Tour of Qatar Stage 5

Not too bad today, only 1 rider in top ten tho..Cav.
Stayed 14th IoM league but down ToQ & Overall, 18/16.

111 today, which is specatacularly good for me

Oh bugger.. not happy with that. At least the tumble down the ranks was more a slip than the freefall which I was anticipating when I saw the initial results. Now what to do with three transfers...

142 points for todays stage, very, very happy with that!!!

Ah ruined my performance today with a 73 pointer.

Is Kohler goign to do anything this tour or is he just a waste of space in the slightest breeze?

typical! i take out sagan for farrar and look what happens!!!

on the plus side at least guardini did something for once

I'm glad I stuck with Cav.

I was a bit annoyed cos I'd transferred Sagan out this morning. Then I remembered I'd replaced him with Cav

Kept Cav in after he cost me and Demare, one of only 2 riders I haven't changed. Got rid of Selig though for Kroupis who Eurosport were saying was second until they realised it was Oss. For a moment I thought I had 1 and 2!

Got lucky today, 6 of the top 8 are in my team, as is Boonen... looks like giving up on transfers may have been a good move!

God i've lost it big style !

made 3 transfers and cost me 20 points....and 2 of them i got rid of came 1st and 2nd..........Cav wasn't the only one swearing at the finish line

I didn't do too badly today, although I would've done a lot better if I hadn't made any transfers.

Tyler Farrar
Mark Renshaw
Tom Boonen
Tom Veelers
Aidis Kruopis
Baden Cooke
Martin Kohler
Mehdi Sohrabi
Adam Blythe
It's all gone belly up for me now

Oppps, got another swear on TV, Farrar screaming F*CK as he went across the line yesterday

Cav today, going over to the Sky guys "F*cking nice job lads*

Cav won, but i'm not happy, Boonen get blocked out lol

AND, both guys i transferred out lastnight come in the top 10

Ian Stannard in for Rodiger Selig
Tom Veelers in for Denis Galimzyanov

Results

Cav
Oss
Sagan
Degenkolb
Selig
Davis
Damare
Guardini
Galimzyanov
Henderson

Talk about commentators curse, Katusha rider towards the front had hangs just hanging over the front and arms resting on the bars

They said, he's going to cause a crash because he has no control if there is a gust of wind, 30 seconds later, BOOM, he got a nudge, had his hands on the hoods again, but went down right at the front in the middle of the pack, not one other rider went down

I think "Cav vs. Farrar" is what we are going to see today.

I hope so..

I'm hoping Cav's nice and fresh after his day off

After my stupid mistake yesterday in replaceing farrar with cav rather than sagan, farrar is in for sagan and steegmans for kristoff.

so:

Cav
Farrar
Boonen
Wagner
Van Getchen
Cooke
Blythe
Steegmans
Guardini

I'm hoping the pack stay together today, a couple of changes for me

Ian Stannard in for Rodiger Selig
Tom Veelers in for Denis Galimzyanov

Mark Cavendish
Mark Renshaw
Tom Boonen
Tom Veelers
Nikolas Maes
Roger Kluge
Ramunas Navardauskas
Ian Stannard
Adam Blythe

So i want a Sky, Omega or 1T4i win

My ideal would be Cav win, Boonen 2nd, Renshaw 3rd, Veelers 4th with Blythe in 5th and the others in the top 20 I can dream