Team Sky to end in 2019

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  • carbonclem
    carbonclem Posts: 1,784
    davidof wrote:
    inseine wrote:
    There's lots of talk about the team ending or continuing with a reduced budget. It would be typical of DB to come back with a bigger budget!!

    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/could-a ... -team-sky/

    That would be something. I see Sky have learned nothing of the culture of pro cycling with this sentence

    "Sky has said everyone at the team would be "properly looked after."

    surely as a sponsor you pull the plug during a Grand Tour and don't pay the last few months wages leaving riders to make their own way home at the end of an event?

    In fairness, Rick Delaney said much the same ...
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  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    davidof wrote:
    inseine wrote:
    There's lots of talk about the team ending or continuing with a reduced budget. It would be typical of DB to come back with a bigger budget!!

    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/could-a ... -team-sky/

    That would be something. I see Sky have learned nothing of the culture of pro cycling with this sentence

    "Sky has said everyone at the team would be "properly looked after."

    surely as a sponsor you pull the plug during a Grand Tour and don't pay the last few months wages leaving riders to make their own way home at the end of an event?



    HAHAHA Genuine LOL
  • meursault
    meursault Posts: 1,433
    Tashman wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    Tashman wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    Tashman wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    Without looking it up can you name the sponsors of Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool, Arsenal or Tottenham
    That's easy! Sharp, Brother, Crown, JVC and Holsten 8)
    I bet you had to Google Keith Curle or Paul Dickov to get Brother though.
    Haha, nope, I really am just that sad that I could recall them! My lot should have Courage back on their shirts but none of them would live up to the billing at the minute.
    Reading? The team I should support as someone from Berkshire, but don't because they were crap in the 80s (and I'm too young for Robin Friday)
    That be them! I'm far too young for Friday too. Grew up in Amazingstoke and Reading were our closest league team I could watch. First game was the Simod cup final, a fine 4-1 win at Wembley. All been kinda downhill since then.

    I did read the Robin Friday book, cracking read!
    (I'm an orient fan, so don't like football either...)
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  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,613
    Amazingstoke for the win. I’m down the road in Oakley.
    Napoleon, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day. Besides, we both know that I'm training to be a cage fighter.
  • Tashman
    Tashman Posts: 3,495
    Gweeds wrote:
    Amazingstoke for the win. I’m down the road in Oakley.
    Many a time over that way as I went to Cranbourne. Lived in Popley myself and as a kid used to cycle over on my Raleigh Equipe with my cricket kit on my back to play. Happy memories
  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,613
    Tashman wrote:
    Gweeds wrote:
    Amazingstoke for the win. I’m down the road in Oakley.
    Many a time over that way as I went to Cranbourne. Lived in Popley myself and as a kid used to cycle over on my Raleigh Equipe with my cricket kit on my back to play. Happy memories

    Small world. My daughter is at Cranbourne.
    Napoleon, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day. Besides, we both know that I'm training to be a cage fighter.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Geraint confirms no Giro attempt this year.

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  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,613
    Bernal then?....
    Napoleon, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day. Besides, we both know that I'm training to be a cage fighter.
  • hanshotfirst
    hanshotfirst Posts: 400
    TInkov coming back?

    Lol.

    https://as.com/ciclismo/2019/02/07/mas_ ... 82100.html
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,556
    Or not as he denies the rumour he offered to take on the team.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Ecopetrol, a Columbian petroleum company is the rumoured firm to take over from Sky.

    Suffice to say it has a fairly cavalier attitude towards CSR and accounts reporting....
    _
  • amrushton
    amrushton Posts: 1,312
    Petroleum companies are generally cavalier about everything imo
  • daniel_b
    daniel_b Posts: 11,973
    CSR?
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  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,227
    Corporate Social Responsibility.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Ecopetrol, a Columbian petroleum company is the rumoured firm to take over from Sky.

    Suffice to say it has a fairly cavalier attitude towards CSR and accounts reporting....

    It would make sense, the Colombians love the team.
  • jerry3571
    jerry3571 Posts: 1,532
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Ecopetrol, a Columbian petroleum company is the rumoured firm to take over from Sky.

    Suffice to say it has a fairly cavalier attitude towards CSR and accounts reporting....

    Just have to sign Quintana and they'll have a good little outfit. Los Colombianos!!
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  • jimmythecuckoo
    jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,718
    1200px-Ecopetrol_logo.svg.png

    pray for the jersey...
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    jimmythecuckoo wrote:
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    pray for the jersey...
    They could have lizards on their backs like they had with the Orcas

    And can petrol be 'Eco'?

    The cycling rumour mill doesn't have the best record (although Gazzetta does seem Sky's newspaper of choice) so I'll wait until I see a rider wearing a jersey.
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  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
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  • joe_totale-2
    joe_totale-2 Posts: 1,333
    inseine wrote:

    From Ocean Rescue to oil spills in one slick manoeuvre.
  • thegreatdivide
    thegreatdivide Posts: 5,807
    inseine wrote:

    Tragic :-(
  • jerry3571
    jerry3571 Posts: 1,532
    Well if they're doing mechanical doping then we'll see the smoke coming out of the exhaust.
    Bound to be fossil fuelled based :wink:
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    I see that cycling social media that hasn't batted an eyelid at oil money funding Katusha, Astana, Bahrain, UAE and Sunweb (as Argos) has suddenly turned into the lovechild of Caroline Lucas and Swampy at a rumoured connection with Sky.
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  • jimmythecuckoo
    jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,718
    Top level sport isn't about morals. Look at Football for example.

    I have no issues with sponsors. Apart from Baby Dump.
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  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    RichN95 wrote:
    I see that cycling social media that hasn't batted an eyelid at oil money funding Katusha, Astana, Bahrain, UAE and Sunweb (as Argos) has suddenly turned into the lovechild of Caroline Lucas and Swampy at a rumoured connection with Sky.

    Possibly, though I'm tempted to think that Katusha, Astana, Bahrain and UAE are four of the less liked teams and possibly don't have the (UK) fan base of SKY. I think their sponsors are a bit to do with that.
    http://cyclinganddesign.blogspot.fr/
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    inseine wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    I see that cycling social media that hasn't batted an eyelid at oil money funding Katusha, Astana, Bahrain, UAE and Sunweb (as Argos) has suddenly turned into the lovechild of Caroline Lucas and Swampy at a rumoured connection with Sky.

    Possibly, though I'm tempted to think that Katusha, Astana, Bahrain and UAE are four of the less liked teams and possibly don't have the (UK) fan base of SKY. I think their sponsors are a bit to do with that.
    Isn't their relative lack of popularity mostly down to Russia, Kazakhstan, Bahrain and UAE not exactly being hotbeds of cycling support
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  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    RichN95 wrote:
    inseine wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    I see that cycling social media that hasn't batted an eyelid at oil money funding Katusha, Astana, Bahrain, UAE and Sunweb (as Argos) has suddenly turned into the lovechild of Caroline Lucas and Swampy at a rumoured connection with Sky.

    Possibly, though I'm tempted to think that Katusha, Astana, Bahrain and UAE are four of the less liked teams and possibly don't have the (UK) fan base of SKY. I think their sponsors are a bit to do with that.
    Isn't their relative lack of popularity mostly down to Russia, Kazakhstan, Bahrain and UAE not exactly being hotbeds of cycling support

    But Cannonadale is liked because they are English speaking? Cycling isn't huge in the US. It'll be interesting to see if CCC are thought of as American.
    http://cyclinganddesign.blogspot.fr/
  • thegreatdivide
    thegreatdivide Posts: 5,807
    inseine wrote:
    But Cannonadale is liked because they are English speaking? Cycling isn't huge in the US. It'll be interesting to see if CCC are thought of as American.

    It's 2019 - they're called EF Education First
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    thegreatdivide wrote:
    inseine wrote:
    But Cannonadale is liked because they are English speaking? Cycling isn't huge in the US. It'll be interesting to see if CCC are thought of as American.

    It's 2019 - they're called EF Education First

    As long as it's still Orica I'm OK
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  • thegreatdivide
    thegreatdivide Posts: 5,807
    inseine wrote:
    thegreatdivide wrote:
    inseine wrote:
    But Cannonadale is liked because they are English speaking? Cycling isn't huge in the US. It'll be interesting to see if CCC are thought of as American.

    It's 2019 - they're called EF Education First

    As long as it's still Orica I'm OK

    Yip. No change there.

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