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  • sloppyschleckonds
    sloppyschleckonds Posts: 8,019
    Queen stage today, think they've got a couple of hills nearly as big as Box Hill today.
    I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,596
    What's Queenie got do with it? Pesky Royals. They interfere with everything.

    I just nipped to the Kharzi and all hell breaks loose.
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  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    Pinno wrote:
    What's Queenie got do with it? Pesky Royals. They interfere with everything.

    I just nipped to the Kharzi and all hell breaks loose.

    Livened things up a bit, what? Didn't see it myself, but I'll pass my ill advised comments on it anyway. Poor Tom, expensive shite that may turn out to be.

    I'm assuming that Nibs stared it all and that old granny Nairo had no option but to follow. Am I right? Do I care?
  • sloppyschleckonds
    sloppyschleckonds Posts: 8,019
    Anyone stopped for a sh!t today?
    I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles
  • hopkinb
    hopkinb Posts: 7,129
    Garry H wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    What's Queenie got do with it? Pesky Royals. They interfere with everything.

    I just nipped to the Kharzi and all hell breaks loose.

    Livened things up a bit, what? Didn't see it myself, but I'll pass my ill advised comments on it anyway. Poor Tom, expensive shite that may turn out to be.

    I'm assuming that Nibs stared it all and that old granny Nairo had no option but to follow. Am I right? Do I care?

    Zakarin started it, Nibbles and Teeny had a quick chat, then followed Zakarin anyway.
  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    Knew there had ti be a pesky russian involved. HeRd that konyshev told him to curb his enthusiasm.
  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    Good stage today, oui?
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,596
    Mais oui. All very French. Rolland went all Virenque. Wegelius had a wobbly bottom lip and Flecha bubbled up.

    Lesson 1 in how to be caught out:

    1. When in a biggish group and someone attacks, do nothing, expect someone else to chase.
    2. Don't work together to bring him back.
    3. Follow wheels.
    4. Don't take a headwind in the face, it will tire you out.

    Simples.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,553
    Good work by Rolland's wing man.
    Messed the group up perfectly.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    Tom to lose pink tha morras.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,596
    PBlakeney wrote:
    Good work by Rolland's wing man.
    Messed the group up perfectly.

    He did but he could not have done it if there was sufficient motivation and input form the others. How many in that group?

    Tom might loose pink but there's another TT. I think he would be happy to loose say 1 min to NQ and slightly less to Nibs.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,553
    Pinno wrote:
    PBlakeney wrote:
    Good work by Rolland's wing man.
    Messed the group up perfectly.

    He did but he could not have done it if there was sufficient motivation and input form the others. How many in that group?

    Tom might loose pink but there's another TT. I think he would be happy to loose say 1 min to NQ and slightly less to Nibs.
    All true what you say there.
    One bad apple can spoil a barrel, and a peloton is fairly rotten in the first place. :lol:
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • sloppyschleckonds
    sloppyschleckonds Posts: 8,019
    Garry H wrote:
    Tom to lose pink tha morras.

    I don't make predictions, never have and never will.
    I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,596
    The GC guys will have only tomorrow to put a gap iton TD.
    Nice bit of posturing by him today. If he wins, he'll be a worthy winner.

    Poor old Landa. Will he ever learn?
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  • hopkinb
    hopkinb Posts: 7,129
    Good stage I thought for TD. He looks strong. If Nibbles and teeny wont race a massive Dutch guy up a hill they deserve to lose. I have a reasonably large e/w bet on Pinot at 15-1 so a goodish day for me. Come on the French underachiever...
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,553
    Today was the day that Tom became a major contender to be the best of this generation.
    If not the day he simply became the main man of this generation.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    Garry H wrote:
    Tom to lose pink tha morras.

    I meant tha morras.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,596
    PBlakeney wrote:
    Today was the day that Tom became a major contender to be the best of this generation.
    If not the day he simply became the main man of this generation.

    I'm wondering if he contests the TdF next year if he wins the Giro.

    With all due respect to Jungels, I am happy about Yates being in white. It's only 18 seconds but he is such a likeable guy. Think Jungles might take it back in the TT. We'll see,

    Rob Hatch however...
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  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    Jungels has a stupid head.
  • sloppyschleckonds
    sloppyschleckonds Posts: 8,019
    Garry H wrote:
    Garry H wrote:
    Tom to lose pink tha morras.

    I meant tha morras.

    Can you post this every day
    I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,596
    All eyes on tomorrow to see what the time gaps are going to be into the final TT.
    It's wonderfully close.

    I see Yates has 1 min 32 approx. on Jungels and that Landa took my advice.
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  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    Garry H wrote:
    Garry H wrote:
    Tom to lose pink tha morras.

    I meant tha morras.
    See, I was right. Nostradamus me!

    And my man won the stage. Hopefully his overall performance should kick Sky's plans for G into touch and get him back to concentrating on the spring.
  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    SloppySchleckonds wrote:
    Garry H wrote:
    Garry H wrote:
    Tom to lose pink tha morras.

    I meant tha morras.

    Can you post this every day

    Don't need to anymore.

    His Nibs for the overall win.
  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    Cracker of a race this has turned out to be.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,596
    The Giro's the best of the 3 almost always.
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  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    Reckon it's granny Nairo's to lose now.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,596
    Tomorrow's stage could be epic as Nibs and Quinti can't rest on their current advantage going in to the TT. It's not enough.
    The problem for TD is that his Sunweb team is not as strong as Movistar or Bahrain Merida.

    Quintana did not look like a happy guy in Pink on the rollers doing his cool down'; he looked pre-occupied.
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  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    Pinno wrote:
    Tomorrow's stage could be epic as Nibs and Quinti can't rest on their current advantage going in to the TT. It's not enough.
    The problem for TD is that his Sunweb team aren't very good at all.

    Quintana did not look like a happy guy in Pink on the rollers doing his cool down'; he looked pre-occupied.

    FTFY

    BTW my daughter has become obsessed with recycling and wants me to take her to a recycling plant. She was so not impressed when I tol her it was just a bit of tarmac with some skips on it.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,596
    Well... you have (deliberately) undersold it a little haven't you?
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  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    Pinno wrote:
    Well... you have (deliberately) undersold it a little haven't you?

    No, i mean she's become totally mental about it, hand gestures and everything. She can't understand why we still need to cut down trees for paper. She's got me googling tin can production and all sorts of shite.

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