vac stage 4

Oh im up s**t creek, brought in Valverde last night, means I wont be able to bring in meersman tomorrow now

Could be good for you Stumps, as a lot of teams will have Valverde. Could also be good for Quintana's licence to attack again later...

ooh, if thats true then its a massive blow for Moviestar.

Valverde looked good yesterday and was going to pick him but just couldn't get the funds together.

Valverde and Capecchi have abandoned

My Spanish ain't great - but I don't like the sound of some of these words...

@alejanvalverde y @eroscapecchi -también caído- abandonan la #VoltaCatalunya. El incidente no parece revestir consecuencias graves.

typical, got both agnoli and wagner in my standard team, and i swapped out Pate for Agnoli last night

Wagner abandons

Yes, cat 1 climbs should be awarding for top 9 so it'll be 9 fantasy points down to 1.

Today is cat 3, 1, 2 and hors cat followed by an hors cat summit finish. Not sure how many are scored on the hors cat.

2nd KOM point Alt Del Pedraforca

1 Salerno 9 fantasy pts
2 Verona 8 fantasy pts
3 VanDeWalle 7 fantasy pts
4 Trofimov 6 fantasy pts
5 Roche 5 fantasy pt

Awaiting 6th to 9th places

WOW sky let one their rider's go in the break!!

RadioVolta now saying that Stortoni and Preidler are not there. Only 23 riders, not 25. Also it's not Golas but Verona from OPQS

After 63km, break is now at 2'25"

Betancur,Aru,TenDam,Kruijswijk,Santamorita,Salerno ,Astarloza,Pichon,Hesjedal,Martin,Losada,Trofimov,Stortoni,VanDeWalle,Herrada,Brambilla,Golas,Kiserlovski,Pate,Priedler,Roche,Rujigh,Arroyo Bagot and Molard have 40" on the peloton.......Irish Eyes are smiling rcorbin?

The first KOM point 'Coll De Merolla':

Aru 4 fantasy pts
Hesjedal 3 fantasy pts
Trofimov 2 fantasy pts
Kiserlovski 1 fantasy pt

25 riders up the road @ 1'40"

7 BETANCUR, Carlos (COL/Ag2R)
15 ARU, Fabio (ITA/Astana)
23 TEN DAM, Laurens (NED/Blanco)
27 KRUIJSWIJK, Steven (NED/Blanco)
36 SANTAROMITA, Ivan (ITA/BMC)
46 SALERNO, Cristiano (ITA/Cannondale)
54 ASTARLOZA, Mikel (ESP/Euskaltel)
68 PICHON, Laurent (FRA/FDJ)
71 HESJEDAL, Ryder (CAN/Garmin)
75 MARTIN, Daniel (IRL/Garmin)
82 LOSADA, Alberto (ESP/Katusha)
87 TROFIMOV, Yury (RUS/Katusha)
97 STORTONI, Simone (ITA/Lampre Merida)
101 VAN DE WALLE, Jurgen (BEL/Lotto)
114 HERRADA, Jesus (ESP/Movistar)
121 BRAMBILLA, Gianluca (ITA/Omega)
125 GOLAS, Michal (POL/Omega)
148 KISERLOVSKI, Robert (CRO/RadioShack)
157 PATE, Danny (USA/Sky)
166 PREIDLER, Georg (AUT/Argos)
171 ROCHE, Nicolas (IRL/Saxo)
184 RUIJGH, Rob (NED/Vacansoleil)
191 ARROYO, David (ESP/Caja Rural)
203 BAGOT, Yohan (FRA/Cofidis)
206 MOLARD, Rudy (FRA/Cofidis)

Agnoli's quit

2nd day running I've taken someone out the morning before they abandon(Davis yesterday)

After my shocker yesterday 32points....
Taken 20 point hit to try and get my team back into shape

Valverde for JVDB
Scarponi for D Martin
Salerno for simon
Domalgalski for Meersman
Wiggins
Machado
Santaromita
Agnoli
Pinaeu

Joaquin Rodriguez (KAT)
Alejandro Valverde (MOV)
Robert Gesink (BLA)
Przemyslaw Niemiec (LAM)
David Lopez (SKY)
Tiago Machado (RSN)
Ricardo-Jorge Mestre (EUS)
Robert Wagner (BLA)
Cristiano Salerno (LIQ)

I've stuck with the expensive trio, so no need to spend time deciding who else might do well as I don't have the funds anyway. Brought in Quintana for Meersman, which in hindsight I should have done yesterday as a penalty transfer - tactical error!

Wiggins, J-Rod, Valverde, Quintana
Salerno, Priedler, Landa, Betancurt, Poulhies

6 of the above are also in my purists, so hoping for another good day today...

Quintana
Wiggins
Valverde
Niemiec
Navarro
Machado
Majka
Ratto
Agnoli

Meersman in tomorrow

Took a 10 point penalty for todays stage, took Kadri and brought Niemiec in.

team for today

Bradley Wiggins
Daniel Martin
Nairo Quintana
Joaquin Rodriguez
Robert Wagner
David Lopez
Valerio Agnoli
Przemyslaw Niemiec
Martin Kohler

Went Irish today

Joaquin Rodriguez (KAT)
Nairo Quintana (MOV)
Daniel Martin (GRM)
Nicolas Roche (SAX)
Przemyslaw Niemiec (LAM)
Tiago Machado (RSN)
Christian Meier (GRE)
Cristiano Salerno (LIQ)
David Lopez (SKY)

Left out Purito! another dodgy decision as I know he is probably going to win on home turf, but the temptation of the young Frenchie after yesterday was too much, will probably be quietly weeping tonight! My other baby garcons had a bad day yesterday.