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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?