Stage 9 – ITT, Arc-et-Senans to Besançon

Well that’s my second
Well that’s my second account, its going stage hunting now I have time and this one is staying purist 😉

That was a penalty in the
That was a penalty in the sense of having him in my team, as opposed to actually spending points

Taking a big pen one day for a big score the next only works if you actually pick the winners. If you’re good enough to do that you can probably do it without getting hit for masses of points…

Well, I’m glad you didn’t spend points on him. The only person I thought of spending a penalty on was Cancellara, but you still need the points, which I didn’t really have. It’s true you need to get the winners, but now you can have a try every other day, which wasn’t possible before. I’m sure quite a few people must be trying this already if they’ve sussed out the system. I’m still keen on keeping my overall position and I don’t desperately need any of the stage prizes. Personally, I think the old system of 2 a day, no rollovers and no penalties was more intellectually challenging, but perhaps less interesting to more casual players.

dave_atkinson wrote:Wiggo,

dave_atkinson wrote:

Wiggo, Evans and TVG for me plus 5 points for Rogers. enough to be going up rather than down, now sharing 96th place with alan tullett…

I didn’t see this before my previous comment. Is this a boast, that you’re as high as me!! I really fucked up stage 7. I thought it was going to be one of those boring first mountain stages, but, thankfully in some ways, it wasn’t. Then, I went for the breaks and I got Pinot, who was down in my team long before Eurosport was on about him every 5 seconds, but Moncoutie doesn’t have the legs anymore and De Gregorio did nothing. Chavanal was still too dangerous to let go, unfortunately, although I’m sure he’ll win a stage eventually. I thought I needed 2 or 3 big scores to be in contention but I only got 1. Thought about Kessiakoff as well.

Today was much better than I expected as my team was not oriented towards the TT at all. At the last minute I picked out Velits as a good pick at that price range and he produced the goods so I’m pleased at that. Don’t tell me how far behind the leader I am as I daren’t look. I only look at the overall table to make sure I’m above Teratcliffe26 😉 😉

I’m playing overall for another week, then I’ll go for stages. Should have won last year when I had a good chance. This year I think I’m out of it but I’ll pray for a couple more Pinot’s and some good choices on the stars. I couldn’t watch either stage live as I had my daughter’s concert one day and I did over 200k for the first time the next!! I hope I can watch next weekend live, even though stage 11 is probably the key one now. If Wiggins doesn’t crash surely he has it in the bag. The only one who can beat him is Froome, who is probably under orders not too!!

dave_atkinson wrote:took my

dave_atkinson wrote:

took my penalty yesterday bringing in rogers a day early 🙂

Evans
Van Garderen
Rogers
Wiggins

Lancaster
Roux
Zabriskie
Boeckmans
Bernaudeau

for me. 5 or six in the top 20 would do

Penalties are an excellent idea if you want a stage victory. In fact they make it a bit easy. Take a big pen one day for glory the next. Useless for the overall though.

Thats it. Nibali is getting
Thats it. Nibali is getting transferred out.

Swapped out Froome for Evans
Swapped out Froome for Evans – Doh !!!!!

Still not to bad i suppose. Now to sit down and look at my team for the next 3 / 4 stages.

Wiggo, Evans and TVG for me
Wiggo, Evans and TVG for me plus 5 points for Rogers. enough to be going up rather than down, now sharing 96th place with alan tullett…