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wow, I screwed that up. Was tossing up between Majka and Guerreiro and went the more risky option while in the lead…..oh well, back to playing catch up, nice and bunched top 10, choices for the last few stages will be interesting!!
Might depend a little on number of transfers available too. Though feeling the need to use them can be counter productive.
I missed all the warnings about wind yesterday, and messed up going sprinter heavy and wasting transfers.Gone slightly radical today.
ROGLIC
GILBERT
ARANBURU
VALVERDE
BOUCHARD
GEOGHEGAN HART
POGACAR
MADRAZO
A couple of interesting choices.
I have 6 the same, but more instead of Gilbert and Aranburu I have Majka and Lopez.
We will both be cheering on TGH which who I think will be a point of difference.
Dropping Craddick wasn’t my
Dropping Craddick wasn’t my best move.I did go for Teuns, straight swap for De Gendt. I think De Gendt is tired after his season. I’ve got Henao and Madrazo who might still fancy the break in the next couple of days. I’ll get Lopez back in for stage 13.Put Lopez back in for GC and Young rider points and I would be doing it for 13 anyway.
Left Bevin and Latour in and added Herrada and Aranburu. That is my four potential breakaways.
Dropped De Gendt and didn’t go Teuns as I don’t think he will be allowed room to go again.
stevett wrote:
Well that has put me off ever buying a Cannondale bike! Giant fork sustained damage and replaced immediately at local dealer no problem. A company like Cannondale should do better if they want confidence from customers, after all warranty and support are a big reason for paying premium brand prices.It put me off buying one in Ukraine .
Gambled today.
Gambled today.
Quintana, Lopez, Madrazo and Aru
Relaced with
TDG, Bevin, Craddock and Oliviera.
With Pogacar, Valverde, Roglic and keeping Latour. It seems to have worked out.
3 changes for today –BENNET Sam
WELLENS
NAESEN
PHILIPSEN
THEUNS
SMITH D.
Van AVERMAET
PLANCKAERT B.stage just started, crazy already
First changes in the race for me today. Your three plus Gilbert.
Still gives me Bennet and Philipson too as well
second picsee this is what annoys me more than whether you believe the helmet “totes saved your life” or not, weve got people using their helmet crash anectdotes as evidence of how great helmets are, but then seemingly happy to carry on using their crash damaged helmets just because they arent totally broken in to lots of pieces
if you believe helmets offer any protection at all, if its taken a hit on the road and its clearly showing damage, even if its not broken apart its not offering the same protection anymore ,so you need to bin that helmet and get a new one, or else whats the point ?
Read the original post. He did say he would need to get a new one.
TGH and Formolo were not bad
TGH and Formolo were not bad picks. MAL less so.Two transfers for tomorrow.
Gone for safe picks for today.Not sure Swift will be there at the finish but have read that he will be going for it. I’m hoping that Prades is now Movistar leader, he should be able to produce a good result in a race like this.
IZAGUIRRE I.
HIGUITA
ULISSI
MAJKA
PRADES
SWIFT
MOHORIC
LATOURPoints jersey is now up for grabs as Ackermann has pulled out, is he planning to do BinckBank ?
Bora have announced Ackermann has dropped out to allow him to do the European Championships Road Race.
I have 5 of your eight
No Izaguirre, Prades and Mohoric. I have Formolo, TGH and Miguel Angel Lopez instead.
Identifying the leader for a couple of teams is not easy.
There’s always the postal entry option, that’s just the cost of the stamp and nothing for the production company. Takes more effort though.There used to be, but some of the competitions have been dropping that from the TV ad. Not that I ever used it though.
These competitions are self
These competitions are self funding so it probably gives you the odds on winning too.
If I remember right it cost £2 to enter if the prize fund is £20K once 10,000 people have entered all further entries are profit. They won’t be running these each year if the don’t make a profit so the odds of winning in my hypothetical case are less than 1 in 10,000.
It is a gambling ad (in the same way as the National Lottery is gambling) in the middle of a sports highlights program. The cricket highlights on C5 have the same model. It is just additional revenue for commercial broadcastrs.
One of the benefits of recording and not watching live is that I can fast forward through the request for funds.
On a lighter note, good luck if you have entered.
Pretty unsure about who to pick today.Left some sprinters in and brought some punchier riders in.
Not sure leaving Gaviria in was a good idea, he could be working for Ulissi or even Consonni today. Possibly would have been better leaving Van Poppel in.
ACKERMANN
HIGUITA
ULISSI
GAVIRIA
VENTURINI
BATTAGLIN
MOHORIC
MEZGECI have the first six the same. Swift and Van Poppel for your Mohoric and Mezgec.
I would feel more comfortable
I would feel more comfortable if we didn’t score stage 4 at all and it is a pause for us all. Our game feels very unimportant today.On the technical side, there was racing in stage 19 of the TdF. GC changed for example. Today feels different.
To have picked Bardet yesterday (a few did) was an excellent gamble. I had budgeted an extra transfer, but ended up not using it as I could not see where to use it. I was looking at Bardet, Quintana, Wellens and Porte, but it just seemed a gamble. It seems clearer today.Obviously Quintana would have been alright too!
Looks like your extra transfer will be useful picking a replacement for Pinot.
Looks like he was taken out by a bee, so so unlucky.
I suspect he is in everyones team, so will be a problem for anyone with few transfers.
I think Andy might regret his last one.
