Vuelta - Stage 3

Lead fallen to 4.30

Gap now out to 6 mins

Ferrari (CJR)
Bessey (COF)
Urtasun (EUS)
Dodi (LAM)
Reynes (LTB)
have a lead of 1.20
Neither of the birthday boys have gone.

dropped henao for meersman
dropped clarke for roche

Hoping birthday boy Bart De Clercq fancies the break today

Already taking penalty points... although I have a feeling one of the riders I've dumped could have a good day today.

Henao out, Roche in.
Sanchez out, Ulissi in.
Poels out, Majka in.

Hoping for a decent result, ive gone for Moreno, but agree watch out for Meersman

Nibali
Moreno
Cappechi
Valverde
Zubeldia
Basso
Konig
Meersman
Stybar

Swopped Henao for Uran.

Not been impressed with Phil Gil this year but surely he will want to do something in the rainbow jersey ...this could well be his best chance...Not sure how healed his knee is but I think I am going to chance him...
Christ knows what happened to Henao yesterday, such a disappointment...Had to dump him today which goes against my better judgement, but we shall see...off out now so will name my failures early...

NIBALI
NIEVE
KREUZIGER
MAJKA
STYBAR
MEERSMAN
GERRANS
GILBERT
ZUBELDIA

No penalties...

I'd pick Gerrans if pushed(or EBH if he was fully fit) but not enough to take out GC guys so the only riders I'd take out of my line up at this stage would be LuLu or Choo-Choo and that wouldn't give me enough credits for any of the real heavyweight puncheurs so I'll leave it.

Roche(replaces Intxausti)
Kreuziger(replaces Henao)
Uran
Valverde
Nibali
Zubeldia
Brajkovic
Txurruka
LL Sanchez

Might treat myself to a puncheur tomorrow IF any of the GC guys fall off the planet.