"They've got it wrong. They've got to realise that not everybody's Bradley Wiggins. Bradley's got a big... (interrupted by Contador changing bike) ...You've got to remember they've so much success on the track and most of them were training, the team pursuit and team sprinters, were training to the letter. And when it comes to the road, it's so many variables and Bradley Wiggins is only - within the world, you know, 5% of bike riders or even humans - that can take that amount of work and he's come at the right time. Chris Froome is another one that can take the amount of work that Kerrison gives them at Team Sky, the coach there. And not everybody's like that and everybody's different.
I believe the success of the Tour de France and the stage race riders.... they've had tremendous success, and they're producing some great results, but when it comes to the Classics, taking the Classics teams to Tenerife and training them over there hasn't worked but the thing is, Dave Brailsford has taken a chance. He's taken them over there to something that works for stage race riders, and he's taken a chance and it hasn't worked. So, hats off to him for taking that chance but I think he has to put his hands up and say "we got it wrong".
Nobody... very few riders in that Team Sky, apart from possibly Chris Froome, can do the amount of work that Bradley Wiggins has done in the past to win what he has won, and I think the Classics team went out and I believe from the training in Tenerife that one of the most experienced riders that they've got in the Classics team pulled, stopped, stopped the whole team from training on a day and said "this is too hard, we cannot do this." And a lot of the riders have gone into these races feeling jaded. I was in Maastricht at the start of Amstel Gold, and just looking at their faces, it's as if they didn't seem happy, they had a bit of pressure on themselves because every Classic that goes by there's more and more pressure on them.
I had a word with Jon Tiernan-Locke, and he obviously has been doing... learning from these Classics, he's been getting bottles and looking after a lot of good riders. But even himself, he was getting trained by Kerrison but it wasn't doing him any good and over the last few weeks he's decided to change his coach and go to another person, and go back to what was working last year because he believes that the form he had with Endura Racing was better than he is at the moment, so from looking at these different scenarios, yeah there's great champions like Bradley Wiggins but not everybody in Team Sky is Bradley Wiggins and can cope with the training methods there.
I think you have look at when I was a pro and maybe Sean was a pro, and 75% of the work was on feel, 25% was on science, and I think now it's 50-50 but Sky have gone 75 Science and probably 25% on feel and for me I think they have to go back to a bit more on the feel of the riders, and maybe talk to the riders and get them back to enjoying themselves a wee bit more.