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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,488
    The way this thread has gone off topic sums up the hysterical enthusiasm for GVA.
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  • phreak
    phreak Posts: 2,953
    Wheelspinner wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    But it's strange, apart from winning Paris-Roubaix, the Olympics, Gent-Wevelgem, E3 Harelbeke, GP de Montréal, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Paris–Tours, Tirreno-Adriatico, the Tour of Belgium, the Tour of Yorkshire, two Tour de France stages, the Vuelta points jersey and five Flandrien awards, he has very little to show for his abilities.

    I get your point and at no point did I say that he is a bad rider but he has missed countless opportunities to be on the top step of the podium.
    Basically, he doesn't have a special move like the really prolific winners (of which there have only really been three in the 21st century). He can't sprint like Sagan and Boonen and he can't time time trial like Cancellara

    Mark Cavendish called. He'd like a word, round the back of the shed please.

    As I suspect would Froome and Valverde, but I suspect it was more a reference to the classics than racing in general.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    phreak wrote:
    As I suspect would Froome and Valverde, but I suspect it was more a reference to the classics than racing in general.
    Yes it was. And just the cobbled classics
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Not the most charismatic guy.

    Wonderfully attacking and you want him in the race.

    He’s not the first post race interview you head for though.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Not the most charismatic guy.

    Wonderfully attacking and you want him in the race.

    He’s not the first post race interview you head for though.
    First name on the team sheet if you're organising a cyclist's football team though.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Who else is in the starting 11?
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Who else is in the starting 11?
    I'd definitely have Luis Leon Sanchez in there, Evenepoel has some sort of football background and Pinot seems keen
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,488
    Rigoberto Uran has to be in my 1st 11 and Gian Matteo Fagnini for 1) his tireless super domestique ability and b) putting up with Cipollini.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,691
    Remco Evenepoel played for Belgium at u16. Youth teams at Anderlecht ad PSV Eindhoven. First name on the team sheet imo.

    Fairly sure one of the Spanish lot has some football pedigree as well, but can't remember who.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Remco Evenepoel played for Belgium at u16. Youth teams at Anderlecht ad PSV Eindhoven. First name on the team sheet imo.

    Fairly sure one of the Spanish lot has some football pedigree as well, but can't remember who.
    LL Sanchez, as I mentioned. His brother played for Real Madrid.

    Van Avermaet used to be a goalkeeper (for the youth team at a Belgian top division club) and the goalkeeper is literally the first name on the team sheet

    Eusebio Unzue, boss of Movistar, can be the manager - his brother was assistant manager at Barcelona.
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  • m.r.m.
    m.r.m. Posts: 3,486
    Valverde linked to Real Madrid and Barcelona as well, isn't he? Quite the Piti. :wink:
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    M.R.M. wrote:
    Valverde linked to Real Madrid and Barcelona through Piti too, isn't he? :wink:
    Barcelona's current manager is Ernesto Valverde (no relation)
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  • m.r.m.
    m.r.m. Posts: 3,486
    Hahaha true
    PTP Champion 2019, 2022 & 2023
  • bigmat
    bigmat Posts: 5,134
    Didn't Pereiro try to make it as a pro footballer after ending his cycling career? Think he got a contract / trial at least at a lower tier Spanish club.
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  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,183
    BigMat wrote:
    Didn't Pereiro try to make it as a pro footballer after ending his cycling career? Think he got a contract / trial at least at a lower tier Spanish club.

    You wouldn't have thought he would have had much time to practise much during his cycling days.
    Just shows that kickball is just about the fitness and doesn't need any skilz :lol:
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,488
    BigMat wrote:
    ...lower tier Spanish club.
    Mad_Malx wrote:
    ...doesn't need any skilz :lol:

    Erm ^ ...

    Some domestiques come over as a bit thick. Just big men with the ability to withstand pain over a distance and capable of nothing else bar being part of a train.
    ...and some others (Wilfred Nelissen).
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  • cruff
    cruff Posts: 1,518
    Menchov'sStabilisers wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    But it's strange, apart from winning Paris-Roubaix, the Olympics, Gent-Wevelgem, E3 Harelbeke, GP de Montréal, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Paris–Tours, Tirreno-Adriatico, the Tour of Belgium, the Tour of Yorkshire, two Tour de France stages, the Vuelta points jersey and five Flandrien awards, he has very little to show for his abilities.

    I get your point and at no point did I say that he is a bad rider but he has missed countless opportunities to be on the top step of the podium.
    Basically, he doesn't have a special move like the really prolific winners (of which there have only really been three in the 21st century). He can't sprint like Sagan and Boonen and he can't time time trial like Cancellara

    You make it sound like streetfighter. Finish him
    Please. Mortal Kombat, not Streetfighter. For shame.
    Fat chopper. Some racing. Some testing. Some crashing.
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