DD could be fine, I just think they need a clearout. They've obviously got a fairly limited budget for a WT team, and they've made something of a line in taking on older riders in the hope that their experience will pull them through to results even if they're no longer at their physical peak. This is a sprint lineup which has Eisel (38), Renshaw (36) and Cavendish (34 later this month). Yes, that was once the best lineup money can buy - but that was a decade ago. HTC left the sport in 2011. Lars Ytting Bak is another HTC alumnus, he's 39. Boasson Hagen too - he's 32 later this month and although he's continually been their best results-getter, it's mainly been through placements, smaller stage races and early season events.
Even beyond the HTC alumnus category (the team also previously had Goss, Brammeier, Siutsou and Ciolek), there's an awful stench of "past their best" and "salvage project" about their roster. Cummings is 38. Gasparotto is 37. Even the Janse van Rensburgs, once seen as so promising, are both past 30 and have never kicked on to the level anticipated (especially from Reinart). King had a minor breakout in the Vuelta, but he's still 30. Kreuziger will be 33 on Monday. Wyss is 33. They are hanging a lot of hopes on Valgren (not unreasonably after last season) and Meintjes (who needs to do something this year after a horrible 2018 season to show he is still capable of contending, or at least "on paper" contending since he's never going to do anything more than a placement considering he never attacks and doesn't have a TT weapon to justify that like an Evans or a Leipheimer).
They've got a few young riders, but not that are getting results just yet. They don't seem to have too much in the middle, 25-30 year olds who still have development possibilities but can bridge the generational gap; the young prospects aren't being relied on for results, but it does mean far too much of the core of the team are, realistically, past their best and getting their results on nous rather than brute strength now - and it means they're relegated to stagehunter status most of the time as Cav is no longer a bonanza sprinter, and they have no reliable GC hand.
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