Roman Noses Ahead at Amstel Gold

Like many a Fantasy Cycling Manager, I’ve dabbled with a bit of Roman Kreuziger in my time. He’s a rider who obviously has a lot of talent, but he always seems to let me down when I pick him for the Bile Beans. He finally got himself a big win yesterday - though not while in my team obviously. He won Amstel Gold with a crafty move in the last 20 km and held off the likes of Gilbert, Valverde and Gerrans as they tore up the Cauberg.

Not doing so well yesterday was podium-girl groper Peter Sagan, who struggled with the warm temperatures and finished a lowly 36th.

The narrow, twisty and car strewn roads of Eastern Holland also took out several riders in crashes. Taking a knock was last year’s Fleche Torpedo, Joaquin Rodriguez. He didn’t break anything, but is reported to have a big old bruise. I was going to transfer him into the Bile Beans, but now I’m not so sure. Also down went Plucky-Punchuer and Vestan-Vexer Thomas Voeckler. Off to hospital he went. And his broken collarbone will put him out of action for the rest of the Spring Classics – a bummer if you picked him I’m sure.

Although the Bile Beans missed out on the win, I still had Gerrans, Gilbert, Henao and Kwiatkowski in the top ten. So top score for the day went to me. Just.

Rank	Team	Score
1	Bile Beans	107
2	Fulgas	100
3	Mungo Cycling	99
4	Rouleurs	65
5	Evil Chanbots	42
6	Caffe Americano	41
7	ENRICO 666	26
8	synergy	24
9	vicarious victors	24
10	Bodged blaggards!	5
11	KLOEFEKAPPERS	0

And in the overall, the Bile Beans have regained pole position. Just.

Rank		Team	Directeur	Score
1		Bile Beans	Vestan Pance	794
2		Rouleurs	tdm911	787
3		Evil Chanbots	Danny Chan	682
4		Fulgas	Vincent Lavallee	652
5		Mungo Cycling	Mungo	648
6		KLOEFEKAPPERS	Jan Van Belleghem	583
7		ENRICO 666	Erik Mortier	535
8		Caffe Americano	Sherwood	534
9		synergy	Adrian Leggett	372
10		vicarious victors	eddy wu	310
11		Bodged blaggards!	Warwick Anderson	253

So as we head into the last two races of the Fantasy Classics series, it’s still tight at the top, and there’s some close scores further down the table too. Still plenty to play for. Fleche-Wallone on Wednesday, and it looks like Sagan has decided to ride. That should save me a transfer.