In this episode Patrick Broe and Benji Naesen preview UAE Team Emirates.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:37 Cian Uijtdebroeks update
11:35 Transfers
25:06 Leadership allocation for Grand Tours
33:35 Classics team
37:05 Scheduling struggles
41:53 Goals for 2024
44:09 Hot takes & over-unders
51:59 Story time & outro
39 Comments
Can't believe Benji missed his chance to utilize his favorite Belgian idiom about "eating off off someone else's plate". Patrick you are forgiven because we all know you are part dingo.
where are we watching all these races ? Any updates ?
uci best team badge is metallic gold on the new kits 🔥
They will win like 23 races…youth is getting stronger and the strongest have been spread out
McNugget wins a classic
The "9th best rider in the world" Marc Hirschi disrespect!
great pod, also loved the story-time lmao
Pogacar being Pogacar because he sometime doesn't follow the layman's common sense. He enjoyed racing all the challenging races. Do you want him to be just another boring Vingegaard?
Pog. Strade, Tirreno, MSR, Flanders, altitude camp, Dauphine, altitude camp. Tour, Olympics, worlds, Lombardy. win the lot 🤣
As to Bernie Eisels job situation, he's a DS at Bora and was active in that role at the Vuelta, but whenever he's not he's a commentator on the german Eurosport broadcast for big races. He did the Giro and the Tour as a commentator this year.
Hot take, Pogi doesn’t top 5 tour. Jonas, Rog, Remoc, Ayuso, Kuss in that order
To put into context the performance of Morgado in his first year of U23, he dragged an injury for most parts of the year. This affected the Giro and he could not compete in LBL which is his favourite race. For the L'Avenir he was not injured but he could not get into shape because of his injuries. Still, after being Vice-World Champion in 2022 in Juniors, he followed with another silver medal in the World Champs in his first year of U23.
if pog does classics then he's doing Flanders. else he may as well do giro
To steal from low hanging American sports talk radio content: let’s play what’s more likely?
A) Pog wins MSR and Paris Roubaix or
B) MVDP wins LBL and Lombardi
Trentin's going to Tudor!
Eating rest food was the favourite hobby of me and my mates at our local pub for a long time during uni years. A few years later I ended up doing a short stint as a dishwasher in a pretty fancy restaurant. Rest assured those plates returning basically untouched got cleaned twice! So for whatever little my opinion is worth, you did the right thing, miss Rouge shouldn't be so upset.
Lets go Morgado. Future star.
My hot take: UAE scoop the 3 Grand Tours
Is bingo bongo tour the binck bank tour?
Lil bit of a shame that you forgot to mention Hirschis 2023 points farming galore shedule. Streets will not forget this season
"Shut up about the sun!"
– Gabe Lewis
I’m a Pogi Stan and him winning RVV was my favorite moment of the season, but I think he should focus on the Tour and the Olympics next year
51:18 Cian stays in Bora, Jonas crashes in Tour and Kuss realises he's American so turns to Gravel – job done, it is possible
Hot take, Pogi takes the Giro and Vuelta, Roglic takes the Tour, Jumbo takes nothing…
I'm going to be heading to Ghent, from Vancouver, for RVV and P-R next year. I'll be checking off your Pull Buddy jerseys on the roads.
When did Thomas say that UAE didn't surpass Ineos?
GIro: Ayuso, Soler, McNulty, Yates. Tour: Pagacar, Majka, Sivokov, Vine, Yates. Vuelta: Ayuso, Soler, Vine.
Transfer Almeida to some team that needs a GC rider and spend the money on a rouleur.
Duel leaders at the giro Ayuso, Yates. At the tour just send vine in every break (Atleast early on) and force other teams to chase. Vuelta Ayuso main leader other two domestique
I’m the Bauhaus of listening to this podcast
Sivakov has made a huge career mistake, its a financial decision for him and a hoard all the competition for UAE. He is going to be part of that group of top GC guys that compete against each other. How is he better than Almeida, McN and Ayuso? Definitely not near Yates.
definitely not play on. never take food served to someone else 🙂
Literally no problem eating the banana bread. I relatively often will take the end of a bottle of wine on the table next to me when they've left. If there's more than 1/4 of the bottle left, it needs to be drunk…
21:50 That one guy trying to work in second group chasing Laurence in U23 world was Svrček. Young Slovak allrounder on Quickstep.
He was having also some knee problem all year so he haven´t got much more good results. But anyway he´s capable of wining something big in the future.
I was a bit disapointed you didn´t mention him in quickstep podcast, because he´s gonna do something next year 🙂
Vine kinda sucks, no way he's useful for Pogi at the tour
Medium warm take, Pogi will have pretty much the same season as this one, win some classics, get dropped by Jonas, and he wins either worlds or Olympics, no grand tour win
So I thought of a crazy format for a race and I'm writing here because I think UAE would do great in it if it were to exist: But picture a one-week-race where instead of a GC, the last 20(?) riders to finish each state gets eliminated out of the time limit and then the last stage there would only be 20 riders (of course, a shorter stage would then be needed) and they would fight for the finish without the help of a lot of domistiques. The general type of stages would be mountainous or hilly but there could be a sprint or classics type stage in there to mix it up.
This format would give rise to new type of tactics and race dynamics and would be fun to see, but unfortunately it is probably a bit too crazy to be executed.
The Banana Bread situation was gold😂 . And allways carry a toothpick. Like Homer
In tdf stage it wasnt raining since the 2021 so two years so i hope it rains only one mountain stage or is just not that hot at two mountain stages.
GIRO: Almeida has a better TT than A. Yates.
General: 2025 Ajuso to Movistar
my hot take, [the man you ignored] marc hirschi wins a monument and two other classics.