Rough Attempt at an All-Time Ranking

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1 of Pogacars wonderseasons would put him 83rd, in between Kuiper and Heras.
2 of these wonderseasons would put him 27th, in between Maertens/Nibali and ahead of Boonen.

By the way, a ranking putting Cancellara ahead of Boonen is wrong by default, I'm sorry.
 
the specialization era is over
MVDP is a pure classics farmer. Vingegaard thinks 1day racing is an entirely different sport.

Nobody except for Pogacar, Healy, Pidcock and Del Toro have finished in a GT top10 and has any classics results to speak of.

If you look at the top10 in the biggest 1week races you could include Roglic and Ayuso but that's already stretching it imo. Their 1day results haven't been that amazing. Jorgenson maybe?
Skjelmose and Evenepoel, yes.

But I suppose there have always GC guys who are decent in the Ardennes-style classics.
 
MVDP is a pure classics farmer. Vingegaard thinks 1day racing is an entirely different sport.

Nobody except for Pogacar, Healy, Pidcock and Del Toro have finished in a GT top10 and has any classics results to speak of.

If you look at the top10 in the biggest 1week races you could include Roglic and Ayuso but that's already stretching it imo. Their 1day results haven't been that amazing. Jorgenson maybe?
Skjelmose and Evenepoel, yes.

But I suppose there have always GC guys who are decent in the Ardennes-style classics.

Pog and Remco have no issues switching from GC to 1 day racing. Even Rog had some success though he's becoming ancient these days. Skejlmose as well

Even Del Toro has shown success in both

Most of the top guys not named Vingo no longer specialize
 
RVV is nearly flat? Flat cobbles....
Only one of the other mentioned riders has ever performed well in Mathieu's preferred races.
Yeah, there's only one current rider who doesn't fit in the specialist era. How are Skjelmose, Roglic or even Evenepoel less "specialists" than Cunego, Dan Martin, Valverde or Nibali? Andy Schleck and Tyler Hamilton have double the combined monuments vs Skjelmose-Roglic.
 
Remco’s not a ‘specialist’ per se - he is equally adept at one day races particularly the longer ones, indeed in my view relatively better at those than GTs. The fact he has not done RVV or Roubaix does not mean he is a specialist.

I would not class some of the others mentioned as sepcialist either like Cunego, martin or a Nibali too.