[Dr Winston]

Fingers crossed for an uninterrupted Giro.

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[Gkam84]

Yates? He’s still in the race

Yates? He’s still in the race…

[Sniffer]

Lost Yates and Thomas from my

Lost Yates and Thomas from my purist, although I have Ganna.

I had Ganna last night, dropped him for today, in my standard.

I picked Dennnis over Thomas on Stage 1.  Inexplicably convinced myself that Sagan wouldn’t get up the short climb at the end of Stage 2.  Dropped Visconti who I had for Stage 2 before Etna where he was second.

Every call I make now, seems a bad one.

Top 6 in the other race today.  Most will have lots of those.

[Gkam84]

I thought he was going to

I thought he was going to help you out, but sadly it wasn’t too be, thankfully I have Ganna in my purist squad, even if I keep losing other riders, haha

[Dr Winston]

Thomas is ok, neither here

Thomas is ok, neither here nor there because everybody would have had him. I think a lot would have been caught out with the Astana boys though.

[Dr Winston]

I rarely get him now. I

I rarely get him now. I thought, being as he has already gone out once in this Giro he might fancy it again…and he did…the problem is everybody else won’t let him go. 
 

I got a couple of online friends to have a go at purists with me in a little league. They’ve been equally unlucky so I doubt they’ll play again…sadly.

The worst I’ve done is end up with just two riders in one of the purist races a couple of years ago. Shocking.

[Gkam84]

Dunno, so far there are only

Dunno, so far there are only 7 riders officially out of the race, including the 3 who already DNF today.

[Condor Andy]

Oof 3 down is rough. I’m only

Oof 3 down is rough. I’m only down Thomas thankfully, but I’m, sure there are a few others in your shoes.

[Gkam84]

I used to have TdG alot a few

I used to have TdG alot a few years ago and made some good points off him, sadly, he only gets away now and again, rarely when there is something to race for, like today.

On another point. I think I should start publishing my purist list in advance, to show which riders to avoid, that’s me down to 5 already..

[Dr Winston]

I think that may be the last

I think that may be the last time I pick TDG. He wanted the break but he’s just the target to stop for all those with an eye on a stage win and others who fancy a pop at the KOM competitions. They just won’t let him go now. 

[Anonymous]

I would have been caught out

I would have been caught out by the early deadline for both races today too, but was woken up by the cat at 4am and remembered to do them then 😀

…not that I have anyone in the break, so it will probably have been a waste of effort anyway!

[chrisdstripes]

Haha just made my transfers

Haha just made my transfers for today then realised I’d missed the deadline. Classic.

[11waterloo]

On paper Matthews is a better

On paper Matthews is a better climber than Sagan so it would have made sense to push it just to test Sagan, but as you say, they seem to be backing Kelderman more. There are very few teams who seem able to control anything at present – probably only FdJ and then only if there is minimal climbing! 

[Dr Winston]

Maybe. It all seems quite

Maybe. It all seems quite half hearted from Matthews so far. 

[Sniffer]

They might have fancied their
Sunweb might have fancied their chsnces dispatching Demare, but not Sagan.

With Bling on the way out and pink so open, are they backing Kelderman more than Bora are backing Majka.

[Dr Winston]

Agreed. It was the reason I

Agreed. It was the reason I kept Ulissi. I didn’t like the look of that climb at all for the sprinters…they were quite lucky that Bora didn’t attack a km or so earlier than they did…and I include Demare in that.

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