I'll never doubt you again mate In hindsight that was a bad take even just by my thoughts at the time, not sure why I did it but obviously I'm not pretending I saw anything near this coming Love to see the success you're having cunego and hope it continues
I'll be honest, I thought 24th was slightly pessimistic, but if you had asked me if at this point in the season I'd more likely be 1st or 24th, you bet I would have said 24th, and it wouldn't have been a tough choice Thanks though, I hope it continues as well
What a surprise our position in the top half of the table.
Bearing in mind that Kennaugh and especially Paulinho have been complete nulls I expected to be much lower in the table.
I know we are the team with the most race days used but still the predictions are encouraging as they put the team in the middle of the table at the end of the season.
The only positive aspect of the season so far is Fernandes, who is having a brilliant season.
Not fantastic period, mainly Juarez was dreadful. pprd still dece. Keizer is also coming back from his break. But it generally looks like we'll finish somewhere upper mid table outside promotion. Which is fine, our core will be deadly next year with plenty of money to spend
Must say it looks promising for us. Anderberg and Stake have been keys so far this season, bringing in more points than expected on the cobbles and in stage races with a TT present. Kwiatkowski sitting 7th in the individual ranking is decent, eventhough I admittedly hoped for more. His GC win in Pologne was big, and hopefully a sign for what is to come, eventhough it was back to below expectations in Wallonie again.
Galta finally starting his season "for real" soon, with Romandie. We need him to perform well to keep the momentum going thinking of the PpRD ratio, but we shall see. Starting the season, he was definitely the leader I'm the most curious to see how perform, as I'm not confident in his abilities to bring in the big points. Fingers crossed he proves me wrong!
Interesting rankings update, with Bralirwa and Binance in particular outperforming expectations. Will be very interesting to see where they go from here. Then there's also a couple of teams quite a way down in the ranking who you expect to soon rise. When will Polar strike? At least they're a team I expect to rise very, very quickly when they get their leaders going.