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Giro stage 5
What a tricky, tricky stage this was to pick for.
Having decided to maybe only make a change or two, I've done 6. 
Oh well, there go my chances unless someone is smiling on me. 3 total wildcards and 3 potential GCs in for a shedload of sprinters.
Looking at the profile tomorrow and Thursday (and even Friday) it may be worth it. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagghh!!!!
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Looking forward to trying out my prize sunglasses!
Solo breakaway win tomorrow. Calling it.
Don't ask me who, though. Cunego, perhaps.
No changes for me tonight. No doubt will be a fall tomorrow after the joy of today!
I noticed Haas got 10 Fantasy points although PCS has Stamsnijder rolling in with a later time than him. Don't know who was really last, and I don't have any of them, just saying...
Stamsneider on the official Giro site too
Just 1 for me, Arredondo for swift, as couldn't afford Majka or Uran without axing Bouhanni, but wanted to keep him for 7.
I did Notice early after stage , that PCS had Haas last as well.
And now I can see why,Sstams ROLLED in 9min after Haas.
SEE this is what happens when you Jammed the scores in str8 after the event on a hill/mtn stage , instead of waiting for all the riders to come in or the cut-off time
I think that's a bad move Ter but what do I know.....I thought I'd put arrendondo in but somehow forgot as I was messing with the team and left Hansen in
5th overall, which is great (and my first High Roller badge to boot) - but joint eleventh on the stage
Fear I'll never get the elusive stage top ten badge.
Still, mustn't grumble. Just hope I get a bit of luck tomorrow as well...
Nice.
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Hooray, my first prize and top of the Giro outright by 1 pt!
3,4,6,7,8 stage plus gc ,youth,mountain and point comp points
not bad but not great tbh 130 something for the day
How was Gasparotto doing before his fall?
I didn't watch the stage, what happened? I have him in my purist team....BUT
You won the stage without him
1 Velociraptor Joelsim 187
Both him and Landa hit the deck , Landa on the final descent gasparotto on the penultimate climb
THANK YOU VERY MUCH....FOR UPDATING 4 MINUTES before TOC. closes....COMMON SENSE. Think About IT
YEP OPEN NOW AND CANT TRADE CHEERS !!!!!!!!!
Deadset BRAINLESS!
1,3,4,6. Did not expect a full on GC battle to take place. Felline and Gasparotto both fell which was unlucky.
Well done Joelsim
Haas last.
Here we go:
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1,3,4,5 on GC plus Tjallingii. And prob 1,2 on Youth too.
HUGE Effort, nearly in WIG_BILLY Stratosphere
1,2,4,6,7 plus Swift in the break and mountain points still for Tjallangi. Holding my nerve, no changes for tomorrow.
Except maybe one...
I was happy with 1,2,6,7 until I saw other teams, especially Joelsim.
I don't like him but looked at the stages 5-10 from last year and he featured heavily in those.
Yep, Evans is a consistently high finisher, likes to contest the time bonuses and stay clear of the crashes in the flatter finishes too.
A great fantasy team option, even if he doesn't win GC in the end (still convinced Quintana & Uran at least have the beating of him in the high mountains; been saying for ages though that podium here is well within his capabilities)
2 4 6 7 plus some GC points, sprint points, mountain and youth points. Who knows, even LTR. I thought it would be a GC day and I was by and large correct.
1,2,3,4,5,6 for me
Very NICE....
Where is that Trentino Thread.
I do remember a bloke sticking up for Cadel few weeks ago, and said he would win the Giro' ......hmmmmm
Got to admit he is looking strong.
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