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Stephens is not the DS at this race. its Lapage.
Lovely to have 20/20 hindsight, he was certainly strong in the Ardennes but its only really Liege where arguably he should've been given license to ride for himself. Albasini was in the move that mattered at Amstel and Kreiziger has never been top 10 at Fleche. Would he have finished higher than both Albasini and/or AY ?? Can only be supposition on our part but perhaps he SHOULD've been given the chance.
DO we know for certain that he was going to be riding Suisse then got "yanked" into Dauphine ... or is this again supposition ? Dauphine is where most teams are looking to get things working (esp between key components) of their Tour line-ups; given that Kreuziger WAS signed with the understanding that he'd be in the Tour line-up then it makes sense that he is there rather than Suisse given this is his first year at this team and he had 0 race miles with Chaves beforehand.
COULD he have been better employed at this race ?? Again, in 20/20 hindsight .... yes. Ideally you may've sent him up the road in today's main break with a message "if its good, go for it" but the problem was that whilst both Chaves & SY lost time the previous day, they weren't disastrous haemorrages of major time that took them way out of top 10 calculations. NOW we know that Chaves is looking better if still someway off his top whilst SY is definitely not on form. As it was today it was clearly NOT the case that Kreuziger was keeping an ailing SY company given they finished over 3 min apart.
yaco said:Think he is in decent shape but is being held back helping a struggling S.Yates - I suspect he will ride better and get more opportunities under DS White who allows his riders more freedom - DS Stephens is all for the leader -AFAIK Kreuziger was never riding Suisse.
Stephens is not the DS at this race. its Lapage.
Frankschleck said:I really feel that orica held him back in the spring classics, where especcially in liege, he looked like the strongest after valverde.
Lovely to have 20/20 hindsight, he was certainly strong in the Ardennes but its only really Liege where arguably he should've been given license to ride for himself. Albasini was in the move that mattered at Amstel and Kreiziger has never been top 10 at Fleche. Would he have finished higher than both Albasini and/or AY ?? Can only be supposition on our part but perhaps he SHOULD've been given the chance.
Kokoso said:Well I thought it would be good for him to be a mentor and worker for others and have his chances here and there. I hope he'll get stage hunter, too. If De Gendt can be succesful stage hunter, Kreuziger could be too and even better, cause I consider him better of the two. Problem is, unlike De Gendt, until now everybody is alert when Kreuziger gets to the break. Just it's a bit frustrating seeing him work for guys who undeperform and he could get that results as well.
Forgot about Tour de Suisse which he was designed to lead by Orica but Orica (once again) put him in service for Yates and Chaves at Dauphine (where both are bad until now at least). I am not sure Orica acts clever towards Kreuziger, looks like they're acting way you don't want to make friends. When you say something (or even promise) you should fulfil that. Obviously he's professional so he'll do what he's told to do, but that doesn't exclude him possibly being unhappy with the way Orica are treating him. Already he might have reason know. BUt maybe changing programme to Dauphine was mutual.
DO we know for certain that he was going to be riding Suisse then got "yanked" into Dauphine ... or is this again supposition ? Dauphine is where most teams are looking to get things working (esp between key components) of their Tour line-ups; given that Kreuziger WAS signed with the understanding that he'd be in the Tour line-up then it makes sense that he is there rather than Suisse given this is his first year at this team and he had 0 race miles with Chaves beforehand.
COULD he have been better employed at this race ?? Again, in 20/20 hindsight .... yes. Ideally you may've sent him up the road in today's main break with a message "if its good, go for it" but the problem was that whilst both Chaves & SY lost time the previous day, they weren't disastrous haemorrages of major time that took them way out of top 10 calculations. NOW we know that Chaves is looking better if still someway off his top whilst SY is definitely not on form. As it was today it was clearly NOT the case that Kreuziger was keeping an ailing SY company given they finished over 3 min apart.