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[CT] MTN - WBR | 2014 Plans
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| aidanvn13 |
Posted on 18-02-2014 14:02
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TheManxMissile wrote:
Wow i thought you did better with goals than that! Unlucky but i'm certain 2014 will be better in that aspect
(better than me though)
Yea, I made some really stupid beginner mistakes - but it's all about learning! My transfer season was also quite poor, but I expect the coming one to be much better. I have some concrete plans for the coming transfer season, so it should go quite well. And then again, my goal setting will be much more conservative this time around. 
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| aidanvn13 |
Posted on 18-02-2014 17:08
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We have just finished all the races for the season and I thought it best to update my all-in-one reports. It will be divided into 3 posts because of it's size. You might recognise this from page 7 in the thread, but this is the full version. I also think it's a relevant repost to the current MG happenings.
Spoiler ___________________________________________________________________
January
[img-l]https://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh579/aidanvn13/Algeria_zpsce7de5e7.png[/img-l] Tour d'Algerie A great race for us. Abdallah scored some top 10s and a podium on the flat stages. Rodas surprised the favourites and won the last stage to claim 2nd overall - completing our official goal of a top 5 result.
Stage Wins: 1
Stage Podiums: 2
Stage Top 10s: 2
General Classification
| 1 | Daniel Moreno | Iberia - Communidad Valenciana | 16h59'43 | | 2 | Julián Rodas | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | s.t. | | 3 | Marco Marzano | Kappa-ENI | + 8 | | 4 | Yannick Talabardon | Allianz-BMW Cycling Team | + 41 | | 5 | David Arroyo | Die Berg Komt Er | s.t. |
[img-l]https://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh579/aidanvn13/SouthAfrica_zps0983735e.png[/img-l] Tour of South Africa Nothing special to report. To be honest, we were quite disappointing in our home tour, even if it was a HC race. Ngue finished in the top 20 and Abdallah managed a top 10.
Stage Wins: 0
Stage Podiums: 0
Stage Top 10s: 2
General Classification
| 1 | Nolan Hoffman | Metinvest-Emirates | 29h03'15 | | 2 | Aleksandar Flügel | VolksWagen-Mapei | + 18 | | 3 | Nicolas Roche | ING Cycling - Project | + 26 | | 4 | Jonathan Bellis | Rothaus - Aegon | + 32 | | 5 | Maurice Schreurs | Team Vueling Airlines | + 36 | | ... | | 17 | Ngock Yves Ngue | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | + 1'04 |
[img-l]https://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh579/aidanvn13/Oman_zpsa7f779dd.png[/img-l] Middle East Tour
We had some ups and downs in this tour. Lutsenko took the opening stage and Rodas seemed very promising podiuming on the first mountain stage. Unfortunately, he crashed and lost time and hope for a good placing overall. Ihlenfeldt at least compromised with an unexpected ride.
Stage Wins: 1
Stage Podiums: 1
Stage Top 10s: 5
General Classification
| 1 | Thomas Rohregger | Magna-Ryanair | 51h04'03 | | 2 | Yasmani Martinez | Kenya Airways - Barclays | + 45 | | 3 | Dimitri Jiriakov | Sauber Petronas Racing | + 4'01 | | 4 | Ricardo Mestre | Team Privatbank | + 6'01 | | 5 | Francisco Colorado | Boeing-Vivacom ProCycling | s.t. | | ... | | 11 | Stefan Ihlenfeldt | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | + 13'31 | | 12 | Julián Rodas | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | + 14'26 |
[img-l]https://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh579/aidanvn13/Malaysia_zps0f4faa21.png[/img-l] Le Tour de Langkawi A C1 race so the competition was tough. No real notable highlights. A quiet race from us unfortunately, except for Adrien who finished just outside the top 10.
Stage Wins: 0
Stage Podiums: 0
Stage Top 10s: 2
General Classification
| 1 | Carlos Castaño | ING Cycling - Project | 35h08'36 | | 2 | Maxim Iglinski | LukOil-Rostelekom | + 11 | | 3 | José Serpa | Evian-MIAT | + 54 | | 4 | Jianhua Ji | Meiji - Cannondale | + 2'09 | | 5 | Vadim Ratiy | VolksWagen-Mapei | + 2'35 | | ... | | 11 | Adrien Niyonshuti | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | + 5'21 |
[img-l]https://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh579/aidanvn13/Lithuania_zpse87938ae.png[/img-l] Vilnius GP Abdallah was listed as a top favourite, but he wasn't strong enough in what turned out to be a very tough uphill sprint. As a result, we couldn't manage any decent result.
Result
| 1 | Francisco Lasca | Kappa-ENI | 4h42'07 | | 2 | Aleksei Saramotins | Ekspla-Cision Cycling Team | s.t. | | 3 | Anthony Giacoppo | Risa - Ergon Cycling Team | s.t. | | 4 | Borut Bozic | Pivovarna Lasko Cycling Team | s.t. | | 5 | Manuel Belletti | Magna-Ryanair | s.t. | | ... | | 17 | Cherif Abdallah | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | s.t. | | 20 | Tyler Day | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | s.t. |
[img-l]https://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh579/aidanvn13/Namibia_zps26ef3e78.png[/img-l] Windhoek ITT We came to the race solely because it's an African race. We don't have any strong TTers on the team, but Perry and Lewis both almost managed top 20s.
Result
| 1 | Michael Ford | Oz Cycling Project | 56'33 | | 2 | Miles Olman | Oz Cycling Project | + 17 | | 3 | Rick Flens | Die Berg Komt Er | + 36 | | 4 | Lieuwe Westra | Team Gazelle | + 49 | | 5 | Kristof Goddaert | Team Gazelle | + 56 | | ... | | 22 | Craig Lewis | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | + 1'47 | | 23 | James Lewis Perry | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | + 1'49 |
[img-l]https://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh579/aidanvn13/Rwanda_zps85d6b5fa.png[/img-l] Kwita Izina We chose this as a goal race for us: Top 5 in the GC. Niyonshuti lead the team and we hoped he could rack up some decent results in his home tour. Unfortunately, we only had a mediocre performance here and walked away somewhat disappointed.
Stage Wins: 0
Stage Podiums: 0
Stage Top 10s: 0
General Classification
| 1 | Markus Eibegger | Magna-Ryanair | 8h35'43 | | 2 | Nazar Jumabekov | Banco Nacional de Costa Rica | + 26 | | 3 | Sylvain Calzati | FC Barcelona - Estrella Damm | + 58 | | 4 | Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver | Iberia - Communidad Valenciana | + 1'19 | | 5 | Leonardo Duque | Die Berg Komt Er | + 1'21 | | ... | | 12 | Adrien Niyonshuti | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | + 1'27 |
[img-l]https://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh579/aidanvn13/Gabon_zpsc529ec7b.png[/img-l] Tropicale Amissa Bongo Another C1 race, so tougher competition. It is an African race, so we still wanted to score some points and have some notable results. However, once again a race passed without any stand-out results, but we didn't leave empty handed with Day and an extremely aggressive Ngue both netted a top 10.
Stage Wins: 0
Stage Podiums: 0
Stage Top 10s: 2
General Classification
| 1 | Sander Armee | HTC Nieuwsblad | 16h29'45 | | 2 | Fabian Wegmann | Sram-Riboxx Cycling Team | s.t. | | 3 | Behnam Khalilikhosroshani | Kenya Airways - Barclays | s.t. | | 4 | Martin Reimer | Team Vueling Airlines | + 4 | | 5 | Alex Dowsett | Jaguar - Eritel | + 8 | | ... | | 33 | Ngock Yves Ngue | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | + 1'47 |
[img-l]https://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh579/aidanvn13/Ukraine_zps0ee874ed.png[/img-l] Donetks GP A strong field lined up for this race with riders like Dall'Antonia and Maksimov. Regardless, Abdallah achieved a brilliant 2nd place behind Dall'Antonia who broke away before the sprint finish.
Result
| 1 | Tiziano Dall'Antonia | Mobil - Castrol Cycling | 6h03'30 | | 2 | Cherif Abdallah | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | s.t. | | 3 | Igor Abakoumov | Die Berg Komt Er | s.t. | | 4 | Borut Bozic | Pivovarna Lasko Cycling Team | s.t. | | 5 | Aleksandr Mironov | LukOil-Rostelekom | s.t. |
[img-l]https://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh579/aidanvn13/Norway_zpsa533f74d.png[/img-l] Glava Tour of Norway We never had any hopes to perform here, but we walked away with a great result. We had top 10s on every stage with Ngue, Ben Youcef and Uwimana. Ngue finished 2nd overall, won the u23 jersey and finished 2nd on two different stages - proving that he is one of the team's most valuable assets.
Stage Wins: 0
Stage Podiums: 2
Stage Top 10s: 5
*Won U25 Classification (Ngue)
General Classification
| 1 | Alex Ciocan | Mobil - Castrol Cycling | 21h04'22 | | 2 | Ngock Yves Ngue | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | + 16 | | 3 | Michele Scarponi | Kappa-ENI | + 20 | | 4 | David Veilleux | Team WWE | + 28 | | 5 | Markus Eibegger | Magna-Ryanair | + 32 |
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| aidanvn13 |
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Spoiler ___________________________________________________________________
May
[img-l]https://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh579/aidanvn13/Romania_zps865ed1bb.png[/img-l] Turul Romaniei A race with a prologue, 7 flat stages and 1 mountain stage. Abdallah was very consistent with 4 top 10 finishes, but never managed anything extravagant. Rodas rode valiantly on the mountain stage; however, he couldn't beat a super strong Marzano, but finished an excellent 2nd on the stage and on GC. Ihlenfeldt also snuck into the top 10 on the stage even though he worked for Rodas on the climb and finished in 14th overall.
Stage Wins: 0
Stage Podiums: 1
Stage Top 10s: 5
General Classification
| 1 | Marco Marzano | Kappa-ENI | 26h57'54 | | 2 | Julián Rodas | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | + 37 | | 3 | Edwin Parra Bustamante | Boeing-Vivacom ProCycling | + 1'18 | | 4 | Gustav Larsson | Vattenfall Cycling | + 1'48 | | 5 | César Rojas Villegas | Banco Nacional de Costa Rica | + 1'50 | | ... | | 14 | Stefan Ihlenfeldt | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | + 4'28 |
[img-l]https://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh579/aidanvn13/Sweden_zps95151a34.png[/img-l] Boras Runt A flat classic in Sweden. Nothing much worth mentioning from our side except that Mager was very aggressive in the day's breakaway and although we hoped for better, Tyler Day managed a satisfactory top 10.
Result
| 1 | Jonas Aaen Jørgensen | Risa - Ergon Cycling Team | 3h51'30 | | 2 | Mattias Westling | Swedbank-PEAB | s.t. | | 3 | Roman Maksimov | Team Privatbank | s.t. | | 4 | Sondre Holst Enger | Risa - Ergon Cycling Team | s.t. | | 5 | Mattia Gavazzi | Ekspla-Cision Cycling Team | s.t. | | ... | | 10 | Tyler Day | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | s.t. |
[img-l]https://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh579/aidanvn13/Tunisia_zps3283b70f.png[/img-l] GP Tunis A flattish C1 classic in Tunisia. It's an African race so we hope to achieve some sort of result. We hoped for a top 15 or maybe even top 10, but Abdallah came home in 17th. Ngue was his aggressive self by being featured in the day's break.
Result
| 1 | Óscar Avelino | Prio - Porto | 4h03'48 | | 2 | Aleksandr Serebriakov | Hollister Pro Cycling | s.t. | | 3 | Heinrich Haussler | Sram-Riboxx Cycling Team | s.t. | | 4 | Mitch Docker | airBaltic - Endura | s.t. | | 5 | Jurgen Roelandts | Bouygues Telecom | s.t. | | ... | | 17 | Cherif Abdallah | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | s.t. |
[img-l]https://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh579/aidanvn13/Japan2_zps68399ea3.png[/img-l] Tour de Kumano A Japanese stage race with a prologue, 2 flat stages and a hilly stage in between. A very uneventful tour for us with the only thing worth mentioning being two top 10s by Day and Mager finishing in the top 15.
Stage Wins: 0
Stage Podiums: 0
Stage Top 10s: 2
General Classification
| 1 | Lieuwe Westra | Team Gazelle | 8h10'11 | | 2 | Phucong Sai-Udomsin | PFG-Armavia | + 12 | | 3 | Junpei Murakami | Meiji - Cannondale | + 13 | | 4 | Clement Koretzky | Evian-MIAT | + 19 | | 5 | Dimitri Jiriakov | Sauber Petronas Racing | + 23 | | ... | | 15 | Christian Mager | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | +27 | | 18 | Ngock Yves Ngue | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | + 28 |
[img-l]https://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh579/aidanvn13/SouthAfrica_zps0983735e.png[/img-l] Giro del Capo A home race for us and although it wasn't a goal race we wanted to put on a show. And that's exactly what we did! Day sprinted excellently and narrowly missed out on a stage win. Ngue rode like a champion against some of the division's best and finished 4th on the first hilly stage and which was the GC position he maintained on the mountain TT. However, on the last stage he broke away and rode like a madman to win the stage, but narrowly missed out on winning the yellow jersey and had to settle for white.
Stage Wins: 1
Stage Podiums: 1
Stage Top 10s: 3
*Won the U25 Classification (Ngue)
General Classification
| 1 | Pieter Weening | Team Gazelle | 18h40'23 | | 2 | Ngock Yves Ngue | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | + 43 | | 3 | Mikel Nieve | FC Barcelona - Estrella Damm | + 1'12 | | 4 | Juan Tamayo Martinez | PFG-Armavia | + 1'42 | | 5 | Yasmani Martinez | Kenya Airways - Barclays | + 2'18 | | ... | | 19 | Adrien Niyonshuti | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | + 12'12 |
[img-l]https://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh579/aidanvn13/Japan2_zps68399ea3.png[/img-l] GP Tokyo Another flat C2 classic, but this time Abdallah lead the team with strong support from Uwimana and Ben Youcef. Our Egyptian fastman racked up another consistent result by coming in 7th.
Result
| 1 | JÃri Hochmann | Die Berg Komt Er | 6h23'40 | | 2 | Blaise Sonnery | Evian-MIAT | s.t. | | 3 | Damion Drapac | Oz Cycling Project | s.t. | | 4 | Nico Schinker | Kenya Airways - Barclays | s.t. | | 5 | Kevin Peeters | Japanese - Korean Cycling Project | s.t. | | ... | | 7 | Cherif Abdallah | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | s.t. |
[img-l]https://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh579/aidanvn13/Eritrea_zps00d72129.png[/img-l] Tour of Eritrea Another episode in Africa for us, but . Abdallah didn't perform much on the flat stages, but at least Lemus took his chances in the breaks and almost won a stage when the break stayed away (2nd place on stage 4). Rodas had a horrible tour after losing over 4 minutes on a flat stage and would've finished in the top 10 overall. It wasn't all doom and gloom: he finished 9th on the mountain stage against strong C1 competition.
Stage Wins: 0
Stage Podiums: 1
Stage Top 10s: 1
General Classification
| 1 | José Angel Gomez Marchante | ING Cycling - Project | 13h15'37 | | 2 | Florentino Marquez | HTC Nieuwsblad | + 8 | | 3 | Magno Nazaret | Team Bintang | + 12 | | 4 | Vitor Rodrigues | Hollister Pro Cycling | + 57 | | 5 | Julien Berard | HTC Nieuwsblad | + 1'23 | | ... | | 17 | Julián Rodas | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | + 5'56 |
[img-l]https://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh579/aidanvn13/Belarus_zpsc2d186e5.png[/img-l] Zimnyanya GP A flat classic in Belarus. Day lead the team once again and was consistent as always and finished a very strong 5th. Mager once again represented us in the day's breakaway.
Result
| 1 | Gert Steegmans | Banco Nacional de Costa Rica | 4h53'57 | | 2 | Francisco Anton Martin | Iberia - Communidad Valenciana | s.t. | | 3 | Oleksandr Polivoda | Team Privatbank | s.t. | | 4 | Aleksandr Mironov | LukOil-Rostelekom | s.t. | | 5 | Tyler Day | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | s.t. |
[img-l]https://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh579/aidanvn13/Italy_zps8626c687.png[/img-l] Giro della Valle d'Aosta We didn't have high expectations here, but it turned out to be a very successful race. On stage 1 Lemus got into a successful break, but narrowly missed out on the win after finishing 3rd. On the 2nd stage Ihlenfeldt attacked from far out with 2 other riders and dropped them both on the decent, putting his descending skills to good use. Niyonshuti rode strong on the other mountain stages. In the end, both Ihlenfedlt and Niyonshuti finished in the top 10.
Stage Wins: 1
Stage Podiums: 1
Stage Top 10s: 3
General Classification
| 1 | Marco Marzano | Kappa-ENI | 21h53'45 | | 2 | David Arroyo | Die Berg Komt Er | + 1'05 | | 3 | Daniel Moreno | Iberia - Communidad Valenciana | + 2'13 | | 4 | Edwin Parra Bustamante | Boeing-Vivacom ProCycling | + 4'33 | | 5 | Denis Menchov | FC Barcelona - Estrella Damm | + 4'58 | | ... | | 7 | Adrien Niyonshuti | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | + 5'57 | | 9 | Stefan Ihlenfeldt | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | + 6'50 |
[img-l]https://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh579/aidanvn13/Lesotho_zps198884cc.png[/img-l] Tasol Tour to the Sun This was a win goal for us, but we knew that it was a long shot. The team had 2 cards to play with both Rodas and Niyonshuti being here. Niyonshuti was stronger on stage 1, but in the mountain TT Rodas proved to be superior finishing 5th. At the end of the day we had to settle for 10th and 11th.
Stage Wins: 0
Stage Podiums: 0
Stage Top 10s: 2
General Classification
| 1 | David Arroyo | Die Berg Komt Er | 3h01'48 | | 2 | Daniel Moreno | Iberia - Communidad Valenciana | + 44 | | 3 | Denis Menchov | FC Barcelona - Estrella Damm | + 1'07 | | 4 | Zakayo Ndbri | Kenya Airways - Barclays | + 1'49 | | 5 | Daniel Eduardo Silva | Mobil - Castrol Cycling | + 2'08 | | ... | | 10 | Julián Rodas | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | + 2'34 | | 11 | Adrien Niyonshuti | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | + 2'35 |
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August
[img-l]https://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh579/aidanvn13/SouthAfrica_zps285ef7e8.png[/img-l] Nelspruit Classic We had a top 5 goal here, but it turned out to be another newbie mistake. Nonetheless, we hoped Ngue can put in another excellent performance. That wasn't the case and we walked away with a poor result.
Result
| 1 | Chris Froome | Jaguar - Eritel | 5h33'13 | | 2 | Jérémy Roy | Alstom-RBC | s.t. | | 3 | Aleksandr Efimkin | Cisco Cycling Team | + 10 | | 4 | Nicolas Roche | ING Cycling - Project | s.t. | | 5 | Aleksandar Flügel | VolksWagen-Mapei | + 51 | | ... | | 21 | Ngock Yves Ngue | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | s.t. |
[img-l]https://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh579/aidanvn13/Netherlands_zpsca5cb760.png[/img-l] Delta Tour Zeeland A pan-flat race in the Netherlands with a prologue followed by 2 flat stages. Without a TT expert, Abdallah lead the team and managed to pick up a stage win (after an awesome lead out) and the points jersey - so a good race for us!
Stage Wins: 1
Stage Podiums: 0
Stage Top 10s: 1
*Won Points Classification (Abdallah)
General Classification
| 1 | Gert Steegmans | Banco Nacional de Costa Rica | 8h26'30 | | 2 | Jake Keough | AMEX Pro Cycling | + 3 | | 3 | Alois Kankovský | Team Credexbank | + 4 | | 4 | Rick Flens | Die Berg Komt Er | + 5 | | 5 | Gert Joeaar | Ekspla-Cision Cycling Team | + 10 | | ... | | 18 | Johann Rabie | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | +19 | | 19 | James Lewis Perry | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | + 20 |
[img-l]https://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh579/aidanvn13/USA_zps6c0b7d21.png[/img-l] Bucks County Classic A flat American C2 race. Tyler was the 5th rider of the peleton over the line. Unfortunately, 4 other break away riders stayed away when the bunch strangely slowed in the last 10km. As a result Day finished 9th.
Result
| 1 | Sebastian Salas | Alstom-RBC | 4h11'51 | | 2 | Eugenio Alafaci | Mobil - Castrol Cycling | s.t. | | 3 | Robby Squire | ANC-Halfords | s.t. | | 4 | Yuriy Vasyliv | Sram-Riboxx Cycling Team | s.t. | | 5 | Leonardo Duque | Die Berg Komt Er | + 2'10 | | ... | | 9 | Tyler Day | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | s.t. |
[img-l]https://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh579/aidanvn13/Australia_zpscd8b685c.png[/img-l] Geelong Tour A 6 stage tour in Australia. It's mostly flat but had a hilly finnish on stage 2 and the tour included a time trial. Abdallah didn't excel much, but between him and Uwimana they racked up consistent top 10s.
Stage Wins: 0
Stage Podiums: 1
Stage Top 10s: 5
General Classification
| 1 | Lieuwe Westra | Team Gazelle | 9h54'57 | | 2 | Rick Flens | Die Berg Komt Er | s.t. | | 3 | Anthony Giacoppo | Risa - Ergon Cycling Team | + 20 | | 4 | Vadim Shaekhov | Team Gazelle | + 23 | | 5 | Kristof Goddaert | Team Gazelle | s.t. | | ... | | 14 | Johann Rabie | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | + 1'03 |
[img-l]https://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh579/aidanvn13/Brazil_zps68173c2e.png[/img-l] Tour do Rio This turned out to be a good race for us. Rodas won a stage and finished high up in the GC and Day got some top 10s.
Stage Wins: 1
Stage Podiums: 0
Stage Top 10s: 4
General Classification
| 1 | Bruno Santos | Prio - Porto | 19h42'22 | | 2 | Francisco Anton Martin | Iberia - Communidad Valenciana | + 36 | | 3 | Thiago Duarte Nardin | Team Gazelle | + 46 | | 4 | Julián Rodas | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | s.t. | | 5 | Patrik Moren | Vattenfall Cycling | + 54 | | ... | | 11 | Ngock Yves Ngue | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | s.t. | | 16 | Johann Rabie | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | s.t |
[img-l]https://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh579/aidanvn13/Ukraine_zps0ee874ed.png[/img-l] Race Horizon Park A flat C1 race so that means there are strong riders competing. Day continues his single day race campaign and impressed us with an awesome 6th place. Ngue also scored a few points in 16th place.
General Classification
| 1 | Danilo Napolitano | Evian-MIAT | 4h57'56 | | 2 | Maxime Vantomme | Rothaus - Aegon | s.t. | | 3 | Mirko Lorenzetto | Team UPC - Boehringer-Ingelheim | s.t. | | 4 | Jurgen Roelandts | Bouygues Telecom | s.t. | | 5 | Leonid Krasnov | Tinkoff Bank - Rosneft OJSC | s.t. | | 6 | Tyler Day | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | s.t. | | ... | | 16 | Ngock Yves Ngue | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | s.t. |
[img-l]https://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh579/aidanvn13/Morocco_zpsbca11cb2.png[/img-l] Challenges Phosphatiers A hilly race in Africa with a lot of difficult climbs. Being a race on our home continent, we wanted a good result - and boy did we get it! Dennis van Niekerk got into the early break that only got caught at the very end, but still had on for a top 10! But more notably, Niyonshuti was extremely aggressive and was wearing his lucky socks. This is certainly a winning combination and that is exactly what happened! Probably the best race of the season for us!
Result
| 1 | Adrien Niyonshuti | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | 6h40'25 | | 2 | Pieter Weening | Team Gazelle | s.t. | | 3 | Juan Sebastian Tamayo Martinez | PFG-Armavia | + 35 | | 4 | Tyron Giogieri | Die Berg Komt Er | + 58 | | 5 | Marconi Durán | Allianz-BMW Cycling Team | + 3'28 | | ... | | 9 | Dennis Van Niekerk | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | + 4'24 |
[img-l]https://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh579/aidanvn13/Malaysia_zps0f4faa21.png[/img-l] Jelajah Malaysia We brought Rodas for our GC hopes and good performances in the mountain stages and our sprinter, Cherif Abdallah for the flat stages. Rodas netted a 4th place GC finish and Abdallah walked away with a stage win. Not too bad!
Stage Wins: 1
Stage Podiums: 1
Stage Top 10s: 2
General Classification
| 1 | Deiber Esquivel | Banco Nacional de Costa Rica | 27h27'13 | | 2 | Daniel Moreno | Iberia - Communidad Valenciana | + 1'11 | | 3 | Hossein Alizadeh | Sauber Petronas Racing | + 1'27 | | 4 | Julián Rodas | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | s.t. | | 5 | Brice Feillu | Risa - Ergon Cycling Team | + 1'35 |
[img-l]https://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh579/aidanvn13/Bulgaria_zpsc935acb3.png[/img-l] Dobrich GP Ah yes, another planning fail on my part. Little did I know that this race included cobbles!
Result
| 1 | Gert Steegmans | Banco Nacional de Costa Rica | 3h58'53 | | 2 | Geraint Thomas | Boeing-Vivacom ProCycling | s.t. | | 3 | Martin Grashev | Boeing-Vivacom ProCycling | s.t. | | 4 | Nikolas Maes | Allianz-BMW Cycling Team | s.t. | | 5 | Jonas Vangenechten | Team Gazelle | s.t. | | ... | | 16 | Ngock Yves Ngue | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | +7'36 |
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October
[img-l]https://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh579/aidanvn13/Colombia_zps687489cf.png[/img-l] Classico RCN A mountainous race on Columbian Julian Rodas's home-ground. We would've liked a stage win, but unfortunately that didn't happen. Nonetheless, the Columbian put in yet another top 5 performance!
Stage Wins: 0
Stage Podiums: 1
Stage Top 10s: 6
General Classification
| 1 | David Arroyo | Die Berg Komt Er | 36h20'02 | | 2 | Daniel Moreno | Iberia - Communidad Valenciana | + 2'19 | | 3 | Thomas Rohregger | Magna-Ryanair | + 3'36 | | 4 | Denis Menchov | FC Barcelona - Estrella Damm | + 4'54 | | 5 | Julián Rodas | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | + 5'55 | | ... | | 12 | Stefan Ihlenfeldt | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | + 14'03 | | 17 | Craig Lewis | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | + 19'03 |
[img-l]https://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh579/aidanvn13/BurkinaFaso_zpsaef8466d.png[/img-l] Tour du Faso A tough C1 race with some cobbles. We sent Abdallah for the sprints and some other riders for breakaways. Abdallah did well to secure bonus seconds from a lot of intermediate sprints to allow him to finish 10th overall. Other than that, the race was wasted race days.
Stage Wins: 0
Stage Podiums: 0
Stage Top 10s: 4
General Classification
| 1 | Remco Broers | Team BPost | 28h50'48 | | 2 | Dries Van der Ginst | HTC Nieuwsblad | + 44 | | 3 | Jurgen Roelandts | Bouygues Telecom | + 2'04 | | 4 | André Greipel | Team WWE | + 3'18 | | 5 | Tomas Vaitkus | airBaltic - Endura | + 3'40 | | ... | | 10 | Cherif Abdallah | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | + 4'03 |
[img-l]https://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh579/aidanvn13/USA_zps6c0b7d21.png[/img-l] Tour of Utah Our final race of the season where we sent our faithful captain, Rodas. Once again, the goal was top 5 and Rodas did exactly that!
Stage Wins: 0
Stage Podiums: 0
Stage Top 10s: 1
General Classification
| 1 | Gustav Larsson | Vattenfall Cycling | 17h57'18 | | 2 | Thomas Rohregger | Magna-Ryanair | + 37 | | 3 | Mikel Nieve | FC Barcelona - Estrella Damm | + 1'50 | | 4 | Mykhaylo Kononenko | Team Privatbank | + 2'56 | | 5 | Julián Rodas | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | + 3'08 | | ... | | 20 | Craig Lewis | MTN - World Bicycle Relief | + 8'44 |
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| aidanvn13 |
Posted on 18-02-2014 18:54
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 18-02-2014 19:10
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Great stuff, everywhere  Loving the rider profiles, as said before.
Also great job with the recaps. Still remember the horrible Kwita Izina (gameplay) and your nice victory at Phosphatiers. Some nice results and definitely cool to see those new colors for your project in the PCT now!
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| tyriion |
Posted on 18-02-2014 20:29
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I'm in the game twice as long as you are, so I messed up on rider progression in half of the cases you did. Just forgot to level up Zhupa properly. Nice season recap and stunning young riders graphs.
Check out my ManGame team here
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| cio93 |
Posted on 18-02-2014 20:41
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Considering the German-speaking Redecker would be a great way to forge a bridge from our usual target region to Africa, thus starting our expansion to new continents, and the fact that he will develop into a pretty interesting rider for our future roster idea, we are pretty interested in him.
Just saying
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| aidanvn13 |
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@tsmoha: Thanks again! Phosphatiers was probably our best victory and I loved the fact that Niyonshuti won.
@tyrrion: Yea, quite a bad mistake in my part. But thanks for the kind words
cio93: I'm quite happy with keeping him ATM. Our team is based in the Cape area around Cape Town and Stellenbosch. Heiko actually studies in Stellenbosch, so logistically it's easy for him to be in our team. However, there's always an overseas course he can follow, so nothing is certain
Btw, I trained him with sprint and hill. When he's maxed he'll be like 72Hill and 76Sprint. Which I think is more useful than 77s Sprint and 69 Hill.
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Coming in MG 2014...
Can't wait to get started for next season!
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 20-02-2014 19:31
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Still in love with those colors, shirt and graphics  And I feel the same about next season
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It's that time of the year again - MG Transfer Season! Many teams have been releasing their versions of their "most wanted" list. We though, why not join the parry? I doubt that any of the names will come as a surprise to anyone.
Must Have Under Any and All Circumstances
 John-Lee Augustyn
Nolan Hoffman
Reinardt Janse van Rensburg
Very Interested In
Dylan Girdlestone
Christiaan Kriek
Jaco Venter
 Tsgabu Grmay
 Dan Craven
Ermin van Wyk
 Natnael Berhane
Daniel Teklehaimanot
List will be updated and changed within the following days...
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| Alakagom |
Posted on 21-02-2014 15:43
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You sure about Hoffman? I mean he's good, but its very unlikely he'll repeat such season ever again and will be very expensive. Not sure he's that great of a target for you. Otherwise nice and sensible targets to strengthen the team
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Alakagom wrote:
You sure about Hoffman? I mean he's good, but its very unlikely he'll repeat such season ever again and will be very expensive. Not sure he's that great of a target for you. Otherwise nice and sensible targets to strengthen the team
Shh i think Avin just started jumping in the air with joy haha it's going to be hard for him to repeat it but not many better places he can fit then a African team though i could actually see him going to free agency as well if his wage is too high. |
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Posted on 21-02-2014 15:59
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Are you kidding me Alakagom??? Really?
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Posted on 21-02-2014 17:28
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Venter and Kriek have indicated that, while they are happy to stay at Gazelle, Project Africa is also a team they would love to be part of.
Gazelle is not keen on letting them go, especially Venter who is seen as a future leader. Once the transfer season starts, we're open to negotiations though.
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Posted on 21-02-2014 18:12
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@Alakagom: I'll have to see what his wage will be like, but I'm willing to take a risk on him. Africa doesn't really have a whole lot of riders that can compete like he does/did.
@DubbelDekker: Good to hear! We'll talk soon!
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I agree with Alakagom, but tbh I had decided not to say it, thinking that whoever overpaid for him could just blame himself ;-)
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| Avin Wargunnson |
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Heine wrote:
I agree with Alakagom, but tbh I had decided not to say it, thinking that whoever overpaid for him could just blame himself ;-)
Well, why would you say it. It is scumbag acting and you would like to look like scumbag? One is enough i think. Nobody knows his wage yet and everybody is acting like he should have million per year. He was not even top10 of the standings (14th), just good value for small wage in 2013. Flügel should ask much more than Hofffman. High number of potential trades look like stupidity to me , but i am not going to start giving advices which could disadvantage some managers. But one team pursuing its national champion does not look so strange to me
In the end, it would be no tragedy if Nolan stays at Metinvest and receive some training.
Sorry Aidan for spamming in your thread, see you in the transfers, being it about Hoffman,or anybody else.
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Posted on 22-02-2014 06:38
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Avin Wargunnson wrote:
Heine wrote:
I agree with Alakagom, but tbh I had decided not to say it, thinking that whoever overpaid for him could just blame himself ;-)
Well, why would you say it. It is scumbag acting and you would like to look like scumbag? One is enough i think. Nobody knows his wage yet and everybody is acting like he should have million per year. He was not even top10 of the standings (14th), just good value for small wage in 2013. Flügel should ask much more than Hofffman. High number of potential trades look like stupidity to me , but i am not going to start giving advices which could disadvantage some managers. But one team pursuing its national champion does not look so strange to me
In the end, it would be no tragedy if Nolan stays at Metinvest and receive some training.
Sorry Aidan for spamming in your thread, see you in the transfers, being it about Hoffman,or anybody else.
Hehe, no need to call others for scumbag because they're telling that Nolan over-performed last season, which he did, and therefore will be expensive to get in the coming transfer window. I have to agree with Heine and Alakagom here. He was extremely lucky in a few races, such as Tour of South Africa and he is unlikely to get such a point haul ever again, as he did in that race. However, he is still a very good sprinter, one of the best in PCT, we're just saying that if the price and/or wage is getting inflated, there is a lot of other sprinters around for possibly a much better price.
Though; if I had a SA-registered team, I would probably go after him my self
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