Sam Bennett - no same day spoilers

27-01-2019 11:03PM

Ha yeah that's fair point.

RobFowl · 28-01-2019 10:07AM

Suspect Sagan is a rubbish lead out man but thats just me....

Solid start to the season and looks in decent shape.

mr spuckler · 28-01-2019 01:06PM

https://twitter.com/Sammmy_Be/status/1089672784358318085

02-02-2019 10:38PM

Sam was best of the rest today in 4th place. Gotta love it when the breakaway gets it, was a hell of a finish on the motor racing circuit.

dahat · 02-02-2019 10:44PM

That was a great watch, mad speeds from breakaway & peleton.

02-02-2019 10:48PM

dahat wrote: »

That was a great watch, mad speeds from breakaway & peleton.

71kmph when lotto soudal went on the front at one point.

dahat · 02-02-2019 10:57PM

Bennett must be annoyed coming away from there with nothing as is clearly in good form.

03-02-2019 10:31PM

Have some of that !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good man Sam.

cunavalos · 03-02-2019 10:33PM

Wow ... Definitely one of his better wins, balked by Hodeg and had the legs to go again

Bambaata · 03-02-2019 10:33PM

Thought he'd missed the opportunity there. Hopefully see an overhead replay to see how the hell he got out to sprint

dahat · 03-02-2019 10:34PM

Damn!

Fell asleep on the couch and totally forgot about this.

03-02-2019 10:37PM

dahat wrote: »

Damn!

Fell asleep on the couch and totally forgot about this.

Flick over now for the replay. All you need to see, it was laps on a ring road.

03-02-2019 10:39PM

Oh he took a bump and had a word for the quickstep leadout man.

Beasty · 02-03-2019 12:36PM

Enjoyed that - seemed to appear out of no-where

De Bhál · 02-03-2019 12:39PM

Beasty wrote: »

Enjoyed that - seemed to appear out of no-where

I had last 20km on in the background and I didn't hear his name mentioned once until 5m from the line

02-03-2019 12:43PM

It's a fine one given the field there this week.

dahat · 02-03-2019 01:10PM

There is a picture doing the roads on Twitter of 50m from the line, he was well behind and delivered his sprint & throw perfectly.

gman2k · 04-03-2019 06:56PM

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/racing/sam-bennett-first-worldtour-win-2019-contract-year-cant-hurt-409442

1bryan · 05-03-2019 08:15AM

A contract year, in the same year Sky are disbanding. Not good.

Still, I'm sure he'll be fine. Can't see him staying at Bora, but he'll be grand.

CramCycle · 05-03-2019 10:47AM

1bryan wrote: »

A contract year, in the same year Sky are disbanding. Not good.

Still, I'm sure he'll be fine. Can't see him staying at Bora, but he'll be grand.

I thought Sky had arranged a tapered withdrawal, not sure if they found another investor, some billionaire was hinted at in the papers the other day.

terrydel · 05-03-2019 10:50AM

CramCycle wrote: »

I thought Sky had arranged a tapered withdrawal, not sure if they found another investor, some billionaire was hinted at in the papers the other day.

A marginal withdrawal?

Macy0161 · 05-03-2019 11:28AM

1bryan wrote: »

A contract year, in the same year Sky are disbanding. Not good.

Still, I'm sure he'll be fine. Can't see him staying at Bora, but he'll be grand.

Surely worse case scenario is him staying at Bora? Someone like Direct Energie mightn't be a bad fit, if he had to drop a level (I can't recall their current sprinter) - they get a lot of world tour races. Or EF - he's better than Modolo or McClay, English speaking, plenty of own chances...

1bryan · 05-03-2019 11:33AM

CramCycle wrote: »

I thought Sky had arranged a tapered withdrawal, not sure if they found another investor, some billionaire was hinted at in the papers the other day.

some Colombian lad, I saw that too, but nothing concrete yet, as far as I'm aware.

1bryan · 05-03-2019 11:34AM

Macy0161 wrote: »

Surely worse case scenario is him staying at Bora? Someone like Direct Energie mightn't be a bad fit, if he had to drop a level (I can't recall their current sprinter) - they get a lot of world tour races. Or EF - he's better than Modolo or McClay, English speaking, plenty of own chances...

I'd expect his ambitions would be higher than either of those. Not sure what kind of salary he's on but I'd expect both those teams (and pro-continentals in general) don't have much budget for anything more than an average salary.

neris · 05-03-2019 12:24PM

Cofidis next year looks like Bouhani will getting his p45

dahat · 05-03-2019 12:59PM

Trek could be the best call as the other major sprint teams look full. Whereever he goes he will look for top billing & command a decent wage.

cunavalos · 05-03-2019 01:18PM

Personally if i was Douglas Ryder, i would be looking to free up Cavendish's salary and sign Bennett to Dimension Data

Macy0161 · 05-03-2019 02:16PM

cunavalos wrote: »

Personally if i was Douglas Ryder, i would be looking to free up Cavendish's salary and sign Bennett to Dimension Data

From what I've heard, Cavendish's basic salary isn't that high this year - it's built around bonuses.

terrydel · 05-03-2019 03:23PM

Weepsie wrote: »

He'd be doing well to get anything close to Cavendish in terms of pay. 5 classics, a monument, a World Champion, points jersey in all 3 GCs, 48 GC stages and an Olympic medalist.

What he brings in sponsorship interest alone from some parts might cover the teams running costs.

Bennett for all his undoubted talent doesn't have that level of profile going for him. Though that's not all his own fault having only been able to ride 4 GCs so far.

Bennett isnt in the same galaxy as Cavendish in terms of profile, achievements, marketability or anything else that matters in terms of earning power.

brocbrocach · 05-03-2019 03:39PM

terrydel wrote: »

Bennett isnt in the same galaxy as Cavendish in terms of profile, achievements, marketability or anything else that matters in terms of earning power.

But Cav isn't winning races (for now anyway). You have to factor in that he needs at least 2 others as a sprinting entourage so that basically leaves your team three or four riders down.

If they put some of those resources towards Bennett he'd win races and that's something Dim Data needs badly.

Sam Bennett - no same day spoilers

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