ouch, bring on the stage races
Feeling sorry for Warton, who hasn't even made it off the start line 😀
I've got a team on http://www.rcukfantasytourdefrance.com and see you can make transfers there - bit annoying as if I'd known I'd have started with some TTers.
Feeling sorry for Warton, who hasn't even made it off the start line
😳
You're all dopers anyway
mrhoppy - Member
I don't like to gloat but mwah hah hah ha! 130 points clear.Top 20 overall too, let's hope I can keep it up.
Do you think Spartacus is having the same mental chat with himself? Most likely no, it's a three week event after all....
Yeah bigG but he's not as far in front as me ;-p
18th... I'll take that. We'll see some 'do or die' moves from Spartacus this week to hold on.
I hope...
Woohoo! Tenth! Can we stop now?!
Third! 😀 just hope all was well with the urine sample I gave after picking my team.
Top of the Pops! Come on!
Woh, around 1100 points between first and last, well done Team Hoppy (you're also 5th on the BC league too..).
Still just chilling in the middle of the bunch.
A steady 19th still. Wondered about choose EBH and Peter Sagan, would be kicking ass now!
Ta realman,
Froomes puncture has hurt my results today. I've dropped from 19th to 29th overall. Just hope he pays me back when it gets hilly. Starting to wish I'd gone for Sagan instead of Cav but I'm allowed one sentimental selection.
Starting to wish I'd gone for Sagan instead of Cav but I'm allowed one sentimental selection.
Yeah, it's a proper tricky choice. Can't wait to see Cav vs Sagan in the proper sprint stages. Of course I've got both 😉
"Wondered about choose EBH and Peter Sagan, would be kicking ass now!"
Yep... thank you vmuch, third in our (stw) league and 5th on Tritalk, all without Cancellara…. Happy days.
I’m milking it while I can, as if my velo team is anything like my fantasy footie teams, starting great only to fade and fade again …… this will be as high as I get.
Cancellara was in my team orginally but i had to have a re-rig to get a frenchman in... somehow a tour team without a native felt wrong.
How come I was top and then got pushed down? 🙁
Daily results & overall is have thought. And because I'm awesome!
Up to 26th place. My boy @TweeterSagan did me proud yesterday, but i was let down by Chris Froomes puncture.
Are transfers/substitutions allowed, as i've got 3 blokes who don't seem to want to come to the party.
Sprint on the cards today though, so i'm hoping for a Hutarovich-Sagan 1-2.
Are transfers/substitutions allowed
No. Which is a bit of a slap in the face if like me you picked Tony Martin 😕
How long after the stage do they update Velogames?
(need to move up from a dreadful 77th!, but have Cav)
Not sure, give it an hour or two then have a look. God some of you are proper addicted 😀
Dunno but I suspect that I'm going to drop today. Cav is good but my other 'sprinters' let me down. GC and assists help but I reckon this is where I slip back into the pack until the mountains sort everyone out again.
Greipel and sagan for me, 2nd and 4th I think
6th for Sagan
I believe we have an update. Hoppy still in the lead, and I'm slowly starting to make my way forward.. 🙂
whoop - from 78th to 74th!
ooof. so close to first.
Dropped another place to 5th, but without Cancellara or Cav in my team I'm pretty happy.
Goss has ID today as an important stage for him with Sagan being a big rival..... a 1/2 from them would go down a treat.
77th but I've got a fair few climbers and break away artists so I'm hoping for a dramatic impovement when we hit the mountains proper.
Ohh hello....I seem to be in the lead 
Ohh hello....I seem to be in the lead
😀
94 teams in now.
It won't last 😥
snot fair. how can you join a league after it's already started?
I asked my mom...and she said 'ok, but play nice'.
Oooh can I play too?
If you picked your team before the race started....yes.
Although I suspect it depends on whether you are beating brakes or not.
whatever. good luck in the Fibrax Wrexham league Rorschach
whatever. good luck in the Fibrax Wrexham league Rorschach
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Definitely gonna win that one 8)
You only joined late to hide that I'd have whupped you on the 1st 2 days too.
yay! up to first place.
(Rorsocks doesn't count because he joined too late).
Got an update. Rorschach still in first place. Brakes still bitter (probably). What happened today hasn't thrown me back too much..
Quite exciting...I've risen every day just reached the dizzy heights of 82nd...my climbers are waiting patiently to do their thing though.
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Rojas out & Voeckler's got a dodgy knee.
Not looking good for team En Masse 🙁
Edit: or for Rojas for that matter
Kittel's gone home now 🙁
Yeah, felt sorry for Kittel. No one wants to ride with a stomach bug in white bib shorts.
paaaarrrrp.
Hmm, today's stage was really not good for team hoppy. Cav held up and out of the sprint, Ryder losing 13 minutes and not sure to start tomorrow. Balls.
has it updated yet? don't think it has...
No but I don't need it to know it's going to be desperate.
I've got Greipel and Sagan. after my 0 points in the prologue things have been getting better steadily! I've essentially picked a climbing team too...
Holding steady in the front half of the pack in 20th.
@TweeterSagan doing me proud, but lost Danielson today 🙁
I've got Greipel and Sagan.
Hmmm I went for Greipel but chose Schleck over Sagan after a lot of arguing with myself...oh well will see but I got a some good climbers and the two GC faves.
top half...
Hmmm, found myself in the top 20 by the end of week 1 without Greipel, EBH, or Cancellara. Looking good so far.
Looks like I'm 3 men down with Brice Feliu in the doldrums too.
I'll be lucky to finish the tour at this rate!
Ryder Hesjedal has pulled out, leaving my slip from 6th place imminent.
I can hear the broom wagon revving up behind me. That early breakaway that saw me in 3rd place after day 1 is now looking like foolhardy showboating. 😥
My boys are doing well. But looking forward to seeing cancellara losing the yellow as we move into the mountains, where hopefully the frenchmen l put in my team will start pulling their weight.
I fear this will be my final day in yellow :0(
FFS Hubert Dupont pulling out before we even get to the hills. Didn't get me a single point.
I picked him too but he's quite hurt - I think a broken wrist and vertebra.
Waiting for the victory dance from Team Hoppy..
Jumped about 20 places, finally my climbers get some points!
slowly slowly, if i understand the ranking 6th overall today.
Despite having Taaramae and Wiggo I dropped a position to 35th! Humbug 😕
Hesjedal out, Moncoutie and Hoogerland invisible and Van Garederen dropped like a stone from the goup. Scaredyfrance not as great as I'd imagined 😥
(no idea which of my lot is badly hurt other than Hesjedal but I need to bang their heads together and tell 'em to MTFU !)
Today went well, 1st, 3rd & 7th on stage. Yellow and polka jerseys, Froome and wiggo picked up cat 1 places. After yesterday's poor showing and Ryder pulling out that has given team Hoppy a decent boost. I always planned a climbing type team, wasn't expecting a good showing early.
Not too worried, Cadel and Wiggins will be scoring me loads of points in mountains and tts. Cav is going to pull his act together and I think Tejay may be able to take back the white jersey - he just had a bad day.
Also there's still plenty more chances for Sagan to drop some hammers.
All to play for.
just bothered to look at the results, 1,2,3,5 and 12th.
Made it into the top 10 by the rest day. Relatively happy, although I am relying on Evans and Cav to do some solid work.
Top 4 riders today, 1st, 3rd & 8th on gc. Go team hoppy, a couple of big mountain days should help as well, catching up with Rorshach.
Well a few top teams are a little weaker now due to the large number of withdrawals including some top riders. The RCUK fantasy league that I'm also doing allows limited rider changes between stages so you don't get stuck with riders who have dropped out.
The RCUK fantasy league that I'm also doing allows limited rider changes between stages so you don't get stuck with riders who have dropped out.
Don't like that, it's unrealistic. Got to pick wisely the first time, and bad luck is part of racing.
Actually it's great. You have 20 changes you can make over the Tour and 3 max per stage. So you have to plan when to make your changes to make best use of your change and money limits. Indeed one of my guys has dropped out but I've decided to keep him as changing him would be a bad use of my remaining changes.
Granny's Rings back into top 30, and I guess it'll help now Cancellara has pulled out as I don't have him, but it generally isn't going well. Wiggins, Sagan and Greipel have done me proud, but every other rider I've picked has less than 200 points. Hoogerland on zero, Schleck an expensive mistake on just 187... Oh well. Next year!
Things getting close at the top between Rorschach and Hudson. Hudson doesn't have Sagan though - could be decisive?
Team Hoppy in the lead..
not been updated yet has it?
As long as Arscratch doesn't win... I'll be happy* with a top ten
*not that happy though