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Also a Sainter and a Steven fan but I'm not picking him for a couple of reasons. First, the Saints are developing a pretty deep mid-field - Stevens and Steele added and the young guys probably spending more time in the mids as well. They appear to be looking to have the mids play multiple...

I finished 16th and our league finished 13th. Well done everyone. Not too shabby at all and quite an improvement on last year. Also looking forward to next year.

Maybe a separate thread should be started but has anyone else been paying attention to the Russian doping issue? I know it has been in the news for some time but the WADA Report by McLaren makes fascinating reading...

No. No chance. Doubt i can even finish on the podium. My score: 3709 Top 3 teams scores: 4026, 3942, 3814 Even if the last 2 stages are good for me that is only about 450 points which would need the top teams to score almost nothing. My main advantage last night was in having Bardet (1st) and...

Another good stage for me. I'm now up to 8th.:D

Well, pretty happy with the results last night. As I hoped I got the top 5: Froome, Dumoulin, Porte, Aru and Bardet. Only made one error: Had to chose one out of Meintjes, Mollema and Yates to drop. Chose Meintjes who ended up 9th while the other 2 were 16th and 17th. Lost 2 x 24 points on that...

@Grater You're doing well. I'm too tired to sit up and watch the rest so I'm going to record it and watch it tomorrow. Cheer the boys on for me, too. All right?

Hey, keffa, hard for all of us so no need to apologize. In some ways it is harder than any football fantasy. There are some stat.s you can base your team on but knowledge of the riders and of the particular stages is all important. Even then past history is only a rough guide. You don't know...

Coppel best of the first 100. Good for Grater.

Looks good to me Grater. Not that I'm an expert. I've gone a slightly different way. In common: Froome, Porte, Oliveira, Dumoulin and Mollema Different: Aru, Bardet and Yates Aru because I think that he is starting to come good and although he isn't a good TT rider this is more a climbers TT...

Cav has abandoned. Makes our final trades for the Champs a bit easier. I'm down to 5 trades with Froome, Quintana, Porte, Mollema, Yates and Meintjes as my main men with Sagan for his green jersey points. For the bonus ITT stage tomorrow I'll make at least 1 trade to bring in Dumoulin, which...

Still closed. Luckily, I noticed before it was too late to do a reversal. But the amnesty should still be operating tomorrow.

A warning: I just experimented with a few transfers and it looks like the loop-hole has been fixed. Any transfer you make today will count against the 8.

Woohooo!!

I was really tempted to bring in De Gendt and Majka due to KOM competition. Then I read a few previews and they tipped Zakarin and Costa and Izagirre and ... So I'm going with my first thought and waiting until the amnesty to trade.

And don't forget there's another ITT which I imagine Dumoulin will concentrate on. After he won the first TT he said that it helped that he didn't do much work during the stages leading up to it.

Going well @doddy2731 and @Grater . Me - I've stopped dropping down the rankings, just holding steady. Still thinking about transfers but tempted to wait until amnesty starts as I want to use them when it really counts.

@Grater If I have it right, the trades will re-set after tonight's stage. That gives us 8 to use or lose through to the end. I probably won't make many, if any, for Sunday's stage 15 as it looks perfect for a break-away and the amnesty kicks in after that stage. On Monday, the first day of the...

I wondered if that might be the case but it doesn't make sense unless you accept that they did try to account for the time difference but did so incorrectly. The trade amnesty is from 3.00am on the 18th to 7.00pm on the 19th. As France is 8hrs behind us that would make the amnesty from 7.00pm on...

It does look like we have an identical loophole. They appear to have got the date for the rest day wrong again, Just checked my scores after the time trial and they don't make any sense: Dumoulin won but they have him placed 6th with a zero scored; Froome came second but he's placed 3rd with 16...