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Well….not so good today. Only Groenewegen and Trentin scoring for the day for me. Big decision to be made early about Kwia…looking like SKY are hell bent on taking advantage of the wind.
I had Groenewegen, Demare and Laporte today.
Same as you for tomorrow looking at bringing in some GC riders for non-preforming sprinters.
A longer stage tomorrow and very windy again although the wind directions might not be ideal for blowing things up again.
I can’t beleive how some teams fell asleep in the last 3km today. FDJ had lots of riders there for Demare but still got caught out, AG2R too.
I don’t think this is ging to
I don’t think this is going to be my race.
After yesterday I broke one of my golden rules – “don’t chop & change sprinters”. I dropped Greipel for Ewan and in the race Greipel drops Ewan.
Kristoff nowhere to be seen again.
Looking a bit better for my purist team, Kelderman & Jungels up front.
Given today’s weather forecast I went for sprinters that I think have a better chance in crosswinds. I chose Greipel and Laporte over Ewan or Jakobsen.BENNETT S.
DEMARE
KRISTOFF
GROENEWEGEN
GREIPEL
LAPORTE
MADOUAS
COMBAUDNot a bad start to the stage I have Combaud in the break, hopefully he can pick up a few points.
That is the last time ever I pick Greipel.
Good chance for people to
Good chance for people to make ground on me in the Purist league.
My top pick Michael matthews crashes out on Stage1 🙁
I’m at the other end….Penwortham. I’m good friends with Pete Hodgkinson from Barton village who built the Tom Finney statue. Maybe you know the family…well known around there.I don’t remember any Hodkinson from Barton but we moved to Fulwood in the early 1970s.
I used to hang about near the Plough Inn in Penwortham during my teens, and my grandparents lived on Hill Road.
Given today’s weather
Given today’s weather forecast I went for sprinters that I think have a better chance in crosswinds. I chose Greipel and Laporte over Ewan or Jakobsen.
BENNETT S.
DEMARE
KRISTOFF
GROENEWEGEN
GREIPEL
LAPORTE
MADOUAS
COMBAUDNot a bad start to the stage I have Combaud in the break, hopefully he can pick up a few points.
Which part of Preston?Born in Broughton, moved to Barton and then moved to Fulwood.
Only bike shop I remember in Preston was Mears in the 1970s. I think I got my purple Raleigh Chopper there.
Don’t get me wrong Minardi…i’m from Blackburn but now live close to Preston. My sons are Preston lads as are most the folk i know now. I want then to do well…and i want Blackburn to do well. I can only say what i see and today they were poor.Mid table mediocrity in the championship is a funny thing…you can be just below the plays offs one month and just above relegation the next and done nothing different whatsoever…all much of a muchness and all in need of the 30 million quid. Danny Graham is Blackburn’s problem…well past his sell by date, that’d cost 20-30 mill on it’s own to put right.
As you may have guessed I’m from Preston originally but now living on the wrong side of the Pennines.
What amazes me with Preston is no-one knows anything about Hugh Carthy.
Picking my team for tomorrow seems to be a case of who to leave out and not who to include. Decisions.Difficult to know which sprinters to go with given the weather forecast.
Quite a few are coming back from illness too. It might be a tactic to pick those who have already been ill, as they shouldn’t get the flu again.
Yes I was. Strange game. Blackburn by far the better side apart from finishing whilst PNE played a “rolling on the floor” game and looked just rubbish…#teamslikepreston 🙂
Aye. Blackburn have a nice base of some good football to build on. PNE not so much…well not on that showing.
I know which side is challenging for the playoffs, despite being bottom of the table in late September.
Very young side too.
The problem is finding the extra £30million a year needed to escape this league.
Yes I was. Strange game. Blackburn by far the better side apart from finishing whilst PNE played a “rolling on the floor” game and looked just rubbish…#teamslikepreston 🙂
archieboy wrote:
You sure about that, not much opposition in TA. C9uld be good for Ala.Top 5 in a GT, a Grand Tour.
Been to the footy and missed the Strade completely….was it a good race? It’d be nice if Fuglsang was bit more dependable as a pick…great rider but sometimes just goes missing…in fact quite often.You weren’t watching Plastic Rovers lose at home by any chance ?
To be honest I found the race a bit boring.
Not a lot of action at all.
About 50km from the finish, the favourites attacked and got away.
Then about 20km from the finish Fuglsand attacked, Van Aert followed him and Alaphilippe managed to catch them.
The other favourites then let them get away too easily, imo, Wellens, Benoot, Stujins, Clarke & GVA didn’t work together and mainly attacked each other, while Stybar, Lampaert & Lutsenko watched them in amusement.
Van Aert got dropped on a climb but fought his way back to catch them at the base of the final climb. Alaphilippe waited for Fuglsang to attack and then rode straight past him.
He has been in good positions
He has been in good positions in one week races and then when it comes to a summit finish and he has trouble staying with pure climbers. A good example was Paris Nice last year.
I’ll buy you both a pint when Alaphilippe manages a top 5 in a GT.
Not as tough a race as I
Not as tough a race as I expected.
Fortunately I went with Alaphilippe despite my misgivings.
I expect my team was similar to the majoirty.
My doubts about wasting transfers proved correct, I brought in Oss, Durbridge & Power with very little return.
I’ll need to be more careful for Milan-San Remo.
