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July 13, 2013 at 5:39 pm #19363
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Well after a lot of indecision and several attempts, I have finally settled on my line up for the battle up Mont Ventoux.
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Alan Tullett
Le Mevel sat up. Not
Le Mevel sat up. Not surprised to be honest. Same thing happened yesterday.Rolland within 15″ of the 10 at one point, now dropping back a bit to 35″. Not sure if they’ll make it now. The 10 don’t want Rolland in their group. Could be all down to El Fares now. Peloton well back with Europcar leading, presumably slowing down the pace unless their plan is for Voeckler to go late?
andynic wrote:In the same
andynic wrote:In the same cycling news mini league as you, Alan – unfortunately just lost two transfers – emailed them, but it’s rather messed up my plans for the week. Good luck!You’re Sean Kelly’s Rear Wheel? Stage 1 didn’t work out as a bonus stage, did it? That messed up a lot of teams. We’ve got 4 the same. Chavanal might work out for you today. I need Alpe d’Huez to go to form to stand a chance of winning.
I had problems with the transfers last night as well at first. After 11:01 they didn’t appear. I was getting worried I can tell you. Eventually logged out and then back in again and they appeared. Phew!!
Looking back on the live text
Looking back on the live text both Rolland and El Fares have got some mountain points. 1 cat 4 each. De Gendt got the first.Rolland and Burghart chasing
Rolland and Burghart chasing the lead group of 10 (got El Fares – I thought Sagan might try something Tues rather than today) but no MPs for Rolland. Damn! Also Le Mevel and Astorloza chasing behind Rolland. Got Le Mevel. Have been thinking of getting rid of him and swapping him for a 3 but it meant wasting a transfer and now he might get some points although I doubt it. El Fares in with a chance of some IM points though. Better than nothing! Le Mevel in my purist as well.Rolland and Burghart catching up the leaders. Thinking he must be going for a win as there are only 2 points for the cat 3.
TERatcliffe26 wrote:Ive gone
TERatcliffe26 wrote:Ive gone thisFroome
Mollema
Quintana
Fuglsang (as much with tuesday in mind)
Ten Dam
Hoogerland
Fischer
MederalWill use all 4 transfers we get for tuesday as I think the top 5 will contain riders similar to a previous stage so will take a risk on that 😕 It may leave me a tad vulnerable for the ITT, but I think its a difficult one to predict.
As for rcuk, I was gonna bring in froome today, but didn’t wanna have to take him out again for Sagan on tuesday, so he will come in for Wednesday and then my team is set until the end, with 3 transfers for the last stage
As I thought Mollema instead of Rolland and I’ve got Nieve and Kadri over Fuglsang. Might go with the latter on Tuesday, maybe D Martin or someone else as well leaving 4 for the ITT.
livestrongnick
Current break is
Peter Sagan
Current break is
Peter Sagan (Cannondale), Markel Irizar (Radioshack), Pierrick Fédrigo and Jeremy Roy (FDJ.fr), Christophe Riblon (Ag2r-La Mondiale), Alberto Losada (Katusha), Sylvain Chavanel (Omega Pharma-Quick Step), Daryl Impey (Orica-GreenEdge), Wouter Poels (Vacansoleil) and Julien El Fares (Sojasun).After my massive score of -6
After my massive score of -6 yesterday!! i’ve played safe-ish!?Froome
Mollema
Ten dam
Navarro
Cunego(punt)
Quintana
Mederel (must go on break today surely?)
Willems
Bonnet
Dropped nearly 400 places in 2 days so no risks and just try to claw back some pride.
May not touch my team till after alp duez? 😕chrisdstripes
drheaton wrote:Hmmm, am I the
drheaton wrote:Hmmm, am I the only one who’s gone for Pinot?
I fancied Pinot due to the lack of a descent, but my original plan was to bring in Voeckler yesterday, thinking he’d go for it on one of the three days (yesterday, today or Tuesday) so decided to stick with that plan and put a quid on Pinot at 50/1 instead! Had Voeckler been in the break yesterday I’d already decided I’d swap him for Pinot or Rolland today.andynic
In the same cycling news mini
In the same cycling news mini league as you, Alan – unfortunately just lost two transfers – emailed them, but it’s rather messed up my plans for the week. Good luck!drheaton
Hmmm, am I the only one who’s
Hmmm, am I the only one who’s gone for Pinot?TERatcliffe26
oh yeh Alp d’Huez is the
oh yeh Alp d’Huez is the stage for Rolland, for my team anywayIve gone
Ive gone thisFroome
Mollema
Quintana
Fuglsang (as much with tuesday in mind)
Ten Dam
Hoogerland
Fischer
MederalWill use all 4 transfers we get for tuesday as I think the top 5 will contain riders similar to a previous stage so will take a risk on that 😕 It may leave me a tad vulnerable for the ITT, but I think its a difficult one to predict.
As for rcuk, I was gonna bring in froome today, but didn’t wanna have to take him out again for Sagan on tuesday, so he will come in for Wednesday and then my team is set until the end, with 3 transfers for the last stage
Stumps
Gone for,
Christopher
Gone for,Christopher Froome
Bauke Mollema
Daniel Martin
Julien El Fares
Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas
Daniel Navarro Garcia
Murilo Antonio Fischer
Maxime MederelEl Fares and Mederel for the break today and i’ve got a feeling Martin will do well.
chrisdstripes wrote:Crazy day
chrisdstripes wrote:Crazy day yesterday, 6 points for my standard team but 34th on the stage for my purists (and my RCUK team closed the gap as well with Talansky and Garcia).Have very much a risky breakaway team, which is not the right tactic for today imo, but could pay dividends tomorrow. Expecting to drop off a bit if I’m honest – but I enjoy the game more when I’m chasing those breakaways!
Froome
Quintana
Voeckler
Navarro
Lutsenko
Nieve
El Fares
Le Mevel
HoogerlandI don’t think many people will have Voeckler so if it comes off you could win the stage. It is the kind of stage he could go for, mind you, if he has the legs which I don’t think he has. Any breakaway will have to be very strong to hold off the GC today I think, but there is a tailwind which will help them.
ray silvester wrote:Emptied
ray silvester wrote:Emptied the transfer bank today with 5(no penalties)———————————————————
Out:Sagan,Kittel,DuMoulin,Kristoff and Kwiatkowski(not sure about Kwia).
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In:Froome,Quintana,Peraud,Schleck,RollandThey join:Gadret,Hoogerland,Fischer,Serpa
I’m already kind of wishing I’d kept Kwiatkowski as I reckon he could win the lumpy TT but Bastille Day made me go for Rolland.
Not sure about Schleck yet. Might put him in on a gamble later. Tried Serpa in the Pyrenees but I don’t think he’s got the legs anymore but would love to be proved wrong.
There’s 6 transfers before the ITT so plenty of time to bring Kwia back. Doubt if he’ll score much today.
Gone Froome, Quintana, Rolland, Ten Dam, Nieve and Kadri (more for 16 than today but might go in the break early to get some mountain points, not sure about any other rider in that price range). Rolland probably won’t do anything today after all, maybe Alpe d’Huez, but he needs some HC summit finish points somewhere to win the polka dots otherwise Froome, Quintana or Mollema will catch him up.
Wind today 15mph from the north so a tailwind until Mont Ventoux when it may cause problems.
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