Major developments have been happening since the tour of Polonge, where Andrey Zeits triumphed in front of our home crowd.
We have been in deep negotiations with our sponsors and they have both declared they are staying with the team for another season.
Netia were very happy with the team composition and were pleased with results, particularly the tour de Polonge win, discussions were to be had but the end result was a similar agreement to last year, at least a 40% Polish and at least 50% Eastern European squad and goals and rider targets that will be disclosed closer to the transfer season, also promises were made for a higher budget if we reach the PCT next season.
Norske Skog were a more delicate issue, they were happy with Adam Stachowiak finishing 4th in the tour of Norway and Kristian Sobota's general performances but were unhappy with the lack of Norweigen riders, especially as Krister Hagen has not been very active during the season. They eventually agreed on the terms that we have at least 4 Norweigen riders next season and that we keep Adam Stachowiak signed for the team.
Guerciotti also signed again as the teams equipment sponsor, although with the request that should the team reach the Pro continental tour, it would help to see an Italian rider in the squad. ProAction, Elite, Shimano and Przewozy Regionalne were all content to sign for another season while Elko is pulling out of sponsorship, leaving a space open on the jersey for sponsors to put their name. Which we are currently looking for a sponsor to fill the position of, while Sandvik have expressed interest in a Swedish cyclist in the squad.
We are still searching for a sponsor to replace Elko but ultimately we have had a very good time resigning sponsors for next season.
A very nice breakaway win for Der to seal some more points Also keeping the sponsors so we can see more of that beautiful jersey
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant." [PT] Xero Racing
Krisa from Sportful again designed our jersey this season, our sponsor's remained similar, so the jersey was not going to change too much, although krisa still produced a beautiful jersey for Netia - Norske Skog 2016.
jandal7 wrote:
A very nice breakaway win for Der to seal some more points Also keeping the sponsors so we can see more of that beautiful jersey
Thanks , but does that count as zabl'd or something else.
Precognition on my part I guess
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant." [PT] Xero Racing
Following the Ruta America Del Sur, the CT rankings top ten are as follows:
Team
Total
RD
1
1
Strava
1652
120
2
4
Novatek-Panarmenian.net
1591
118
3
5
Fablok - Dunlop
1500
118
4
2
Compal-Merida
1468
118
5
6
DeLaval - Kiitokori
1440
120
6
3
Indosat - ANZ
1420
117
7
7
Generali - Kronenbourg 1664
1250
119
8
9
In-n-Out Cycling Team Powered By Carrefour
1130
120
9
8
Netia - Norske Skog
1113
117
10
10
SanCor Cycling Team
1076
117
We are currently in 9th and promotion spots are currently expected to be given to up to 8th place which we are 17 points behind In-N-Our for with just one race left on the CT calendar, Zuri - Metzgete:
Our Squad:
Andrey Zeits (77Hl) Patrik Sinkewitz (76Hl) Zsolt Der (75Hl) Adam Stachowiak (75Hl) Michael Mørkøv (74Hl) Markus Fahnert (74Hl) Tomasz Marczynski (73Hl) Jaroslaw Dabrowski (71Hl)
We come to this race with a top 5 goal from the sponsors, although our real goal is 17 points, which is the equivalent of a top 11. We will make an update following the results.
At the conclusion of our first season we decided to review important factors of our season and give aware the Netia Rider of the Year Award.
Rankings
1
Novatek-Panarmenian.net
1669
2
Strava
1652
3
Fablok - Dunlop
1591
4
Compal-Merida
1478
5
Indosat - ANZ
1453
6
DeLaval - Kiitokori
1440
7
Generali - Kronenbourg 1664
1250
8
In-n-Out Cycling Team Powered By Carrefour
1130
9
Netia - Norske Skog
1116
10
SanCor Cycling Team
1091
11
Alpina - Avianca
1053
12
Carlsberg - Danske Bank
998
13
Severstal-Mercator
950
14
Actavis - DKSH
931
15
Lierse SK - Pizza Ullo Cycling Team
804
16
OTP Bank - Slovnaft
761
17
Chiquita - Universal p/b Minions
735
18
Gatorade - SIS
689
19
BelarusBank Pro Cycling
660
20
Verkefnid Iceland
656
21
Akzonobel - Statoil
604
22
Sodexo ProCycling
442
23
Elta - Hellenic Post
405
24
Fox Sports - Golomt Cycling
403
25
Fred Whitton Race Team
399
26
Team Type 1
299
We finished 9th in the season rankings, despite failing our goal in Zuri Metgete we still had a great season and the sponsors are happy with our achievements and in the end promotion spots were extended to at least ninth place meaning we will compete in the Pro Continental Tour next season!
Results
Race
Rider
Classifcation
Result
Tour de Polonge GC
Andrey Zeits
C2HC
1st
Tour de Polonge Team
Netia - Norske Skog
C2HC
1st
Tatranska Klasika
Zsolt Der
C2HC
1st
Tour de Langwaki Stage 9
Adam Pierzga
C2HC
1st
Giro Del Capo GC
Zsolt Der
C2
1st
Tour of Norway Stage 1
Adam Stachowiak
C1
2nd
Tour of Norway Stage 2
Kristian Sobota
C1
2nd
Tour of Ukraine Stage 1
Kristian Sobota
C1
2nd
Tour de Slovenie Stage 2
Markus Fahnert
C2
2nd
Tour de Slovenie Stage 5
Adam Stachowiak
C2
2nd
Giro Del Capo Stage 3
Zsolt Der
C2
2nd
GP Sallanches
Andrey Zeits
C2HC
2nd
Tour de Polonge Points
Andrey Zeits
C2HC
2nd
USA Pro Cycling Challenge
Karol Andrzej Domagalski
C2HC
2nd
Tour of Ukraine KOM
Adam Stachowiak
C1
3rd
Tour de Slovenie Team
Netia - Norske Skog
C2
3rd
Giro Del Capo KOM
Netia - Norske Skog
C2
3rd
Giro Del Capo KOM
Zsolt Der
C2
3rd
Giro Del Capo Stage 5
Zsolt Der
C2
3rd
La Tropicalle Amissa Bongo
Adam Pierzga
C2HC
3rd
Tour de Langwaki Stage 2
Kristian Sobota
C2HC
3rd
Tour of Norway GC
Adam Stachowiak
C1
4th
Philadelphia International Championship
Michael Mørkøv
C1
4th
Hanko Classic
Kristian Sobota
C2
4th
Classico San Cristobel
Patrik Sinkewitz
C2
5th
GP Yekaterinburg
Andrey Zeits
C2HC
5th
Full List:
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Clasico San Cristobel - C2 - Patrik Sinkewitz - 5th
Tour Down Under GC - C1 - Tomasz Marczynski - 45th
TDU Stage 1 - Michael Mørkøv - 33rd
TDU Stage 2 - Patrik Sinkewitz - 33rd
TDU Stage 3 - Patrik Sinkewitz - 57th
TDU Stage 4 - Kristian Sobota - 24th
TDU Stage 5 - Tomasz Marczynski - 41st
TDU Stage 6 - Piotr Mazur - 24th
TDU KOM - Markus Fahnert - 9th
TDU Team - 17th
Great Ocean Road Classic - C2HC - Kristian Sobota - 7th
Benelux Challenge GC - C2HC - Jaroslaw Dabrowski - 24th
BC Stage 1 - Piotr Mazur - 29th
BC Stage 2 - Zsolt Der - 19th
BC Stage 3 - Zsolt Der - 5th
BC Stage 4 - Jaroslaw Dabrowski - 31st
BC Stage 5 - Zsolt Der - 13th
BC Stage 6 - Kristian Sobota - 36th
BC Team - 11th
Geraardsbergen-Bosberg - C2HC - Michael Mørkøv - 7th
Gisborne GP - C1 - Andrey Zeits - 11th
GP Sallanches - C2HC - Andrey Zeits - 2nd
Tour of Urkaine GC - C1 - Adam Stachowiak - 50th
TOU Stage 1 - Kristian Sobota - 2nd
TOU Stage 2 - Adam Stachowiak - 70th
TOU Stage 3 - Patrik Sinkewitz - 41st
TOU Stage 4 - Piotr Mazur - 46th
TOU Stage 5 - Kristian Sobota - 5th
TOU Points - Kristian Sobota - 7th
TOU KOM - Adam Stachowiak - 3rd
Giro Del Trentino GC - C2HC - Karol Andrzej Domagalski - 15th
GDT Stage 1 (TTT) - 14th
GDT Stage 2 - Karol Andrzej Domagalski - 13th
GDT Stage 3 - Pawel Franczak - 14th
GDT Stage 4 - Tomasz Marczynski - 6th
GDT Stage 5 - Karol Andrzej Domagalski - 13th
GDT Team - 11th
GP Tokyo - C2 - Michael Mørkøv - 10th
Seskin Classic - C1 - Markus Fahnert - 16th
Cauberg Classic - C2 - Adam Stachowiak - 6th
Philadelphia International Championship - C1 - Michael Mørkøv - 4th
Tour De Langwaki GC- C2HC - Jaroslaw Dabrowski - 15th
TDL Stage 1 - Kristian Sobota - 12th
TDL Stage 2 - Kristian Sobota - 3rd
TDL Stage 3 - Jaroslaw Dabrowski - 21st
TDL Stage 4 - Kristian Sobota - 7th
TDL Stage 5 - Jaroslaw Dabrowski - 13th
TDL Stage 6 - Piotr Mazur - 5th
TDL Stage 7 - Kristian Sobota - 6th
TDL Stage 8 - Kristian Sobota - 7th TDL Stage 9 - Adam Pierzga - 1st - Kristian Sobota - 4th
TDL Stage 10 - Kristian Sobota - 6th
TDL Points - Kristian Sobota - 6th
TDL KOM - Piotr Mazur - 9th
Interlagos Grand Prix - HC - Kristian Sobota - 13th
Rund um den Finanzplatz Eschborn-Frankfurt - C2HC - Adam Stachowiak - 23rd
Scandinavia Open Road Race - C1 - Adam Stachowiak - 19th
Tour de Taiwan GC - C2 - Andrey Zeits - 7th
TDT Stage 1 - Krister Hagen - 9th
TDT Stage 2 - Andrey Zeits - 8th
TDT Stage 3 - Andrey Zeits - 6th
TDT Stage 4 - Adam Pierzga - 28th
TDT Team - 8th
GP Herning - C2HC - Mariusz Gil - 14th Giro Del Capo GC - C2 - Zsolt Der - 1st
GDC Stage 1 - Zsolt Der - 30th
GDC Stage 2 - Zsolt Der - 8th
GDC Stage 3 - Zsolt Der - 2nd - Andrey Zeits - 8th
GDC Stage 4 - Markus Fahnert - 12th
GDC Stage 5 - Zsolt Der - 3rd - Tomasz Marczynski - 5th - Andrey Zeits - 7th
GDC Stage 6 - Zsolt Der - 15th
GDC Points - Zsolt Der - 4th
GDC KOM - Zsolt Der - 3rd
GDC Team - 3rd
Hanko Classic - C2 - Kristian Sobota - 4th
Tour of Norway GC - C1 - Adam Stachowiak - 4th
TON Stage 1 - Adam Stachowiak - 2nd
TON Stage 2 - Kristian Sobota - 2nd
TON Stage 3 - Karol Andrzej Domagalski - 72nd
TON Stage 4 - Adam Stachowiak - 12th
TON Points - Adam Stachowiak - 5th
TON KOM - Adam Stachowiak - 7th Tour de Polonge GC- C2HC - Andrey Zeits - 1st
TDP Stage 1 - Tomasz Marczynski - 28th
TDP Stage 2 - Markus Fahnert - 10th
TDP Stage 3 - Andrey Zeits - 5th
TDP Stage 4 - Andrey Zeits - 12th
TDP Stage 5 - Adam Stachowiak - 4th - Andrey Zeits - 7th
TDP Stage 6 - Andrey Zeits - 4th
TDP Stage 7 - Michael Mørkøv - 18th
TDP Points - Andrey Zeits - 2nd TDP Team - 1st
La Tropicalle Amissa Bongo GC - C2HC - Krister Hagen - 15th
LTAB Stage 1 - Kristian Sobota - 11th
LTAB Stage 2 - Kristian Sobota - 11th
LTAB Stage 3 - Pawel Franczak - 19th
LTAB Stage 4 - Kristian Sobota - 14th
LTAB Stage 5 - Kristian Sobota - 8th - Pawel Franczak - 9th
LTAB Stage 6 - Pawel Franczak - 28th
LTAB Youth - Pawel Franczak - 3rd
Tour of East Java GC - C2 - Tomasz Marczynski - 26th
TOEJ Stage 1 - Kristian Sobota - 26th
TOEJ Stage 2 - Tomasz Marczynski - 27th
Tour de Slovenie GC - C2 - Zsolt Der - 13th
TDS Stage 1 - Karol Andrzej Domagalski - 19th
TDS Stage 2 - Markus Fahnert - 2nd - Andrey Zeits - 9th
TDS Stage 3 - Karol Andrzej Domagalski - 9th
TDS Stage 4 - Zsolt Der - 37th
TDS Stage 5 - Adam Stachowiak - 2nd
TDS Team - 3rd
USA Pro Cycling Challenge GC - C2HC - Karol Andrzej Domagalski - 17th
UPCC Stage 1 - Pawel Franczak - 6th
UPCC Stage 2 - Karol Andrzej Domagalski - 2nd
UPCC Stage 3 - Pawel Franczak - 4th
UPCC Stage 4 - Karol Andrej Domagalski - 10th
UPCC Stage 5 - Patrik Sinkewitz - 13th
UPCC Stage 6 - Jaroslaw Dabrowski - 5th
UPCC Stage 7 - Karol Andrzej Domagalski - 18th
UPCC Stage 8 - Pawel Franczak - 25th
UPCC Team - 7th Tatranska Klasika - C2HC - Zsolt Der - 1st
Herald Sun Tour GC - C2 - Michael Mørkøv - 33rd
HST Stage 1 - Kristian Sobota - 41st
HST Stage 2 - Michael Mørkøv - 44th
HST Stage 3 - Michael Mørkøv - 35th
HST Stage 4 - Kristian Sobota - 12th
HST Stage 5 - Kristian Sobota - 10th
Acropolis Cup - C2HC - Patrik Sinkewitz - 16th
Grand Prix Cyclistes GC - C1 - Andrey Zeits - 9th
GPC Stage 1 - Andrey Zeits - 67th
GPC Stage 2 - Andrey Zeits - 9th
GPC Team - 8th
GP Yekaterinburg - C2HC - Andrey Zeits - 5th - Zsolt Der - 9th
GP Plouay - C1 - Adam Stachowiak - 40th
Zuri Metzgete - C2HC - Michael Mørkøv - 20th
Goals
Race
Goal
Rider
Result
Achieved
Tour de Polonge
Win
Andrey Zeits
1st
Yes
Scandinavian Open Road Race
Top 5
Adam Stachowiak
19th
No
Top 5 Zuri Metzgete
Michael Mørkøv
20th
No
Tour de Slovenie
Top 5
Zsolt Der
13th
No
/// CT Team Rankings
Top 10
Netia - Norske Skog
9th
Yes
We achieved two of our 5 season goals this season, Andrey Zeits had a great performance in Poland to take our most important goal, although aside from that we had some of our worst performances in goal race (*Cough*Zuri-Metzgete*Cough*) and unfortunately didn't complete any of our other race goals.
Gallery
The 2015 season was accompanied by some great photographers and some stunning photographs, still we have to thank tsmoha for the beautiful image of Adam Pierzga attacking his breakaway companions on the way to the teams first win on stage 9 of the Tour de Langwaki:
and the two runners up, by Froomedog and The Rider:
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and every other reporter/photographer for the beautiful images and race coverage this season.
Gallery:
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Rider Rankings:
Overall rank
Name
Country
Team
Points
Wage
Points Per € 1000
44
Adam Stachowiak
POL
Netia - Norske Skog
168
€ 50,000
3.36
22
Zsolt Der
SER
Netia - Norske Skog
220
€ 90,000
2.44
15
Andrey Zeits
KAZ
Netia - Norske Skog
295
€ 175,000
1.69
81
Michael Mørkøv
DEN
Netia - Norske Skog
95
€ 100,000
0.95
156
Jaroslaw Dabrowski
POL
Netia - Norske Skog
43
€ 50,000
0.86
66
Kristian Sobota
DEN
Netia - Norske Skog
116
€ 160,000
0.73
186
Markus Fahnert
GER
Netia - Norske Skog
31
€ 50,000
0.62
172
Karol Andrzej Domagalski
POL
Netia - Norske Skog
37
€ 80,000
0.46
218
Tomasz Marczynski
POL
Netia - Norske Skog
20
€ 50,000
0.4
226
Adam Pierzga
POL
Netia - Norske Skog
18
€ 50,000
0.36
170
Patrik Sinkewitz
GER
Netia - Norske Skog
38
€ 125,000
0.3
244
Pawel Franczak
POL
Netia - Norske Skog
15
€ 50,000
0.3
336
Lukas Varhanik
SVK
Netia - Norske Skog
3
€ 10,000
0.3
276
Krister Hagen
NOR
Netia - Norske Skog
9
€ 50,000
0.18
280
Mariusz Gil
POL
Netia - Norske Skog
8
€ 50,000
0.16
N/A
Piotr Mazur
POL
Netia - Norske Skog
0
€ 50,000
0
N/A
Christos Loizou
CYP
Netia - Norske Skog
0
€ 10,000
0
The riders are rated by how much they earned there wage this season, despite this not being a definitive ranking, however it gives a good idea of how the top riders earned their wage, which is key to 2016 rider renewal choices. Still the award of best rider of the season came down to three riders, Zsolt Der (Giro del Capo and Tatranska Klasika wins), Adam Stachowiak (Amazing Tour of Norway performance and topping the Point per Wage rankings) and Kristian Sobota (Amazing Consistency in sprints).
The Netia Rider of the year is:
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Zsolt Der!
The Serbian champion dropped from the Pro Tour team Wikipedia to the Continental division this season and enjoyed amazing success highlighted by winning the Giro Del Capo and Tatranska Klasika. Making Zsolt Der the first ever Netia Rider of the Year.
Here are some photos of him in action:
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We thank all the organisers of the MGUCI and the other team managers for the enjoyable and great season.
Edited by trekbmc on 24-11-2015 05:33
Rumours are beginning that Andrey Zeits could leave Netia - Norske Skog this season, the team manage quote "He [Zeits] was amazing for us this season but the sponsors aren't interested in having a Kazakh or non-European rider on the team." The news doesn't come as a surprise, despite winning the Tour de Polonge, the team isn't likely to need him it PCT and it seems the continental division is best for Zeits. None of this information has been confirmed, but it's likely another continental team will have a great hills leader next season.
Seriously though I've decided it's good to see you getting a spot in PCT, so we together can develop polish cycling into a new era! Good luck with your transfer season.
Last transfer season we shared the polish market, doubt that will come to show this year and we're gonna step each other on our toes Good luck!
Seriously though I've decided it's good to see you getting a spot in PCT, so we together can develop polish cycling into a new era! Good luck with your transfer season.
Last transfer season we shared the polish market, doubt that will come to show this year and we're gonna step each other on our toes Good luck!
We choose to ignore 'unimportant' pieces of information. Congrats though, we'll beat you next year.
Thanks, we just need to get two Polish PT teams and eventually become the greatest nation in the MG
Yeah, we'll probably have some problems this season, but then again there aren't that many good Polish free agents in the db pre-reneweals (Niemiec, 72Mo, 72TT has the highest overall) so hopefully won't be too bad, still who knows what will happen in transfers . Good luck in the transfer season!
Tatranska Klasika 
Also keeping the sponsors so we can see more of that beautiful jersey 
Zuri - Metzgete:
Andrey Zeits (77Hl)
Patrik Sinkewitz (76Hl)
Zsolt Der (75Hl)
Adam Stachowiak (75Hl)
Michael Mørkøv (74Hl)
Tour de Langwaki Stage 9
Giro Del Capo GC
Tour of Norway Stage 1
Tour of Ukraine Stage 1
Tour de Slovenie Stage 2
GP Sallanches
USA Pro Cycling Challenge
La Tropicalle Amissa Bongo
Hanko Classic
Classico San Cristobel
GP Yekaterinburg
Scandinavian Open Road Race
