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Tour of California Stage 8
Well its been a good week for many teams, and now my team is in a mess, and looks like I will drop out of the top 20 overall due to the inevitable sprint.
I was gonna bring in Sagan and Farrar for Meyer and Tejay. I would have liked to bring in Meersman too, but to do that would involve penalty points and taking out Rogers or Craddock, but is it worth it, as Meersman would have to finish at least 5th just to break even 
On the other hand I could avoid Sagan, but that would still involve penalty points, but I fancy Sagan for tonight, to wrap up the points jersey
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Are the points for stage 8 going up sometime? I noticed it saysthe tour califormia is now closed, but o havent seen my stage 8 results....
;0)
Like every other participant I picked Sagan, but not a good day otherwise. Boekmans again disappointed, think I only have Thor in the top ten as well as the bumbotherer.
12468 for purists and full house for std - was hoping for a good last day and it went rather well. Will endeavour to not even look at the site for the whole day tomorrow now...
Great Weekend for Nett App! Those guys are rocking now shame about the TDF wildcard, anyone know if we are going to see them in the Vuelta?
Full house for my standard team
1,3,9 then 2,3,5,6,7,8 on GC
1,4,7 for purist
Sagan
Schorn
Farrar
Meersman
Hanson
Hushovd
Matthews
Keogh
Chavanel
?
Sagan wins
Breakaway of 3 with 60km to go:
De Gendt - Vacansoleil
McCartney - Bissell
Duchesne - Bontrager
Did my transfers yesterday as normal, even though leaving it to the last minute is sometimes advantageous. Only just checked the TV schedule though to see it's on soon!
Grrrr, I'm peed off. Should have checked the time, assumed I'd be ok though. Surely they are still having breakfast in Cali! Defending 10th on this tour too. That's gone now- unless a 15 man break makes it
Anyways, would have brought in Sagan, farrar, Matthews and meersman, taking 20 point pen, and binning my GC guys in most efficient way to defend GC points. For the record.
Now I'll go and mope in my corner....
The stage started at 8.30AM local time.
From previous experience the last stage of the ToC has always started much earlier than the rest of the stages, but I couldn't tell you why
According to Brian Smith, the early start was so that they could include crossing the Golden Gate Bridge as part of the route- bloody cyclo-tourists, eh?!
Cheers for that insight
Arg, when did the window close? Missed it.
Just three changes for me, angling for another full house badge rather than a massive score.
Brought in Matthews, Sagan, Farrar, Jones & Hushovd for a 10 point penalty
Kept on to
TJ
Rogers
Acevedo
Voss
Jason McCartney, Antoine Duchesne and De Gendt are the break today
Bought in 3 sprinters cost me 10 penalties decided to leave Meersman out, big gamble as he is one of the first names on my teamsheet normally but seemed to be suffering a bit last few days, on the flat, hoping the plan works too. Wouldn't have done it any different with hindsight, I suffered from my lack of knowledge of US riders at the start otherwise I might have been a top 10 contender.
Not sure you could say Meersman was suffering, he came 15th yesterday, maybe just lacking some top end speed, but not suffering
Dr Heaton:
I did say "a bit" and based it on the failure to score on the flat last time out (53rd), but there may have been a reason for that. I have not been able to follow the race too closely, due to the Giro and other commitments. Sometimes I feel Fantasy cycling is taking over half my life
Like what am I doing on here now on a Sunny Sunday afternoon?
Had to pick one of four sprinters to leave out and that was my reasoning.
Think you may mean me not Drheaton.
I wasn't questioning your decision, I just didn't think he was suffering. The reason he came 53rd on that stage was that the top 15 or so riders broke away and finished a minute ahead of the peleton, and so he probably didn't feel the need to sprint for 16th or so. It takes up alot of my free time too, but as I finish work at either 8 or 10 its been easy just to come in and watch the ToC
Sagan!
Meersman fourth probably would not have been worth the penalty points although I would have been better leaving out Matthews.
Sorry to confuse you with Dr Heaton I should have gone back and checked the thread.
Good luck with the Giro, still hoping for a top twenty finish there myself.
made 5 changes for a 30 point hit. Lets hope it all goes to plan.
I took in Sagan and Matthews
I'm bringing in Sagan,Meersman and Boeckmans
Cheers ray : )
I don't think they do but do team mates get points for the overalL GC rider?
Ta.
No
Only teamates of the stage winner.
I took a chance of not really picking TT specialists, so not having to make transfers yesterday leaving me 4 today. I think it worked, got 348 for the 2 stages and can now have Sagan, Meersman, Farrar plus one for tonight. You must have picked up 200+ pts on me this week TER - I need a change of fortunes!
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