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CountArach's Off-Season Blog - 17/2
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| DubbelDekker |
Posted on 17-02-2014 14:09
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Cool initiative! Thanks.
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| CountArach |
Posted on 17-02-2014 14:28
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alexkr00 wrote:
Amazing work!
Spoiler Maybe you can find the time and the motivation to finish/redo the Man-Game history someone started but never finished 
I'm trying to construct a database of all race results since the start of the MG while I do this, though that is very much a long-term goal. It is a similar sort of thing. I'd rather do it this way so that I can cover the more interesting parts of each season in a lot of detail.
I'm glad that everyone has enjoyed it!
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| Roman |
Posted on 17-02-2014 15:02
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Fantastic read, Count. Really enjoyed that! And that historic DB would be amazing as well, I could possibly try to help somehow with that.
Anyway if I count right when I see the list of teams which are disbanding and there won't be another ends of teams - only 2 current CT team won't promote to PCT if there still will be PCT of 30 teams in the next season. Congratulations. 
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 17-02-2014 15:45
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Amazing idea. That's a great job you have there CA, especially the historic piece and the essay on the FAs, I think those are quite original.
Just a correction though. Vitor Rodrigues is a rider I loaned out to Hollister so he's not really a Free Agent 
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| Jesleyh |
Posted on 17-02-2014 15:49
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This was a nice read, great work Count!
Feyenoord(football) and Kelderman fanboy
PCMdaily Awards: 12x nomination, 9x runner-up, 0x win.
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| admirschleck |
Posted on 17-02-2014 15:56
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Great idea and just perfectly written, Count.
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| FroomeDog99 |
Posted on 17-02-2014 15:59
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Thanks for the work Count, a really nice read!
Nice to see we underachieved!  Some nice riders going to the free agency as well. Pearl's riders are surely to be hotly contested. |
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| Smowz |
Posted on 17-02-2014 16:24
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It is nice to see the classic review there Count. That was an excellent Suisse route and evokes memories of some excellent racing that I reported in my first year. Let's not kid ourselves there were some issues with the gameplay at times. But it was a lot better than the far too often pack together style we got with pcm12.
Bakelandts, Pozzovivo, Alarcon could all be quite expensive come transfer season I suspect. That said there may well be a few more strong riders available post renewals. Something will have to give with some of the relegated squads for example.
To be honest I prefer the historical stuff - I once reviewed the careers of Tom Boonan and Damiano Cunego. I think a couple of riders like Frank Schleck and perhaps Alejandro Valverde could do with a profile treatment?
Just tremendous work though Count
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| ember |
Posted on 17-02-2014 16:40
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Great work! Hard to highlight anything in such a pleasant read, so I'm just going to say that the whole thing was a highlight. Looking a lot forward to your coming blog posts |
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| CountArach |
Posted on 17-02-2014 16:41
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Gustavovskiy wrote:
Amazing idea. That's a great job you have there CA, especially the historic piece and the essay on the FAs, I think those are quite original.
Just a correction though. Vitor Rodrigues is a rider I loaned out to Hollister so he's not really a Free Agent
Yeah SN sent me a PM correcting me as well. I haven't been bothered to fix it yet
@ Smowz - Yeah the reviews of Boonan and Cunego's careers were fantastic and really gave me the idea of putting more of a focus on the history of the MG. For something that has been around for so long, we don't often talk about the past.
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