The rules of Sky Bashing (revealed)

"Brad Wiggins took a gamble on the weather in the Rotterdam Time Trial" meaning "How come Murdoch didn't stop it raining - what was he thinking?"

"After their exertions on the road, the riders are able to relax in their state-of-the-art team bus," meaning "although one of their riders won the stage, he gave the post-race press conference a miss."

until i saw this article i had forgotten that this was a "Proteam"!

Send me an email when they win something please.

"They have lovely new green tops for the tour of britian", Meaning there just like any other pub team who fail miserably in a break or cause a crash through not being able to ride in a bunch - and have to wear different tops for the next few weeks so nobody recognises them while it all blows over...

'We love you guys unconditionally.'

'Sky has one of the largest budgets of any cycling team'='They are nearly as overpaid and incapable as the England football squad'

"Bradley Wiggins is going through all sorts of agonies now on the slopes of the Tourmalet" meaning "he's simply not good enough for a GC place".

Never mind Roadkill, having a bit of a dig at Sky is the British thing to do… knocking success. Even if that succes is er, relative… marginal even.

Doh! I'm doing it now

Do marginal gains confine you to the margins.....

Actually really proud of a Brit team mixing it a bit - feel dirty now

"Sky Pro-Cycling Team has no say in whether its team members go to the Commonwealth Games; but we might have reminded them that if they get sick there are thousands more riders waiting to take their place"

Well this explains why my thread in the forum got so little response!

Oh well, if you can't beat them and all that.

Special jerseys for TofB = Radioshack are our hero's

I've tried to like to Sky, but it's not been easy. The turning point was the TDF bus clip of some bloke who looked like he'd escaped from a Natwest bank ad waffling on with a "motivational" Powerpoint while Wiggo sat at the back looking like he was warming up for the main stage at Glasto.

"They bring their own sheets and duvets on Tours" = "They're spoilt mummy's boys"

"the aggregation of marginal gains" = "we spent a fortune on looking like prats with our record-breaking aero-shorts, top of the line radio comms, mood lighting on the bus, taking our own mattresses wherever we went; we forgot it was all about riding a bike faster than the next guy". The aggregation was zero.

Bradley Wiggins' confession of 'last year was a fluke' - means 'I'm laughing all the way to the bank.'

"They have really top-end bikes" - meaning that they have no excuse for sucking so badly this year.

"They have a nice bus", taken to mean "They all get the luxury treatment so they don't have the stomach for the fight and they're out of touch with their fans"

this is fun!

Murdoch owns nearly all the media so they are tired delivering papers every morning