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Tour de France – Stage 9

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  • July 6, 2013 at 8:16 pm #19302
    backflipbedlem

    Right high mountains! Missed the deadline this morning, don’t want to make the same mistake twice so doing my team now.
    Worth getting froome in for tomorrow?
    With a flat then itt stage after bit worried about bringing in too many climbers!
    Anyways discuss! !

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  • July 8, 2013 at 11:32 pm #746697
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    northstar

    Bloody hell, i’m glad you
    Bloody hell, i’m glad you walked away from that, let’s hope the witnesses can identify him if he can be traced.

    July 8, 2013 at 10:44 pm #746695
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    thefatcyclist

    Oh I forgot, decided to stay
    Oh I forgot, decided to stay true to the purist ideal with my team what will be will be. only 6 riders left, and Taaramie next I venture.

    July 8, 2013 at 10:41 pm #746693
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    thefatcyclist

    mmmm, I have not quoted here,
    mmmm, I have not quoted here, but my Froome comment. I think what I meant was that it should never have happened in the first place, and that sky should have been a leading train from the start, like the Super Compex boys used to do. But this was said without having watched what had transpired before, and I hadn’t seen the Sky devistation just prior. I guess he had no choice to go with Valverde. I do think he is tactic naive, but Brailsford isn’t, I suppose they knew what might happen but didn’t know the weakness in the team. I assumed Froome was calling the shots badly, so probably a call made by me in the heat of the moment, and fuelled By the Eurosport commentators.

    BTW it is not the proper place for this, but I am adrenaline fuelled, because I got hit head on by a drunk driver tonight,at 8pm while cycling to shops.He completely cut the corner at a junction. Police involved, can of Budweiser in the drinks holder. I am ok I think, the closing distance was 15-20 MPH. I had no where to go, and all I could think of in the slow motion phase was “how bad is this going to hurt.” He left the scene of the accident on foot after witnesses pulled him out of the car as he tried to drive away. I have some hurts, road rash, no head contact, but how I got out of the situation I just don’t know. I made sure in the short time I had that the contact was going to be dead head on. He didn’t break after he hit and was pushing me up the road, I managed to shiimy round then he hit me a glancing blow to the hip. Bike ended up somersaulting 180 degrees as I hit the deck. The Specialised is surprisingly lightly damaged. Twist to the rear mech , but the wheels still in dead alignmet.
    Sorry for the war and peace, and any spelling errors.

    July 8, 2013 at 9:48 pm #746691
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    enrique

    TERatcliffe26 wrote:FFS

    TERatcliffe26 wrote:
    FFS cannot be said in its actual form on here

    I had to look it up. I guess it’s related to ‘For Goodness’s Sake’, right? Is that used over there?

    July 8, 2013 at 7:44 pm #746689
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    TERatcliffe26

    FFS cannot be said in its
    FFS cannot be said in its actual form on here

    July 8, 2013 at 5:34 pm #746687
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    enrique

    thefatcyclist wrote:This is

    thefatcyclist wrote:
    This is why I do not like Froome… this stage has breakaway written all over it, Sky should be on the front controlling the race, Froome has blasted his team out the water, idiot. Control the race FFS.

    Well, glad you’re back! You’ve been missed! 🙂 Anyways, I feel stupid asking you, but what you wrote early in the race got my attention. So, not to put you on the spot, but, what did you mean above? That Froome should not have gone with Valverde and company immediately and should have let his team pull them back at their won pace?… And for the ignorant, what’s FFS?

    July 8, 2013 at 4:38 pm #746685
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    thefatcyclist

    enrique wrote:thefatcyclist

    enrique wrote:
    thefatcyclist wrote:
    This is why I do not like Froome…

    You’re back! 😀 what a nice surprise! Why wasn’t there an announcement? 😉

    I mean you broke some hearts when you “left”! 😉

    Gkam84 wrote:
    Oh but fatty……You cant just leave the game…. :”(

    TERatcliffe26 wrote:
    Will be sad to see you leave…

    Glad you’re back! :D

    Ha ha, I wondered when anybody would notice, certainly not from my woeful team display, guess i’m race rusty.

    July 8, 2013 at 9:32 am #746683
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    enrique

    drheaton wrote:Movistar are

    drheaton wrote:
    Movistar are in a great position now. Quintana can attack and Sky have to chase but Valverde is more of an overall threat…

    Alan Tullett wrote:
    Valverde used to be half-decent on TTs. He lost 30 secs to Froome on the Vuelta TT… Froome will gain between a minute and a minute and a half on the first one. Maybe 30 secs to a minute on the second one…

    Thanks for the perspective, people!…

    July 8, 2013 at 9:26 am #746681
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    enrique

    thefatcyclist wrote:This is

    thefatcyclist wrote:
    This is why I do not like Froome…

    You’re back! 😀 what a nice surprise! Why wasn’t there an announcement? 😉

    I mean you broke some hearts when you “left”! 😉

    Gkam84 wrote:
    Oh but fatty……You cant just leave the game…. :”(

    TERatcliffe26 wrote:
    Will be sad to see you leave…

    Glad you’re back! 😀

    July 8, 2013 at 9:18 am #746679
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    ray silvester

    chrisdstripes wrote:No

    chrisdstripes wrote:
    No disasters for me, but the 2 I brought in scored about the same as the 2 I dropped, so could’ve saved a couple of transfers. Still, 7 consecutive days of green arrows puts me up to 52nd overall – considering I was outside the top 200 in the Giro thats a considerable improvement…

    Stuck now – keep Froome for the TT or sub him out and back in again?

    Anyhow – as I learnt to my cost last year, rest days are primetime for doping eliminations, so I won’t be doing anything til tomorrow morning…

    If you want Sagan/Cav/Greipel for the sprints you’ll have to do the ‘Hokey-Cokey’ with Froome methinks(in-out-shake it all about!!).

    This was the stage that Frank Shrek got caught last season so I might hold fire too……6 transfers so 4 sprinters in then 4 TT’ers the day after trying to leave as many of the sprinters in for the 2 sprint days after(if that makes sense).

    July 8, 2013 at 9:08 am #746677
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    enrique

    JAndrewHill wrote:I am

    JAndrewHill wrote:
    I am supporting my router…

    Ha ha ha! 😀 Good one!

    July 8, 2013 at 9:06 am #746675
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    enrique

    Jonas Lorenzen wrote:Wonder

    Jonas Lorenzen wrote:
    Wonder if Kwiatowski love[s] that white jersey so much he’ll skip the rest day and just go straight on to stage 10…

    Heh heh! 🙂

    July 8, 2013 at 9:05 am #746673
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    enrique

    bogdogs wrote:If the teams

    bogdogs wrote:
    If the teams want to beat Sky, they have to throw the race book out the window and attack, attack, attack. It was easy for Sky to control one mountain stage, big deal. Let’s see them do it with half the Peloton working against them. This is far from over.

    The question is – Will enough GC contenders have the guts to challenge?

    And the answer was, to our delight, a resounding yes! Great race! 😀

    July 8, 2013 at 8:50 am #746671
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    enrique

    Gkam84 wrote:After today’s

    Gkam84 wrote:
    After today’s stage, I couldn’t care about the game anymore. Its going to be a Sky borefest again…. Sat on the front, dictating the pace for every climb

    Actuallty, I felt the same way before the stage today…And what a nice surprise it was to be so wrong! 🙂

    July 8, 2013 at 8:43 am #746669
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    dave atkinson

    if i’d have kept martin and
    if i’d have kept martin and save the transfer i’d have been top ten with 5 free changes. c’est la vie 😐

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