Team Ineos Discussion thread

[Phillip O'Garner]

Seems Yates was a DNF which suggests a problem.

 

[Escarabajo]

LOL at Ineos dominating the races this weekend. For all the criticism that they get they are delivering.

 

[JRanton]

LOL at Ineos dominating the races this weekend. For all the criticism that they get they are delivering.

There is no excuse for them not to be delivering. Their team is ridiculously talented from the top to the bottom of their roster and even if they don’t have a Pogacar, Roglic, Van Aert or MVDP they should still get plenty of good results.

 

[del1962]

Lot of diffferent winners this season

Kwiat
Martinez
Ganna
Sheffield
Hayter
Tullett
Dunbar
Carapaz
Viviani
Rodriguez

Plus Plapp if wa include National Championships

 

[Lequack]

They're on a roll

 

[KZD]

Ineos will have a scary team both for cobbled and hilly classics in 2-3 years. Impressive win by Sheffield today

 

[Skijumper Roglic fan]

Have a look at Ineos‘ April so far: two stage wins and GC victory in Basque Country. Victories at Amstel and Brabantse Pijl.

Brailsford will be more than satisfied.

 

[Savant12]

Sheffield and Turner have done an awful lot of work so far this season. Can they keep their form going into Roubaix or will all their hard efforts start to catch up with them?

 

[Lequack]

Ineos is the new Quicktep thread

After the race

 

[solo80k]

So powerful classics squad...

 

[SafeBet]

Time to wrap up the classic season with wins in both FW and LBL.

 

[Phillip O'Garner]

The board will explode when Martinez wins Fleche and Pidcock tidies up LBL.

 

[Mayomaniac]

In hinsight Van Baarle was the clear cut leader from the start. When the initial split happened he was the only Ineos rider in the front group who wasn't working.

 

[hayneplane]

3 classics in a row rounding off with a monument is remarkable and an incredibly long way from the first few years where they dominated stage racing but looked lost in the 1 day races.

Could even be extended as there have a Puncheurs chance (pun intended) in Flèche and several strong cards in good form for LBL.

 

[Escarabajo]

The Tour team looking better and better. We couldn't say this at the beginning of the year but looking at the team:
Thomas,
Yates,
Martinez,
Ganna,
Van Baarle,
Kwiat,
Castroviejo,
Fraile,
Rowe,
Tao,

And maybe they decide to take Carlos Rodriguez for the learning. I don't know who else can they pre-select that is worth mentioning here.

 

[ppanther92]

The Tour team looking better and better. We couldn't say this at the beginning of the year but looking at the team:
Thomas,
Yates,
Martinez,
Ganna,
Van Baarle,
Kwiat,
Castroviejo,
Fraile,
Rowe,
Tao,

And maybe they decide to take Carlos Rodriguez for the learning. I don't know who else can they pre-select that is worth mentioning here.

But on the top end I do not think they can really contend for the win. Actually, I give Martinez now kind of the best shot at a podium. Not sold by Yates and Thomas (any more).

 

[tobydawq]

Apparently, they will be sending a squad of zombies to the Giro!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1520025725574729728

View: https://twitter.com/INEOSGrenadiers/status/1520025725574729728/photo/1

 

[RedheadDane]

So... Cofidis are vampires, and now it turns out Ineos are zombies...

 

[Samu Cuenca]

So... Cofidis are vampires, and now it turns out Ineos are zombies...

I don't believe they are. Otherwise they would have kept Froome around

 

[saunaking]

I still cannot understand what they did with Porte on Blockhaus. Right now he could easily be sitting top 10, a massive threat to the other teams and
looming in the final ITT where he should gain massive time on every GC guy except Almeida

What did they expect to happen on blockhaus? Carapaz ride the 10 other GC guys off his wheel and get 30s ?
That would have been absolute dream scenario and not too likely and even that isn't worth junking Porte.
Porte was sooo strong on that stage!

If Porte has his eventual bad day so be it but at least use him until that happens instead of having him blast into a headwind until he explodes

 

[Phillip O'Garner]

Porte and Sivakov are being wasted.

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Under the radar a bit because of the Jumbo shitshow but what a pathetic display today. Not only being put into the dirt by Bora and daddy Pogacar once again but taking ages to contribute to the chase. Thomas never putting his nose into the wind and totally relying on Van Aert to bring them back. Can't wait for pointless trains in the mountains that do nothing.
Very glad Hindley wiped the floor with them in the Giro.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Under the radar a bit because of the Jumbo shitshow but what a pathetic display today. Not only being put into the dirt by Bora and daddy Pogacar once again but taking ages to contribute to the chase. Thomas never putting his nose into the wind and totally relying on Van Aert to bring them back. Can't wait for pointless trains in the mountains that do nothing.
Very glad Hindley wiped the floor with them in the Giro.

On the other hand Dani Martinez only lost time to Pogacar (12sec only) on the one stage that I was the most worried about. At least for him that's a good day.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Pathetic performance IMO, especially by Thomas. GC-riders being allergic to the wind in stages like this is beyong stupid. They got bailed incredibly hard out by Jumbo today, otherwise they were already done for.

 

[Bonimenier]

Somewhat lucky today, but they probably can be quite happy. All 3 GC contenders finishing in the first peloton.