Stage 7 La Vuelta

Gkam84 wrote:

TERatcliffe26 wrote:

Gkam i have scope to catch you in the vuelta, and with only 3 events, i believe, after the vuelta, u need to make a few more points on me before the vuelta finishes to catch me overall but its gonna be close, we should both finish about 100th overall unless either of us has a distaster

Touch wood, i'd be quite happy to make the top 100 out of the 5610 teams, ok some of them have not played all season, but quite alot have, about 3000 were around at the start of the game

It will be interesting if we continue on our almost opposite paths till the end of la vuelta to see who comes out on top and then only Cycliste de Montreal and two world champ events to make up any lost ground

yup hopefully, yh think it may have been as high as 3600 that have competed for most of the season, but as bad a start i have had in the vuelta scoring just 3 the other day im still 400 and something

Yup it will although im heading more towards your style of team now, although wiggins will stay purely for monday, i now have one DS that you have (the obvious choice) and my other transfer did well on a simlar finsih to 2morrow the other day. But while you have mollema im expecting cobo to continue to come good over the next week.

Im sure there is a sky rider in the cycliste that most people will pick along with an OPL rider (or should do as i expect him to top 3 behind the OPL rider) so cant see too much scoring differences in that, however the worlds will be interesting especially if it gets blown apart and i could see more than a 50 point difference if people dont get lucky with picks

oops, duplicated. intentionally weird . . ..

Gkam84 wrote:

DONT pay any attention to this, i'm just putting it up for the laugh that i'm having

Top 20 GC

1 Sy. Chavanel (QST) 27:29:39
2 Fuglsang (LEO) +14
3 Kessiakoff (AST) +22
4 Bruseghin (MOV) +31
5 Monfort (LEO) +33
6 Seeldraeyers (QST) +37
7 Pardilla (MOV) +46
8 L. Sánchez (RAB) +54
9 Zubeldia (RSH) +1:03
10 Capecchi (LIQ) +1:06
11 J.J. Cobo (GEO) +1:10
12 Froome (SKY) +1:13
13 Nibali (LIQ) +1:22
14 D. Moreno (KAT) +1:32
15 Wiggins (SKY) +1:34
16 Roche (ALM) +1:37
17 Van den Broeck (OLO) +1:38
18 Nieve (EUS) +1:39
19 Mollema (RAB) +1:39
20 Joa. Rodríguez (KAT) +1:40

So I will ignore it and Chavenel is sacked ! I'll bring a real rider in instead to replace him . . . or am I being NAIVE ?
(Does anyone work out my cryptic clues?)

Gkam84 wrote:

JAndrewHill wrote:

So I will ignore it and Chavenel is sacked ! I'll bring a real rider in instead to replace him . . . or am I being NAIVE ?
(Does anyone work out my cryptic clues?)

I get this one, but not your last so YOU'S KA TEL us now?

Yeh i get this too, i wouldnt for tomorrow but i would be tempted for sunday, but as it is the TT the day after and he would require a transfer to get him out i would be tempted to wait until after the rest day but i could quite easily see him in my team come wednesday

Gkam84 wrote:

So much for the people defending Degenkolb yesterday, i really dont think he's a contender for a stage this year and depending on where he ends up next year, i dont see him as a GT rider

Well done to Kittel for taking the stage today, I'm still mystified as to why you are so dismissive of Degenkolb though?

Out of curiosity, I just checked latest IG Rankings (which include Tour of Poland), Degenkolb is in 58th place, Kittel is 106th.

Now that doesn't prove who is the better rider necessarily, but it does suggest that dismissing Degenkolb out of hand is a bit unfair.

For what it's worth, I see him as more of an attacking rider who can sprint, rather than an out-and-out sprinter - which is rather handy, since he'll be racing with Kittel at Skil Shimano next season of course (and previously they raced together at Thüringer Energie).

By the way, Skil Shimano's manager reckons Degenkolb is a future TDF green jersey winner.