Scores on the Dwars

Another race, and another chance for everyone to get cold and wet on the roads of Northern Europe.

There are few things in cycling more heartbreaking than watching someone’s plucky attack get caught just before the line. Unless of course that somebody is showboating bell-end Thomas Voeckler, and even then I was a bit sympathetic to his plight.

That’s racing though, and Oscar Gatto won the dash for the line as little Tommy’s legs gave out in the last few meters.

I was feeling pretty smug heading into the Dwars door Vlaanderen. I spent an embarrassingly long time checking out who was going to be riding the first 4 races. I was only going to be three riders light of a full squad, and I only used up one transfer. Things started to go wrong before the race even started though. Sylvain Chavanel decided not to start as he had a touch of the sniffles. Then my one transfer, Alex Dowsett came to grief during the race and banged up his knee – I hope he’s better for on Friday. Then none of my riders did very well at all, despite Ian Stannard being a big strong donkey for much of the race.

It was mostly low scores all-around in the league, but the Kloefekappers and Enrico 666 and did pretty nicely, thanks to an Oscar Gatto hunch. Also up there were the Evil Chanbots, but Danny used up a ton of transfers to field a full team and came away with little to show for it. So scores for the day.

Kloefekappers 47

Enrico 666 55

Chanbots 23

Mungo 19

Bile Beans 12

Rouleurs 6

Everyone else 0

And the overall, where the Kloefekappers are in the lead, Bile Beans are down to second, and Enrico 666 are close behind in third spot. I looked up Kloefekappers on a well known on-line translation service, which informed me it means "Kloefekappers". Thanks, well known on-line translation service, very helpful. Maybe it's because Flemish isn't an option, but I'll just have to take a wild guess that it means "Cloth Cappers".

Rank		Team	Directeur	Score
1		KLOEFEKAPPERS	Jan Van Belleghem	168
2		Bile Beans	Vestan Pance	148
3		ENRICO 666	Erik Mortier	144
4		Evil Chanbots	Danny Chan	129
5		Rouleurs	tdm911	119
6		synergy	Adrian Leggett	110
7		Fulgas	Vincent Lavallee	98
8		vicarious victors	eddy wu	88
9		Mungo Cycling	Mungo	73
10		Caffe Americano	Sherwood	68
11		Bodged blaggards!	Warwick Anderson	20

The fun continues on Friday with, E3 Harelbeke. And we should see a few more big names out on the roads, as Sagan, Cancellara and Boonen are all down on the start sheet after skipping the race today. I hear it might be cold and wet again. Time for some transfers?