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Tour de Romandie - Stage 4
Hesjedal withdraws.
Too difficult/expensive to bring in Froome or Valverde, so I left them out. Wanted Betancur as well, might take a penalty in the morning for him though. If I don't, that will be the 1-2-3 then.
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Couldn't bring myself to put Froome in, with a good choice of cheaper climbers i went with this lot
Talansky
Porte
Rolland (for Cav)
Pinot
Bravo
Betancur (for Dumoulin)
M Wyss
Kruijswijk (for Astarloza)
Ludvigsson (for Grabsch)
RUI COSTA
BETANCUR
SPILAK
TALANSKY
KELDERMAN
SZMYD
TSCHOPP
WYSS (M)
BRAVO
Why I am keeping faith with Spilak heaven only knows...
I was going to take him out too, but it would have cost me penalty points and I reasoned that with Dani Moreno abandoning he was now team leader and needs to step up to the plate, especially as he is a former winner. we'll see if our confidence is misguided, and I fear it is.
Well at last something good, well done Simon Spilak, should have had Kelderman too but bringing him in tomorrow, thats an impressive ride from the young dutchman. I bet Spilak wishes he had tried harder on day one now!
Froome
Porte
Talansky
Costa
Rujano
Morabito
Bravo
Wyss (M)
Rensburg
Was tempted to bring in Betancur, Kiserlovski, Pinot or Rolland but all were just too expensive to squeeze into my team and I wanted Froome/Porte/Talansky/Costa for tomorrow.
4 transfers left for tomorrow, not sure I'll use them all but it depends on how everyone fares today.
One penalty transfer for me, but hopefully won't need any tomorrow - although the weather does throw in some uncertainty...
Froome (for Meersman)
Brajkovic (for Grivko - should've got rid of him earlier)
Talansky
Rui Costa
Kelderman
Bravo
Ludvigsson
M Wyss
The problem with riders like Betancur who are already in form and are riding the Giro is that they don't want to tire themselves out ahead of their bigger goal.
I think Hesjedal has called it great, today is going to be hard and he doesn't want to peak until half way through the Giro so pulling out is a great call.
Of the Giro riders I'll be interested to see how Gesink and Kiserlovski do today.
I see what your saying about Betancur, but his situation is different to Hesjedal, Hesjedal is going to the giro to try and win, thats not the case with Betancur, who will play domestique to Pozzovivo, so I don't see why he shouldn't try and win today, or he may as well not have ridden as he doesn't need the miles in the legs like Hesjedal did.
There's talk of a Plan B finish today, if inclement weather situation continues. Would be an uphill rather than down. Betancur the safer bet.
Porte (for Meersman)
Betancur (for Gavazzi)
Kelderman
Talansky
Pinot
Albasini
Mezgec
Dehaes
Dennis
Not great but hopefully solid
PS - Congrats on the stage win obutterwick, with ghedebrav close behind!
Thanks! Today and tomorrow are giving me an headache, though!
Yes, I have a feeling it will be Rui Costa rather than Valverde this weekend.
Took out Albasini for penalty points, with the consolation that he's in my purist team if he goes in the break! Not sure about my logic there...
Purists 4th, but with few GC people (just Talansky and Rui Costa, plus Martin tomorrow), so could really do with Fumeaux getting in the break today...
Pinot in for me. Sticking with Froome, Talansky and... Rui Costa!
No Valverde for me, stuck with Froome, Porte and Talansky as my biggies with the tt to come and a mixture of others.
Hoping for a good day tommorrow.
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