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June Rankings Update
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 30-07-2013 10:12
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TheManxMissile wrote:
Projected Top10 CT finish with the least race days and 1 stage win, loving it. Ok our results havnt been stellar, and G is 38th individual, but consistency is starting to come through. Imagine if we had won even one race on the cobbles! Hoping my back heavy planning pays off as more and more better riders run out of days early. The Top3 spot may be out of reach but a Top5 is still very much on!
Elsewhere the usual close placings, but gaps are starting to appear with things taking greater shape. The back part of the season will be great to watch
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| kumazan |
Posted on 30-07-2013 10:27
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Kinda surprising that we are still so "high", but I'm still pessimistic about our future. We'll need better performances in the next months if we want to stay above the relegation zone.
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| viking90 |
Posted on 30-07-2013 13:09
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Praying for Österreich gaining us many points! |
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 30-07-2013 13:21
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Not too bad, but it's still so close down there. I guess our pprd will significally drop in Tour of America, so i don't think we can hold on to this Top-20 for too long.
Well, at least we already scored points in isle of man in july 
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| fjhoekie |
Posted on 30-07-2013 14:59
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Average.
Nothing special... Need to win a Stage Race soon...
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 30-07-2013 17:11
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Don't think I participated in many events this month - dropped in the overall ranking, but jumped a bit higher in the PpRD - so I guess that's OK.
That being said, time is slowly, but steadily running out. Would be nice to get a bit closer to those promotion spots soon  |
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| Smowz |
Posted on 30-07-2013 19:06
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Still loads to play for as unlike the other two years I have been involved in the Man-Game we do not have the chasms opening up.
Race planning and picking the right races is looking key (along with having a decent team) towards promotion. Lots of teams look in the running anyone from Bintang upwards has at least an outside chance I would say.
I don't know how many teams will actually end up relegating, the lack of activity of some managers may save some teams from a wage bill cut. LukOil and Repsol have those so-so stage racing teams that get lost in the shuffle it seems. Whereas decent flat lands teams seem to do better pound for pound - miraculously Armavia are making a decent fist and UPC are doing okay too.
Instead long time PCT teams WWE and Swedbank are looking weak. Cisco and CSC too which is pretty surprising.
Gazelle can only be congratulated - you can almost see this team sweeping through the divisions. They have build a machine of hilly strongmen who just keep producing race after race - it is the old Bianchi - Red Bull model from last year and usually is the best way to go I guess.
Stunned to see Cadburys achieving almost mid table mediocrity, I claim success there
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| SportingNonsense |
Posted on 30-07-2013 20:02
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Smowz wrote:
I don't know how many teams will actually end up relegating, the lack of activity of some managers may save some teams from a wage bill cut.
Clearly there are going to be quite a few disbandments, but usual policy is to promote more, not relegate less. Will depend on the distribution of disbanding teams ultimately.
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| Bjartne |
Posted on 30-07-2013 23:56
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Knew Lo Cicero would give us a decent point haul this month, but I honestly thought that moving above the relegation spots wasn't a possibility.
We are very happy with this month, but a little glimpse at the PPRD-ranking doesn't leave us much chance of staying up in the end. We still need to get up in the fight and get steadily more points than our rivals. My slightly good gut feeling tells me we ain't gonna be close at all in the end |
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| roturn |
Posted on 31-07-2013 07:56
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Smowz wrote:
Still loads to play for as unlike the other two years I have been involved in the Man-Game we do not have the chasms opening up.
Race planning and picking the right races is looking key (along with having a decent team) towards promotion. Lots of teams look in the running anyone from Bintang upwards has at least an outside chance I would say.
I don't know how many teams will actually end up relegating, the lack of activity of some managers may save some teams from a wage bill cut. LukOil and Repsol have those so-so stage racing teams that get lost in the shuffle it seems. Whereas decent flat lands teams seem to do better pound for pound - miraculously Armavia are making a decent fist and UPC are doing okay too.
Instead long time PCT teams WWE and Swedbank are looking weak. Cisco and CSC too which is pretty surprising.
Gazelle can only be congratulated - you can almost see this team sweeping through the divisions. They have build a machine of hilly strongmen who just keep producing race after race - it is the old Bianchi - Red Bull model from last year and usually is the best way to go I guess.
Stunned to see Cadburys achieving almost mid table mediocrity, I claim success there
That`s a very nice analysis.
Like you I am a bit afraid of those PCT teams. I haven`t expected them to be that far below.
WWE might have to pay the prize of spending lots of money on a long term project like Dombrowski.
Swedbank normally has a nice team, but might have picked the wrong races I think, while Cisco and CSC might struggle the most with PCM12`s mountain AI. |
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 31-07-2013 08:08
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Still in the top10, incredible.
And within reach of Nieuwsblad, "special goal" of beating them as currently best new PCT promoted team is still on. 
July will not be good for us, but hopefully we will bounce back in August later, we still aim for top15 to be realistic.
But why on earth i choose European standings goal? We are first in Africa and 18th in Europe, where we have the goal. 
Thanks for the update SN!
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| Alakagom |
Posted on 31-07-2013 09:47
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Avin Wargunnson wrote:
Still in the top10, incredible.
And within reach of Nieuwsblad, "special goal" of beating them as currently best new PCT promoted team is still on.
July will not be good for us, but hopefully we will bounce back in August later, we still aim for top15 to be realistic.
But why on earth i choose European standings goal? We are first in Africa and 18th in Europe, where we have the goal.
Thanks for the update SN!
It's on then Although I am preety sure you should get ahead of me. You have much bigger depth in squad, and myself right now, I can't believe we are on 7th with signings like Morton in our squad.
Before the season I was having hard time trying to find 5 teams worse than us that could relegate, but so far it's looking surprisingly good, although you can never be certain, many things can still happen.
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 31-07-2013 10:56
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Again great update SN. June clearly wasn't a month to remember for me so I'm glad to have dropped only a few places, and still be amongst the top5 teams in the America Tour.
Bring on July
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| ggDonovan |
Posted on 31-07-2013 12:19
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For us this season is going terribly... being touted as a promotion darkhorse at the start of the season and now seeing ourself at the bottom of the classification... the only good thing is that things can't go worse... I hope...
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| ANFreeman |
Posted on 02-08-2013 12:53
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I'm quite pleased by our current position, I must say - but still all to play for, with only a few hundred points between a large cluster of teams. One stellar race could see someone catapult up the rankings.
Our PpRD rating is more pleasing, as is our 7th in Europe - that was definitely a surprise!
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| jph27 |
Posted on 02-08-2013 16:48
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Very happy with that, with Napo and Serpa having plenty of race days remaining. Just need to jump Meiji in Asia and get a few lucky breaks to ensure I wasted my time planning for CT |
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| sammyt93 |
Posted on 03-08-2013 00:49
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not really bothered about teh CT standings but am pleased that at least I can say we're not last. Asia is where it all counts for us this year and we should easily hold onto our top 10 place there and hopefully we can nick that top 5 place away from Jaguar.
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| tyriion |
Posted on 03-08-2013 10:54
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Still very close to the relegation zone and steadily slipping towards it. But still not in it, so it will be tight till the end of the season.
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| OlegTinkov |
Posted on 03-08-2013 11:20
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I think Tinkoff will just miss out on promotion, still 1st at the projected rankings for now and Kritskiy still leads in the individual rankings, but crucial months ahead, gonna be fun!
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