Who should Sky be trying to hire?

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  • paulcuthbert
    paulcuthbert Posts: 1,016
    iainf72 wrote:
    Maybe I should rephrase it - Who should they be targeting realistically now? So Roche is out of the question

    They'd like Cavendish but methinks he's happy where he is...

    I doubt Cavendish will go anywhere without a) a team built around winning him stages (doesn't fit with Sky's "let's have a Brit win the Tour" philosophy) and b) Mark Renshaw
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  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    andyp wrote:
    Have Sky announced if they are taking on any stagiares this season? If so, any idea who?
    Nope, none, 0, nothing: http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/sta ... a-lifetime
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Uran and Kyrienka set to join Sky next year

    And Stevo....

    Seriously
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    Pathetic.

    Once again talk is proven to be cheap.
  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    iainf72 wrote:
    Uran and Kyrienka set to join Sky next year

    And Stevo....

    Seriously

    Sevo? Who dat?
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  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    Morabito?
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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    Neil Stephens.
  • stagehopper
    stagehopper Posts: 1,593
    edited August 2010
    Neil Stephens as a DS ...
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  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    stagehopper wrote:
    Neil Stephens is a DS ...

    Oh, yeah.. Duh. Still early for me.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    iainf72 wrote:
    Uran and Kyrienka set to join Sky next year

    And Stevo....

    Seriously
    RichN95 wrote:
    If Caisse dE folds then I'd look at Uran and Kiryienka.

    Where's my finder's fee Dave?
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  • stefrees
    stefrees Posts: 137
    Matt rendell will be chuffed with signing if uran
  • avoidingmyphd
    avoidingmyphd Posts: 1,154
    stefrees wrote:
    Matt rendell will be chuffed with signing if uran
    If he ever gets off his backside and records another real peloton, he'll be able to tell us himself :wink:
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    iainf72 wrote:
    Uran and Kyrienka set to join Sky next year

    And Stevo....

    Seriously
    Why don't they just sign Ricco, Rasmussen and outbid Lampre to get hold of Scarponi? Maybe they could entice Holzer out of his new classroom. And why not give Schumacher the fresh start he wants as well.
  • smithy21
    smithy21 Posts: 2,204
    The Stephens connection is incorrect according to the interview with Dave in the Times today.

    On another note I had a dream last night that Sky signed LA, Kloden, Leipheimer and me. I regret that I will not be able to provide the required support in the mountains to Brad.
  • ms_tree
    ms_tree Posts: 1,405
    I was listening to Brian Smith during the Tour de Pologna - great co-commentator and very informative - they should use him more - and he was saying along the lines of British riders all hoping to go to Sky they need to go abroad to get experience. Similar to what Russell Williams used to say pre Sky.
    I can't see Bob Stapleton giving in over Cavendish - he's willier that that! not like Vaughters did - but then he's probably laughing all the way to the bank now! :)
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  • moray_gub
    moray_gub Posts: 3,328
    FJS wrote:
    andyp wrote:
    Have Sky announced if they are taking on any stagiares this season? If so, any idea who?
    Nope, none, 0, nothing: http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/sta ... a-lifetime

    Daniel Teklehaymanot ....quite interested to to see how this guy goes cant think of too many pro cyclists from Eritrea.
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  • mroli
    mroli Posts: 3,622
    From what I've seen of the Sky leadout train recently, it is Renshaw AND Cavendish that they really need - everything looks great from about 2.5km out and falls to pieces with 800m to go....
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  • rapid_uphill
    rapid_uphill Posts: 841
    Jakob Fuglsang is an awsome talent, i would like to see him on Sky.
  • pedro118118
    pedro118118 Posts: 1,102
    rapid_uphill wrote:
    Jakob Fuglsang is an awsome talent, i would like to see him on Sky.

    He's exactly the type of rider they need, but would thing he'll be following the Schlecks out of Riis Cycling. They need some proper climbing domestiques if they are to go full-on with Wiggo at the Tour next year. Although, that's why DB signed the likes of Cioni, Pauwells, Augustyn etc, but didn't work out for them for whatever reason.

    I think Cav's a non-starter - he's happy, well-paid and crucially, very successful, where he is. He's better off staying where he's the focus of attention and winning, rather than a sprinting side show. Plus, I'n not sure the dynamic of having Cav/Wiggo in the same team would work at all.
  • Hibbs
    Hibbs Posts: 291
    Ms Tree wrote:
    I was listening to Brian Smith during the Tour de Pologna - great co-commentator and very informative - they should use him more - and he was saying along the lines of British riders all hoping to go to Sky they need to go abroad to get experience. Similar to what Russell Williams used to say pre Sky.
    I can't see Bob Stapleton giving in over Cavendish - he's willier that that! not like Vaughters did - but then he's probably laughing all the way to the bank now! :)

    There needs to be a UK based continental team to act as feeder to Sky, and give Brailsford's favoured youngsters experience, like the Rabobank/Livestrong squads. Can Sky not chop a million or so from their budget and put that into a Sky 2 HD continental team or something?

    Would also help with the Worlds, we might then have 6 riders this year instead of 3.
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Riders have gone abroad but only because they were dropped from the British programme. Dan Martin is the classic example, he didn't score in the lab test and so he went to a big amateur squad in the south of France, won some big elite races and turned pro.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    There's a GB development squad based in Tuscany, which has previously had the likes of Cavendish, Bellis and Kennaugh riding for it. Any rider doing well with them is likely to be earmarked for Sky.
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Yes, this is part of road and endurance track squad but from what I gather, riders only do short stints with it, they rotate in and out. But BC does keep the riders under its wing and nurtures its riders, the massive funding into the track has generated a lot of the success of recent riders, eg Wiggins, Thomas, Cavendish etc.

    The days of riders buying a one way ticket to France, Belgium or Italy are over.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Martin - very good talent. No where near the rubbish numbers types approach coming from BC. By his own admission he rides by feel (see first page of Pure Climbers thread for more info)

    Roche - more French then UK. Very good rider and successful.

    Sky and BC still have a lot to learn.

    5 pages Sky transfer speculation..................they still manage to draw interest
    Just like them to be tight-lipped about who they are signing if at all whereas every other team has no problems talking about it.
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  • dulldave
    dulldave Posts: 949
    frenchfighter wrote:

    Roche - more French then UK. Very good rider and successful.

    Given that he has a French mum and an Irish dad that should be a no-brainer really. He's more French than Russian as well. :D
    Scottish and British...and a bit French
  • jimmythecuckoo
    jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,718
    Despite agreeing with some of the early season cynicism of the team I am now warming to them.

    Yeah they are doing things differently but that is their perogative. Just because procycling has always been done a certain way doesn't make it right.

    I think this season will have been a real wake up call for Dave B and his team. They cannot just waltz into the top tier of the sport and win without experience.

    I might just add to the plague of Team Sky jersies on the roads at this rate (although I have just lashed out for this http://www.prendas.co.uk/details.asp?ID=2735
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  • avoidingmyphd
    avoidingmyphd Posts: 1,154
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Just like them to be tight-lipped about who they are signing if at all whereas every other team has no problems talking about it.
    You're pretty selective about which rules of cycling you approve of aren't you FF?
  • moray_gub
    moray_gub Posts: 3,328
    frenchfighter wrote:
    M

    Sky and BC still have a lot to learn.

    .

    and you are just the man to tell them where they are going wrong eh :roll:
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  • eh
    eh Posts: 4,854
    Well lack of a proven race winner would be an obvious start, that doesn't matter whether they are a GT rider, sprinter or all rounder, but you have to have someone. Instead Sky bought two leaders in Wiggins and Flecha who consistently don't win much.

    Thinking about the BC / Sky thing, BC because of the track funding really don't bring through riders who are going to go on and be GT contenders or climbers. BC riders are much better suited to classics, but for some reason the Sky mangement didn't take the classics all that seriously.
  • bobbymeister
    bobbymeister Posts: 186
    That rather depends on your definition of seriously.
    If winning Het Neuiwsblad, having a podium in E3 and riding half a day on the front in Flanders wasn't serious then no, they weren't serious.

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