Tour de France

Brailsford (the 'great cycling supremo', who basically knows nowt about cycling but has a big wedge to buy riders and staff who do) 

Dave Brailsford may, in your opinion, know nowt about cycling, but he is savy enough about the sport to hire/engage many who do. Not all great managers have been world winners in their respective sports, but have guided their teams to world leaders/success, eg Alex Ferguson & Jose Marino in soccer, Eddie Jones & Clive Woodward in Rugby Union.

Yawn.......

Yawn.......

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On a separate point......Chris Froome giving a left hook to an idiotic guy running at the side of him.......excellent! 

On that we agree   

Definately worth 200 Swiss Francs 

On a seperate note. Why am I in Berne four days after the Tour ?  Pee poor planning, that's why.  

Now we've reached the first day, who of our selectors lie where:-

1 Goldie - Froome           2 IanH - Quintana

6 tda - Bardet                11 HughR - TeeJay

13 Runrig - Aru              14 SteveL - Porte

15 nth - Barguil              152 - Pliers

Gone Home Kennine - Contador

Wonder if it will be the same by the time of the next rest day.

Sorry, Pliers, missed out your rider - Kittel.

Great performance today by Peter Sagan.

Stage won by Michael Matthews, who wheel-sucked his way to victory.

No real change to tbe overall standings.

Le tour came alive today, great breakaway, Sagan wasted energy by pacing the breakaway group.and had little energy for the final sprint. Matthews took advantage and IMO stole the race without working for it.

Sky was the usual boring procession. Makes it extremely disappointing for the cycling fans.

K

Le tour came alive today, great breakaway, Sagan wasted energy by pacing the breakaway group.and had little energy for the final sprint. Matthews took advantage and IMO stole the race without working for it.

Sky was the usual boring procession. Makes it extremely disappointing for the cycling fans.

K

Not there job to attack the breakaway, they have the Yellow Jersey and as long as the time gap was not too large there's no need to pull them back. There were other teams with specialised sprinters who should have lead the chase so as to give their main man the chance of a win.

Orica, with having 3 men in the breakaway, worked the hex on Sagan. Plenty of work done by Durbridge and Impey when the group were cut to 7 men to ensure that Matthews was in the right place at the right time. Sagan was too keen to try and break up that final bunch and used up just too much energy to enable him to win the stage.

Sagan rode his socks of today, and did brilliant to take second, but he knew how it would play out after he split the break, but not Oreca.

Reminded me of a Paris-Roubaix of about 15 years ago when George Hincapie was pre-race favourite and in a break, but had three or four Domo riders to contend with. He had to chase every attack, but Knaven (or was it Museuw) just stayed on his wheel to steal the win. No way to win against three.