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Tour de France - Stage 9
Right high mountains! Missed the deadline this morning, don't want to make the same mistake twice so doing my team now.
Worth getting froome in for tomorrow?
With a flat then itt stage after bit worried about bringing in too many climbers!
Anyways discuss! !
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Schar and Dennis dns today
I was a Valverde instead of Rodriguez away from a 200 point day yesterday, had Valverde to do better over the tour but thought J-Rod would do well yesterday before fading in the Alps. Never mind, still into the top 100. Made 2 changes today...
Frooome
Mollema (for Rodriguez)
Nieve
Quintana
De Gendt (for Schleck - got to gamble a little)
Hoogerland, Muravyev, El Fares, Le Mevel
Originally planned to save a transfer but the potential break points were too tempting - lets hope De Gendt fancies a pop...
No changes today
Froome
Contador
Quintana
Schleck
Gadret
Serpa
Hoogerland
Gasparotto
Fischer
I am supporting my router....
Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas (MOV)
Bauke Mollema (BEL)
Laurens Ten Dam (BEL)
Michal Kwiatkowski (OPQ)
Richie Porte (SKY)
Johnny Hoogerland (VCD)
Frederik Willems (LOT)
Murilo Antonio Fischer (FDJ)
Maxime Mederel (SAU)
...funny what influences ones picks.
nervous...sagan might do well
Ha ha ha!
Good one!
My dilemma is Rolland or Voeckler.
Voeckler didn't look strong yesterday and Rolland was still chasing KoM points to keep the jersey but he's not too far down on GC and today screams Voeckler to me.
Hmmmm
Edit: made my changes and I can guarantee that absolutely no one has made the same
1. Chris Froome
2. Nairo Quintana
3. Dan Moreno
4. Daniel Navarro
5. Mikel Nieve
6. Jose Ivan Gutierrez Palacios
7. Andy Shrek
8. Murilo Antonio Fischer
9. Fabio Sabatini
Wonder if Kwiatowski love that white jersey som much he'll skip the resting day and just go straight on to stage 10...
Heh heh!
Too good to be "pure" yesterday!? The big question for today..pick the break-aways and save some transfers for the coming flats/TT. Will old man Voeckler have anything left, except his funny looks or will Rolland? Questions..questions that need answers!
If the teams want to beat Sky, they have to throw the race book out the window and attack, attack, attack. It was easy for Sky to control one mountain stage, big deal. Let's see them do it with half the Peloton working against them. This is far from over.
The question is - Will enough GC contenders have the guts to challenge?
And the answer was, to our delight, a resounding yes! Great race!
Snap,
Christopher Froome
Richie Porte
Laurens Ten Dam
Danny Van Poppel
Bauke Mollema
Jerome Coppel
Murilo Antonio Fischer
Maxime Mederel
José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios
Put Ten Dam and Mollema in purely because of the way they climbed today and they seem to be amongst the best of the rest without the GC boys.
Im happy to give you my team
Froome
Mollema
Quintana
Rolland
Nieve
Noval
Mederel
Fischer
Gutierrez
I'm not surprised you've got Rolland. I think a lot of people will today. Not sure Nieve will do much today but he paid for himself yesterday as far as I'm concerned.
Got
Froome
Valverde
Rolland
Nieve
Sicard
Serpa
Le Mevel
Gutierrez
El Fares (who's injured but will be out soon)
3 wild cards: Sicard, Serpa and maybe Le Mevel given that Cofidis have done bugger all so far. Today is the first day a break could go away and I can't see that happening again until next Sat or Sun as the sprinters and Sagan will shut down next week in the fight for the green jersey. Actually didn't make a transfer for the first time in the Tour and after taking 60 points in penalties and today is the day my two-stage saving transfers strategy needs to pay off as I lost out not having Porte or Quintana yesterday. Still top 100 though, amazingly, so still in with a shout but I'm going to need 2 or 3 break artists to come off as well as avoiding silly mistakes. The ITT is the one stage where I'm not sure quite what to do.
After today's stage, I couldn't care about the game anymore. Its going to be a Sky bore fest again.... Sat on the front, dictating the pace for ever climb
should be able to pick up some easy points then, eh
or are you getting your excuses in early?
Thank you GKam84 for saying what I was thinking and getting it completely wrong! lol!
What a fascinating Tour it is going to be!
Actuallty, I felt the same way before the stage today...And what a nice surprise it was to be so wrong!
After tomoro's stage there is a rest day so you will have at least 4 transfers to play with so to many climbers shouldn't be a problem for the flat stage that follows.
Don't mind sharing. Want some advice really. Thoughts on the below?
Sagan
Froome (cav)
Nieve (kwia)
Schleck (dumoulin)
Voeckler (garcia)
Hoogerland
Mederel
Fischer
Bono
Merci!
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