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10-17-20, 01:09 AM
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If you want to be even less confident, I noticed Cav was on the start list. Maybe G-W wasn't the end after all.
The Wolfpack is going to crush it and the only threat is the Pocket Rocket freelancing off their beast of a lead out.
I fear Zulko may have other insights. Dude has been on a run. I need to find that voodoo doll. The good one.
The Wolfpack is going to crush it and the only threat is the Pocket Rocket freelancing off their beast of a lead out.
I fear Zulko may have other insights. Dude has been on a run. I need to find that voodoo doll. The good one.
10-18-20, 03:06 AM
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going with the new rainbow jersey ftw at the ronde altho secretly wondering why i'm not taking the old rainbow jersey mads...
*edit and consequently missed the rider transfer deadlines for both the superclassico and fantasy classics squad games for the ronde. well done.*
*edit and consequently missed the rider transfer deadlines for both the superclassico and fantasy classics squad games for the ronde. well done.*
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10-18-20, 03:22 AM
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I fear you may be right.
In our tight SuperClassico battle, I left MVDP in and passed on Juju because I didn't have enough transfers to make them both work with the budget.
Costly mistake here. I see now I did not swap out Bennett for Mads as planned. Ouch. Too late to change. I find myself rooting for an extraordinary and unlikely cast of characters from a breakaway. I'm going to get slaughtered.
In our tight SuperClassico battle, I left MVDP in and passed on Juju because I didn't have enough transfers to make them both work with the budget.
Costly mistake here. I see now I did not swap out Bennett for Mads as planned. Ouch. Too late to change. I find myself rooting for an extraordinary and unlikely cast of characters from a breakaway. I'm going to get slaughtered.
10-18-20, 03:42 AM
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^you're in waay better shape than myself and my awesum scheldeprijs ronde lineup. i deserve to get pummelled more than usual with those lineups.
10-18-20, 07:24 AM
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Wow. That moto was judge, jury, and executioner.
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^ Don't get me wrong, I'm not blaming the moto. So, yeah, I partially agree.
However, riders don't draft off road furniture and road furniture doesn't slow. The way WVA and MVDP moved past the moto with a swerve out of the draft was different than how they'd pass road furniture. JA is notorious for those glancing passes.
Odd that MVDP also seemed to jerk it, too. He just had a moment's less inattention than JA.
However, riders don't draft off road furniture and road furniture doesn't slow. The way WVA and MVDP moved past the moto with a swerve out of the draft was different than how they'd pass road furniture. JA is notorious for those glancing passes.
Odd that MVDP also seemed to jerk it, too. He just had a moment's less inattention than JA.
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10-18-20, 02:19 PM
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nice finishing sprint ttho...
10-18-20, 02:28 PM
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team Trollstigen takes the superclassico win and team Zizi takes the fantasy classics squad triumph for the ronde van vlaanderen! nice efforts!
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Zulko delivered a spirit-crushing stage win in classics squad. Yikes.
More on the moto... https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/r...s-crash-473090
Cliff notes -- probably shouldn't have been there.
More on the moto... https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/r...s-crash-473090
Cliff notes -- probably shouldn't have been there.
10-19-20, 09:54 PM
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last chance for romance this year with both the supeclassico and fantasy classics squad games...ag driedaagse bruge-de panne is on the 21st and the last race of the season
for fantasy porpoises..gotta go with ewan but taking coquard for second place. mvdp or kristoff for third?
for fantasy porpoises..gotta go with ewan but taking coquard for second place. mvdp or kristoff for third?
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I made my picks. Or, in Classics Squadville, should I say pick since I was down to only one transfer.
It was a hard fought season made less hard by my moment of inattention in Flanders. At least I didn't run into a moto.
I think another obvious win for Ewan and I don't believe there are enough points left on the cutting room floor to hoover up what it will take to catch Zizi Pro. An early chapeau, Zulko. ooga-booga, always a pleasure.
Not sure I'll rise above last in Superclassico, since I gave y'all a bit of a headstart. I'm not counting the noob who torpedoed us all in the last day or two and took last. Honestly, I should similarly be not counted.
I'm pretty damn jazzed that I seem to have finally got the best (worst?) of GrainBrain in la Vuelta. Honestly, I picked to win. Ain't gonna happen. What a topsy-turvy Stage 1!
It was a hard fought season made less hard by my moment of inattention in Flanders. At least I didn't run into a moto.
I think another obvious win for Ewan and I don't believe there are enough points left on the cutting room floor to hoover up what it will take to catch Zizi Pro. An early chapeau, Zulko. ooga-booga, always a pleasure.
Not sure I'll rise above last in Superclassico, since I gave y'all a bit of a headstart. I'm not counting the noob who torpedoed us all in the last day or two and took last. Honestly, I should similarly be not counted.
I'm pretty damn jazzed that I seem to have finally got the best (worst?) of GrainBrain in la Vuelta. Honestly, I picked to win. Ain't gonna happen. What a topsy-turvy Stage 1!
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Congratulations to Trollstigen in Superclassico land
Zizi Pro by a bike throw in Classics Squadville!!
Caleb who? No idea what happened in the race, I only just saw the sterile results on PCS.
Zizi Pro by a bike throw in Classics Squadville!!
Caleb who? No idea what happened in the race, I only just saw the sterile results on PCS.
10-21-20, 03:12 PM
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yeah, Trollstigen slayed it in superclassico in consistent and convincing fashion.
Zizi just beat out X Merckx The Spot in fantasy classics squad.
Trollstigen killed it in the last race-ag driedaagse bdp in superclassico
X Merckx The Spot had quite the ag driedaagse bdp day in fantasy classics squad.
thanks to all that played, saluted and won, crashed and burned or just rode a hard tempo and sheltered others from the wind.
Zizi just beat out X Merckx The Spot in fantasy classics squad.
Trollstigen killed it in the last race-ag driedaagse bdp in superclassico
X Merckx The Spot had quite the ag driedaagse bdp day in fantasy classics squad.
thanks to all that played, saluted and won, crashed and burned or just rode a hard tempo and sheltered others from the wind.
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