ProTour Punditry Predictions

[Pro Tour Punditry]

GC - Froome
KOM - Konig
Sprint - Greipel
Lantern Rouge - Mouris

1 - Greipel
2 - Haussler
3 - Konig
4 - Seb. Chavanel
5 - Froome
6 - Haussler

 

[themosquitoking]

If i may join in with this one i'd like to go for

Red Jersey - Rodriguez
Green Jersey - Sagan
Green and Red Jersey - Sagan
Lantern Rouge - Robert Wagner

1 - Bouhanni
2 - Greipel
3 - Rodriguez
4 - Sagan
5 - Rodriguez
6 - Greipel

 

[smutchin]

Most aggressive (do we go for this, since there is no climber jersey??): Kadri

I reckon just GC and points, if that's OK with everyone. Keep it simple.

Sorry for slacking off on the organising front! I'll get the predictions into my spreadsheet asap. Looks like I've missed the boat myself on this one seeing as it's now technically past the deadline. Doh! Never mind. Give you all a chance to get some points in the bank before I hit top gear and toast you all when the Grand Tours come around...

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

We should have had "most sandy town"

 

[montage]

Are we sure about the lack of climbers jersey?... the fact a kom jersey was handed out today seems to suggest otherwise

 

[SWSteve]

Greipel wins Stage 1!

 

[The Couch]

Are we sure about the lack of climbers jersey?... the fact a kom jersey was handed out today seems to suggest otherwise

I thought the first 2 stages didn't even have mountains?!?
(but if you saw it, I'll believe it)

 

[rich p]

Greipel gets most of us up and running with points in the bag!

 

[montage]

"Van Hecke (TSV) was first at the top of Al Rustaq climb at 56.5km to claim the first KOM jersey of the race, with the peloton at 4:05."

 

[The Couch]

...
Stage 2: Bouhanni
...
Would have liked to have given Kristoff and Konig a shot, but decided only to play two "wildcards"

You got some good gut feelings (it worked wonderfully with Gerrans last time as well), but you need to stick to them

...
Lantern rouge: I might as well be looking for a needle in a hay stack, but here we go: Ilesic (who?? do you think... indeed that's what my hope is based on )
...

I on the other hand pick the guy that is so fresh he even goes into the attack today

 

[montage]

You got some good gut feelings (it worked wonderfully with Gerrans last time as well), but you need to stick to them

I on the other hand pick the guy that is so fresh he even goes into the attack today

I had him down for stage 2 as well before a last minute change of heart

 

[smutchin]

Just a quick points update: no points for anyone on stage 2, so it's @rich p @The Couch @Crackle @ItsSteveLovell @Marmion and @montage currently joint leaders on 5pts for picking Greipel on stage 1.

I'm a bit confused about this KOM business. I can't find any official information regarding a KOM classification in the race - it's certainly not listed in the jerseys information on the official website. If anyone can point me to any corroborating evidence that it actually exists, I'll include the predictions made for it in the scores. Otherwise I won't!

 

[smutchin]

Better make some predictions of my own for the remaining stages...

Stage 3: Sagan
Stage 4: Rodriguez
Stage 5: Nibbles
Stage 6: Greipel

 

[SWSteve]

Ahh, no such thing as KOM jersey, just that 'Most attacking rider' rubbish to draw people out on the intermediates.

Maybe everyone's KOM nomination get's recycled as a second points jersey nomination... or we all accept we are numpties and nothing happens

 

[themosquitoking]

The whole mess scared me so much i just put down the jersey colour.