Rather than "rejects" per se; there are some interesting young Kiwis currently on RS list (Bewley & Serjeant) who may be of interest to teams like GE should this putative merger eventuate.
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Happy for @chrisfroome . Maybe his team will finally see what he is worth as a rider..trains hard, races hard all the time. Good to see!!!!
I wanna see how quick team sky are gonna be now to sign him again after they been stalling with contracts! Ha ha #uneversawthatcoming!
Actually @chrisfroome needs to find greener pastures I think...
craig1985 said:Good to see that there will be a women's team as well. There should be some quality riders from the HTC women's outfit that they can grab.
Libertine Seguros said:HTC women are supposedly carrying on, but there will likely be a drop in finances that make some riders available, just like when Nürnberger Versicherung became Team Noris after the Skyter-Shipping pull out.
I note that Shara Gillow is one of the names mentioned - she looks like a really good talent. I have mixed feelings about the move. If GreenEdge are really going to push the women's side of things it's great because she's a good talent and the Australian women are really very good, meaning GreenEdge could really help the sport there. But on the other hand, she's been riding for Bizkaia-Durango this season, a Spanish team who have been ailing a little, and her stage win and day in pink at the Giro Donne was really just the fillip they needed, since that race was a bit of a disaster for them before it even started (the team were hoping to back Anna Sanchis for it, the Spanish climber who made the top 10 of the Giro back in 2008, but after her performances won her a contract with Safi-Pasta Zara, they acrimoniously split in 2009 and she sued the team for unpaid wages; as Pasta Zara were a major sponsor of the Giro, the organisers put pressure on them not to bring her, so they didn't. I don't know where I stand on that since Safi were my favourite women's team, but I also like Sanchis, and don't know what actually caused the rift).
Tuarts said:This post started like any normal post but then by the end it sounded like a high school girl talking about her feelings.
Libertine Seguros said:HTC women are supposedly carrying on, but there will likely be a drop in finances that make some riders available, just like when Nürnberger Versicherung became Team Noris after the Skyter-Shipping pull out.
I note that Shara Gillow is one of the names mentioned - she looks like a really good talent. I have mixed feelings about the move. If GreenEdge are really going to push the women's side of things it's great because she's a good talent and the Australian women are really very good, meaning GreenEdge could really help the sport there. But on the other hand, she's been riding for Bizkaia-Durango this season, a Spanish team who have been ailing a little, and her stage win and day in pink at the Giro Donne was really just the fillip they needed, since that race was a bit of a disaster for them before it even started (the team were hoping to back Anna Sanchis for it, the Spanish climber who made the top 10 of the Giro back in 2008, but after her performances won her a contract with Safi-Pasta Zara, they acrimoniously split in 2009 and she sued the team for unpaid wages; as Pasta Zara were a major sponsor of the Giro, the organisers put pressure on them not to bring her, so they didn't. I don't know where I stand on that since Safi were my favourite women's team, but I also like Sanchis, and don't know what actually caused the rift).
Libertine Seguros said:Nobody understands me. Why doesn't that cute boy with the eyebrow piercing who sits across from me in history class return my gaze? Nobody can ever have felt like I do right now, sat wistfully looking up at my Morrissey poster
Green_&_Gold said:Froome to GE.
Apparently Robbie Hunter's twiiter said something like SKY should have signed Froome but now he is going to greener pastures.
Libertine Seguros said:HTC women are supposedly carrying on, but there will likely be a drop in finances that make some riders available, just like when Nürnberger Versicherung became Team Noris after the Skyter-Shipping pull out.
I note that Shara Gillow is one of the names mentioned - she looks like a really good talent. I have mixed feelings about the move. If GreenEdge are really going to push the women's side of things it's great because she's a good talent and the Australian women are really very good, meaning GreenEdge could really help the sport there. But on the other hand, she's been riding for Bizkaia-Durango this season, a Spanish team who have been ailing a little, and her stage win and day in pink at the Giro Donne was really just the fillip they needed, since that race was a bit of a disaster for them before it even started (the team were hoping to back Anna Sanchis for it, the Spanish climber who made the top 10 of the Giro back in 2008, but after her performances won her a contract with Safi-Pasta Zara, they acrimoniously split in 2009 and she sued the team for unpaid wages; as Pasta Zara were a major sponsor of the Giro, the organisers put pressure on them not to bring her, so they didn't. I don't know where I stand on that since Safi were my favourite women's team, but I also like Sanchis, and don't know what actually caused the rift).
Tuarts said:****ing rubbish. Aussie women have been making plenty of in-roads of late, just because you don't hear about it...
Tuarts said:I never mentioned individual performances. You mentioned women's cycling as a whole had gone down. In 2005 there were 9 Aussie women on pro teams, this year there's 19. There's 7 NRS teams well, were they around back then? And that means women's cycling is ****? Of course I'm going to call bull**** on that. There are plenty of highlights from Aussie women this season if you lower your "expectations". Gillow's victory and day in the pink at Giro Donne comes to mind, have a look at the CQ results from this season too, its littered with wins by Aussie cyclists. Not saying the picture is perfectly rosy or it doesn't need to improve, it does but saying things haven't improved is just plain crap.
Don't call me on my language either, it wasn't an insult directed at you, like you love to do when the shoe is on the other foot when people talk negatively about your man-crush.
ingsve said:With the ronour that Goss might be signing with Sky I think GE will have a hard time getting into the WT unless they have some amazing trick up their sleeve that we haven't heard about. I guess the only thing that would save is that Cav goes to GE instead.
ingsve said:With the ronour that Goss might be signing with Sky I think GE will have a hard time getting into the WT unless they have some amazing trick up their sleeve that we haven't heard about. I guess the only thing that would save is that Cav goes to GE instead.
ingsve said:With the ronour that Goss might be signing with Sky I think GE will have a hard time getting into the WT unless they have some amazing trick up their sleeve that we haven't heard about. I guess the only thing that would save is that Cav goes to GE instead.
clipperton said:what the hell did i miss? please tell me that the "goss not to greenedge" rumour is from the same copybook as the "cavendish not to sky" rumour?
Reverend_T_Preedy said:From what I can work out, they have some decent WT points already. Gerrans-111
Langeveld-50
Bobridge-1
O'Grady-4
Weening-56
Clarke-14
Cooke-3
Wilson-1
Cameron Meyer-106
Vaitkus-2
They have 348 already with more riders to be announced.
ingsve said:With the ronour that Goss might be signing with Sky I think GE will have a hard time getting into the WT unless they have some amazing trick up their sleeve that we haven't heard about. I guess the only thing that would save is that Cav goes to GE instead.