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Thanks for the update!
I'm continuing my stealthy, inconspicious rise in the rankings, this time by being 2nd on the week among the teams without Felline. As a belated reply to your post about riders left out, skidmark, I can mention that Felline was actually someone I really wanted to fit in and thought could be a cool, rare and successful pick I'd cheer a lot for, but in the end I didn't dare. The fact that he's not a proven commodity in the big classics (mostly because he never had the chance) was probably what kept me from picking him. Other than that, he ticks all the boxes for my perfect out-of-left-field CQ pick.
This week looks like it could continue my good trend of sneaky solid results.
Tour of Oman
ARU Fabio
DE PLUS Laurens
PONZI Simone
Aru should be up there, while De Plus, who seems to be in decent shape, should get some GC points by default in this uninspiring field. Ponzi seemingly crashed today, but any points from him would be a bonus anyway. I had wanted Vervaeke here, but at least he's doing Abu Dhabi.
Ruta del Sol
LANDA MEANA Mikel
CAPIOT Amaury
At least some GC points from Landa, but I'm not holding my breath for anything great. With some luck, Capiot will get me 3 points in a sprint stage.
Volta ao Algarve
BENOOT Tiesj
CARAPAZ MONTENEGRO Richard Antonio
GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando
MAS NICOLAU Enric
MACHADO Tiago Jose Pinto
SPILAK Simon
DEGENKOLB John
ROSON GARCIA Jaime
VAN KEIRSBULCK Guillaume
Now Algarve could end up being a boring Martin/Martin/Kwiat/Lulu thing, or one or more of my big bunch of wildcards could brew up some shenanigans. At least it's 2.HC now (part of the reason for my Machado pick, along with TDU's 1.WT. That worked great, didn't it?).
In other, slightly worrying news, Vincenzo Albanese seems to have some knee problems that's delaying his start to the season, and unique pick Julien Simon has bronchitis which caused him to miss the recent Spanish one-dayers. Would likely have been up there in Murcia. Hopefully he's well again for Haut-Var.
I'm continuing my stealthy, inconspicious rise in the rankings, this time by being 2nd on the week among the teams without Felline. As a belated reply to your post about riders left out, skidmark, I can mention that Felline was actually someone I really wanted to fit in and thought could be a cool, rare and successful pick I'd cheer a lot for, but in the end I didn't dare. The fact that he's not a proven commodity in the big classics (mostly because he never had the chance) was probably what kept me from picking him. Other than that, he ticks all the boxes for my perfect out-of-left-field CQ pick.
This week looks like it could continue my good trend of sneaky solid results.
Tour of Oman
ARU Fabio
DE PLUS Laurens
PONZI Simone
Aru should be up there, while De Plus, who seems to be in decent shape, should get some GC points by default in this uninspiring field. Ponzi seemingly crashed today, but any points from him would be a bonus anyway. I had wanted Vervaeke here, but at least he's doing Abu Dhabi.
Ruta del Sol
LANDA MEANA Mikel
CAPIOT Amaury
At least some GC points from Landa, but I'm not holding my breath for anything great. With some luck, Capiot will get me 3 points in a sprint stage.
Volta ao Algarve
BENOOT Tiesj
CARAPAZ MONTENEGRO Richard Antonio
GAVIRIA RENDON Fernando
MAS NICOLAU Enric
MACHADO Tiago Jose Pinto
SPILAK Simon
DEGENKOLB John
ROSON GARCIA Jaime
VAN KEIRSBULCK Guillaume
Now Algarve could end up being a boring Martin/Martin/Kwiat/Lulu thing, or one or more of my big bunch of wildcards could brew up some shenanigans. At least it's 2.HC now (part of the reason for my Machado pick, along with TDU's 1.WT. That worked great, didn't it?).
In other, slightly worrying news, Vincenzo Albanese seems to have some knee problems that's delaying his start to the season, and unique pick Julien Simon has bronchitis which caused him to miss the recent Spanish one-dayers. Would likely have been up there in Murcia. Hopefully he's well again for Haut-Var.
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