Teams & Riders Team Visma - Lease a Bike

[Dekker_Tifosi]

their C team didn't do that bad considering. Van Dijke's were quite a revelation. Just a bit inexperienced and unlucky. Ofcourse the inexperience in finales mainly comes from them having to ride very early usually..

 

[rokovski]

Yup, they will loan Rogla only for the Tour! Bora will get some pocket money for it and Hindley will lead the team. Everybody happy.

With Roglic they got everything, despite he crashing everywhere, everytime, without him they will not get nothing, karma is a bit€h.

 

[scribers]

They got Cian. What's the problem?

 

[Rob5091]

Visma looking very plain without Roglic, WvA & Vinge
"Once again we did everything we could." - Grischa Niermann

 

[Bolder]

Visma looking very plain without Roglic, WvA & Vinge
"Once again we did everything we could." - Grischa Niermann

They sure are. Those guys were good for 20 wins a year or more. They’ve also had injuries to Laporte and Van Baarle. If everyone was healthy they’d be doing just fine, I think. (Jury is still out on Cian as a replacement for Roglic.)

 

[Red Rick]

They sure are. Those guys were good for 20 wins a year or more. They’ve also had injuries to Laporte and Van Baarle. If everyone was healthy they’d be doing just fine, I think. (Jury is still out on Cian as a replacement for Roglic.)

Riders of Roglic' quality generally aren't remotely replacable, apart from fantasyland where Pogacar or Evenepoel are available.

 

[Froome]

Jorgenson replaced decently Roglic until now.

The problem was the issues of the classic guys, WVA, van baarle and Laporte, and the crash of Vingegaard.

Jorgenson and Vingegaard won TA, PN, O gran camino, E3 saxo classic, travers la flandres.

 

[Berniece]

Visma looking very plain without Roglic, WvA & Vinge
"Once again we did everything we could." - Grischa Niermann

Every team looks plain without their 3 best riders

 

[samhocking]

It's often the pattern, lose your big GC or one day leader abruptly and the team dynamic is affected. The problem Jumbo have on the GC side is they don't have anyone almost as strong as Vingo anymore with Roglic gone. Kind of the same situation Ineos were in after Bernal but they don't really have a Thomas or Tao to soften the loss in GC. At least Vingo should be back next year 100%, I don't feel it will be a multi-year recovery like Bernal has taken,

 

[Rob5091]

If they keep crashing at this rate, they'll be down to the dev team for the Tour.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

• Vingegaard: bad crash
• Van Aert: Bad crash
• Kooij: sick in giro
• Benoot: started season with a fracture
• Laporte: sick in spring + giro
• Uijtdebroecks: sick in giro
• Kelderman: Paris Nice crash
• Lemmen: fractured collarbone
• Van Baarle: sick in spring classics
• Gesink: crash in giro
• Per Strand Hagenes: crash in E3
• Gloag: hit by car end of last season

At this point I fully expect half their Tour team to get kidnapped by Aliens and their Vuelta team gets sucked in by a black hole into another dimension

 

[tobydawq]

• Vingegaard: bad crash
• Van Aert: Bad crash
• Kooij: sick in giro
• Benoot: started season with a fracture
• Laporte: sick in spring + giro
• Uijtdebroecks: sick in giro
• Kelderman: Paris Nice crash
• Lemmen: fractured collarbone
• Van Baarle: sick in spring classics
• Gesink: crash in giro
• Per Strand Hagenes: crash in E3
• Gloag: hit by car end of last season

At this point I fully expect half their Tour team to get kidnapped by Aliens and their Vuelta team gets sucked in by a black hole into another dimension

Didn't Tratnik also lose a couple of spring classics due to sickness?

 

[Monte Serra]

Visma going full-on Sky by designating a swim coach as replacement for Merijn Zeeman. Jacco Verhaeren has previously led the Dutch and Australian Olympic swimming teams, resulting in several gold medals. He has been involved with Jumbo/Visma in an advisory roll since last season. Verhaeren will act as technical director, with Grischa Niermann and Mathieu Heijboer as his deputies.

He's probably a capable person, but he lacks the hands-on experience in cycling that Zeeman had.

https://www.wielerflits.nl/nieuws/z...pvolger-merijn-zeeman-bij-visma-lease-a-bike/