made a bllx of this one again Minardi but I think my general plan was right. The riders are so expensive that you won’t be able to field a decent full squad at the end….six riders at most…so to that end I think you could spare the transfer now because your funds look too spread out. …so that’s to say at some point you may have to bring another 3.0 in anyway…which effectively is a wasted transfer just to rebalance. Looking at the way the money needs to be there’s not much below 20.0…Van Aert and Lambrecht the best as far as I can see.

Do you think Van Aert manages stage six?…I can’t decide…he seems to have decided he’s now a world class sprinter as well as a world class time trialist…he may as well become a climber now as well…what do you think about stage six and him?

Also…what about Kwai….what do you think was going on there?….

 

Kwia was maybe in shock? can’t be easy. Van Aert we should probably just wait and see how he gets on the last three days I may leave him in for stage six and reassess afterwards. I’m looking closely at Buchmann now, he’s flown under the radar a bit here, (well at least mine) and I’m starting to believe he is a real contender both here and in the Tour. Again those three stage will tell us a lot more but 200/1 for the Tour? I had to have a piece of that and 20/1 here too. Each way as I don’t think he can top the podium but a place has to be a possibility.

JAndrewHill wrote:

Dr Winston wrote:

JAndrewHill wrote:

Thinking my decision to sub Alaphillipe for Froome was not the best…

Well an awful lot of others would have done the same. With Dumoulin of uncertain form and Alaphillipe  likely to be lead out man again tomorrow then I think Alla > Froome would have been a big transfer.

 

And subbing out Van Aert for Guillaume Martin proves that it is not my week

i subbed him out before the sprint stage…oops…tbh he’s a great rider who has really turned it up for these past two stages. Maybe the sprint stage had a lot to do with most of the sprinters not turning up…it was strange finish for sure that was almost given to Bennett…Today was exceptional.

JAndrewHill wrote:

Thinking my decision to sub Alaphillipe for Froome was not the best…

Well an awful lot of others would have done the same. With Dumoulin of uncertain form and Alaphillipe  likely to be lead out man again tomorrow then I think Alla > Froome would have been a big transfer.

MinardiM189 wrote:

Dr Winston wrote:

MinardiM189 wrote:

with another probable sprint stage tomorrow I only made 1 transfer

brought Froome in for Impey 

Big day for you tomorrow.

All depends if some of the sprinters show up. Greipel was dreadful again on Tuesday, as was Manzin. I don’t expect Ballerini to do as well again either.

Van Aert will probably top3 again tomorrow but I can’t use up another transfer with 3 mountain stages coming up.

 

I’ve made a bllx of this one again Minardi but I think my general plan was right. The riders are so expensive that you won’t be able to field a decent full squad at the end….six riders at most…so to that end I think you could spare the transfer now because your funds look too spread out. …so that’s to say at some point you may have to bring another 3.0 in anyway…which effectively is a wasted transfer just to rebalance. Looking at the way the money needs to be there’s not much below 20.0…Van Aert and Lambrecht the best as far as I can see.

Do you think Van Aert manages stage six?…I can’t decide…he seems to have decided he’s now a world class sprinter as well as a world class time trialist…he may as well become a climber now as well…what do you think about stage six and him?

Also…what about Kwai….what do you think was going on there?….

MinardiM189 wrote:

with another probable sprint stage tomorrow I only made 1 transfer

brought Froome in for Impey 

Big day for you tomorrow.

Condor Andy wrote:

Apparently, several sources are stating Froome might have broken his leg/pelvis.

I got Kwiato in, and he’s not going for it.

Only wanted to use 3 transfers Froome and Pollit were my certanties and I prevaricated extensively between Kwia and Fuglsang…..so much so I coudn’t remember which way I went, Fuglsang won out apparently but says a lot about me that I couldn’t recall.

Hmmm

Hmmm

Not the first time he’s had problems in a TT and you wonder if he’ll rue not including any earlier in his race programme this year? 

Hopefully he’ll recover in time for the tour or Brailsfords endorsement of him going for a 5th this morning was unbelievably bad timing….

I thought Kwia would soft pedal and left him out in favour of Froome and Dumoulin – If the latter doesn’t get it right for the first time this year it could be a low scoring stage for many?  

It looks like this race is wide open for the climbers now Froome, Kwia and Dumoulin are out of the GC picture though – let the fireworks commence!