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Post by Quatannens on Dec 1, 2013 20:28:59 GMT 1
Lol.
Agamennone Andreoli was injured during training. He will be out for 4 weeks.
No injuries before this season. This one makes a total of 9 lost trainingweeks this season. Nice. You got to love injuries. Wonder how many of my cyclists will finish this Vuelta.
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Post by maxz on Dec 3, 2013 17:51:36 GMT 1
100% agree about the standard of competition in 1:1. Whatever their long term strategy, or tiredness or injury of riders, managers here use tactics to get the most from the riders they are able to field in each race. Very hard looking at the lack of prize money to maintain your team when coming up from Div 2. Congrats to seberla doing so well in his first season in 1, and congrats to Quatannens - back in the black after another great TT yep it's an hard fight for survivin... I want to congratulate with seberla too, and also roller, outstandings first seasons in 1:1 for both... Quatta c'mon u really can't relegate! who'll win the TT without u? Lions also can't due to the next EGV dismission u can dominate mountain races... nice challenge! and it'll be a pity to loose tours and petrolul, two really consistent teams, expecially Petrolul was really competitive last season in flat races... good for me but it's sad... but we'll have evcont next season... bad one... If Genomico will really quit next season I really can't say who will be the favourite.... no idea about mountain races (Where will bring their talents malton&co??) and in flat ones there will be much more competition than ever with evcont... well, can't wait...
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Post by whistler on Dec 3, 2013 18:43:37 GMT 1
Whichever team is rich enough to buy Malton from Genomico, wouldn't it be great if they just retired the rider while still in his prime...so we could all admire his memory, the like of which we will never see again...
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Post by Genomico on Dec 3, 2013 21:26:49 GMT 1
The only way to do that is to sell all my riders except him But he deserves to show his value in another team
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Post by whistler on Dec 3, 2013 22:41:36 GMT 1
The only way to do that is to sell all my riders except him But he deserves to show his value in another team Bah, have it your way As an experienced mountain trainer, allow me to recommend to prospective new owners that Malton gets a full season of fitness training. Yes, you can never have too much fitness in a rider
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Post by Ab Normaal on Dec 4, 2013 11:45:08 GMT 1
There are a few teams who recently have sold all their riders (Terminal Velocity, Sky is not the limit). These teams are rich enough to buy Malton. Droeftoeters is, I think, the richest team from first division, but the question will also be if someone is prepaired to spend all his money on one single rider.
Certainly if you know that there will be a lot more interesting riders to come...
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Post by Quatannens on Dec 8, 2013 18:23:45 GMT 1
Lol. Agamennone Andreoli was injured during training. He will be out for 4 weeks. No injuries before this season. This one makes a total of 9 lost trainingweeks this season. Nice. You got to love injuries. Wonder how many of my cyclists will finish this Vuelta. Vadim was injured during the last race. He will be out for 4 weeks. Injured: Broken arm Well, that makes number two. No injuries untill this season. +3 and +4 Who's next?
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Post by Ab Normaal on Dec 8, 2013 23:40:25 GMT 1
Frustration modus on:
I understand your frustration. I have that with flats and falls. It seems like my riders fall and have flats a lot. This costed me a lot of good results. In Milan - Torino I thought to have a big favourite for the victory. But he fell 3(!) times. On Saturday's stage, from the first 12 riders, 4 had a flat or fall. Three of them were mine.
I always be carefull with the steering / bravery skills of my riders. A lot of my riders have both over 10, because I hate injuries. Nevertheless, last two seasons I had a lot of bad dissapointing results because of flats / falls. It seems that, when I finally let a rider attack on 100%, that perticuallary guy always falls or have a flat. That is really, really, really annoying and frustrating.
And I still don't understand this engine. Can somebody please, please explain me. Todays stage: Fitness before the stage: Malton and Cozijnsen 96%, Lemius 92% Effort: Malton 81%, Cozijnsen 91%, Lemius 100%. TT skill, all three equal. Mountain skill Malton ~2-3 higher than Cozijnsen, Cozijnsen 2 higher then Lemius. Result: 1. Malton 2. Lemius + 18 sec 6. Cozijnsen + 3.45
How can that be? If the 10% extra effort from Cozijnsen to Malton cannot make up for the mountain skill and causes him to loose almost 4 minutes, how can it then be that the extra 9% effort (with 4% lower fitness) and a lower mountainskill can make Lemius 3.27 faster then Cozijnsen? Please anyone explain, this is still (10 hours later) irritating the hell out of me!
Frustration modus off.
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Post by Genomico on Dec 8, 2013 23:54:57 GMT 1
I haven't seen the report of the race, so I don't know. He's heavier and that's important in the new engine. For the falling I have the same a bit. Martinez, as good as Malton in skills, is so often having a flat tire or falls while his secondaries are very good.
What I don't understand is that you train Cozijnsen on fitness. Going for a short-time result? He will be one extra training behind the rest of his career now. So I assume you're going to sell him?
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Post by Ab Normaal on Dec 9, 2013 0:22:08 GMT 1
I haven't seen the report of the race, so I don't know. He's heavier and that's important in the new engine. For the falling I have the same a bit. Martinez, as good as Malton in skills, is so often having a flat tire or falls while his secondaries are very good. What I don't understand is that you train Cozijnsen on fitness. Going for a short-time result? He will be one extra training behind the rest of his career now. So I assume you're going to sell him? Yes, he is heavier, but only 67 kgs. That is not that heavy. He lost contact in part 5, a mountain part at 12%. Lemius is indeed only 53 kgs, but with lower mountain skill, lower fitness, equal tt skill and only 9% more effort, I find that strange. Yes, I want to sell him. I hope you want to wait a few days after the Vuelta with your selling, so I can sell him first
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Post by Zberg on Dec 9, 2013 13:29:39 GMT 1
Let's not blame all the flat tires and falls. Tactically, I am just a complete retard.
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Post by Quatannens on Dec 9, 2013 14:52:30 GMT 1
Lol, funny how you manage to finish behind me Wonder what you did. Forgot all the tactics?
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Post by Zberg on Dec 9, 2013 16:09:54 GMT 1
Not attacking at the first attack point turned out to be fatal.
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Post by Quatannens on Dec 9, 2013 16:31:41 GMT 1
It's better than not attacking at all ^^
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Post by seberla on Dec 9, 2013 19:21:34 GMT 1
I haven't seen the report of the race, so I don't know. He's heavier and that's important in the new engine. For the falling I have the same a bit. Martinez, as good as Malton in skills, is so often having a flat tire or falls while his secondaries are very good. What I don't understand is that you train Cozijnsen on fitness. Going for a short-time result? He will be one extra training behind the rest of his career now. So I assume you're going to sell him? Yes, he is heavier, but only 67 kgs. That is not that heavy. He lost contact in part 5, a mountain part at 12%. Lemius is indeed only 53 kgs, but with lower mountain skill, lower fitness, equal tt skill and only 9% more effort, I find that strange. It's really a bit strange. Considering the combination of mountain, TT and fitness, Malton was faster than Lemius in the mountain parts. But after the first attacking point Lemius was in the top group (together with Mathiasson), Malton wasn't. Lemius has sprint 7, so I think that the sprint skill affects the gain of time during an attack. Lemius attacked five times and he got a small bonus each attack. I guess that's the reason, why he was so close to Malton and why Cozijnsen lost time on him!?
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