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@Jimmy_Fingers
Thank you Miro, someone who saw what I was driving at, thought I was going mad.
And Dan clearly you don't. I haven't been slagging him at all, rather expressing frustration he's playing second fiddle to Porte. As far as the rider goes, I've spent the best part of three years vigorously defending him in other parts on the Internet.
As for goal-orientation, what are they? Last year it was the Giro and and Tour double wasn't it? Then he faded at he Giro, popped up to claim second at the Worlds ITT (combined with a dreadful showing at the World's RR) before winning the ToB. This year we've heard talk of Paris-Roubaix, talk of supporting Froome at the Tour, talk of riding the Vuelta, although seemingly to build form for the Worlds again. But nothing really concrete, the rider himself doesn't seem to know and his team looks clueless how to best deploy him. He's not part of the core of the classics squad and seems to be on the periphery of the stage-racing team. I'll lay a bet now he won't make the Tour, for all his talk.
I just want the Wiggins back that I loved watching ride in 2009, 2011 and 2012 rather than this confusing, dithering rider I watch today. And for the record I was saying similar things about him last year, not to slag him off but rather to hope a hero of mine returns to the pomp I enjoyed watching so much.