Tour de France Stage 20

I’ve only watched the ITV
I’ve only watched the ITV coverage but I have started to get seriously annoyed with the number of mistakes made by Sherwin and Liggett.

The best coverage all Tour was the first hour or so on Friday when Boardman and Imlach were commentating with some input from Matt Rendell whilst Liggett and Sherwin were still in bed. Informed, interesting and correct, what more could you want. In fact I remember Boardman’s commentary at the Olympics being very good despite the shocking production of the road race.

For the cycling coverage to improve someone else needs to take it on. I remember the huge improvement in the F1 coverage when the BBC took it back from ITV and whilst I don’t have Sky their production has always been good. I think ITV and Eurosport have stagnated and they need some serious competition.

chrisdstripes

chrisdstripes wrote:

123+gadret for me. Chance of top 100 in Std and purist which would be awesome. Great last climb. Getting annoyed with liggett and Sherwen, they keep saying quintana attacked too early in the pyrenees but at that stage he was clearly working for valverde. And liggett at one stage thought porte was lopez, even though he was ahead of kreuziger. Maybe I need to offer my services – can’t be any worse!

You’d have probably known the difference between Irizar and Bakelants on stage 2…..plus the amount of times they’ve got Contador mixed up with Kreuziger or Valverde is perhaps even worse bearing in mind that Contador is one of the biggest stars in cycling with perhaps THE most recognisable climbing styles!!

Say what you like about football but it’s commentators would never mix up Messi and Ronaldo.

With 8 transfers left, I’d
With 8 transfers left, I’d get rid of the GC guys, there is a good chance that if you pick the 4 obvious sprinters, they will be in the top 6, meaning you will make more points that Quintana on his own, because of the intermediate sprint. They will go for it 😉

Froome is expensive for his
Froome is expensive for his 14 points (that’s all he’ll score). For 40 credits you get Sagan, or you get Greipel and credits to upgrade a cheap rider.

Drop Froome and Quintana and you can automatically afford Cavendish and Kittel. That’s possibly a max of 65 points plus standings and you’ve lost 33 so a 32ish point boost. If Cav and Kittel get 3 & 4 instead of 1 & 2 then that’s at least 47 points and still an extra 14 over Froome/Quintana.

For me its all about balance, I had 6 transfers and used them all although had to leave in Bonnet, could have used another but c’est la vie.

The winner of tomorrows stage though will end up having the break rider for the extra 20 points at the intermediate sprint. Unfortunately that’s just luck.

rcorbin wrote:… I’ve got 8

rcorbin wrote:

… I’ve got 8 transfers for tomorrow with 70 points to first place!… Froome guaranteed 14, Quintana… 19… Hmmmm

rcorbin, you’ve been playing incredibly well! but I think we both know you probably can’t make up the 70 points 🙁 Barring a crash or some unfortunate incident! … Your choices? Well! Are you defending your spot? Then keep Froome… Want to get as close as possible for the glory? Drop (!) Froome! I’m saying this and I haven’t checked to see how many points are between you and 3rd, though, if it’s too (!) close, well, you might as well drop Froome regardlesss! 🙂

Now I’ve got 8 transfers for
Now I’ve got 8 transfers for tomorrow with 70 points to first place!

Load with sprinters?

Froome guaranteed 14, Quintana has 19 so would need to pick the top 6.

Hmmmm

How many points will the
How many points will the Jersey holders get 2moro?

123+gadret for me. Chance of
123+gadret for me. Chance of top 100 in Std and purist which would be awesome. Great last climb. Getting annoyed with liggett and Sherwen, they keep saying quintana attacked too early in the pyrenees but at that stage he was clearly working for valverde. And liggett at one stage thought porte was lopez, even though he was ahead of kreuziger. Maybe I need to offer my services – can’t be any worse!