Eneco Tour - Stage 5

TERatcliffe26 wrote:

Alan Tullett wrote:

1, 2, 5, 12. Not too bad. Green arrows today. Brought in Gilbert and Chavanal? At least one worked. When I watched the highlights I thought I might have taken out Demare. Wasn't expecting him to win. Brought in a couple for tomorrow, Phinney and Boom. Playing safe as this is more unpredictable and better than I thought it would be.

The next 2 stages seem to be completely pan flat, so ive left my sprinters in along with Phinney and De Vresse, so at least I will then have 6 transfers for the ITT then

I thought Phinney was effectively a sprinter but I think he had a crash in stage 3 but Boom worked out!

Did ok in the TT today as I had Chavanal. My team looks good for the next two stages though so should do ok given I didn't do any research.

Boom
Chavanal
Dumoulin
Phinney
Langeveld
Gilbert
Stybar
Kelderman
Demare

Top 6 in GC with tons of points to spare! Bit crazy. Think we need to go back to a more intuitive valuing system as the computer one is a bit bizarre.

I didn't have 1, but I did have 2 which many wont have had.

Not so good for my purist, just 6,10,11,15

Scores will be up shortly

1,5,6,8,10,15 for my purist team, should get some places back on the guys who went for pure sprint teams

1,5,6,10,17,20 so not great, Jungels over Sergent was my final choice - if I'd have got that right I'd have been OK. Looks like some high scores above! Greipel and Nizzolo out for tomorrow, just have to decide who to bring in.

Just remembered, have Chavanel and Langeveld in purist so thats a nice bonus.

1,3,5,6,8,10,12,15....Tuft home in 21st I should have kept Bennati or gone with my gut of Grivko.

But 8/9 in the top 15 will do I suppose

1 Sylvain CHAVANEL FRA OPQ 34 16:04
2 Tom DUMOULIN NED ARG 23 +4
3 Jesse SERGENT NZL RLT 25 +4
4 Sebastian LANGEVELD NED OGE 28 +6
5 Bradley WIGGINS GBR SKY 33 +9
6 Taylor PHINNEY USA BMC 23 +11
7 Vladimir GUSEV RUS KAT 31 +14
8 Lieuwe WESTRA NED VCD 31 +17
9 Andriy GRIVKO UKR AST 30 +18
10 Lars BOOM NED BEL 28 +20
11 Luke DURBRIDGE AUS OGE 22 +23
12 Wilco KELDERMAN NED BEL 22 +23
13 Daniele BENNATI ITA TST 33 +24
14 Niki TERPSTRA NED OPQ 29 +24
15 Pieter WEENING NED OGE 32 +26
16 Manuele BOARO ITA TST 26 +28
17 Bob JUNGELS LUX RLT 21 +28
18 Ian STANNARD GBR SKY 26 +28
19 Alexander PORSEV RUS KAT 27 +29
20 Philippe GILBERT BEL BMC 31 +31

Knew id regret tuft over Jessie and not picking chavanel

Phew, I picked Sergent over Spilak, but I left out Jungles....

Crap, I took out Daniele Bennati, he is sitting 3rd

I take it everyone's team is pretty similar!! All to do with pricing! Not complaining as its nice to get more badges!!
Bring on the vuelta

Renshaw wont start. Neither will Kittel

I expected to be slight behind in the purist game going into today and making up for it over the next could of stage

Not quite sure what I did with my team, seems a mess

Wiggins
Phinney
Boom
Kelderman
Weening
Dumoulin (he is the guy I hope can shoot me up the leaderboard)
Stybar
Impey
De Vreese

Will axe Wiggins and De Vreese tomorrow

My main aim is my purist team though, no one above me has Weening, and only one team has both Kelderman and Phinney, but a couple of those have Wiggins or Chavanel. but Id like to think im in a good place to top 10 come sunday with a core of Boom, Kelderman, Phinney, Weening and Bakelants

Bring it on

Bradley Wiggins
Lieuwe Westra
Sylvain Chavanel
Pieter Weening
Taylor Phinney
Svein Tuft
Jesse Sergent
Wilco Kelderman
Lars Boom

Made 5 transfers and i've still got 20.2 in the bank

7 TTers
stybar
Greipel