Although I'm a bit late to the party: congrats on promotion to PCT - and on your CT podium spot!
I've envied you for your insanely strong and deep TT department in my first years, before finally being able to get some of those specialists as well. I guess we should be in for some more (T)TT fights next year as well
I guess not many managers seriously considered you for the promotion spots pre-season - at least that's what the submitted predictions suggest. I know I didn't do one, so I'm definitely no better - but maybe you remember that I always said "beware of Glanbia"! Well, looks that I wasn't that wrong, as you fully capitalized on CT's rather TT-heavy calendar this year! And I think it's a great thing that a team with this approach can also fight for and even achieve promotion!
But as much as I like your TT core, according to your "CT years" stats posted some days ago, the missing piece for promotion wasn't a TTer - it was Talansky. I mean, him finishing 3rd in CT, being the 2nd best stage racer - means he just had a sensational season. Congrats on signing him - it was the decisive move for your promotion challenge, by the looks of it!
But with 8 riders in the CT Top 100 (and two just outside), this clearly was an achievement by the team! And I'm looking forward to what you'll be doing with this team during transfers - can you hold onto your "English speakers only" strategy? How are you going to rejuvenate your roster (as there are 8 declining riders if I counted correctly)? Plenty of interesting stories to follow I'm sure
Good luck for the offseason, as well as for your first year of PCT racing!
I guess not many managers seriously considered you for the promotion spots pre-season - at least that's what the submitted predictions suggest. I know I didn't do one, so I'm definitely no better - but maybe you remember that I always said "beware of Glanbia"! Well, looks that I wasn't that wrong, as you fully capitalized on CT's rather TT-heavy calendar this year! And I think it's a great thing that a team with this approach can also fight for and even achieve promotion!
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This is true , even my own "not a prediction" had Glanbia mid-table, everything fell right. It's not like we were even dominant in TTs, Jura and others normally bested us
Always great to see a home team take a win like that
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