The Secret Pro

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  • lostboysaint
    lostboysaint Posts: 4,250
    I wish I hadn't :(
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  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    It used to be a little bit insightful and a bit funny, now it's neither.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Richmond Racer 2 wrote:
    Can't be arsed to read that made-up blog any more
    Just listen to Australia Fair while reading the Clinic's motorised doping thread and you'll get the gist of it.
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    Well that was just dire...
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  • snowley
    snowley Posts: 149
    This used to be so good, but seems to have been ruined slightly....
  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    snowley wrote:
    This used to be so good, but seems to have been ruined slightly....


    You know how it is

    Season 1 was fun. Good for water cooler chatter

    Season 2 - producers discovered first album syndrome

    Season 3 - main writer had left, leaving a massive gap, to be filled SOMEHOW....panic ensues...sub-standard scripts result

    Season 4 - the show's lost most of its audience, and will limp through this, it's final season
  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,317
    Who starts an article with some damaging negative "issues", disillusionment and insinuation - rather than comment on some of the cracking racing we've already had since the start of the year? For a professional cyclist, that would be a very strange approach towards the sport that pays his wages when he's not whistleblowing, but whingeing. Why be "Secret" for that? If you feel like that about your job, get out!
    And if it's a journo, as widely suspected, he should be ashamed for such awful shite.
    Either way, it's poor.
  • philbar72
    philbar72 Posts: 2,229
    utter dross.
  • ozzzyosborn206
    ozzzyosborn206 Posts: 1,340
    seems to me like that one was written by a aussie conti rider?
  • Shadowrider
    Shadowrider Posts: 483
    Another one, talking about events and saying he saw Demare cheat during MSR.

    http://cyclingtips.com/2016/03/the-secr ... -and-more/
  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    Shadowrider wrote:
    Another one, talking about events and saying he saw Demare cheat during MSR.

    http://cyclingtips.com/2016/03/the-secr ... -and-more/



    And managed to get in an engine-related dig at Cancellara

    Oh balls! I said I'd never again waste time reading this shizz
  • The_Boy
    The_Boy Posts: 3,099
    I'm sure he claims to have shared needles with Lance, too.
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  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,317
    Phew! Cor!!...
    With Paris-Nice slipping away from him, Geraint was on the rack on Col d'Eze..."But Thomas has a massive ability to suffer", says Secret Pro - Unlike any other top cyclist, who would have definitely given up much earlier and not bothered struggling on. It's one of the trademarks of cycling pros that people don't like to talk about, you know: their inability to suffer...
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    This is almost exactly as Rich predicted it would be yes.
    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

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  • Bo Duke
    Bo Duke Posts: 1,058
    Aren't folks taking it all a little too seriously?
    'Performance analysis and Froome not being clean was a media driven story. I haven’t heard one guy in the peloton say a negative thing about Froome, and I haven’t heard a single person in the peloton suggest Froome isn’t clean.' TSP
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Bo Duke wrote:
    Aren't folks taking it all a little too seriously?

    But it's just a completely unoriginal, obviously fake moaning rant. What is it for? What insight does it bring?

    I honestly don't understand why they don't put it out of it's misery.
    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

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  • Bo Duke
    Bo Duke Posts: 1,058
    So is 90% of journalism and most of the posts on this forum mate..... go read the Lance thread! ;-)
    'Performance analysis and Froome not being clean was a media driven story. I haven’t heard one guy in the peloton say a negative thing about Froome, and I haven’t heard a single person in the peloton suggest Froome isn’t clean.' TSP
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    Bo Duke wrote:
    Aren't folks taking it all a little too seriously?

    But it's just a completely unoriginal, obviously fake moaning rant. What is it for? What insight does it bring?

    I honestly don't understand why they don't put it out of it's misery.

    It's truly awful, but presumably it brings in the hits... kerching kerching...
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Bo Duke wrote:
    So is 90% of journalism and most of the posts on this forum mate..... go read the Lance thread! ;-)
    But that's just the problem. It's just like posts on this forum.

    The 'Secret Pro' concept is taken from the 'Secret Footballer' column (right down to the artwork). That column wrote about the things that the football fans didn't and couldn't see. It was a peek behind the curtain of a sport where interviews had become formulaic and cliche ridden. Cycle Sport used to have a column called 'Our man in the bunch' which was similar to the 'Secret Footballer'

    This column however adds nothing. Did you learn anything from reading that column? I didn't. It was just a review of the events of last month that we've all seen with some grievances and snide asides. I can get that from twitter. Kittel wrote far better about crashes, Thomas and Millar's will tell you more about the life of a cyclist, and you'll get better race discussion on this forum.

    And to make it worse, it's dull and horribly written.
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  • smiley_boy2501
    smiley_boy2501 Posts: 126
    I did enjoy it to begin with. Now it's just a rant at the main controversies of the sport.

    Also according to pcs not one Aussie did TDU, Omlop then Paris nice.
  • philbar72
    philbar72 Posts: 2,229
    is it me or is this just spiteful poorly written drivel?
  • Shadowrider
    Shadowrider Posts: 483
    this has Stokes all over it

    http://cyclingtips.com/2016/06/the-secr ... f-respect/
  • yorkshireraw
    yorkshireraw Posts: 1,632
    That's just a re-hash of various comments over the past couple of years about Giro v Tour (hotels, wifi etc), with a good bunch on content ripped off from recent discussions on The Cycling Podcast (riders wages, Coffee) thrown in.
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    What a buncha shoot.

    Love that the only two examples that Wade can mention in the comments section of riders waiting involve Armstrong. Because pro-cycling began and ended with the American.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    dish_dash wrote:
    What a buncha shoot.

    Love that the only two examples that Wade can mention in the comments section of riders waiting involve Armstrong. Because pro-cycling began and ended with the American.
    Prior to Armstrong waiting for Ullrich nobody did it. They might not attack (but they sometimes did), but they never waited.

    Two things to note about Armstrong waiting: 1. He was over 5 minutes ahead of Ullrich on GC. 2. They were 50km and two big climbs away from the finish.

    I can't believe a real pro (outside of Kruijswijk's mates) would expect them to wait when he crashed.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Presumably riders of that era felt sufficiently guilty enough by virtue of the enhanced blood pumping around their body that grand gestures of "waiting" for a "fair" race made them feel a little less guilty.

    Rather like the guilty businessman buying an unnecessary piece of jewellery for the wife on his way home from the brothel.
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  • jimmythecuckoo
    jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,718
    I do agree about Nibs though.
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  • Richmond Racer 2
    Richmond Racer 2 Posts: 4,698
    There's been enough chuntering on social media to get the picture that Nibz is not entirely beloved and cherished amongst the peloton
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Richmond Racer 2 wrote:
    There's been enough chuntering on social media to get the picture that Nibz is not entirely beloved and cherished amongst the peloton

    Of all people, I get the impression he doesn't care all that much.
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