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Tomorrow is definitely not a sprinters stage. The final climb isn't that hard, but it's narrow, poor surface, and a steady gradient between 5-6%. It's a classics finish. Sagan v Valverde punch up again. Or maybe some others fancy it. Similar line-up to today's top finishers plus a couple more GC men.

I'll settle for that. A conscious decision to sit on my hand due to the unknown and the fact most other would be in the same boat. Only dropped two places. Having said that if I'd known what that stage was actually like there wouldn't have been a hop in hell I'd have kept my sprinters.

I've looked at tomorrow's stage on cyclingstages and it looks like they may have done the same again..or have they?....Doesn't look much like a sprinters finish to me.

Agreed sniffer. Chasing Rolleurs  can be a mugs way of playing and a way to burn transfers fast...too fast. Either stick with the sprinters or bring in something like Yates and Buchmann for at least some guaranteed points over the next two days and have them ready for Sunday. 

I'm only in a two man league with my brother. He's 6th and I'm 4th but he's used four more transfers than me...so I doubt he'll burn anymore and so will stick with a sprinter heavy team. In that respect sitting on my hands should be ok. 

I can't see anywhere that the course has been changed. Tbh, I have no idea why everyone is saying this was ever going to be a straight forward sprint stage.  The cat 3 kicker and drag up to the finish aren't that hard, but several teams will need to work together to ensure it. All it takes are a few puncheurs or a couple of GC teams putting the hammer down (maybe a strong breakaway) and the sprinters will be toast.

If Sagan is fully fit, then the stage is ideal for him. Trentin might be a good bet too.  After that it's the puncheurs and GC men. Even Valverde might fancy it or Kwiatkowski.

I can't call it so I'm saving my transfers. Dr Winston, I suspect a lot of people will just see 'Flat' and go sprinters.

Mark 60, I'm on r/peloton on Reddit a lot. Plenty of opinion and prediction theories are discussed. I tend to trust these guys more than anyone else because the discussions are always more thorough. CyclingWeekly and the others tend to be a bit threadbare.  I could start putting a little something on here to give people ideas.

No idea what the best thing to do today is.  My team feels a bit all over the place for a stage like this after being sprint heavy yesterday. 

It is days like this where big gains / losses can be made, but they are a bit stressful.  Simple GC and sprinter days are easier to predict and the differences in teams are therefore much smaller.

While I am here,  what are some of the best preview sites out there that people are using. 

I basically check Cycling Weekly, Ciclisimino (?) and C-Cycling but beyond that Haven’t found good stuff.

Anyone want to share?

Fancied riders for stage 7 seem to have changed markedly in the past few hours. Has the course been tweaked or just folk taking a proper look?

Update keeps crashing, we're working on it.

Any reason why the scores are in but the leagues aren't updating?

I'm not sure he'll go for the KOM still. He'll be happy with a decent upswing in form and a stage win, which he will get if he's in a load of mountains breakaways.

What did Mate say? I know a few days ago he said he wanted the jersey in the first few stages because it was his home territory. I think he'll lose it sometime early next week. Rolland looks good for it, or maybe someone else who hasn't even started to have fun yet.

Yeah...I saw that Andy. Also. Did you see Mate's  interview yesterday. He said he wouldn't do much until Sunday ( obviously firmly set on the KOM jersey) ...Liiks like Porte may have changed his mind on not doing much.

Yes he took his time! Thanks for updating Condor Andy

When I did the scoring Lars Boom seemingly hadn't finished yet. I do all the scoring based on the Vuelta website.

To follow up my previous comment, Cyclingnews does not have complete rider list and incorrectly has Sebastian Langeveld in last place, offical results on Vuelta website has Lars Boom as finishing last, could scores please be updated, cheers

Did Lars Boom come last? 10 points please!

An outstanding race by the GC teams today by riding the legs off any slim chance the sprinters and Rolleurs may have had today. Will we see the same tomorrow ?....A flatter finish but  they may well want another Kwia/Valverde match up. Any thoughts?

You may yet be ok Pitbull....could well go for KOM with a bit of luck on your part. I'm wondering why I went with Sagan already....poor pick now I think about it. He struggled to finish the TDF so not much chance if finishing this.

Why oh why did i pick Porte for my Purist team 

We've had 42 for all GTs this year.

I thought the transfers for the Vuelta were 45. They're only 42?... Did they change or were they always 42?.... How many did we have for the Tour?....