IMAX
The Canadian's who created the best film format provide a unique partnership. Global reach, constant evolutions, a great sponsorship that returns after a long break. They would love a strong North American representation on the team as we shift more back to our roots.
Caribbean Tourism
A region wider sponsor consisting of numerous stake holders from small shacks selling Piragua, up to major Government departments. A major player on the team and heralding our major focus shift to the great Islands with the white beaches and incredible sporting passion.
Mount Gay Rum
The Barbadian alcohol firm is the oldest producer of Rum in the entire world. It's a huge global brand with interests in all markets, especially the Americas. For them growing brand awareness against other Caribbean companies is key, doing this on a platform of local riders could be fun.
Mauritius Commercial Bank
The Mauritian bank is the largest and oldest in the country. In the last few years it's been a real innovator and grower in the African market. A great opportunity for them to begin growing more globally and for us to get a unique partner. They love marketing one of the two females in the peloton.
Hincapie Sportswear
The American sportswear manufacturer continues with the team this year. Steeped in cycling history the famous Hincapie name is well known in the top echelons of cycling. A growing market globally they want more North American rider presence to market from.
Cervelo
The Canadian bike manufacturer joins us as an official partner. Tieing into our connections with the mainland to the north we wanted to find a partnership that was also ecologically beneficial. Produced in Canada, shipped down the road to our working base in Seattle. And pioneering together on an all-new carbon negative bike range!
SRAM
Back together with a previous partner out of the USA. All part of our push to try to make the team more environmentally sustainable, as well as putting components together that really are suited to the bike.
Sea Turtle Conservation
Our primary NC sponsor. Cycling is one way to save the planet, so at the same time we want to boost our eco footprint. We are raising awareness of a range of projects across the Caribbean to try and protect as many of these amazing animals as possible.
Kraken
Our partnership management unit handling the day-to-day running of the franchise. The revolutionary partnership will help drive the teams counter-culture concepts and boost us to a new age!
3rd - Gisborne GP - Christophe Lagane 2nd - Vuelta Tachira Stage 10 - Kristin Vanderpool
5th - Vuelta Tachira Stage 10 - Brendan Canty 3rd - Vuelta Catalunya Stage 1 - Alexandre Meyer
3rd - Vuelta Catalunya Stage 3 - Podium Ambition
7th - Vuelta Catalunya GC - Ben O'Connor 2nd - Vuelta Pais Vasco Stage 2 - Christophe Lagane
9th - Vuelta Pais Vasco GC - Brendan Canty
4th - Tour Middle East Stage 1 - Jay Major
5th - Tour Middle East Stage 2 - Jay Major 1st - GP Izola - Christophe Lagane 2nd - Tour du Faso Stage 2 - Jay Major 1st - Tour du Faso Team - T3A 1st - Baltic Chain Tour Stage 1 - Akil Campbell
4th - Baltic Chain Tour Stage 1 - Hennis Hasani
5th - Baltic Chain Tour Stage 1 - Darren Matthews 1st - Baltic Chain Tour Team - T3A
5th - Lincoln GP - Darren Matthews 3rd - USAPCC Stage 1 - Jay Major
4th - Nakhon Ratchisma Trophy - Jesus Roniel Marte
4th - Olympia Tour Stage 1 - Kristan Vanderpool 2nd - Olympia Tour Stage 4 - T3A 3rd - Olympia Tour Stage 5 - Jay Major
6th - Olympia Tour GC - Kristin Vanderpool
7th - Olympia Tour GC - Hennis Hasani
10th - Olympia Tour GC - Akil Campbell 3rd - Tour of Austria Stage 5 - Jacob Morales Ortega 2nd - Tour of Austria Stage 6 - Darren Matthews
5th - Tour of Austria Stage 7 - Kristin Vanderpool 2nd - Tour of Vancouver Stage 3 - Hasani Hennis
5th - Tour of Vancouver Stage 4 - Ben O'Connor 2nd - Tour of Vancouver Stage 7 - T3A 2nd - Tour of Vancouver GC - Ben O'Connor 1st - Monterrey TTT - T3A
4th - Giro dell Trentino Stage 3 - Abner Gonzalez
6th - Giro dell Trentino GC - Ben O'Connor
5th - Tour de San Luis Stage 1 - Kristin Vanderpool 3rd - Tour de San Luis Stage 2 - Gaetan Pons
4th - Tour de San Luis Stage 2 - Jay Major
7th - Tour de San Luis GC - Gaetan Pons 1st - Tour de San Luis U25 - Chris Lagane 3rd - Tour of America Stage 15 - Jacob Morales Ortega
4th - Tour of America Stage 15 - Abner Gonzalez
6th - Herald Sun Tour Stage 2 - Jay Major 1st - Herald Sun Tour Stage 5 - Jay Major
1st - Herald Sun Tour U25 - Alexandre Mayer 3rd - Euskal Bizikleta Stage 3 - Christophe Lagane 1st - Euskal Bizikleta GC - Christophe Lagane
1st - Euskal Bizikleta U25 - Christophe Lagane
5th - Zuri Metzge - Chrispher Lagane
Breakaways
Tour Down Under Stage 3 - Jacob Kelly
Tour Down Under Stage 6 - Jacob Kelly
Vuelta al Tachira Stage 3 - Jesus Roniel Marte
Vuelta al Tachira Stage 4 - Tyler Cole
GP Herning - Jacob Kelly
Geraardsbergen-Bosberg - Jacob Kelly, Joshua Gayral
Tour Middle East Stage 2 - Jesus Roniel Marte
Tour Middle East Stage 3 - Jesus Roniel Marte
Tour Middle East Stage 4 - Jesus Roniel Marte, Jacob Moreales Ortega
Tour du Faso Stage 1 - Chequan Richardson, Jesus Roniel Marte
Tour du Faso Stage 3 - Chequan Richardson
Baltic Chain Tour Stage 3 - Tyler Cole
Baltic Chain Tour Stage 4 - Connor White
Berlin ProRace - Jesus Roniel Marte
Lincoln GP - Tyler Cole
Nakhon Ratchisma Tropjy - Jesus Roniel Marte
Tour of Austra Stage 1 - Abner Gonzalez
Tour of Austria Stage 2 - Kim Le Court
Tour of Austria Stage 3 - Kim Le Court
Tour of Austra Stage 4 - Kim Le Court
Tour of Austria Stage 5 - Jacob Morales Ortega
Tour of Vancouver Stage 4 - Jacob Morales Ortega
Giro dell Trentino Stage 3 - Abner Gonzalez
GP Kigali - Darren Matthews
Tour of America Stage 1 - Jesus Roniel Marte
Tour of America Stage 2 - Jesus Roniel Marte
Tour of America Stage 3 - Jesus Roniel Marte (takes GC Lead), Kaden Hopkins
Tour of America Stage 5 - Jesus Roniel Marte
Tour of America Stage 6 - Jesus Roniel Marte, Kaden Hopkins
Tour of America Stage 7 - Jesus Roniel Marte
Tour of America Stage 8 - Connor White, Jacob Kelly, Jacob Morales Ortega
Tour of America Stage 9 - Jacob Kelly, Kaden Hopkins, Wataru Mutsumine
Tour of America Stage 10 - Jacob Kelly, Jacob Morales Ortega, Abner Gonzalez
Tour of America Stage 11 - Wataru Mutsumine
Tour of America Stage 15 - Jacob Morales Ortega, Abner Gonzalez, Tyler Cole, Connor White
Tour of America Stage 19 - Jacob Morales Ortega, Connor White
Tour of America Stage 21 - Wataru Mutsumine
Euskal Bizikleta Stage 1 - Tyler Cole
Euskal Bizikleta Stage 2 - Tyler Cole
Edited by TheManxMissile on 13-06-2024 17:05
It's been a while but T3A is back in the CT. Since our last season in the CT (which, btw, we did almost win!) we've ridden our first GT, spent an entire season as an actual PT Team, and entirely changed direction of the team twice. Plus we have established a clear Man-Game All Time Record, just not for the best of reasons.
This new era of T3A however is not a failure by relegating. In fact this was expected and in many ways planned for. The new heavy focus on Caribbean & Island cycling was always going to be long term. To emphasise this our best riders and results of last season were neo-pros from these areas. As such an immediate bounce back is not a focus for the coming year. Instead we will be working hard to Loan Out our group of Lvl4 riders, levelling up everyone else, and being a home to some Loan Ins.
A full Renewals Post will obviously come in time. Deals are basically in place for everyone we want, and a few surprise negotiations are still finalising. But we can make clear our transfers will be entirely based around sorting Loan Outs & Ins with virtually no Team-to-Team moves or Free Agency bids. We have a long term plan, we have the riders we need for this year, it will be quiet and focused on training and developments.
All our sponsors are still on board, fully committed to the project and our long term aims. We are working on the new set of NC's so we can continue to be the pelotons best dressed squad. Basically, we're in a very stable and happy place despite relegation.
Make sure you stay tuned and join us for another wonderful T3A season.
We've been here adjusting to the CT wage cap after relelgation before. But we still learned something new about renewals this season! Lets not wait and dive right in!
Nat.
Name
Age
Key Stats
Wage
Nickname
Available?
Caleb Ewan
28
83SP 71HL
600k
Pocket Rocket
YES
Alex Cataford
29
79TT 79PRL
150k
AC
Possible
Logan Owen
27
78CB 71AC
120k
Wolverine
No
Alex Mayer
24
76HL 72SP
110k
Mayer
PT Loan
Jay Major
27
77SP 70CB
70k
Jay
No
Chris Lagane
24
75HL 74SP
70k
The Closer
PT Loan
Darren Matthews
31
76SP 75CB
50k
Darren
No
Kim Le Court
26
76HL 76FTR
50k
Queen
No
Hasani Hennis
25
74SP 74TT
50k
HH
PT Loan
Akil Campbell
26
75TT 72CB
50k
AK
PT Loan
Josh Gayral
25
71HL 71CB
50k
Josh
PT Loan
Andrew Norbert
24
72SP 71PL
50k
Andy
No
Jon Croes
25
72HL 71MO
50k
Jcrew
No
Nathan Alexander
23
71HL 70MO
50k
Nate
No
Kristin Vanderpool
27
75TT 76PL
50k
Kristin
No
Jacob Kelly
23
68SP 68HL
50k
Jaco
No
Jacob Morales Ortega
23
69HL 69MO
50k
JMO
No
Cristian Perez
23
72TT 69CB
60k
Perez
No
Dylan Redy
23
69HL 68SP
50k
Redy
No
Kemp Orosco
23
70MO 68HL
50k
Kemp
No
Headline news - Caleb Ewan! Silver medalist at the recent Worlds RR, the Aussie is on the market. Availability is simple, pure cash, highest offer takes him. As demonstrated at the Worlds and at MSR he is ideal for the ProTour - so start budgeting now
Alex Cataford is a possible. If we saw a special cash offer he could move, also might depend how the Wage cap shapes up based on Loan dealings. But we got his wage down a touch so it's not crucial.
Alex Mayer, Chris Lagane, Hasani Hennis, Akil Campbell & Josh Gayral all need PT Loans. We believe this will be possible, and crucial to the project.
Speaking of Mayer, apparently you can anger a rider over a 50k difference in Wage offer vs Request. He leveraged his position as the future key to this project and banked 10k wage increase.
Wolverine also got himself a wage increase, along with Jay Major. Again, key pieces to the team and they knew it, forcing our hand rather than risking losing our identity as a team to the Free Agency.
Heading into Transfers we are looking at holding 14 riders on the team (once you remove Ewan and the Loan Outs). So we will need one more at least, and we'll be wide open to take some Loan Ins. We're not worried about promotion, this is a long term project and our focus is on development.
Full Pre-Transfers Team
Spoiler
Nat.
Name
FL
MO
HI
TT
ST
RS
RC
CB
SP
AC
FG
DH
PR
OVR
XP
Age
Caleb Ewan
75
62
71
60
73
71
80
70
83
81
63
71
73
79.28
4.100
28
Alexandor Cataford
74
72
70
79
75
75
73
67
60
69
67
71
79
76.38
4.100
29
Logan Owen
73
65
69
62
73
71
72
78
64
71
68
74
64
75.26
4.100
27
Alexandre Mayer
68
69
76
70
64
71
70
61
72
76
75
60
71
74.55
4.20
24
Jay Major
74
50
66
57
74
70
74
70
77
78
62
66
64
74.39
4.100
27
Christopher Lagane
69
69
75
66
68
70
63
65
74
75
68
62
65
74.31
4.17
24
Darren Matthews
72
61
66
70
70
67
71
75
76
76
74
66
74
73.3
4.100
31
Kim Le Court
69
69
76
60
67
70
68
62
64
66
76
70
61
72.52
4.100
26
Hasani Hennis
67
67
70
74
70
70
69
69
74
75
69
68
74
72.31
4.11
25
Akil Campbell
73
63
68
75
67
67
67
72
68
73
67
66
74
72.21
4.11
26
Joshua Gayral
72
65
71
70
69
70
71
70
70
71
74
62
70
71.8
4.36
25
Andrew Norbert
71
67
69
69
73
73
60
55
72
71
70
68
71
71.45
3.79
24
Jonathan Croes
64
71
72
71
70
68
68
56
62
64
65
69
71
70.34
3.44
25
Nathan Alexander
71
70
71
69
69
68
69
60
61
66
66
68
69
70.32
3.34
24
Kristian Vanderpool
68
64
64
75
63
64
61
60
60
63
62
62
76
70.06
4.100
27
Jacob Kelly
67
63
68
68
67
69
58
67
68
71
74
65
68
69.45
1.62
23
Jacob Morales Ortega
65
69
69
60
68
69
69
55
63
69
69
72
61
69.44
2.69
23
Cristian Perez
69
62
65
72
70
69
69
69
66
68
72
69
72
69.42
3.17
23
Dylan Redy
68
65
69
66
67
67
67
65
68
68
67
65
68
69.12
2.41
23
Kemp Orosco
68
70
68
65
70
64
67
60
63
64
67
63
62
68.14
2.41
23
Marcos Altur was quietly put down for his own, and the games own, good - no-one needs to see the MG's Worst Ever Training Sped again. Well, someone will sign and re-animate his corpse. Perhaps it'll make him good?
Aberasturi and Domene are also casualities of the Spanish revolution. As are David Dekker & Bram Welten, can't have those imperialistic Dutchmen ravaging our wonderful Caribbean lands.
Julian Alaphilippe is gone, although if we knew 25 new French teams would appear we'd have kept him. Edmo also leaves with his head help high.
Jyme Bridges leaves with the Antiguan RR jersey on his shoulders! He was given a heros send-off - a massive rum fuel beach party! You will be missed.
Definitely worried about Wolverine's incoming training now
Ewan's sale will easily cover the renewals fee, and I guess you'll have some money left after that. Great to see that you're committed to this long-term project, though
Some pretty interesting departures, but I guess as everyone relegated to CT you had to find a decent balance between renewals fee and possible selling value... As you say, knowing beforehand that there'd be so many new Frenchies would have made keeping Alaphilippe a no-brainer ^^
Good luck, and hopefully you'll keep avoiding mountains and hills as much as possible
Relegation is never easy, good renewals tho. And it sucks to let Alaphillipe go considering he would made any money from a fine back very easily. We will most likely have a chat or two come transfers!
Looking forward to the Ewan sweepstakes, should be one of the headliners of the transfer season and as someone on the sidelines I'd love a drawn out saga
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant." [PT] Xero Racing
@Mre - Possibly we can find a way to keep Simon Yates training up! At least that part of the deal has worked out.
We did offer Altur equal to his value - turns out he was insulted by our almost minimum wage offer
@BBL - Tried my hardest to get Ewans wages down to the same as Manninen (for a reference) but nope, wasn't happening. And yes, this project is way more fun than when we built a team that could promote to the PT, even if it feels like it will take another four or five years to really see it work out
@Fabi - Be more worried about Wolverine if the 2-stat training limit was removed. Alaphilippe hurts, in part the influx of the French, in part i really liked him as an MG rider who would have been great CT rider with training. But with the heavy RP focus there was no choice in cuts.
@WJ - There's always a chance. And i think i'm more used to relegation than almost any other MG manager at this point!
@jandal - You sure your NZL team doesn't want to poach the Aussie? Won't be too drawn out, first offer i receive goes to thread and from there it's an open auction.
@red - Once Ewan is sold i'm basically there in terms of Wage Cap & and a sale of Cataford would leave me enough to fill out the team before even thinking about Loans, shockingly the Caribbeans are not expensive
This was one of the renewals I was most interested in. I think the cuts all made sense given what the sprinters likely demanded and the pain that Altur caused you last year If you decide to keep Cataford, he and a (presumably?) buffed Wolverine could well headline a push for immediate re-promotion. And else, if you manage to get all those guys maxed this year, your team will look really scary for CT next season. Gonna be rooting for you either way
The Great Big "Great Big Transfers Update #1" Post
Oh my word that was a busy few days of the transfer window. Lots to catch up on!
Departures
Caleb Ewan - 1.65mil to ISA-Hexacta. Scorchio has bagged a bargain deal here. Lots of tears shed in the T3A HQ over this goodbye.
Alex Cataford - 1.25mil to De Stijl Cycling. Jph didn't get a bargain, being only 400k less than Caleb. We wish Alex the best.
Logan Owen - 100k to Isostar-Specialized. Croatia got a better than normal rate, which we'll get to in a moment. Logan can now go after a PT title!
Which adds up to a shockingly neat 3mil profit! And clears 870k from our wage bill. Brings us well under Cap, clears our Fines, and leaves a lot for training. Pretty much perfect result from the Sales.
Alex Mayer & Chris Lagane - Loan to Moser-Sygic. Roman wanted some more help for Sagan so the two Mauritians get a nessesary year in the PT. We are paying their wages, but recouped the Fees.
Akil Campbell - Loan to Zwift Pro Cycling. Mre hit us up in pretty much the first minute of transfers! AK gets his PT season, we save on the wage and put part of the Free from Lagane over to Mre.
Josh Gayral & Hasani Hennis - Loan to Isostar-Specialized. Croatia helps take the two Caribbean riders for a year, and got himself a cut price Wolverine as thanks. We again pay the wages but claim back the fee.
5 PT Loans secured! That's no small feat. We are paying most of the wages, but means we pull in a net 230k in Fees to add to the training fund.
Signings
Abner Gonzalez
66
68
67
60
66
68
60
60
63
64
68
66
61
67.51
1.0
22
Wage 50k - Pot. 5
Abner hails from Puerto Rico, the same as JMO. He's the regions best climbing talent, with good future options for training. We did try and negotiate him an extra year on the regional circuit before moving up to the MG ranks.
Connor White
70
66
68
67
67
68
63
63
67
68
71
72
69
68.98
1.0
23
Wage 60k - Pot. 5
Connor comes from Bermuda, a first for the team. He's a real all-rounder, but we think his future lies in being a combination Lead-Out & Prologue specialist. Certainly lots of skill to work with, even if lacking the high end potential of other nations best talents.
Tyler Cole
70
64
68
70
66
67
63
66
69
70
72
69
69
69.47
2.0
23
Wage 65k - Pot. 4
Tyler is the latest Trinidad & Tobagoan on the squad. We had to work for his signature, but nothing as tough as some of last seasons signings. He's more a time trialist than anything, but some rounding out with extra trainging will make him a strong lead-out as well.
Summary
3 permanent departures. 5 Loan Outs. 3 New Signings. We sit at 15 riders on the roster, so could call transfers finished. However we are eyeing up a couple of Stagieres, and there's the CT Free Rider Draft as well. Heck, we could yet take in a Loanee or two! So we'll be back in a few more days to wrap it all up.
The future of the team is bright, it's just going to take a few years to bring the project together and to a competitive standard. Next step, trying to find PCT capable leading talents & some genuine competitve sprinters and cobblers.
I am sorry I missed the loaning in of Hasani Hennis. I had him in a PCM career (I added him myself ) so I am quite fond of this guy. I was tempted by Abner Gonzalez (for the same reason mind you) but went elsewhere in the end. In the future I do hope I'll see the Bermudan Kaden Hopkins in the game and in your team too. Another soft spot of mine (wow, I have a lot of those).
I was surprised to see you sell Wolverine, I thought he would be a prime candidate to invest all that money into. But as Croatia said, the commitment to having only Carribean (and Mauritian) riders is very impressive. Curious to see where that money goes instead, or if you try to carry as much as possible over to next season when the likes of Mayer and Lagane come back maxed.
@Marco - I never mind some healthy competition, and see it was you i was less annoyed than might have been the case.
@Croatia - Wasn't my initial plan to go 100% Focused this season, but honestly it's made me so much more engaged and motivated with the MG i'll take a couple of years of results pain. Plus i banked over 3mil in fees, training time!
@DarkWolf - A PT team would always be my preference just to ensure reaching Max asap. Hopkins is on my list of possible suggestions for next season. Abner i'd have fought very hard for, so thanks for saving me wage space
@cunego - Yeah it just kind of opened up that way with getting less from Ewan than i hope. Plus i could only train two of his stats so on balance i feel happier spreading the love around my actual focus riders. I couldn't even train Mayer/Lagane next year (can't train just max'd riders) so money has to be spent now!