All Time TdF Dream Team
Not sure if this has been done before so apologies if it has. Inspired by listening to the pundits on 5 Live doing their all time UK football team last night - what would be your all time 9 man TdF team? The only restriction I would put is that you can only select one TdF winner to avoid people picking teams consisting of all the great TdF champs!
I'm having a think of mine and will post it shortly.
I'm having a think of mine and will post it shortly.
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Is this just from current riders?0
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No, sorry meant to say all time.0
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Probably showing my age here. You'll see Basso has never won the Tour, hence his inclusion
GC: Merckx
Sprinter - Cavendish
Lead out man - Boonen
Mountains - Virenque, Basso
Domestiques - Wiggins, Voigt, Cancellara
Mentalist - Cipolini
Edit:
DS - Cyrille Guimard0 -
OK.
Merckx #1.
Raymond Poulidor
Zulle.
Cavendish
De Vlaemink
Moser
Cancellara
Luis Herrera
Frank Vandenbroucke (on form)0 -
No place for Sean Kelly?“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0
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TakeTheHighRoad wrote:Probably showing my age here. You'll see Basso has never won the Tour, hence his inclusion
GC: Merckx
Sprinter - Cavendish
Lead out man - Boonen
Mountains - Virenque, Basso
Domestiques - Wiggins, Voigt, Cancellara
Mentalist - Cipolini
Edit:
DS - Cyrille Guimard
Based on my limited knowledge that looks pretty good.
I'm dropping Boonen for Kelly
Cipolini is out - Voight takes the mentalist role
Indurain for Wiggins
Robert Millar in for the Mountains“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
TailWindHome wrote:TakeTheHighRoad wrote:Probably showing my age here. You'll see Basso has never won the Tour, hence his inclusion
GC: Merckx
Sprinter - Cavendish
Lead out man - Boonen
Mountains - Virenque, Basso
Domestiques - Wiggins, Voigt, Cancellara
Mentalist - Cipolini
Edit:
DS - Cyrille Guimard
Based on my limited knowledge that looks pretty good.
I'm dropping Boonen for Kelly
Cipolini is out - Voight takes the mentalist role
Indurain for Wiggins
Robert Millar in for the Mountains
Can't pick Indurain. He's won a tour or two
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Rick Chasey wrote:TailWindHome wrote:TakeTheHighRoad wrote:Probably showing my age here. You'll see Basso has never won the Tour, hence his inclusion
GC: Merckx
Sprinter - Cavendish
Lead out man - Boonen
Mountains - Virenque, Basso
Domestiques - Wiggins, Voigt, Cancellara
Mentalist - Cipolini
Edit:
DS - Cyrille Guimard
Based on my limited knowledge that looks pretty good.
I'm dropping Boonen for Kelly
Cipolini is out - Voight takes the mentalist role
Indurain for Wiggins
Robert Millar in for the Mountains
Can't pick Indurain. He's won a tour or two.
Sorry missed that rule. I was thinking of him purely in the TT specialist role.....
Indurain out then....Cancellara back in.....“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
Surely you would just have Boonen and Kelly with no Cippo? Wouldn't have Wiggins as a domestic though, much rather have Tony Martin.0
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OK here's mine:-
Team Leader - Merckx
Climbers - Luis Herrera, Robert Millar
Sprinter - Zabel (would have had Maertens but think my team leader might object!)
Domestiques - Zoetemelk, Kelly, Voigt, Cancellara, Jalabert
DS - Guimard0 -
Think Guimard is going to have his work cut out with these teams!
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greasedscotsman wrote:Think Guimard is going to have his work cut out with these teams!
Not mine
I'll be the DS thank you very much.0 -
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Rick Chasey wrote:greasedscotsman wrote:Think Guimard is going to have his work cut out with these teams!
Not mine
I'll be the DS thank you very much.
Do you think? Can't see De Vlaemink riding for anyone but De Vlaemink. Or is that the idea?0 -
greasedscotsman wrote:Rick Chasey wrote:greasedscotsman wrote:Think Guimard is going to have his work cut out with these teams!
Not mine
I'll be the DS thank you very much.
Do you think? Can't see De Vlaemink riding for anyone but De Vlaemink. Or is that the idea?
I'll sort him out.0 -
Merckx
Zabel
Cipollini
Virenque
Van Impe
Jalabert
Kelly
Mottet
Durand
Another day I might take Hinault, and make other changes; initially I had 16-17 names.
Durand is there to lighten things up and to take both the combativity prize and the lanterne rouge!0 -
Rick Chasey wrote:RichN95 wrote:Thierry Marie
For the prologue?
and the suicide attacks in the last few kms.
No-one seems to have gone for any controversial choices yet. Shame, would be good to get some arguments going
On the footie one last night they had to pick Best as a striker as he couldn't get a place on the wings!0 -
Pross wrote:Rick Chasey wrote:RichN95 wrote:Thierry Marie
For the prologue?
and the suicide attacks in the last few kms.
And falling off! 0 -
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Rick Chasey wrote:If you want crazy breaks, swap you 2nd best climber for Chiappucci...
He was going to be my original choice until I remembered Herrera.0 -
merckx
hinault
indurain
contador
ja ja
tafi
jens
Marino Lejarreta
armstrong
stuff the sprinter still get all 3 jerseys with that lot
reserve pantani (tooled up)"If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm0 -
mididoctors wrote:merckx
hinault
indurain
contador
ja ja
tafi
jens
Marino Lejarreta
stuff the sprinter still get all 3 jerseys with that lot
reserve pantani (tooled up)
Only one TdF winner Mr :P0 -
More because you need someone who can sit on the front of the peloton for 100km+ day after day.Rick Chasey wrote:RichN95 wrote:Thierry Marie
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RichN95 wrote:
More because you need someone who can sit on the front of the peloton for 100km+ day after day.Rick Chasey wrote:RichN95 wrote:Thierry Marie
For the prologue?
I'll have Moser or De Vlaeminck or Zulle do that for me
. Canc can chip in when he wants to. 0 -
Pross wrote:OK here's mine:-
Team Leader - Merckx
Climbers - Luis Herrera, Robert Millar
Sprinter - Zabel (would have had Maertens but think my team leader might object!)
Domestiques - Zoetemelk, Kelly, Voigt, Cancellara, Jalabert
DS - Guimard
You can't have Merckx and Zoetemelk, both TdF winners! Does nobody read the rules?0 -
Rick Chasey wrote:mididoctors wrote:merckx
hinault
indurain
contador
ja ja
tafi
jens
Marino Lejarreta
stuff the sprinter still get all 3 jerseys with that lot
reserve pantani (tooled up)
Only one TdF winner Mr :P
right..... rolls up sleeves
Merckx
ja ja
kelly
basso
jens
tafi
bugno
chinny
Marino Lejarreta"If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm0 -
knedlicky wrote:Merckx
Zabel
Cipollini
Virenque
Van Impe
Jalabert
Kelly
Mottet
Durand
Another day I might take Hinault, and make other changes; initially I had 16-17 names.
Durand is there to lighten things up and to take both the combativity prize and the lanterne rouge!
Another fail, Van Impe won the TdF in 1976! 0
