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@Jimmy_Fingers
100% agree. I have said the degrees of seperation between doper and clean in the pro-peloton is tiny but hiring Yates, Barry and Rogers is a huge gaff from Sky. We can of course add Leinders to that list, and Possoni. I really, really don't think Sky are doping in the manner of USPS but a huge question mark remains over Rogers: he was a Ferrari client in 2005 and yet in 2012 he claiming he's in the best form of his life? Marginal gains v EPO? Hmmm
That said when the shit hits the fan the shit lands everywhere. Astana, Orica, Liquigas, Katusha, Rabobank and RSNT all are tainted, as much if not worse than Sky. I loled when I read Bruyneel successor is someone that has the rare accolade of being banned for life (by a lenient, look-the-other-way UCI) for failing tests a total of eight times. White's successor is someone implicated in the Festine affair. It's the equivalent of lifting up a rock and watch them all scurry for cover.
You have to wonder how the sport needs to move forward. A purge? In which case you decimate the ranks of the peloton and others in the team, or amnesty for those come forward, bring everything out into the open and make sure the sports moves forward clean. We know the peloton is slower so doping is less prevalent, we have characters like Vaughters (someone I do value) saying the peloton is much cleaner, we can hope that the exposure of Lance's cheating should discourage anyone seeking that way to achieve success