Libertine Seguros said:
Maybe Cavendish was scared that Greipel's willingness to work, get on the front and suffer for teammates meant Cavendish may one day be asked to do it.
Let's face it, they've had Kirchen, Rogers, Velits and Martin all being asked to lead Cav out, so why shouldn't he be asked to take the reins at the bottom of a climb, even if it's just for 200m? In the 2010 Giro, Ale-Jet led out on the bottom of one of the big mountains for Cunego...
A thread on OPL and 2 pages in and it somehow turns into another Cav bashing session.
There's a single good reason why Cav doesn't do any work for anybody else. It's got nothing to do with whether Cav wants to work or not. It's because his DS doesn't want him to. Quite simple. Damn right too. If I had a guy who could win 20 TdF stages in 4 years, I'd only EVER have him ride into the wind for 200m at the end of a race.
With respect to Griepel and a 2010 version of Petacchi (who I'm sure you realise didn't win a stage in that Giro), they don't come with that guarantee, so they have to earn their keep elsewhere.
Anyway, to answer the point you responded to, I think Cav and Griepel have grown up and realised that, now they're on different teams, they actually quite like and respect each other. I think that was evident in the Tour.
And to answer the OP, I think that OPL team looks very light on potential wins.