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| tsmoha |
Posted on 02-02-2015 12:14
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Dyball's personal coach - Happy to see Ben totally focussed to stay at the front today. We always knew this climb plus winds could do some damage. So quite important day, maybe. This is what i use to call 'easy gains', Ben did well to listen to me! Also nice to see his teammate Crane taking the stage. He's doing great to this point.
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Posted on 24-11-2024 14:41
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| ggDonovan |
Posted on 02-02-2015 12:54
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Heineken has the race completely controlled and it's just stage 5.
Edited by ggDonovan on 02-02-2015 15:18
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| Smowz |
Posted on 02-02-2015 13:03
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Have a soft spot for wounded warrior as I predicted they would have a very lean season but getting a stage win here is a really nice deal for them. Of course their manager is inactive so who cares right.
Thorson and the lard asses survive that one quite well - it looked a really nasty flat stage.
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| The Rider |
Posted on 02-02-2015 13:41
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Well, I had a feeling THAT STAGE was going to go badly when Manarelli who is, for all intents and purposes, the fastest sprinter here, and the most consistent going into stage 3, wasn't even mentioned in the second paragraph stage favourites list ........ Little did I expect a train wreck of a nightmare to follow .....
I still can't wrap my head around it. So the only GC favourite of any decently active team in the race, Nicacio, randomly steps off the bike. The only rider to do so after five stages ..... The odds of this? ..... Seriously, I have lost count of how many stage races I have done for the Man Game this season where not a single rider abandons the whole of the race and then this happens. The odds! I still don't believe it.
Sums my luck up perfectly. Things are going good, looks as if we are about to reach some kind of firmament and then ...... whopped back down to earth like you couldn't imagine.
If there has been worst luck to hit a team then I haven't seen it. The closest comparison would have to be Ricco quitting the Giro, but then he at least had a few stages to get some points and his abandonment didn't directly effect the battle for a division title.
Looking at that TTT, we feasibly could have been at least 2 minutes better off with Nicacio, one of the top TT men in the race. Even with a bad/average tour Nicacio still would have brought in 80-100 points, as it is it is 35% of our best GC rider's race days gone up in smoke. It is up to Txurruka now, I guess, to do something. Hoping for multiple Sarmiento/Txurruka winning breakaways.
Thanks for the reports tsmoha, but I don't why you would leave Manarelli out of the favourites, even if he is sucking here! Though maybe you are right in doing so as it is as clear as day the flat stat doesn't matter whatsoever, on flat stages.
The pace is excellent, even if the race, for us, has been abhorrent.
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 02-02-2015 14:00
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The Rider wrote:
Thanks for the reports tsmoha, but I don't why you would leave Manarelli out of the favourites, even if he is sucking here! Though maybe you are right in doing so as it is as clear as day the flat stat doesn't matter whatsoever, on flat stages.
Listing sprint favorites has never been my strength, but i can tell you, why: I write down the names, that pop up my mind because of aachievements in the previous stages. Yap, Manarelli was most consistent, but did not scorea Top-2 result - opposing to those few names I listed (plus, except of Thorsen, with their hill stats taking into account) 
As said before: horrible luck with Nicacio. It's a shame indeed.
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 02-02-2015 14:07
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Must be terrible to be Bonsucro, what with your rankings position and season long list of results, truly horrible  Though it does suck because at least you are active whereas the actual GC fighters f*cked off long ago.
Meanwhile at the bottom end of things, back to usual quietness for B3B. I'm just consoling myself with the thought that at least next season we'll be a contender on some flat stages having shipped off Chicchi and gotten Soupe back. Sarmiento looking ok so hoping he can go out on the attack in the mountains and show off his lovely multicolored jersey again.
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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 02-02-2015 15:17
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And there goes my good feeling 
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| ggDonovan |
Posted on 02-02-2015 15:56
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The Rider wrote:
Anyway, with that settled, would you like noodles with that ggDonovan?
xD
Noodles, rice, pasta... Heineken has all the ingredients to win this rAce.
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 02-02-2015 17:31
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And down we go.. Fuck off PCM. Die in a fire. |
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 02-02-2015 17:43
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Doi getting into that gap is very good. He will need all the time he can get, since he really isn't that strong of a climber, but a Top 20 is possible I think.
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 03-02-2015 10:51
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There is hope! Georgiev with his only noteable performance of the last 2 seasons. Ok a win would be better but it's moving in the right directions. Then a whole bunch of B3B guys in that first big group, including Sarmiento. A sign of good things to come?
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| roturn |
Posted on 03-02-2015 11:11
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Wasn`t this the same stage where I got a double Oz screenshot last year with Peraud and ? fighting for the top places?
It definitely is one hell of a climb in the end.
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 03-02-2015 11:11
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Dyball's personal coach - What a twist today! Eastman losing yellow is a shocker, i guess. And once again i'm proud of Ben and his gutsy ride today. His first move was pretty strong and so was his effort to hang on with Kashechkin. Finishing the stage in the Top-10 and gaining time on many GC-contenders is great.
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| tsmoha |
Posted on 03-02-2015 11:13
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roturn wrote:
Wasn`t this the same stage where I got a double Oz screenshot last year with Peraud and ? fighting for the top places?
Yap! We missed a stage-win back then, but the screen was cool. Even though it's slopes like that, which made me wanna do a variant for this race
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| Ste117 |
Posted on 03-02-2015 12:27
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Happy with 4th on a stage I thought we wouldn't even feature 
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| maxime86 |
Posted on 03-02-2015 14:27
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2 in the top ten on the GC now and 4 in the top twenty, hopefully this good luck continues! |
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| The Rider |
Posted on 03-02-2015 14:50
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Soto Pereira, we will take that. He is approaching 100 points for season, with most not from early breaks!, proving the transfer with fintas was a decent move.
From here on we will be scrapping for every point in this race.
Next stage: After two successful breaks, looking at the profile, I would be stunned if stage 7 doesn't make it three in a row for the breaks. Very strange Txurruka didn't make a move on stage 5, he is one of the top 6 puncheurs here and surely is the most aggressive by nature, will we see him make a shock move on the next stage?
Edited by The Rider on 03-02-2015 15:07
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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 03-02-2015 15:25
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Haga showing himself, that's nice
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 03-02-2015 17:58
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Doi really riding above his weight I think! Great from Zaini too. All in all a good stage! Very exciting report as well!
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 03-02-2015 18:06
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5 MINUTES?
5 MINUTES?
5 MINUTES?
WUT?! How is Vasquez this shit, I'll never know. Worst hiring of the season. Period. |
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