Teams & Riders Tadej Pogačar discussion thread

[tobydawq]

Ok, I have a weird theory, is Mou actually Pogi himself trolling everyone? I imagine that any other UAE employee would be too scared to share such sensitive information but to Pogi it would just be a joke

I certainly hope not.

If so, my life already peaked without me realising it.

 

[Salvarani]

I do think they already have their co-leader on the hands or at least lieutenant. Give Jorgenson 1 more year and relief him from some of his duties and he can be a real card (until he isn't anymore ofc, not expecting him to be close at all), but thats the way the wind is blowing. Remember he also crashed.

UIjtebroeks?

Or just get Remco, but he seems Red Bull bound.

 

[Miha81]

Pog will not have any special power bomb compared to 2023, he worked mostly on endurance and long climbs this winter.

Exactly what Pogi said after stage 11. Maybe mou is him

 

[Valv.Piti]

UIjtebroeks?

Or just get Remco, but he seems Red Bull bound.

Nah don't give me Uijtebroeks, he will need so show something first. Matteo has been hella impressive this Tour, like insanely good IMO.

 

[yaf]

I do think they already have their co-leader on the hands or at least lieutenant. Give Jorgenson 1 more year and relief him from some of his duties and he can be a real card (until he isn't anymore ofc, not expecting him to be close at all), but thats the way the wind is blowing. Remember he also crashed.

Jorgenson is no where near those guys level his physiology is different as well with 70+ kilo. What I meant was they need to create another vingegaard to have a chance of competing with this pog and lets be honest this pog aint gonna care about even roglic being co leader

 

[Valv.Piti]

Jorgenson is no where near those guys level his physiology is different as well with 70+ kilo. What I meant was they need to create another vingegaard to have a chance of competing with this pog and lets be honest this pog aint gonna care about even roglic being co leader

You just cant create that lol, nobody is coming close next year apart from maybe Remco

 

[Peyroteo94]

Nah don't give me Uijtebroeks, he will need so show something first. Matteo has been hella impressive this Tour, like insanely good IMO.

I actually think Matteo has been very disappointing.

 

[Rackham]

Jorgenson crashed hard on stage 2.

He said he hurt himself pretty badly so the jury is still out on whether he could have been better here (obviously nowhere near the top 3 but still a little bit closer).

 

[Valv.Piti]

I actually think Matteo has been very disappointing.

You cannot tell me that with a straight face. Jumbo have had him and Kelderman (especially Jorgensen) be on the frontlines on every stage, he has crashed and still climbed brilliantly yesterday (dno what Benoot and especially Tratnik have been doing the entire race tbf). He's a big part of crosswinds attack and defending on the gravel as well..

Put any rider in those circumstances and I doubt they are climbing better than Matteo at this stage outside of riders like Remco and Pog. That crash was no small crash tbf.

 

[Peyroteo94]

You cannot tell me that with a straight face. Jumbo have had him and Kelderman (especially Jorgensen) be on the frontlines on every stage, he has crashed and still climbed brilliantly yesterday (dno what Benoot and especially Tratnik have been doing the entire race tbf). He's a big part of crosswinds attack and defending on the gravel as well..

Put any rider in those circumstances and I doubt they are climbing better than Matteo at this stage outside of riders like Remco and Pog. That crash was no small crash tbf.

Don't tell me you expect him to lose so much time in the mountains.

 

[iBanesto]

 

[James M]

Exactly what Pogi said after stage 11. Maybe mou is him

imagine Nevertheless it all seem to be correct(from whats been told to me and quoted to the point) pretty epic.

Rest day im sure many users here aswell as riders also needs that after what we just witnesssed yesterday.

 

[Miha81]

imagine Nevertheless it all seem to be correct(from whats been told to me and quoted to the point) pretty epic.

Rest day im sure many users here aswell as riders also needs that after what we just witnesssed yesterday.

I concluded that I will go through mou statements after TDF is finished. TBH I was laughing at some of his claims but if we tone down the most outlandish by 10 percent or so I guess most of them came true by now.

 

[James M]

I actually think Matteo has been very disappointing.

He somewhat has actually if you go Dauphine and many expected him to be better than that aswell. I see a pattern here from last TDF too he is obvious strides better than that but so far GT is not his best terrain. Yet atleast. And not saying he has been bad cause I dont think that just think he has been somewhat subpar to expectations from dauphine etc.

 

[Peyroteo94]

These days, it must be a suffer to be a GC rider. They know they can't follow Pogi/Vingo by any instance and their race is just follow Pogi or Vingo's domestiques until they decide to blow the race. His race is just doing a steady tempo until the finish. It must be so dreadful to train so hard and see Pogacar/Vingegaard having more 20/30 watts than them in every single climb.

 

[James M]

I concluded that I will go through mou statements after TDF is finished. TBH I was laughing at some of his claims but if we tone down the most outlandish by 10 percent or so I guess most of them came true by now.

Thats very cool indeed. My takes on stage 14 and 15 when everyone was nervous for a reason i dont understand as the eyes never lies also nothing which showned me anyone would be close to even following him without blowing up couldnt prove to be more right. That he would shatter the best climbing record of all time that was however not what I expected But still was always very logical he would ride away for sure.

You expect to be pure defensive mode from now on cause of the GIro and fear of the fatigue from that or you think he will win more stages? I think he will he doesnt seem to slow down alteast we gotte see a new trajectory first for that to be the case.

 

[James M]

I concluded that I will go through mou statements after TDF is finished. TBH I was laughing at some of his claims but if we tone down the most outlandish by 10 percent or so I guess most of them came true by now.

I dmed Matxin on IG and said lets not sprint on stage 16 would be weird or shall you with evil emoj and he replied lets see with a thumbs up and laughter emoj. Epic

 

[SHAD0W93]

What’s crazier is those posts from March are in the 400s, now we reached 700 in 4 months.

 

[Peyroteo94]

What’s crazier is those posts from March are in the 400s, now we reached 700 in 4 months.

This thread is going wild since 2024. 385 pages in January 1st and six months later we are over 700.

 

[dercuforever]

The guy is winning almost every races he enters. And when he doesn't, he still attacks.
He's winning on almost all terrains.
He trained for long climbs, this may prevent him from winning san Remo but maybe he'll win by sprinting instead of trying to drop them on the Poggio.

 

[SHAD0W93]

Riding 3 GTs a season is for legendary diesel climbers such as Nieve, Mancebo and Sastre.

Kuss

 

[SHAD0W93]

You cannot tell me that with a straight face. Jumbo have had him and Kelderman (especially Jorgensen) be on the frontlines on every stage, he has crashed and still climbed brilliantly yesterday (dno what Benoot and especially Tratnik have been doing the entire race tbf). He's a big part of crosswinds attack and defending on the gravel as well..

Put any rider in those circumstances and I doubt they are climbing better than Matteo at this stage outside of riders like Remco and Pog. That crash was no small crash tbf.

Tratnik performed his roll with flying colors, give Vingegaard his bike when it was needed.

 

[SHAD0W93]

This thread is going wild since 2024. 385 pages in January 1st and six months later we are over 700.

Age of Mou.

 

[James M]

If he wins the Tour im sure it will take off more. Also its the Tour i just joined before doesnt the tour bring the most attention span of the year anyway?

MSR is nice but I rather want him to focus on other things first. Hopefully its more like a side quest than anything else its not that important is it?

 

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