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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 12-12-2017 16:01
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WTF is anything. How did my entire team manage to pull off two consecutive -5 daily form days and still want to control the peloton.
These were supposed to be big race days for us. It's going to be hard to come back from this points wise. Holy hell it could not have possibly gone more wrong. I honestly don't understand it.
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| Mresuperstar |
Posted on 12-12-2017 16:12
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Team was left with a difficult choice here, but not chasing and letting Domene win his first career stage was the right decision. Altur can't win GC now, but nothing wrong with a Top 3/5.
Quite the season so far for Domene. Didn't see this coming.
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 12-12-2017 19:33
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Quite amazing results from the CT teams here, a stage win from whitejersey and now a podium from Paul.
Congratulation to both, and also Mresuperstar off course
Two days of breakaway win is too much, but no complaints about the reports they are brilliant.
Edited by Tamijo on 12-12-2017 19:38
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 13-12-2017 04:39
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Seems we were right to come for the breaks, a shame we didn't make any of them to the finish  Only 1/3 even joined. I'm not going to even comment on Clarke there  Glad to see De Haes and the Minions with some joy there though 
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 13-12-2017 04:41
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This race literally could not have gone any worse. It feels like our team is playing on extreme when everyone else is on normal.
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| Mresuperstar |
Posted on 13-12-2017 05:17
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This has become a bizarre breakaway race with a lazy peloton. Bringing Maksimov here was a waste.
Hopefully Altur can survive the most pressure filled TT he has ever raced in. I'll happily take 2nd GC, the white jersey and maybe Domene can hang on for green as well.
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| tastasol |
Posted on 13-12-2017 05:40
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What a shit race this is. AI gone completly wild. Rowe picking up a point at least. Would have liked to see us really put the hammer down in the wind given both Wisniowski and Rowe's strength on the flats. Oh well, just crossing fingers for a good TT now and getting on the podium.
Nice to see my former ride De Haes winning, if nothing else.
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 13-12-2017 05:55
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Disappointing race from a neutral point of view. But thanks for the reports. Hopefully the TT won't be as random as the stuff so far..
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 13-12-2017 08:26
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baseballlover312 wrote:
This race literally could not have gone any worse. It feels like our team is playing on extreme when everyone else is on normal.
I'm with you
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 13-12-2017 08:41
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tsmoha wrote:
Disappointing race from a neutral point of view. But thanks for the reports. Hopefully the TT won't be as random as the stuff so far..
Oh don't panic. PCM will find a way for a break to win the TT as well, just you wait
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| whitejersey |
Posted on 13-12-2017 09:15
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We hold on to the jersey. Cant help but think if a stronger team had the yellow we wouldn't have seen the two break wins over the last two days. From an egoistic point of view I really dont care though
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 13-12-2017 09:25
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Go home PCM, you're drunk..
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| Tamijo |
Posted on 13-12-2017 10:27
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whitejersey wrote:
We hold on to the jersey. Cant help but think if a stronger team had the yellow we wouldn't have seen the two break wins over the last two days. From an egoistic point of view I really dont care though
Ya - dont you worry - you just celebrate.
If the lazy bastards wont help you lead the peloton, let them dig their own grave 
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| matt17br |
Posted on 13-12-2017 10:49
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CyM 2 had better AI.
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| sgdanny |
Posted on 13-12-2017 11:18
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Lots of complaints about AI here, but here I am just happy that Lebris is going to win this race, while being a bit sad I ended up selling him. Oh well, thats life
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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 13-12-2017 13:25
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Well, even if it's still only a breakaway win and our GC is in shambles, nice to take away some points at least.
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| Atlantius |
Posted on 13-12-2017 13:40
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Great to see a bit of the old Olli again. Obviously a win would have been even better but I'll take whatever I can get.
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 13-12-2017 16:41
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A Top5 and two other Top10 GC finishes certainly bags some good points from a race crippled by the AI. And i said to watch out for Matthews! Add to that the points from stage placings and the Team win, it's been a good race overall. And we snuck Hristov and Grashev into the Top25 as well.
Buuuut could have been better without the appauling AI
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| Mresuperstar |
Posted on 13-12-2017 17:03
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Ugh. Sour way to end a rather successful race for us. We'll just take our points, stage win and get out of here. On to the next one.
Thanks AbhishekLFC for the reports.
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 13-12-2017 17:25
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Worst race I can remember in team history. Absolutely terrible. Nothing redeeming. The fact that we had expectations and basically paid a cobbles squad for these precious race days makes it much worse than even the dead 2014 days. Utter trash. It's gonna take me a while to get over how this was even physically possible in PCM. Holy crap.
Thanks for the reports though, well done as always.
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