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Post by pollyjean on Nov 30, 2018 16:27:30 GMT 1
The advantage is that I earn way more money and my cyclists will probably increase their mood this season. But the results come way to easy. I like winning, but I cannot say that it is really satisfying this way. Besides that, I am curious if my cyclists are good enough to stay in 3th division next season. Pro and con's indeed . Depends in what 3th div you end up in, if your in 3:2 it will be hard ... But a lot of fun ;-) Joop and team Clash are doing very good too in their new division.
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Post by berdios on Dec 1, 2018 14:14:42 GMT 1
Congrats Polly with win I don't get this game :/ I get behind on mountain although Herreman has MO 4, I cant seem to win time in downhill DH 5 and just a bit in flat FL 5. Overall TT 3. I think I will never understand this tactics .
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Post by pollyjean on Dec 1, 2018 16:13:04 GMT 1
Thx. Quant is higher in MO and TT, lower in DH and FL. But being in the good group can make a big difference. So i was lucky that i could join mortirolo in the fl and dh parts without being dropped. And the mountain skill was most important here and made the difference. Didn't expect the win to be honest. But strong FL and MO combinations don't frequently exist in U21.
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Post by berdios on Dec 2, 2018 13:29:38 GMT 1
The first youngster jersey is mine! party time . And i'm not last place anymore. Lets see, congrats to all winners: Burgos-BH with Vosters for stagewin, DeRodeLantaarn with Torres for GC, Polly with Matejek for Sprint, bolzonis with Meslin for Mountain and Polly again for Team standing (don't think there's anything to win for that one). Hell of a first week, lets keep up the effort as full active division ;-)
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Post by flavus on Dec 2, 2018 18:59:20 GMT 1
Just saying a quick hi! Managing the Mortirolo team here. Not too high expectations, although I hope to win some of the U21 races! Pitty one of my youngsters had a flat tire while in breakaway, but perhaps next time :-D
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Post by berdios on Dec 4, 2018 18:02:39 GMT 1
Bolzonis takes the lead with a nice stagewin and general standing in the tour down under. Congrats.
I take second youghster in a row and am out of the red zone for now with a 9th place in the division.
Tomorrow sprintrace, another win for Bilsio?
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Post by DeRodeLantaarn on Dec 4, 2018 18:26:58 GMT 1
Losing from Raviol hurts a little, but 3rd was the max here. Congrats Bolzonis for winning the GC and Berdios with the YC.
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Post by berdios on Dec 5, 2018 15:01:31 GMT 1
Hehe indeed thats always a risk if you sell. I think I will lose from Meslin to this season.
Victory for Polly today, congrats Deproost, only 28y old and second win. This man has a nice future ahead ;-).
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Post by pollyjean on Dec 6, 2018 13:27:12 GMT 1
Victory for Polly today, congrats Deproost, only 28y old and second win. This man has a nice future ahead ;-). Well the other race he won was when he was only 20 years old and no more than 7 riders came at the U21 start. Just a very good finish for him. Catching the group downhill and winning the downhill sprint. But very happy about current results. Did not expect that. Coming up Paris Nice. Many interesting mountain riders appear for the first time. My favourites for getting close to victory or jerseys
are Parisot (Pedale), Moppe (Berdios),Born (Ngogo), Groffils and Goux (Levi's), Del Bianco (bolzonis), Dell Angnello and Ivaldi (pollyjean) for the mountain stages and Cammallero (levi's), Knol (pollyjean) and decant (bolzonis) for the sprint stage.
I think I am going for stages mainly. Hard to find a riders that has it all in order the compete for GC.
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Post by pollyjean on Dec 6, 2018 15:31:25 GMT 1
Changed my mind for P-N.
Riders that I want to perform a top 3 stage-result are: Hoydonckx, Knol and Jennaert. For you to find out who in what stage. No aspirations for GC or points jersey
Also present is Filippeschi for a top 5 youngster classification. But last week showed already that if I don't dare to attack at first attack point with youngsters due to the co-attacker bug it is not possible to win it. (I think I would have been really close otherwise last week).
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Post by cano on Dec 7, 2018 12:35:30 GMT 1
Good, here captaining the Burgos-BH, and with a victory and some signing that I hope you give me a plus to be at least this year in the middle of the table and without suffering.
At least this year I have been slow to win a race with Vosters, a good runner who almost always meets.
It is satisfying to see that there are still 12 teams active, so it's fun and willing to play.
Luck to all teams, it seems that Pollyjean is standing out and is the firm candidate for promotion.
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Post by berdios on Dec 7, 2018 19:45:36 GMT 1
Good ambition ;-). Trying to make top half of the division. Indeed you did some singing, you brought Welsch back. He rode for Joop Zoetemelk last season. Yeah indeed, Polly is gone man
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Post by pollyjean on Dec 10, 2018 20:25:30 GMT 1
Three weeks have passed. Time to make a short review. Pollyjean had a good start with 6 stage wins (including the two U21 races), jerseys remain difficult still. Levis and Bolzonis both prove to be an enforcement for this division. Bolzonis has many good older riders and with training fitness his guys can race a lot more. Blision also seems favourite for tomorrows race even only being at 90% Levis has some really strong riders like Goux and Groffils. Wherever they start a tour a jersey will be close.
But the suprise for me this season are the performances of Rode Lantaarn. Where he started really slow last season, now his younger riders are very close almost every race with scoring already 3 jerseys. Really strong performance. Will only become stronger the further the season(s) get(s).
All the other teams quite close together. Pedale and Ngogo don't seem to get last years results. Oldies getting too old? And Zweters and St-Etienne moved from the bottom of 2nd DIV straight to the bottom of 3th division. We did expect better with their cyclists or maybe it's all part of a plan?
In the standings of the youngster jerseys Berdios is leading in front of Bear.
Next week coming up. Tirreno and 3 stages. I hope for 3 top3 performances with at least one win and maybe one jersey.
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Post by pollyjean on Dec 11, 2018 15:12:33 GMT 1
Blisio also seems favourite for tomorrows race even only being at 90% Predicted easy win for Blisio, with his teammate ending up 2nd. Strong Bolzonis performance. A shame Blisio isn't trained at the moment, he could become a real good sprinter.
Some predicitions for Tirreno: - Bolzonis has the top squad with some mountain beasts like Cantini, Welsch and Meslin. Also Raviol is lined-up. Maybe Raviol and Welsch for GC and Cantini and Meslin for stages 2 and 3? - Burgos brings Frade (for GC?) - Bear brings Vilanova again to try again in achieving a jersey? Will be more difficult here with the star squad of Bolzonis. - Levi's has De Keukelaere who is a serious challenger for GC or stage 2 of 3.
- Mortirolo has Jacques who used to be a nice GC captain, no idea how strong he still is. - Pollyjean brings mountaineers Dell Agnello and Ivaldi for hopefully one stage win, a podium finish and a shot at a jersey.
- Possible suprises from Naud (Pedale) and Vandendaele (st-Etienne)
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Post by berdios on Dec 11, 2018 20:29:14 GMT 1
Indeed nice first and second place for bolzonis he takes the lead in the division from polly. Polly even lost "most victories" in Belgium, Sniperteam 3.0 now leads with 8 . My team did very good today, 3th place. For Tirreno, Bondoni will be competing for his second youngster jersey this season. Only 11 teams in for now, but no doubt the 12 will follow soon.
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