Tour de France

[Fitzroy Guerrilla]

Welcome aboard @Grater!

 

[Prospector]

Welcome in then! (Old Farts did not look good 3 weeks back ...)

 

[Prospector]

Rohan Dennis goes sub 15 minutes!

 

[Grater]

Knowing Dennis's luck, he'll come 2nd again and lose by 1 or 2 seconds.

 

[Prospector]

Prospectors SCC

Alberto Contador
Jan Bakelants
Gorka Izagirre
Filippo Pozzato
Tom Dumoulin
Mark Cavendish
Vincenzo Nibali
Mark Renshaw
Sylvain Chavanel

Etixx-Quick Step

 

[Prospector]

Amazing to see riders catching the guy in front - usually starting times have a bigger gap to avoid this - has been frowned upon in the past as giving riders a rabbit to chase ...

 

[Grater]

Mine:

Had 20 odd minutes to select the team so based it around today's stage as well as putting in riders that should figure on the sprint stages who could do a sneaky top 20 today in Sagan and EBH

Rohan Dennis
Fabian Cancellara
Tom Dumoulin
Tony Martin
Adriano Malori
Jan Barta
Wilco Kelderman (good ride by him just then. should hold on for a top 20 spot)
Peter Sagan
Edvald Boasson-Hagen

Etix Quickstep

I'll be using 4 trades tomorrow

 

[Prospector]

Nice start - planning to trade rather aggressively!

As I recall, no price changes until the next section (Stage 8)???

Dennis on a record time should have you feeling good!

 

[Grater]

Is there price changes? If there is, I will have to rethink the strategy, but yeah, guys like Barta, Malori, Martin, Dennis all need to go for other riders that will score over the next 7 stages. I'll keep Cancellara in until the end of the cobbled stage.

 

[Rupert]

Good get with Dennis, Grater. What a great ride. I thought of him but he was too expensive. Well, if he didn't win he was.
I've chosen some who might do well today and some for the rest of the week.
Tony Martin
Tom Dumoulin
Adriano Malori
Matthias Brandle
Alex Dowsett
Michal Kwiatkowski
Alexander Kristoff
Andre Greipel
Mark Cavendish

Moviestar

Maybe 1 trade tomorrow.
Note prices never change - as far as I know. Trick is to swap out cheap/expensive sprinters for cheap/expensive climbers.

 

[Grater]

Yeah Kristoff is a must have after today. He's one of the ones that are coming in tomorrow.

I thought about Kwiatkowski as he would be great to have for the first week as it suits him, but his form leading up to the Tour hasn't inspired me. If he does a good ride today I'm going to have to seriously consider him.

 

[Rupert]

I wondered about Kwiatkowski - he did win the Amstel Gold and came 2nd in Paris-NIce - but that was a couple of months ago.
Then I read this:
http://velonews.competitor.com/2015/07/news/kwiatkowski-eyes-yellow-in-the-first-week_376034

 

[Fitzroy Guerrilla]

Lucky you rang me for some tips earlier this evening @Grater. You've managed to put a few of my recommendations in.

I've got:
Martin
Brandle
Cancellara
Dennis
Dumolin
Malori
Thomas
Froome
Kwiatkowski
FDJ

 

[Grater]

Yeah, me bringing Kwiatkowski in all hinges on what he does today. If he comes top 10 I will definitely bring him in. If he comes 11th-15th I'll consider it. If he comes 16th or worse then I won't bring him in.

 

[Fitzroy Guerrilla]

I'll keep Cancellara in until the end of the cobbled stage.

Cobbled stages are the best!

 

[Prospector]

Goddam, I'm surrounded by experts!

 

[Grater]

Lucky you rang me for some tips earlier this evening @Grater. You've managed to put a few of my recommendations in.

I've got:
Martin
Brandle
Cancellara
Dennis
Dumolin
Malori
Thomas
Froome
Kwiatkowski
FDJ

You only brought Dennis in because I mentioned I had him

#shouldhavestayedquiet

 

[Prospector]

Well thanks, gang - no-one told me!

 

[Prospector]

C'mon Tommy!

Rohan 1 second the right side of that one so far!
Brilliant ride, but not good enough!

 

[Rupert]

Well, that's 3 of my chances gone: Dumoulin, Dowsett and Brandle.
Go Tony Martin.