They literally had nothing to lose by letting Kruijswijk react to LandaBrullnux said:Roglic isn't going for the win, people have to accept different teams have different motives. A podium is still a great result.Forever The Best said:LottoNL is pathetic.
Krusiwijk could have gone with Landa for that.Brullnux said:Roglic isn't going for the win, people have to accept different teams have different motives. A podium is still a great result.Forever The Best said:LottoNL is pathetic.
Brullnux said:Imagine how much more exciting this race would be if Thomas only had one, or even two, domestiques instead of five.TourOfSardinia said:
Put yourself in the Lotto DS' shoes. You have a rider 6s off the podium. Now a rider, who isn't as good of a TTer, granted, but can still perhaps come good or gain more time, potentially a minute and half in front of you. Do you a) hope sky pull him back, even if he isn't a threat to the win unless he's 1 mins ahead or b) work and make sure he doesn't take your place. I'm surprised they're only working now.red zone said:why the **** is Lotto doing Sky's work for them ?
does Sir Dave get on the and offer cash for the support ?
Sorry would've been too busy hanging by head in shame after the disaster that was the Tourmalet tactics.Brullnux said:Put yourself in the Lotto DS' shoes. You have a rider 6s off the podium. Now a rider, who isn't as good of a TTer, granted, but can still perhaps come good or gain more time, potentially a minute and half in front of you. Do you a) hope sky pull him back, even if he isn't a threat to the win unless he's 1 mins ahead or b) work and make sure he doesn't take your place. I'm surprised they're only working now.red zone said:why the **** is Lotto doing Sky's work for them ?
does Sir Dave get on the and offer cash for the support ?
Agreed; but they don't have him there. So now objectively the best thing to do is work.Red Rick said:They literally had nothing to lose by letting Kruijswijk react to LandaBrullnux said:Roglic isn't going for the win, people have to accept different teams have different motives. A podium is still a great result.Forever The Best said:LottoNL is pathetic.
Red Rick said:Majka has no reason to work.rick james said:Poor from Majka
bob.a.feet said:If Thomas cracks there would be a really interesting situation
Sky has 2 people on the podium including the race leader , the onus is on them to pull the breakaway back and which will also help lotto .Brullnux said:Put yourself in the Lotto DS' shoes. You have a rider 6s off the podium. Now a rider, who isn't as good of a TTer, granted, but can still perhaps come good or gain more time, potentially a minute and half in front of you. Do you a) hope sky pull him back, even if he isn't a threat to the win unless he's 1 mins ahead or b) work and make sure he doesn't take your place. I'm surprised they're only working now.red zone said:why the **** is Lotto doing Sky's work for them ?
does Sir Dave get on the and offer cash for the support ?
Less than 80 km, so it wont work.bigcog said:bob.a.feet said:If Thomas cracks there would be a really interesting situation
If that happens they have to set Froome free :lol:
Red Rick said:According to Thijs Zonneveld, Sagan and his Bora buddies usually try to make mountain stages fun by doing little descending matches, which is where it went wrong.