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Tour of Qatar Stage 1
Transfer window has just slammed shut, right on my fingers 
So i thought i'd share with you my thought process and REAL team
Mark Cavendish (SKY) Obvious aint it?
Mark Renshaw (RAB) Can push Cav all the way
Tom Boonen (OPQ) Figured in most stages last year
Denis Galimzyanov (KAT) Did well last year in the top 10 on 4/5 stages
Nikolas Maes (OPQ) Best young rider last year
Roger Kluge (1T4) 9th in the points and top 10 3/5
William Clarke (CHA) Break away's
Gabriel Rasch (FDJ) 7th last year, hoping for better
Dominique Rollin (FDJ) 3/5 stages top 10 and 8th in points last year
Also have a little spare so i can bring in my guys for the TTT, BUT if you want to see my chopping and changing mind, look here, some of them were before i knew the rosters
If you're new please join in and if you have questions pop them below and the forum regulars will answer as best we can.
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38th overall, way down in all the minileagues, well thats the game. And the game plan, keeping to it. No changes for tomorrow, 4 transfers for Tuesday, although my brain is saying dump Sky and put in 2 liquigas or 2 omega pharma.
No sprint points??
Up 11 overall
Down 1 IOM & Northwest league.
Wow, I managed to pick the DNS and the DNF. Do I get points for that?
It has to be a first from a team of 9 !
You should get a least a 10 point bonus for that.....
Ssorted my team yesterday and forgot to click the BIG GREEN button doh!!! Woke up this morning with that niggle that I'd forgotten to do something. S**t!!! as it dawned on me. Sorted the team and remembered to click green
so glad I had that niggle. Green arrows all round 
Happy days. Hoping now that I can hold it and not balls it up in the TTT.
is the game down? I can't get in to see the bad news
fine here... although it's not great news when you do get on
it's all red arrows on my dashboard
151 for me today, quite happy with that. Upto 38th overall.
Cheers LabMonkey, im going the solid steady route at the moment, lets hope it continues
Congratulations to TERatcliffe76 - Number 1 in the season long game - the only competition that I am interested in.
I am up to 6th now... keep looking over your shoulder! haha
Watched the last 10kms on Eurosport and wished I hadn't bothered. First Henderson punctured, then Galimzyanov, then it became clear Cav wasn't going to sprint. That was 3 of my 4 star riders that didn't score. My other was Farrar.
Although, I had Adam Blythe who got 2nd and 5 in the top 20 so I might scrape past 100pts.
I think 136 on the day. Can't decide if that's good or bad. What everybody else get?
136 is good - is that just for the finishing position points on the stage?
I had 121 points on the line, and I *think* 176 if you include GC, points and young rider points.
watch me freefall, got Renshaw and zip else.
Not so much a good start for me, only first try so better luck next time, had Oss so not awful, took out Boonen late last night wasn't sure he had it in him, proved wrong
Dont worry, my first few stages were awful.
Welcome to fantasy cycling though.
Thank You
when do our teams get updated with points etc?
Soon as we know the results
From Steephill it's as follows:
BOONEN
BLYTHE
SAGAN
FARRAH
OSS
RENSHAW
KRISTOFF
APPOLLONIO
VAN GENECHTEN
WAGNER.
So it's 1,4,6,8 for me according to those results. At work so missed actual tv coverage.
Actually I think that Phinney and Hushovd finished joint second which is what confused the finish judge as he thought it was only one BMC rider where infact there were two riding really closely together.
I'm sure it was
1st Hushovd
2nd Kohler
3rd Appolononononinioioi
4th Farrer
5th Demare
6th Kemp
...in my dreams
3rd, 4th, 6th and 8th....not bad but nice call LabMonkey
Damnit! Went for the wrong BMC DS! 1st and 3rd then nobody else top 10!
First, second, third, fifth... nice start!
Looks like I'm playing catch up already in the N. Wales league.
You are lucky - since I live in Aberystwyth, and due to the addition of a 'mid wales' league - I have moved over today and so you should be top. Call it a little xmas present from me.
Oh, I'll miss you... or maybe I wont
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