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I'd like to know how you'd get him to do a turn?
In Quickstep's situation you roll out repeated attacks or just keep him guessing who's going and/or chasing.
Do you even #armchairds ?
miro_o-
Yeah, that's what I'm saying, but you said Stannard must've been beaten up for 40km by quickstep which he really wasn't, he sat on and only had to close a gap once or twice until the last 2km.
You don't make him do a turn, but you do make him chase attacks, I think EQS were too worries about the chasers (who would've been shattered by the time they bridged, and if they did attack, Stybar had just sat on their wheels so could've covered)
Only one rider, ideally Boonen (who's got the sprint), needed to be fresh, they should've started attacking him in the last 10km
And clearly from the above, i definitely do #armchairds
@Colin_the_Bald they did, but not as much they actually did, like I say, Stybar's presence should've made them attack Stannard more
noBlakes
about 2km, he sat on till the end, did absolutely no pulling in that 4, same as Stybar with Van Arvermendt and Van Marcke.
Tactically I have no clue why Boonen attacked, leave that to Terpstra and Vandernbergh, leave Stannard to smoke himself chasing whilst sitting on his wheel and then come round him at the end.
How a "classics squad" fucked up that bad is beyond me