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| Gaffeff |
Posted on 09-08-2012 17:59
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After watching the Lancashire based cycling team sky do rather well, I decided it is time to restore the natural balance and have a Yorkshire based team putting them in their place. I will start the story after the next patch (assuming it doesn't break the game). Now are you sitting comfortably ... Then I'll begin ...
With the increase in popularity of cycling in the UK, the Sheffield Institute of Sport decided to open a new velodrome in Sheffield. This will be cutting edge and take the world class arenas in the UK to 5.
As part of this Gaffeff has been approached to develop a new team from scratch and see how far it can go.
"Welcome to Yorkshire" agreed to part fund the team from the outset as part of "le Bid", the endeavor to bring the TDF start to Yorkshire in 2016.
Therefore the Yorkshire team starts with 2 objectives.
1: To start the TDF in 2016.
2: To win a stage in Yorkshire during the same TDF.
It is realised this will be a long term journey but we'd like you to come with us. As we endeavor to become the other british cycling team. Jersey to be made available soon.
2012 Team:
Jonathan Bellis
Ian Bibby
Adam Blythe
Graham Briggs
Ed Clancy
Matt Cronshaw
Ben Day
Dean Downing
Russell Downing
Daniel Fleeman
Robert Partridge
Ben Swift
Andrew Tennant
Jonathan Tiernan-Locke
Scott Thwaites
Ian Wilkinson
The Triathletes Alistair and Jonathan Brownlee will join the team from the 1st of September after focussing on the Olympics.
Race Summary:
Australian National Champs: 5th (Day)
Australian Time Trial Champs: 5th (Day)
Tour of Qatar: Top 10 place on stage 1 (Swift)
Tour of South Africa: Stage win on stage 2 (Day) and 4 (Blythe).
Overall win (Blythe)
Points Winner (Blythe)
Best Young Rider (Blythe)
Mountains Jersey (Tennant)
Tour de Langanwi: No results of note.
Dreidaagse van west-Vlaanerden: Stage win on stage 2 (Bellis).
Overall 3rd place (Bellis).
Paris-Troyes: Win (Swift)
Second (Clancy)
Nokere-Koerse: Top 10 place (Cronshaw - 6th, Wilkinson - 10th)
Classic Loire Atlantic: Win (Swift)
Istrian Spring Trophy: Stage 1: 2nd (Bibby), 3rd (Clancy)
Stage 2: Win (Tiernan-Locke)
Stage 3: Win (Tiernan-Locke)
Stage 4: 2nd (Blythe)
Overall win (Tiernan-Locke)
Tour de Normandie: Stage 6 & 7, Podium (Swift)
Dwars door Vlaanderan: No results of note.
Grands prix of Sochi: Stage 1: Win (Swift)
Stage 2: Win (Swift)
Stage 3: 2nd (Swift), 3rd (Tiernan-Locke)
Stage 4: Win (Tiernan-Locke)
Stage 5: Win (Swift)
Overall win (Tiernan-Locke), 2nd (Swift)
Points Jersey (Swift)
Best Young Rider (Swift)
Circuit de Ardennes International: Stage 3: Team Time trial
Rund um Koln: Top 10 (Swift)
Zelik-Galmaaden: No results of note.
Himmerland Rundt: Win (Swift)
Veulta de la Roaja: No results of note.
Ronde van Nord-Holland: Win (Swift)
Tour de Bretagne: Stage 2: Podium (Swift)
Stage 4: 2nd (Tiernan-Locke)
Stage 6: Podium (Tiernan-Locke)
2013 (Wins):
Stage 2, Tour de San Luis (Gallopin)
Stage 1, Etoile de Bessanges (Swift)
Stage 1, Volta ao Algarve (Gallopin)
Stage 4, Tour de Langkawi (Swift)
Stage 6, Tour de Langkawi (Swift)
Stage 8, Tour de Langkawi (Swift)
Stage 2, Driestage van west-Vlaanderen (Gallopin)
Stage 3, Dreistage van west-Vlaanderen (Gallopin)
Overall, Dreistage van west-Vlaaseren (Gallopin)
Ronde van Drenthe (Swift)
Classic Loire Atlantic (Swift)
Settimana Coppi e Bartali, Stage 3 TTT (Yorkshire Tea)
Overall, Settimana Coppi e Bartali (Tiernan-Locke)
Stage 7, Volta Circlista a Catalunya (Swift) - 1st World tour stage win.
Maldon Dengie Tour (Gallopin)
Stage 1, Tour Doon Hame (Blythe)
Rund um Koln (Langeveld)
De Brabantse Pjil (Langeveld)
Tro-Bro Leon (Langeveld)
Stage 3, Tour of Turkey (Chaves)
Stage 4, Tour of Turkey (Swift)
Stage 7, Tour of Turkey (Swift)
Overall, Tour of Turkey (Chaves)
Rutland Melton Classic (Langeveld)
Stage 2, Tour de Picardie (Swift)
Stage 3, Tour de Picardie (Swift)
Overall, Tour de Picardie (Swift)
Lincoln GP (Lavery)
Stage 2, Tour of Norway (Blythe)
Stage 2, Halfords tour (Tiernan-Locke)
Stage 3, Tour of Norway (Blythe)
Nauseen Classic (Swift)
Stage 3, Halfords Tour (Blythe)
Stage 5, Halfords Tour (Kennaugh)
Stage 1, Bayern Rundfahrt (Swift)
Stage 3, Bayern Rundfahrt (Swift)
Stage 4 ITT, Bayern Rudfahrt (Gallopin)
Talinn Tartu GP (Blythe)
Stage 5, Bayern Rundfahrt (Swift)
Overall, Bayern Rundfahrt (Gallopin)
SEB Tartu GP (Blythe)
Stage 7, Halfords Tour (Blythe)
Stage 4, Tour of Luxembourg (Swift)
Stage 5, Tour of Luxembourg (Swift)
Overall, Tour of Luxembourg (Swift)
Stage 2, Tour de Solevine (Gallopin)
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| Geezar10 |
Posted on 09-08-2012 18:07
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I'd love to support you but I'll have to hope for you to fail being from the great red rose county. I will follow this but don't expect to do well if you hire Yorkshire cyclists  |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 09-08-2012 19:57
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Good luck!
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 10-08-2012 10:56
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Do you have many riders in mind or are you relying on us to help you on your way 
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| fcancellara |
Posted on 10-08-2012 11:31
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I think Scott Thwaites and Graham Briggs are good Yorkies for your team
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 10-08-2012 11:32
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Is Ed Clancy from Yorkshire
Also Malcolm Elliott could be your Director Sportif 
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| Gaffeff |
Posted on 10-08-2012 11:34
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I do indeed have a few riders in mind and spent most of last night looking up riders place of birth in wikipedia
The rules for team selection are as follows. Test your knowledge of yorkshire riders
1: At least 50% of the team should be born in Yorkshire. I based this on the 2011 expanded PCM database, and therefore this will include:
The recent winner of the "tour de sheffield" - was a very good race that I don't remember much.
The second place in the above and his brother.
A double Gold medal winner.
And two riders who left their ProTour teams to support the white rose county.
I did think about extending it to Half Yorkshire people (theres a rider who's mother was born in Yorkshire, but I thought that would be pushing realism a bit).
2: I then opened a new game on the 2011 DB to see which British and English speaking riders would be available for this year. I got the main one I wanted (yes I've pretty much pilfered Endura) but felt only riders not already agreed to a ProTour team in 2012 (in RL) would join a startup team.
Will leave you with that as on my lunchbreak now. Will give more after I finish work. Hope that gives you a chance to guess some of the riders I have signed (and the one I didn't).
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| Gaffeff |
Posted on 10-08-2012 11:57
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fcancellara wrote:
I think Scott Thwaites and Graham Briggs are good Yorkies for your team
Yes they are both in, Graham Briggs was the winner of the "tour de sheffield" i mentioned. |
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| Gaffeff |
Posted on 10-08-2012 11:59
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sutty68 wrote:
Is Ed Clancy from Yorkshire
Also Malcolm Elliott could be your Director Sportif
Ed Clancy is from Barnsley, you don't get more Yorkshire. Birthplace of G Boycott
I had Malcolm Elliot as a coach, I think we're going to need a good sprint coach.
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| Geezar10 |
Posted on 10-08-2012 13:09
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Get the Brownlee bro's in there! |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 10-08-2012 13:23
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Geezar10 wrote:
Get the Brownlee bro's in there!
Nice idea 
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 10-08-2012 13:39
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Russell Downing - Rotherham
Dean Downing - Rotherham
Cant leave out this super duo
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| Welwyn |
Posted on 10-08-2012 13:54
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Geezar10 wrote:
Get the Brownlee bro's in there!
probably earn more money than in triathlon! Maybe edit them in with a psuedo injury that keeps them out until mid-Aug/Sept so they can do the Olympic triathlon. |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 10-08-2012 15:27
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Great so far, you're putting a lot of effort in choice of riders, I like it!
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| Gaffeff |
Posted on 10-08-2012 17:26
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Yorkshire Post, 1st June 2011.
Today SIS announced that as part of their development of the Sheffield Velodrome, they will be launching a road team which will look to ride International events.
The team whose name has yet to be confirmed has annouced their Sponsors with a budget expected to be about £2M per year, around a third that of rivals Sky. One sponsor will be "Welcome to Yorkshire" who advise "this is money already included in the budget and so will not require any new tax payer funding, we believe bring le grand depart to Yorkshire will bring great financial benefit to Yorkshire as a whole and ensure the widest annual sporting audience in the world has the benefit of understanding what makes Yorkshire the greatest area in the world".
Plusnet the communications provider will also support both the velodrome and the road team, stating that they believe the team "will show the best of Yorkshire grit to the World".
So far the riders confirmed for the Sheffield based team are:
Ian Bibby
Graham Briggs
Ed Clancy
Dean Downing
Russell Downing
Scott Thwaites
Jonathan Tiernan-Locke
Rumours abound of other riders they are looking to add to their roster but Sky, Omega-Pharma Lotto and Endura were unavailale for comment on the rumours.
One story showing their ambition if not their reach was confirmed as Mark Cavendish advises he was approached but politely declined. "I'm only half-Yorkshire" He joked, "but wish them all the best in their future endevours".
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 10-08-2012 17:27
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I'm so happy that Tiernan-Locke and Bibby are comfirmed 
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| Gaffeff |
Posted on 10-08-2012 17:38
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Geezar10 wrote:
Get the Brownlee bro's in there!
Love the Idea but don't knwo a great deal about them. I only saw the last few minutes highlights of the Triathalon. I'm assume they would be Roulers of some description (Time Trialers or Fighters). The commentary stated that Allaistair went ahead as he was worried about being beaten in the sprint. My plan would be to pull out randomly generated Young riders of the type and then move them up with training.
So abit of a vote: Time Trialler or Fighter.
And Promising or Future Great? |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 10-08-2012 17:39
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Only 7 riders at the moment, but they have the makings of a good team
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| Gaffeff |
Posted on 10-08-2012 17:41
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Welwyn wrote:
Geezar10 wrote:
Get the Brownlee bro's in there!
probably earn more money than in triathlon! Maybe edit them in with a psuedo injury that keeps them out until mid-Aug/Sept so they can do the Olympic triathlon.
Nice Idea. Will do that. Will probably also have to block Ed Clancy out between say May 1st and 1st September. Geraint Thomas did the Giro as warm up.
If Ed Clancy is Injured, than a rider currently unconfirmed would take his place in the team pursuit (I believe he was next in line) so would have the same restriction. |
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| Gaffeff |
Posted on 10-08-2012 19:08
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Yorkshire Post, 3rd August 2011.
Plusnet - White Rose have announced their next tranche of riders:
Adam Blythe
Matt Cronshaw
Danial Fleeman
Jonathan Bellis |
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