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MinardiM189 wrote:

Astana getting this wrong.

They should have attacked with Fuglsang earlier.

Looks like Bora have got their tactics right as Buchmann goes solo. 

Dr Winston wrote:

Well they won’t bring back 1’30 on a climb against Buchmann. Astana have blown this.

A complete mess up by Astana. Looks like bringing Buchmann in was a good decision for me but for completely different reasons.

At least it means Astana will have to go crazy tomorrow.

MinardiM189 wrote:

KoM points stage 5

The offical site has got Van Rensberg as coming 4th on IXUA GAINA cat1 climb.

Van Rensberg was knowhere in site, it was actually Pogacar.

They took the KoM as shown in the pic

Sanchez, Izagirre, Landa, Pogacar, Buchmann, Gaudu

Roger that, I'll keep my eye on it and update later.

Dr Winston wrote:

Nineteen riders in the break. Anybody of any significance?

No-one a GC threat but Movistar have 3 riders  & UAE 2.

Gap isn't very big though.

I have a feeling it is going to be all back together soon.

Dr Winston wrote:

Well played Minardi and Gecko...Good wins...

Glad Minardi has come out of his run of bad luck. ...back in the game. Second in the purist for me for the second game running....I can see a pattern developing.

Thanks Dr Winston.

Hopefully I can build on this result.

MinardiM189 wrote:

Dr Winston wrote:

Well they won’t bring back 1’30 on a climb against Buchmann. Astana have blown this.

A complete mess up by Astana. Looks like bringing Buchmann in was a good decision for me but for completely different reasons.

At least it means Astana will have to go crazy tomorrow.

And there lies the difference, I don't have Buchmann

Condor Andy wrote:

MinardiM189 wrote:

KoM points stage 5

The offical site has got Van Rensberg as coming 4th on IXUA GAINA cat1 climb.

Van Rensberg was knowhere in sight, it was actually Pogacar.

They took the KoM as shown in the pic

Sanchez, Izagirre, Landa, Pogacar, Buchmann, Gaudu

Roger that, I'll keep my eye on it and update later.

It looks like Van Rensberg is keeping his KoM points, the race site and UCI have him still listed as 4th on that climb.

I guess someone wrote the numbers down wrong, 134 instead of 104.

Dr Winston wrote:

stevemarks wrote:

MinardiM189 wrote:

Astana getting this wrong.

They should have attacked with Fuglsang earlier.

Looks like Bora have got their tactics right as Buchmann goes solo. 

Never even entered my head that he would go solo. Never seen him do that before.

I don't think it was tactics by Bora, just bad by all the other teams letting a leading competitor ride away from them without chasing until it was too late.

I think Buchmann was just marking Sanchez and nobody followed them & Sanchez helped him get away, then had a puncture.

Dr Winston wrote:

MinardiM189 wrote:

Dr Winston wrote:

Nineteen riders in the break. Anybody of any significance?

No-one a GC threat but Movistar have 3 riders  & UAE 2.

Gap isn't very big though.

I have a feeling it is going to be all back together soon.

I need De Marchi to rack some pts up to have a chance at the purist

He has picked up 3+3+3+1 so far

but will probably drop down to 3rd overall by the end of the day.

Dr Winston wrote:

Did he puncture?..i thought he was just called back. Looks like quite a few avoided Buchmann possibly due to confusion about how Bora would play it...or maybe already booked up wih Schachmann and Konrad. Landa was definitely the less confused pick. I'm absolutely mazed that the peleton just let Buchmann ride away from them like that....maybe, like, me, they just had him tagged a grinder on climbs and not a danger in the way he was today.

I just saw him slow up and thought his back tyre looked flat but was probably wrong.

Did Astana and Sanchez think it was Muhlberger and not Buchmann until too late?

I chose Buchmann over Landa because the final climb wasn't from the difficult direction and I thought Buchmann would hang on.

On reflection I should have dropped Martinez too.

MinardiM189 wrote:

Dr Winston wrote:

Did he puncture?..i thought he was just called back. Looks like quite a few avoided Buchmann possibly due to confusion about how Bora would play it...or maybe already booked up wih Schachmann and Konrad. Landa was definitely the less confused pick. I'm absolutely mazed that the peleton just let Buchmann ride away from them like that....maybe, like, me, they just had him tagged a grinder on climbs and not a danger in the way he was today.

I just saw him slow up and thought his back tyre looked flat but was probably wrong.

Did Astana and Sanchez think it was Muhlberger and not Buchmann until too late?

I chose Buchmann over Landa because the final climb wasn't from the difficult direction and I thought Buchmann would hang on.

On reflection I should have dropped Martinez too.

Missed the Buchmann opportnity.

In reality holding Schachmann for the day won't be a bad decision.  GC points for 3rd, must still be holding points jersey, best young rider to go with 9th on the stage and a team mate bonus.

I did consider Buchmann, but went Fuglsang and Pogacar instead.  The best play would have been dropping Martinez, but I doubt many would have done that.

Sniffer wrote:

Missed the Buchmann opportnity.

In reality holding Schachmann for the day won't be a bad decision.  GC points for 3rd, must still be holding points jersey, best young rider to go with 9th on the stage and a team mate bonus.

I did consider Buchmann, but went Fuglsang and Pogacar instead.  The best play would have been dropping Martinez, but I doubt many would have done that.

I never considered dropping Martinez, he was unfortunate at the end, he got left behind by the front few and dragged everybody else to the finish before they all jumped him.

Working out what to do with my 3 remaining transfers isn't going to be easy.

MinardiM189 wrote:

Sniffer wrote:

Missed the Buchmann opportnity.

In reality holding Schachmann for the day won't be a bad decision.  GC points for 3rd, must still be holding points jersey, best young rider to go with 9th on the stage and a team mate bonus.

I did consider Buchmann, but went Fuglsang and Pogacar instead.  The best play would have been dropping Martinez, but I doubt many would have done that.

I never considered dropping Martinez, he was unfortunate at the end, he got left behind by the front few and dragged everybody else to the finish before they all jumped him.

Working out what to do with my 3 remaining transfers isn't going to be easy.

At least I saved myself that problem Lol!

MinardiM189 wrote:

Looks like I may have my highest stage score ever, 303 I make it.

Hopefully enough to take the win in the standard competition.

Can we introduce a 20 point bonus for unused transfers please ?

Looks good. I had the same team except Bravo retained instead of Quintero.

No transfers left for me. Used the last two to drop Martinez and Schachmann for Landa and Buchmann.