Le Tour

Time to make a billion

Time to make a billion transfers for the mountains and the TT 😀

Dr Winston wrote:

WVA really is fantastic, he’s turning into a mini Sagan…do Jumbo even need Groenewegen? I think WVA would have a better chance of green than Dylan…in fact he’d be right up there with Sagan.

 

I was waiting for a boring flat stage but how wrong can you be – Windy days are great and Luke Rowe earned his coin again!

Bora didn’t bring either of their top flat track sprinters to make room for Sagans green jersey ambitions so its even more impressive we’re talking about WVA competing with Lotto Jumbo fighting on all fronts. 

Sagan is far too focussed on green to risk trying to shepherd his GC leader through the cross-winds; pull the team along in a TTT;  have a chance at winning a decent length TT outright and still have enough left to compete with the top sprinters.   

Others with similar all round potential to WVA like Kwiato seem to have given up to turn super domestique for GC.  Matthews is ruing losing his kick this year for Dumoulins ambitions too.  Let’s hope WVA gets opportunity to fight for green jersey fair and square one day.    

JohnnyRemo wrote:

I’ve had WVA in since stage 1 and decided yesterday that he was riding purely for the team and wasn’t going for stages…

St Date                  Rider in                Rider out
10 Jul 15, 08:21 Elia Viviani          Wout Van Aert

Okay – only cost a couple of points but also a transfer I didn’t need to lose. This game is *so* frustrating!

Damn…That’s a shame…but why would you not have done it?…it wasn’t the team plan.

Yeah…back off my hols and

Yeah…back off my hols and back on the web…pigging hard work this game with very limited internet….20th so far is better than I thought I would be and better than I did on my hols last year.

Not watched any racing really…so…what happened to Groenewegen and Ciccone today?…I resisted the three big sprinters in favour of just two plus Ciccone and a saved transfer.

I went for Viviani and Groenewegen and no Ewan…plus Ciccone (17pts If he stayed where he was)..my plan was sound enough in theory (maybe)…but just went to pot..

Also. WVA really is fantastic, he’s turning into a mini Sagan…do Jumbo even need Groenewegen? I think WVA would have a better chance of green than Dylan…in fact he’d be right up there with Sagan.

MinardiM189 wrote:

Groenwegen & Viviani in for today & Wednesday.

Not sure they will score today, quite a lot of climbing.

SAGAN
VIVIANI
COLBRELLI
GROENEWEGEN
MATTHEWS
MEURISSE
EWAN
WURTZ SCHMIDT

That is exactly what my team is.

I’d be a lot higher up the leaderboard right now if I’d used my brain on Saturday morning and used my last transfer of the day to get in De Gendt instead of Teuns, and then a day later to swap Teuns out and get in Benoot instead of Ewan…..

Groenwegen & Viviani in for

Groenwegen & Viviani in for today & Wednesday.

Not sure they will score today, quite a lot of climbing.

SAGAN
VIVIANI
COLBRELLI
GROENEWEGEN
MATTHEWS
MEURISSE
EWAN
WURTZ SCHMIDT

stevemarks wrote:

teckert wrote:

brought in Matthews for Benoot…..     

Oouch that hurts.

Three sprinters in today. snoozefest until Thursday.

What’s happened?…is he out?

brought in Matthews for

brought in Matthews for Benoot…..