Brabantse Pijl 13/04/2022

[Red Rick]

This is often a problem when one is used to being so dominant that they don't actually need to learn any tactics. He's won everything at the junior level so easily that thinking tactically is going to take him a while to learn now that he can't just ride away. Give him time.

I love when we can give top pro's the excuse of not understanding basic strategy.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

I love when we can give top pro's the excuse of not understanding basic strategy.

Top pros have usually had to learn basic race strategy on the way up.

Remco has better tools to work with than most, but it's no use having the greatest tools if your toolbox can't carry them.

 

[CyclistAbi]

Congratulations to Magnus Sheffield for the win.

Against such Ineos you for sure need some help from your teammates. Otherwise you will be an easy target. Being van der Poel or Evenpoel. ATM this guys for sure are missing van Aert. And i guess strong JV. Basically Ineos is just playing with them.

 

[TMP402]

This is often a problem when one is used to being so dominant that they don't actually need to learn any tactics. He's won everything at the junior level so easily that thinking tactically is going to take him a while to learn now that he can't just ride away. Give him time.

And this was predicted when he turned pro.

 

[HelloDolly]

Good race. Sheffield got a very well deserved biggest result of his life riding smartly whilst also looking like the strongest rider of the day.

Wellens was rightly relegated for a clearly diagonal sprint that forced Cosnefroy to the barrier and blocked Evenepoel off entirely.

Pidcock should skip Paris-Roubaix and opt to stay fresher for LBL which is the plan if PCS startlist is correct though fascinating to see Kwiatkowski down for PR.

Sheffiield was the strongest today and looks like a mega find by INEOS.
Pidcock has been ill for an age and is not fully recovered
INEOS have such a young team and so strong
Will be interesting to see how they go on Sunday

 

[Nick2413]

Funny. Sheffield now has more pro wins than Pidcock.

Cumbersome performance of Evenepoel and Quickstep as a whole. Everytime the 'team' is there 'for him' it's one big no-show. Alaphilippe doing fck all, again. I think he tried to bridge once maybe. Evenepoel against 3 Ineos guys must have seemed like a good balance to the rest of the team. I also have no idea what Evenepoel himself was doing, at one point i started to think maybe he was baiting the Ineos guys to ride all out by pretending he was struggling considering he didn't seem to have too much issues closing the gap a gazillion times, it seemed somewhat surreal. Then, i think 7k from the finish he closes Sheffield down and i thought, ok now he's going to drive the momentum and work for the gap considering Sheffield just attacked, with Pidcock struggling since the last lap and Turner perhaps also not so fresh anymore... and then he just closes the gap and stops. Was he really thinking he was going to outsprint Pidcock, Wellens and Cosnefroy? I'm baffled. But at least he was there which can't be said for the rest of the team.

Too bad for Teuns, he seemed really good and maybe the strongest of the front group, though Sheffield was amazing himself. Of the three Ineos guys, Pidcock was the least impressive imho. Turner and Sheffield were awesome. The strongest guy of the strongest team won. Well deserved. Still remember the 2019 junior WCC RR, where he was working for Simmons but actually he was the strongest guy there.

Remco got gapped every time they were on the cobbles because he refused to go in the gutter. It was a clinic in how important riding in the gutter is when they’re not blocked off. Constantly closing those gaps had to hurt. Then when Sheffield went at the end nobody chased, it was pretty bizarre, almost looked fixed it was so odd. He barely even attacked, it was more of an acceleration and he flicked his elbow and was surprised to see nobody following, while everyone behind immediately gave up and decided to go for 2nd. Even with all the Ineos riders that didn’t make sense to me. The tough thing about Remco is he seems to need to TT off the front to win so even when he’s the strongest rider it’s tough to capitalize.

 

[Pirazziattacks]

I can only conclude that Remco's time as a footballer has had a big influence on him. He's constantly waving his arms around like he's appealing for a free kick and getting into it with opponents who he often needs to work or train with (unlikely in Remco's case) in this sport. He needs a dedicated Remco squad of arm waving whingers who can surround the commissaire's car whenever something goes wrong.

 

[Savant12]

Top pros have usually had to learn basic race strategy on the way up.

Remco has better tools to work with than most, but it's no use having the greatest tools if your toolbox can't carry them.

I think we've learned that one of those tools can't be used in the gutter. The other tool - a spade - is one in which he digs himself deeper into a hole.

 

[SafeBet]

You sit on when the numbers don't favor you at the outset; not when no one can bridge. Racing 101 folks and particularly when he had such traction issues on the climbs.

You sit on and Ineos start attacking you. And nobody is gonna help you close the gaps because they know you're the strongest. At one point you don't have enough energy to close a gap and that's it.

Remco could have ridden a better race tactically. That's for sure. But he wouldn't have won anyway.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Sheffiield was the strongest today and looks like a mega find by INEOS.
Pidcock has been ill for an age and is not fully recovered
INEOS have such a young team and so strong
Will be interesting to see how they go on Sunday

Mega find by Ineos? As in, somebody with 2 eyes and at least half a brain watched junior races and ''found'' what everybody else with 2 eyes and half a brain could see? Great signing though.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Watch the overhead replay. Wellens was the lead rider going into the sprint, he deviated from the right side of the road to the left side of the road with Cosnefroy beside him.
Evenepoel was the victim, but that wasn't Cosnefroys fault, he had nowhere to go. It was after all the lead rider, Wellens, who started the deviation.

I think that's harsch on Wellens, he was only following the blue dotted line on the road. I can see why he thought it was mandatory to follow.

 

[gregrowlerson]

It's Sheffield Wednesday

Is Pidcock the nanny? Or Remco?

"Mr Sheffield!"

 

[gregrowlerson]

I don't get why Pidcock never sprints for minor placings.

The true believer in "the second place is no good"?

 

[Carrick-On-Seine]

Is Pidcock the nanny? Or Remco?

"Mr Sheffield!"

I had to google that as I've never seen that programme.
Talking of the 90s though it reminded me of reading the sports round-up in a US newspaper that reported "US soccer captain John Harkes scored the winning goal for Sheffield, Wednesday."

 

[TourOfSardinia]

I can only conclude that Remco's time as a footballer has had a big influence on him. He's constantly waving his arms around like he's appealing for a free kick and getting into it with opponents who he often needs to work or train with (unlikely in Remco's case) in this sport. He needs a dedicated Remco squad of arm waving whingers who can surround the commissaire's car whenever something goes wrong.

He could join Atletico
if the cycling thing goes sour

 

[Devil's Elbow]

He could join Atletico
if the cycling thing goes sour

He could join Porto without the cycling thing going sour

 

[Carrick-On-Seine]

He could join Atletico
if the cycling thing goes sour

He needs to learn to spit and throw bidons before they'd consider him. Dragging an injured rider off the road would also help his case.

My fellow Man City fans are going mad about this but I miss Nicolas Otamendi.