Predict RadioShack Tour Team

[Juan Pelota]

This team has a number of climbers...who is going to get the shaft?

Definite, mandatory

1. La
2.Levi
3.Klodi
4.Popo

And then we have climbers ...

Horner
Jani B
Paulinho
Zubeldia (hurt?)

Strongmen

Rast
Steegmans
McCartney
Rosseler
Vaitkus

 

[BYOP88]

Ok probably totally wrong, but I haven't looked at their shortlist for the Tour but here's my guess:


1) Armstrong

2) Leipheimer
3) Kloden
4) Popovych
5) Horner
6) Rubiera
7) Brajkovic

8) Vaitkus
9) Steegmans

Brajkovic only makes it due to Zubeldia being injured, as for 8 and 9 on the team, they'll pick a few riders who are "engines" on the flat and "decent" cobble riders for stage 3.

 

[hrotha]

Without a TTT Vaitkus and Steegmans should be enough for the kind of job they'll be doing, and in a pinch even Klöden could do it. I'm almost inclined to pick Paulinho instead of Brajkovic because bringing Janez in his current condition for the kind of work he'll be doing is such a waste.

 

[Publicus]

Ok probably totally wrong, but I haven't looked at their shortlist for the Tour but here's my guess:


1) Armstrong

2) Leipheimer
3) Kloden
4) Popovych
5) Horner
6) Rubiera
7) Brajkovic

8) Vaitkus
9) Steegmans

Brajkovic only makes it due to Zubeldia being injured, as for 8 and 9 on the team, they'll pick a few riders who are "engines" on the flat and "decent" cobble riders for stage 3.

I don't see Rubiera making the squad. That slot will go to Paulhino. Otherwise, I agree with your list--though I could see Rast taking either Vaitkus or Steegmans' spot.

 

[auscyclefan94]

Whoever guesses correctly gets a syringe from Lance personally.

 

[thehog]

I think the team will be:

Miller
Novtzky
Weasel
A supreme court judge
3 Members of the FBI narcotics division
and 2 jail wardens.

Ok probably totally wrong, but I haven't looked at their shortlist for the Tour but here's my guess:


1) Armstrong

2) Leipheimer
3) Kloden
4) Popovych
5) Horner
6) Rubiera
7) Brajkovic

8) Vaitkus
9) Steegmans

Brajkovic only makes it due to Zubeldia being injured, as for 8 and 9 on the team, they'll pick a few riders who are "engines" on the flat and "decent" cobble riders for stage 3.

 

[Big GMaC]

I think the team will be:

Miller
Novtzky
Weasel
A supreme court judge
3 Members of the FBI narcotics division
and 2 jail wardens.

Miller?

Don't you mean this guy?

 

[thehog]

Miller?

Don't you mean this guy?

LOL! I think thats him. He likes men who shave their legs...

 

[battery89]

Armstrong (c)
8 Minions


JB bringing his tactical prowess and insight on how to best recover from grueling Tour De France stages.

 

[kurtinsc]

Ok probably totally wrong, but I haven't looked at their shortlist for the Tour but here's my guess:


1) Armstrong

2) Leipheimer
3) Kloden
4) Popovych
5) Horner
6) Rubiera
7) Brajkovic

8) Vaitkus
9) Steegmans

Brajkovic only makes it due to Zubeldia being injured, as for 8 and 9 on the team, they'll pick a few riders who are "engines" on the flat and "decent" cobble riders for stage 3.

I'd lean Paulinho over Rubiera... or perhaps over Vaitkus. Maybe Rast instead of either Vaitkus/Steegmans too. He's been better on the cobbles and I really don't think RS cares much about sprinting.

 

[kurtinsc]

I don't see Rubiera making the squad. That slot will go to Paulhino. Otherwise, I agree with your list--though I could see Rast taking either Vaitkus or Steegmans' spot.

Maybe I should have read the whole thread before I responded.

Pretty much what I thought.

 

[Claudiu]

This is my prediction (in alphabetical order):

Armstrong
Brajkovič
Horner
Klöden
Leipheimer
Muravyev
Paulinho
Vaitkus
Zubeldia

 

[Archibald]

I'd lean Paulinho over Rubiera...

kinky


can't see them taking vaitkus for the reasons you mentioned

 

[sublimit]

this is the whole squad incuding support staff-

1.Armstrong

8 other various gullible riders.

15 bodyguards

12 chemists

1 lawyer.

 

[delbified]

i hear FLandis is about to be recruited as a super domestique for LA for the princely sum of agreeing to keep his mouth shut from now on. he's confident that the Shack can provide him with the necessary support for him to regain his form too.

 

[ttrider]

Lance

Levi
Kloden
Horner
Brajkovic
Zubeldia

Popovich
Paulinho
Rast
Rosseler

Solid team playing a classic 4-5-1 with levi and kloden supporting from midfield
Everything goes through the star striker lance so better hope hes on form
Energetic back 4 to ensure the water supply is good

 

[Anonymous]

this is the whole squad incuding support staff-

1.Armstrong

8 other various gullible riders.

15 bodyguards

12 chemists

1 lawyer.

Plus one Twitter consultant

 

[pedaling squares]

this is the whole squad incuding support staff-

1.Armstrong

8 other various gullible riders.

15 bodyguards

12 chemists

1 lawyer.

Where's the doctor? TUE's don't just write themselves overnight.

 

[thehog]

Where's the doctor? TUE's don't just write themselves overnight.

Duffy the bus driver is the Doctor. His p!ss is clean and has similar hand writing to a Doc.

 

[auscyclefan94]

this is the whole squad incuding support staff-

1.Armstrong

8 other various gullible riders.

15 bodyguards

12 chemists

1 lawyer.

Plus a make up artist.

 

[sublimit]

OK i have an updated list after consulting other sources. -

1.Armstrong

8 Various gullible riders

4 Chemists
2 Doctors
1 Nurse
18 Bodyguards
2 Lawyers
1 Twitter/publicity consultant.
1 Make up artist.
1 Cancer specialist

 

[hrotha]

I'm not sure the other 8 riders are that high in the hierarchy.

 

[Oldman]

OK i have an updated list after consulting other sources. -

1.Armstrong

8 Various gullible riders

4 Chemists
2 Doctors
1 Nurse
18 Bodyguards
2 Lawyers
1 Twitter/publicity consultant.
1 Make up artist.
1 Cancer specialist

Lawyers, guns and money. Need more of those.

 

[Oldman]

So Janny Brat just paced with Contador all the way to the finish at le Alpe'. We can assume he has a place on the team. Do you think Brat will be given free rein if LA gets dropped on the first big climb of the Tour? Of course it's a long time away but maybe there's logic behind RS's strategy?

 

[sublimit]

Anything Radioshack achieve at the tour wont be credible, so its not worth thinking about.

I dont think Brajkovic will ride though owing to him likely to upstage Armstrong.