Amstel Gold Race

PS Can anyone here beat that?

Oh dear. Gerrans scores my only points.

1 point for Gerrans 20th plus 10 points for Kiserlovski and Ponzi for being team mates with Gasparotto. Means 11 points in total.

Self-appointed favorites like Valverde, Rodriguez and Cunego were so bad. Shame that I put my money on them.

I had considered both Voeckler and Freire. Those are the only 2 that "might have been" in my team.

31 points... but considering I had Vanendert, Wegmann & Nocentini in my team at various points before today, it feels much worse.

Sagan, Moreno and Rojas were my star guys i left out, Glad i stuck with Gilbert though

Vanendert, Iglinsky and Devenyns are also names on my list of 26 riders i picked from

At least Gilbert and Mollema grabbed me some points, seems i might move up if others 0's and 1's are anything to go by

a very poor 12 for me

Nice one J-Rod!!!

Just Wegmann and Gerrans for me
took Vanendert out for cunego being the only change i made recently, so that one is frustrating. Especially considering Cunego looked like he would have top 10....@ arsene, youve got say Cunego was unlucky, on the shot it looked like got took out from behind, and as said looked good to at least top 10

Problem is going forward with the team I have

Had Vanendert (remembered his awesome work for Gilbert last year) but otherwise I would have done much better if the first 20 had been disqualified - looks like I'm in good company there:

20 Simon Gerrans (Aus) GreenEdge Cycling Team 0:00:19
21 Sergio Luis Henao Montoya (Col) Sky Procycling
22 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Movistar Team 0:00:22
23 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Team Saxo Bank
24 Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver (Spa) Katusha Team
25 Romain Bardet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:00:30
26 Giovanni Visconti (Ita) Movistar Team 0:00:36
27 Vasili Kiryienka (Blr) Movistar Team
28 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Omega Pharma-Quickstep
29 Robert Kiserlovski (Cro) Pro Team Astana
30 Alex Howes (USA) Garmin-Barracuda 0:00:47
31 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre - ISD 0:00:51
32 Mikael Cherel (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:01:05
33 Paul Martens (Ger) Rabobank Cycling Team
34 Chris Anker Sörensen (Den) Team Saxo Bank
35 Daniele Pietropolli (Ita) Lampre - ISD
36 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) BMC Racing Team
37 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Omega Pharma-Quickstep
38 Johnny Hoogerland (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team 0:01:17
39 Gianni Meersman (Bel) Lotto Belisol Team
40 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Sky Procycling

Marco Bandiera is your last man home, yet again i fell unlucky with one of my riders just a place or two above him coming home

A whopping 6 points. 5 for Kiserlovski being in the same team as Gasparatto, 1 for Gerrans. Should have stuck with Sagan.

That's my lowest ever score! By a long way. Very difficult race to predict for sure. At least I have a nice bottle of Albariño and roast chicken for supper to console myself with.

Yep I think I've just to Zero!

Looks like disappointing results all round today.

I wonder how many people who signed up and picked a team at the start of the Tour Down Under and havnt logged on again since then will have scored more today than those of us in this thread who spent the last week researching riders and painstakingly building a team.
:p

any idea when Dave will update the scores?

Picked 7th and 20th places, and 3rd last guy, rats....

Philippe Gilbert (BMC)
Damiano Cunego (LAM)
Simon Gerrans (GRE)
Joaquin Rodriguez (KAT)

Pier Paolo De Negri (FAR)
Bert-Jan Lindeman (VCD)
Xavier Florencio (KAT)
Moreno Moser (LIQ)
Arnaud Gerard (FDJ)

Looks like I may be the only pick with Gilbert. Hoping he's inspired today and has been playing mind games otherwise it's mud on my face today.

Alejandro Valverde (MOV)
Peter Sagan (LIQ)
Joaquin Rodriguez (KAT)
Simon Gerrans (GRE)
Lieuwe Westra (VCD)
Arthur Vichot (FDJ)
Lers Petter Nordhaug (SKY)
Gregory Habeaux (VWA)
Xavier Florencio (KAT)

I went
Valverde
Sanchez
Gerrans
Rodriguez

As for domestiques I really am not up to speed so just lucky dipped on

Florencio

Wegmann
Chainel
Lofkist
De Negri

Just hoping for a good race.

went with 9 Europeans in the end. Dropped Pozzato, more by luck than judgement. Here are my 9 for what they are worth

J Rod
Nibali
Devenyns
Valverde
Westra
Chainel
Florencio
Izagirre
Terpstra

Good luck everyone

Damn

Wrong Kreder AND wrong Pineau!!!

9 man break. Romain Bardet (AG2R), Pello Bilbao (Euskaltel), Raymond Kreder (Garmin), Alex Howes (Garmin), Steven Caethoven (Accent Jobs), Cedric Pineau (FDJ), Simone Stortoni (Lampre), Sébastien Delfosse (Landbouwkrediet), Delfosse and Eliot Lietar (Topsport Vlaanderen). Ahead by 11 min or so.

Poels dropped. Boom back in bunch after 2nd flat

Fingers triple crossed

Simon Gerrans (GRE)
Robert Gesink (RAB)
Joaquin Rodriguez (KAT)
Ryder Hesjedal (GRM)

Bert de Waele (LAN)
Lers Petter Nordhaug (SKY)
Brian Bulgac (LOT)
Niki Terpstra (OPQ)
Francesco Gavazzi (AST)

just hope i don't have any injuries, can do transfers tonight then my team is on it's own! Egypt bound. Wi Fi maybe????

Break back to 12 mins BMC have moved up front of Peleton to help Katusha and RadioShack.