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| facmanpob |
Posted on 11-08-2009 16:09
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@ KurtinSC
your team looks similar to mine (minus the Americans). I've gone for Britain and the Commonwealth for riders (plus Ireland!).
Currently lying in 2nd place in the Continental Tour, behind Vacansoleil, and am hoping to get promotion at the end of the season.
Wiggins, Roche and Millar will all be staying with the team (in fact all but Froome are staying, who wouldn't sign a contract with me and has signed for Cinelli!)
Finally, just signed Darren Lill and Heinrich Haussler (Australian pro-License from 2010), and Cadel Evans is considering a contract from me! I should have a very good team for Stage Racing next year!  |
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| KurtinSC |
Posted on 11-08-2009 16:36
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I_Mayo wrote:
KurtinSC wrote:
After several false starts, I've got what looks like a keeper career going with a custom team (Gateway Racing). It's a US/Australian based team.
The limitation I'm putting on myself is to only sign riders from English speaking countries. So that limits me to: USA, Australia, Britain, Ireland, South Africa, New Zealand and Canada.
The team:
Leaders:
Tyler Farrar
Nicholas Roche
Michael Rogers
Others:
John-Lee Augustyn
Mark Renshaw
Chris Froome
Dan Martin
Philip Deignan(sp)
Jonathon Bellis
Christian Meier
Ben Swift
Taylor Phinney
Also have a few Aussie/US free agents (Day, Devine, J. Clarke, Zajicek and a couple others).
Tour of California, Tour of Missouri and US Open are the main sponsor's goals for the year. Rogers will be the man for both California and Missouri.
I'm still in the Tour Down under (two stages to go) and things are already starting out well. Renshaw has a couple of top 5 finishes in the sprints, and Rogers managed to pull a Cancellera-like move with a late attack on the slight hill at the end of stage 2 and hold on for a win. Rogers also won the Aussie TT jersey (placed 4th in the RR, O'Grady winning).
Long term (after several seasons), I'm hoping to build a stage race based team (ignoring cobbles for the most part). I got pretty lucky with the young riders signed at the creation of the team. 3-4 of them have enough stars on the training screen that I have hope they'll turn into good riders.
new garmin? they like riders from English speaking countries too.
Yeah... though Garmin seems to hit the Netherlands too (Maaskant, van der Velde, Duyn, Dekkers). |
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| Supaplex |
Posted on 12-08-2009 00:32
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Gesink really surprised me, I was a bit sceptical about his ability in a grand tour but I chose to sign him instead of Kreuzinger anyway at the end of last season. I send him to the Giro with kind of a B-team since my best helpers and sprinters were going to the Tour de France (top 10 was a goal). He was top favorite along with Fränk Schleck, Pellizotti and Nibali. No Di Luca this year. Schleck started out very bad and would only narrowly end in the top 10. Gesink immediately took time on the others in the first 10 stages and after that had no trouble keeping them at a safe distance. Now I'll see what he can do in the Vuelta.
Currently half way trough the Tour de France and it's looking good for the goal even though the competition is huge : Contador, Evans, Menchov, Andy Schleck, Sastre, Valverde, Di Luca,... Kirchen is nestled nicely in the top 10 and always ends up front with the big guns thanks to the work by Fothen, Van den Broeck and Seeldraeyers. Van Avermaet meanwhile is owning the mass sprints, with only Bennati on the same level as him.
The two people that I had brought in to win some big races delivered too by winning the ones they were focusing on :
Haussler : Paris-Roubaix
Kirchen : La Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège
After the Tour de France I have some minor sponsor goals to do, and there is one more thing that I really want to win : the World Championships with my German cyclists.
Gerdemann came 2nd last year in the time trial, he's training to be in super form this year.
Haussler is my pick for the road championship because the layout favours sprinters. I think he will have some heavy competition because the absence of all the top sprinters in the Tour de France might mean that they're all doing the Vuelta as final preparation for the World Championship. |
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| facmanpob |
Posted on 13-08-2009 12:06
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Wiggins is currently in 2nd place in the Tour riding for Team SKY prior to Stage 20 up the Ventoux! 
Contador is 3'30" ahead of Wiggins, and Menchov, Sanchez, Kreuziger and Schleck are about 2' back from Wiggins......
Can he hold out??????  |
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| pepto_szn |
Posted on 13-08-2009 12:50
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Probably not  |
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| fightinchicken26 |
Posted on 13-08-2009 17:27
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Hey, look at what he did this year! Maybe. |
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| pangare |
Posted on 13-08-2009 21:12
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So,i started a carreer with Columbia.
2009 went pretty well. Lovkvist 2nd in the Giro, Hincapie won RVV,Burghardt won G.Wegelvem.
Then,Kirchen won Amstel and Fléche and also won Pro Tour. I had 88 victories.
Rogers also finished 7th in the Tour.
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Now in 2010, i've signed Bennati,Velits,Kolobnev and Andy Schleck. Hagen is doing great too.
I won Amstel with Kirchen and he did 2nd in Fleche and Liége.
I've won Down Under,Pays Basco and many other races. I'm at stage 11 of Giro and i've won 8 stages. Martin won 2 TT's, Bennati won many sprints and Vermeltfoort won 2 stages as well.
Then, Rogers is 2nd at the Giro right now and Nibali is in 1st. |
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| Geezar10 |
Posted on 14-08-2009 14:25
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W00T just started a new career with a Custom Team after the first 54 go's that all failed. This time I started with 0% budget and bought 12 young riders (1 future great, 3 promising and 8 worth watchings). I had one austrailian rider and he had average attribute 59 and then he came second in the austrailian championships at four minutes ahead of third. Now am preparing my team for the GP de Marsille  |
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| facmanpob |
Posted on 14-08-2009 23:57
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fightinchicken26 wrote:
Hey, look at what he did this year! Maybe.
Nope, he couldn't........... finished in 6th on the day and lost some time..............
..........but did manage to stay on the podium! |
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| Kami |
Posted on 20-08-2009 11:31
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Riding with a custom-made team: Dodge-Xerox.
Our squad:
Leaders:
-Brad Wiggins
-Yaroslav Popovych
-Dave Zabriskie
Other riders:
-Mikhail Ignatiev
-Kevin Seeldraeyers
-Gianni Meersman
-Jan Bakelandts
-Kristof Goddaert
-Andrey Amador
-Frantisek Rabon
-Taylor Phinney
-Ben Swift
-Jonathan Bellis
-Chris Froome
-Simon Geschke
-Paul Voss
-Steve Morabito
-Denis Galimzyanov
-Andreas Stauff
-Danilo Wyss
Our goals for this season were unbelievebly hard:
Win Giro
Win Tour of California
Win Amstel Gold Race
Win Tour of Missouri
Top 10 finish Grand Prix Cycliste la Marseillaise
Win Paris-Nice
It was very hard but we managed to win Paris-Nice and the Giro with Wiggins, because of good shape, and a crash of Di Luca. Popovych won the Tour of California, and Ignatiev finished in Top 10 of the GP Cycliste. However we failed to win the Amstel Gold Race, because of an excellent shape of Valverde.
Now Wiggins became National TT champion and Ignatiev won the Russian RR championship.
Now we are on the first of July 4 days before the tour, which we have acquirred a wild card for. Hope we can still do something there with someone, but i highly doubt it as Popovych and Wiggins already had a very exhausting season so far.
But now its time for transfers. I have the possibility to buy:
-Samuel Sanchez
-Robert Gesink
-Damiano Cunego
-Heinrich Haussler
-Pipo Pozzato
-Stijn Devolder
This are the main ones, Seeing my main goals are mostly stage racers, someone like Sanchez or Gesink would be good, but with the oncomming cobbled talent of Goddaert in my team, it might also be good to buy a cobbled racer. Who should i choose? I can buy 2 + a few helpers. |
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Posted on 20-08-2009 11:46
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Kami wrote:
transfers. I have the possibility to buy:
-Samuel Sanchez
-Robert Gesink
-Damiano Cunego
-Heinrich Haussler
-Pipo Pozzato
-Stijn Devolder
This are the main ones, Seeing my main goals are mostly stage racers, someone like Sanchez or Gesink would be good, but with the oncomming cobbled talent of Goddaert in my team, it might also be good to buy a cobbled racer. Who should i choose? I can buy 2 + a few helpers.
Gesink and Haussler because they are great and can achive much + they are young |
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| pepto_szn |
Posted on 20-08-2009 12:16
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IMO Haussler and Pozzato are the best from the list. No doubt. |
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| davey90 |
Posted on 20-08-2009 12:35
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Don't buy Samuel, he's 32 and he's not gonna improve. I'd sign Gesink and Haussler, when Gesink can be a GC contender and can win some 1 week races, Haussler will be very useful in cobbled races.
btw, I started a career with Saxo Bank, but is way too easy! I'm playing in hard and I've already won the Tour Down Under with O'Grady, Paris - Nice with Andy Schleck and Tirreno - Adriatico with Cancellara, now I'm gonna try to win Milan San Remo with Cancellara in the same way he did last year. I think I have to change the difficulty. |
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| Kami |
Posted on 20-08-2009 12:38
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In my custom carreer Cancellara actually won Milan-San Remo on the way he did in 2008, it was so nice to see. I'll buy Gesink and Haussler, might buy someone else tough, depends on the situation. Thx for the replies. |
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| Petterla |
Posted on 20-08-2009 12:49
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In stead of having a english speaking only custommade team, I decided to go for an all scandinavian team. I have to admit I took max. amount before the first season, and thus I ended up with this team:
main riders:
Hushovd
Boasson Hagen
Breschel
C. A. Sørensen
Fuglsang
Løvkvist
G. Larsson
rest:
Remme
Nordhaug
Stokstad
Vold
Hegreberg
Räneng
Glenn Bak
Ricky Enö Jörgensen
4 scouted riders (who all turned out to be exeptionally limited)
Needless to say maybe, but, the team got promoted to the top tour, winning the continental division with more than a thousand points. The main results included green jersey, 9th and 10th in the tdf. In general the team managed the nice total of 62 victories.
For the the second season I signed:
Kessiakoff
C.Stevenson
Steensen
Mortensen
Mørkøv
T.Guldhammer
L.Bøchmann
L.Bak
A.Kristoff
+ a couple of scouted riders.
So far this season: Breschel won the Tour down under (against a weak field). Løkvist 4th, Fuglsang 5th in Paris Nice (in a strong field), Kessiakoff won Tirreno Adriatico (in a weak field), Breschel 4th in Milano - San Remo (normal strenght field).
Howcome I managed to sign all those riders (especially the Saxo Bank ones) for the second season I just don't know. |
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| Archibald |
Posted on 23-08-2009 16:57
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davey90 wrote:btw, I started a career with Saxo Bank, but is way too easy! I'm playing in hard and I've already won the Tour Down Under with O'Grady, Paris - Nice with Andy Schleck and Tirreno - Adriatico with Cancellara, now I'm gonna try to win Milan San Remo with Cancellara in the same way he did last year. I think I have to change the difficulty.
i started with Saxo Bank and have just followed their actual season - so have selected only the races they've done and used the exact same riders for each race
i'm still learning how to play the game, so the first two months were disasterous, but starting to get the hang of it and picking up some good results.
still struggling with some of the counter/no counter carry-on of the game... i had three riders to choose from, but only one had the counterattack button as blue, despite all three having full red and yellow bars - frustrating!! |
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| facmanpob |
Posted on 28-08-2009 09:23
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Team Sky Year 2
Haussler is leading the UCI Pro Tour, after winning the Tour Down Under and Ronde van Vlaanderen, finishing 2nd in the Milan San Remo, 3rd in the Gent Wevelgem, 6th in Paris Roubaix and getting a stage win in the Tirreno Adriatico!
Armstrong is gearing up for the Tour de France and is currently gunning for a podium finish in the Dauphine.
Wiggins won the Paris Nice and is not riding in the Tour; instead he is going for the Vuelta this year (one of our sponsor goals is Top 5)
Nick Roche finished 2nd in the Vuelta al Pais Vasco and had 2 Top 10 finishes in the Ardennes Classics. He is now having a break before coming back for the Autumn Classics Season.
Edvald Boasson Hagen supported Haussler well on the cobbles, and will ride the TdF for us, then will be team leader in Poland.
Looking at next season I was going to try to bring in Tyler Farrar, but he has just renewed his contract with Garmin. Mick Rogers is one of my targets, along with Gesink. |
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| facmanpob |
Posted on 01-10-2009 17:13
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Its 2011 and Team Sky are in the Tour de France. Having just destroyed the opposition in the 60km TTT to Verdun I suddenly realised that next season I can put out possibly the greatest team of time triallists ever in the history of the world, ever!
In 2012, my Tour Team could be (lets hope there's a massive TTT):
Cancellara (85)
Larsson (83)
Wiggins (81)
Rogers (81)
Millar (80)
Tuft (79)
Meyer (78)
Taaramae (78)
Brajkovic (77)
And there would even be good mountain support for Wiggins in the form of Rogers, Brajkovic and Larsson
I could even swap in Boasson Hagen (76) if I wanted a sprinter !!  |
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