Parker said:
I don't think it's that they don't have those types, they just don't have enough to string it out day after day. Oliveira, Amador and Erviti aren't a bad trio to have in terms of that kind of skillset. Certainly shouldn't be any worse than at least Rowe, Knees or Stannard, and I'd say Amador is a good match for Kiryienka at this point in the Belarusian's career, though, like Szmyd before him, his reputation is such that it discourages attacks even if you could get away from the speed he's tapping out. It's not like Luke Rowe or Christian Knees are some kind of fearsome domestiquing superpower even if Rowe has led the péloton up some huge climbs in the Tour - it's no different to when Edvald Boasson Hagen was doing it, or Grégory Rast led the bunch over the Tourmalet in 2009. The gap is the Moscons and Kwiatkowskis, guys who are huge powers on the flat and still breathing through their noses while blocking the big attacks in the mountains too, who can control it between the mountains in the valleys meaning the team can afford to drill the mountains early and not worry about losing rouleurs. That's the area Movistar and Mitchelton-Scott lack compared to Sky. Movistar have plenty of mountain help but they lost a lot in that middle ground - they need riders to play the role Rubén Plaza, Jesús Herrada or the Izagirre brothers did.MatParker117 said:
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