Australia NT season 4

[Vos]

Australia : 3rd place in the ranking by nations. 
Twice a podiumplace in your 2 seasons as NT manager. Well done, Miguel, Australia is very proud of you.

[miguel11gh]

Thanks!
I´ll be back 

Today some points with a free rider, that saws that the tactic was good but the lider not so good as I thought. It was difficult to choice well. It is a very difficult stage to know the % of each skill.

1    Lenny Ford      22   0: 00"   300      SentinelChickens
2    Dré Degrande      22   0: 08"   250      Cabrasverdes
3    Didzis Valters      22   0: 08"   225      Van_pintxaos
4    Julius Maalderink      22   0: 17"   200      Combuijs
5    Alessandro Marchetti      22   0: 22"   180      Ares
6    Dean Joly      22   0: 22"   160      Gloucester
7    Mihails Pumpurs      22   0: 22"   150      Van_pintxaos
8    Marcello Peron      22   0: 25"   140      EuskaPiero
9    Boudewijn De Graaf      22   0: 25"   130      Gloucester
10    Noah Nelisse      22   0: 25"   120      Cabrasverdes
11    Tim Jessen      22   0: 25"   110      SoldiersFromAbove
12    Arjen Rutte      22   0: 25"   100      Combuijs
13    Jake Farmer      22   0: 25"   90      SentinelChickens
14    Kamiel Anneessens      22   0: 25"   80      Cabrasverdes
15    Kirk Byers      22   0: 31"   70      FinoCyclingTeam
16    Robin Crone      22   0: 31"   60      EuskaPiero
17    Jake Coburn      22   0: 31"   40      Antequera
18    Ladin Galunov      22   0: 31"   30      °Peachy°Melocotons
19    Reinhardt Kahn      22   0: 31"   20      azerite
20    Austris Stirna      22   0: 31"   10      Marineros

[Franky]

3 medals in 3 seasons!!!!!! And 2 in 2 for Miguel! Well done!!

As Miguel, I have to say "See you later", I won't continue doing the previews as this was an agreement with Miguel, same with the rankings and so...

Good luck to Aurora in the new period as Australian NT.

[Aurora Australis]

My TTers, having gained 1135 points this season, are hiding a considerable deficiency in the Australian squad.  In 5 races, Australia gained a mere 380 points, which puts us at around Russia's level.  There's a lack of depth in our field, and few younger cyclists coming through to strengthen this in many key areas.  This will create difficulties in maintaining the rankings, particularly when my cyclists aren't able to hide the deficiencies because of a calendar not suiting them.

Of course what this also means, is that there are underappreciated opportunities for those who do promote Australian cyclists to feature in NT in upcoming seasons, and we should be doing more to sell these opportunities.

[Vos]

Today golden climb-TT-specialist Benett ( SPORTLIFE ) takes the 1st position in the Dream Team.
And today a second Australian in the Dream Team ; nr10 TT = flat-TT-specialist Levin ( Aurora_Australis ).
( as everyone knows ; climb-TT is much higher rated as flat-TT in the DT )
Unfortunately no other Aussies in the DT. A long time ago we had 2 in the hills list and 1 in the cobble list, if I remember correctly.

[Vos]

Australian TT points in all NT seasons :

golden season 2 --> 510 in flat TT and 230 in hills-TT =  740
bronze season 3 --> 700 in flat TT, just 1 TT-NT-race =  700
bronze season 4 --> 740 in flat TT and 645 in hills-TT =  1.385 

Hopefully Benett will make his debut for Australia next season, because that means there will be a climb-TT for the first time.

[Franky]

Today golden climb-TT-specialist Benett ( SPORTLIFE ) takes the 1st position in the Dream Team.
And today a second Australian in the Dream Team ; nr10 TT = flat-TT-specialist Levin ( Aurora_Australis ).
( as everyone knows ; climb-TT is much higher rated as flat-TT in the DT )
Unfortunately no other Aussies in the DT. A long time ago we had 2 in the hills list and 1 in the cobble list, if I remember correctly.

Denis Mitchum was there the first weeks of the game...then obviously were going down in the list (he always trained at 70%)

[Vos]

Unfortunately just 1 time trial (flat) NT race this season, that starts in Australia with a hills NT race.
It seems to me this is not a favorable calendar, but it is up to new NT manager Aurora_Australis to asses this. Good luck, AA !