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  • April 7, 2012 at 1:36 am #15499
    enrique

    Well, if the race is anything like last year there may be very (!) few DSs that score in the top 20 (!). Ben Hermans is the only current DS I can see that scored any significant points last year. He came in 7th. Bram Tankink came in 19th and Fabian Wegmann 20th.

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  • April 10, 2012 at 4:40 pm #673027
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    TERatcliffe26

    mine is
    4 30-35
    4 25-30
    1
    mine is

    4 30-35
    4 25-30
    1 20-25

    April 10, 2012 at 4:37 pm #673025
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    TERatcliffe26

    It all fits
    It all fits 😉

    April 10, 2012 at 4:35 pm #673023
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    TERatcliffe26

    Yeh but your mistake made me
    Yeh but your mistake made me lessen the budget you had for your other riders, which means that the one i put for moinard is actually a dutchman. without looking i know westra is 8.4 credits so it could be him.

    I need to check your other way now 😉

    April 10, 2012 at 4:14 pm #673021
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    JAndrewHill

    or put another way . . .
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    or put another way . . .
    1 35-40
    6 30-35
    2 25-30

    all within budget !!! 🙂 🙂 🙂

    April 10, 2012 at 4:07 pm #673019
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    JAndrewHill

    Not bad . . . you even
    Not bad . . . you even spotted my deliberate mistake. 88.88%.
    You missed my token dutchman . . .

    April 10, 2012 at 3:14 pm #673017
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    TERatcliffe26

    chrisdstripes wrote:Well

    chrisdstripes wrote:
    Well there are at least 2 stars under 20pts that have podium-ed in the Gold Race before, so you can never be sure… ;)

    Well I have neither of them, I have the guy who has been more consistent over that time period 😉

    April 10, 2012 at 3:13 pm #673015
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    TERatcliffe26

    JAndrewHill wrote:Well my

    JAndrewHill wrote:
    Well my early seletion includes :-
    2 south europeans 35-40
    A western european 25-30
    An australasian 20-25

    A scandanavian under 5
    A western european 5-10
    A water mammal 5-10
    An in-form eastern european 5-10
    hmmm someone else . . . .

    Stab at your team from your clues

    Rodriguez
    was gonna say sanchez but he is 34.4 so will go Nibali
    surely you wont have kept Boonen, so could be Chananel, Vanendert or Martin, gonna say its gotta be lower end so im saying Chavanel
    Gerrans

    Nordhaug
    tough one, gotta be cheap, gonna go Moinard
    water mammal hmm im gonna go de waele (as he has previous and the only other possible de walle is too expensive for your team)
    Spilak
    Simon Clarke is the only other southern hemisphere that i think could fit with price and who u are likely to go for, actually im gonna go Hayman

    How did i do?

    April 10, 2012 at 2:38 pm #673013
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    chrisdstripes

    Well there are at least 2
    Well there are at least 2 stars under 20pts that have podium-ed in the Gold Race before, so you can never be sure… 😉

    April 10, 2012 at 2:07 pm #673011
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    nickobec

    Want to see the results of De
    Want to see the results of De Brabantse Pijl РLa Fl̬che Braban̤onne before committing to a team.

    Current working line up has 4 stars at 105pts and 5 DS at 23pts giving me 12 pts to upgrade with.

    But I want to see Ardennes form before picking a expensive star or two, or upgrading a couple of DSs.

    Note all DS have had top ten places in uphill finishes at Vuelta Ciclista al Pais Vasco and/or top 20 finishes at Amstel Gold + other good form

    April 10, 2012 at 1:52 pm #673009
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    frankiejay

    Without giving away who is
    Without giving away who is actually on my team, I will post the guys who didn’t quite make the cut.

    Sergio Henao- Looked good climbing in the Basque country and the 15.3 price tag was so compelling; would have allowed me to keep some seriously high priced DS’s

    Fabian Wegmann- Top 20 last year and also had his moments in the Basque Country. I think he has a pretty good shot at scoring points, which for any DS is a mighty good thing.

    Other than that, I don’t give many hints 🙂

    2 riders in the 30s
    1 in the 20s
    1 under 20
    1 DS over 10
    2 DS in the 5-10 range
    2 DS under 3

    April 10, 2012 at 10:26 am #673007
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    TERatcliffe26

    Bet you have my less than
    Bet you have my less than 20pt star then Chris

    Like i said its gonna shake it up abit

    I haven’t gone the two big stars (guessing most will go for Sammy and J-Rod, but thats not my tactic)

    April 10, 2012 at 10:05 am #673005
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    chrisdstripes

    I echo everyone’s struggles
    I echo everyone’s struggles to balance their books – I’ve ended up going down the road of just getting the 2 stars I really wanted (both 35+) and a good bunch of 5-12pt DS’s, leaving me with 2 stars worth less than 20pts to make up the numbers and hope I get lucky (although one of them has had good results in the Ardennes before so you never know…)

    April 9, 2012 at 7:20 pm #673003
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    meninblack

    There was no budget problem
    There was no budget problem on Paris – Roubaix, with good cheap star riders (Ballan, Pozzato, Flecha, Boom…) but I think I’ll have budget problem on Amstel because every star rider I like is expensive (Gilbert, Sagan, Rodriguez, Sanchez, Evans, Schlecks…). And the DS riders I like, are also expensive (Albasini, Hermans, Gavazzi…), so, a lot of problems are waiting… 😀 😀

    April 9, 2012 at 3:30 pm #673001
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    JAndrewHill

    oh, the the other ds is also
    oh, the the other ds is also from the southern hemisphere, and is 5-10. Doing the basque tour helps people see who is in form for the bumps!

    April 9, 2012 at 3:06 pm #672999
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    TERatcliffe26

    I’m gonna say 2 of your stars
    I’m gonna say 2 of your stars are the same as mine, and your scandanavian is too.

    My oher stars both european, I’d say western europe

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