redordead wrote:
At least I won't need to face McNulty too often next season, congrats

Fabianski wrote:
Well, congratulations, I guess
Despite an often wonky Beltran, you had an amazing year, with lots of second-tier leaders jumping in and getting bit points from many races! Pogacar obviously did an amazing job already, and I'm looking forward to see what he can do once fully maxed! (I can say that now, given that I won't race against him that often )

Fabianski wrote:
Beltran eventually contributed his share as well - surely not as many points as you'd expect from him, but 16th in PCT isn't completely awful, either.
But with 12 riders scoring three-digit numbers, it's pretty clear that depth was what finally made you end up that high. Katrasnik had a stunning year, after not being that brilliant the season before. Gaudu and Eriksson rocked the hills, Boris and Bouchard were great helpers for Tadej in the mountain while scoring quite some points themselves as well, Groselj and Christodoulos were a great duo for the TTs - in short, not many big names, but many good scorers!

Fabianski wrote:
It'll definitely be a busy transfer period for you, but with your rock solid (and pretty young, except for EAB) core you should have good chances of staying up, even though your plans were made for PCT Good luck!

Ulrich Ulriksen wrote:

The feeling is mutual, looking forward to Tadej kicking butt in a different division. Congrats on the promotion, as Fab said your team has a great platform which is just rounding into shape at the right time.

AbhishekLFC wrote:
Great way to end the season and confirm promotion. Also great way for Beltran to (perhaps) sign off, both from the team and at max. Looking forward to following your PT journey

Eden95 wrote:
Congrats on the promotion! Interested to see what direction you take taking the step up, especially with age starting to eat away at Beltran.

Croatia14 wrote:
What an awesome season! Your depth scoring has been incredible, and it showed at ToA with the various contributors to success. I think your path to promotion has been unique and amazing to follow!

jandal7 wrote:
Absolutely brilliant stuff from you guys this season, I know we've talked about it a lot so you know my thoughts but so happy to see you go up and amazed at the quality squad building to get you those depth points - and of course very jealous! Looking forward to your off-season and maxed Tadej in the PT

redordead wrote:
I'll try my best to not make a fool of myself in PT

jandal7 wrote:

Wish I had any tips to give you on how to do that

Nemolito wrote:


You are free to give me tips on how to bounce back to PT immediately after relegating though.

Then I'll just do the opposite

Nemolito wrote:
Concerning Cedevita: congratulations! A team that has been improving year after year, creating more depth every transfer season, and will now be where they deserve to be: PT. One legendary Slovenian team will no longer be winning the division, so it's time for the next one to step up I assume Beltran will be sold, so it was nice to see he was able to end his Cedevita career in style with a first and second place, after not having the best season so far. Best of luck in PT, and looking forward to our talks during transfer season. (and before and after)

baseballlover312 wrote:
Happy to be promoting alongside you! I think we both have a lot of work to do, but you having Pogacar maxing this year should make it an easier transition.

This was an absolutely dreadful attempt at winning as Eddy Beltran finished 13th. We have a few of these each year and by "these" we mean races where we do great the year prior and terrible the following year. As a result it inevitably bites us in the rear when it comes to goals.

We 'only' needed a top 10 in San Sebastian and we got just that with a 6th place finish by Eddy Beltran. PTHC are always a bit unpredictable with PT teams involved as the startlists can vary a lot. It wasn't too bad on that occasion and we were able to take advantage.

Balkans is our one true 'home' race on the MGUCI calendar. As always it's in the PTHC category which means it offers a better goal score, but the competition is always fierce. Lucky for us it's the one race Eddy Beltran is super consistent at. He's never failed to finish in the top 5 to clear our 2nd sponsor goal.

If we always end up failing our win goals, we also tend to overperform our easier goals. We failed in Emilia as our win goal in 2020 and 2021 after winning it in 2019. So an easy top 10 for us here and Eddy Beltran obliged with a 2nd place. That's how the cookie crumbles, I guess.

This is the surprising one. You must believe me when I say we did not plan to finish 4th and secure automatic promotion to the PT division. This was meant to be a transition season, but now we're transitioning into the ProTour.

jandal7 wrote:
Pologne was obviously a flop and a weird race in general but a pretty awesome performance in goals by you and exactly what you want when you are promoting to have that nice budget boost!

ivaneurope wrote:
4/5 is really outstanding and you've massively overachieved your Team Standings goal which should give you boost in the budget. Good luck in the PT