Le Tour

MinardiM189 wrote:

3 changes for today, would have preferred Bernal to Moscon but preferred keeping Sagan in other Ewan

SAGAN
TEUNISSEN
GROENEWEGEN
MOSCON
MATTHEWS
TRENTIN
BETTIOL
WURTZ SCHMIDT

 

Just one change for me.

Ewan out Teunissen in. figured I’m going to need a lot of transfers in this competition.

Went for this so not too bad.

Went for this so not too bad. TTT will be interesting, a lot of love for Mitchelton to challenge but not sure their team looks so strong? But I could be wrong and often am..

SAGAN
VIVIANI
GROENEWEGEN
EWAN
MATTHEWS
COLBRELLI
PERICHON
ROWE

My purist:

My purist:

SAGAN
BERNAL
EWAN
BARDET
GARCIA
YATES
PORTE
PERICHON

My standard

SAGAN
MATTHEWS
EWAN
GROENEWEGEN
VIVIANI
CASTROVIEJO
BETTIOL
HAGA

stevemarks wrote:

difficult not no have bernal ala and Sagan which doesn’t leave many points. Are you favouring Sprinters or Climbers?

Alaphilippe too expensive for me, also a lot of people doubt he will be able to repeat last year’s results, the long high climbs don’t really suit him and to win KoM you need to get the double HC points. By the time the race gets to those stages there will be ‘proper’ climbers far enough back to get in the break and Ala will struggle to beat them.

My pursit team has 1 sprinter, 3 GC riders, 3 all rounders and a cheap shot. Because I am way down on purist, I went with a few ‘outside’ picks in a ‘do or die’ attempt to make up ground.

My Standard team has 7 climbers for Stage 1.

Condor Andy wrote:

Condor Andy wrote:

Porte crashed out before even reaching the cobbles last year. I quite like those stages in GTs, mixes things up and gives cobbles specialists the chance for a famous win.

Initially I thought they were a good variation, giving more aggressive riders like Nibali an advantage but after last year I think the overall impact on the GC is negative.

Last year Thomas extended his lead over the other GC riders to a minute and that killed the race.

Dr Winston wrote:

Could do with them to stop my wife keep booking holidays during the first two weeks of the TDF…it’s Getting annoying now.

I’m in France from 13th to 20th and no idea if I will have an internet connection. I didn’t think when I booked it.

Thankfully no silly cobbled

Thankfully no silly cobbled stages to take out GC riders this year. The chances of a GC rider having problems during a 3 week race are high enough without introducing stages designed to cause ‘bad luck’. The race lost Porte & Uran on the cobbles last year.

Hopefully they stop spectators taking out GC riders this year too. Bring in the Paris riot police to maintain control .

MinardiM189 wrote:

Dr Winston wrote:

No Cavendish. End of an era?…..

He probably has until the end of the season to find some sort of form.

If not I suspect he will retire.

Hopefully when he retires he gets a job with Eurosport, it will be fun listening to him rather than the droning bullshit from Brian Smith.

That’ll be good….although I don’t actually mind the droning bullshit. It’s just nice,  gentle television.