Scheldeprijs: Cav's Kick Can't Contain Kittel

While the strongmen of the peloton look to the Ronde and Roubaix to prove themselves, the sprinters have the Scheldeprijs to aim for.  For the Fantasy Cycling managers among us, the race presents a bit of a dilemma;  to field a full squad you have to use up a lot of transfers, only to have to change your team again in time for Paris-Roubaix.  And it’s only a Cat 2 race, so not as many points on offer.

 

Cat 1			Cat 2
Position	Points		Position	Points
1st	40		1st	25
2nd	34		2nd	20
3rd	30		3rd	18
4th	26		4th	16
5th	24		5th	14
6th	22		6th	12
7th	20		7th	10
8th	18		8th	9
9th	16		9th	8
10th	14		10th	7
11th	12		11th	6
12th	10		12th	5
13th	8		13th	4
14th	7		14th	3
15th	6		15th	2
16th	5		16th	1
17th	4
18th	3
19th	2
20th	1

 

I’d thought I’d just go with the one transfer and try my luck with Cav  today.  He’s been going well lately and Omega Pharma-Quickstep could do with a win after Tom Boonen’s poor season so far.  Not to mention the fact that Cav would have won some kind of diamond encrusted trophy for taking a fourth win in the race, which is good motivation I am sure.  Cav and his team were looking good, but it all went  pear-shaped in the lead-out.  He was too far back and even though he managed to overtake just about everyone, he didn’t overtake last year’s winner Marcel Kittel.  

He may have been happy with the win - especially as his form so far this year has been underwhelming -  but on the podium, poor Marcel was assaulted by two girls.  They attacked his face like he was made of bacon.

 

Cav was a popular pick today by those in the know. But Fulgas did best with a Kittel-Cav combo.

 

Rank	Team	Score
1	Fulgas	45
2	Rouleurs	39
3	Bodged blaggards!	35
4	Bile Beans	21
5	Caffe Americano	2
6	Evil Chanbots	2
7	ENRICO 666	1
8	Mungo Cycling	1
9	KLOEFEKAPPERS	0
10	synergy	0
11	vicarious victors	0

 

In the overall the Rouleurs opening up a handy gap, but at least I’ve managed to just pull away from the Kloefekappers a little.

 

Rank		Team	Directeur	Score
1		Rouleurs	tdm911	500
2		Bile Beans	Vestan Pance	449
3		KLOEFEKAPPERS	Jan Van Belleghem	428
4		Evil Chanbots	Danny Chan	408
5		ENRICO 666	Erik Mortier	405
6		Fulgas	Vincent Lavallee	394
7		Caffe Americano	Sherwood	304
8		synergy	Adrian Leggett	233
9		Mungo Cycling	Mungo	229
10		vicarious victors	eddy wu	210
11		Bodged blaggards!	Warwick Anderson	196

 

 

Paris-Roubaix on Sunday.  Spartacus is the hot favorite, but he did crash today and looked to have lost some arse skin.  

 

At the moment it looks like the chance of rain in Roubaix on Sunday is 0%. Bugger.