Sam Bennett - no same day spoilers

Which issues over the years was PLF to be found to be wrong or lying ? Ignore the salesman talk when he plays poor mouth about difficulty in getting sponsors

list all these examples over the years .

Odd that you’d have such superior insight for a chap who had no links or dealings with any personnel on the world tour

Wrong , in hindsight in news that we know now , a month later . Lying ? No. How could he ?

If Bennett acted professionally and manned up and told the team the truth (I have addressed all that above ) , this wouldn’t have been an issue . Jesus Sam couldn’t even give a straight answer for the reason that he missed the plane to attend Belgium Tour pre Tour meeting . He shouldn’t have missed it either , but that’s life and it happens . He didn’t go out of his way to catch another flight the next day and he gave contradictory explanation - good luck pulling those stunts at your work place (unless you are self employed )

Bennett failed to provide evidence as to the extent of his injury and refused to meet with the team selectors and medics - what else were they suppose to do and think at the time of running his mouth off ? PLF is loud and a bit too direct

It’s Sam’s conduct , and not the injury itself , that bears the brunt of PLF’s criticism . PLF clearly also had enough of Sam’s babbling and self doubt persona before the media

Total lack of respect and no other team would have tolerated it / they might have been less public about it but the bridges would have burned

Liar ? Serious claim to make

I know you weren’t the one to raise the claim “has said over the years you'd almost have to be a friend or family member to automatically believe his assessment of any situation.” But got any other examples of assessments “over the years”

“I'm trying hard to understand where there is "behaviour and lack of respect to the team". Behaviour and lack of respect can be demonstrated verbally but Sam has said nothing publicly so this is not the case here. I would say he has been very professional in not commenting on PLFs outbursts. So this leaves us with what we know about his actions.”

You clearly aren’t trying hard enough

1. team isn’t just the riders
2. Ignoring and refusing to adhere to team protocol and failing to attend team meetings to update them on his injury and giving contradictory explanations for those failures show complete disrespect for the team - particularly considering what they did for him - he’d have been rotting at Tour of Turkey 2020 and maybe a run at Vuelta (he inability to ride better races has nothing to do with any issues of Sam’s ability / make that clear before his fan boys display their speculator lying skills again)

Sam can’t say a lot to defend the indefendable here . If what was said was untrue , that would damage most riders bar maybe Sagan , as not many teams would want to touch that .

If what was said was untrue , you’d be damn sure the McQuids (his agent) would be suing and running to their pals in the press to get their POV across - as they would have every right to do in that case

It’s his actions or specifically his inactions and not his words that drew the ire of PLF and the rest of staff and charge of unprofessionalism

Its a great pity because even if Sam missed the rest of the season and left the team , he could still have said that he had a terrific season pre Tour . 2020 was his year and this had left a soar note

PLF could have handled it better but , he is who he is . He has reasonable grounds to be pissed off with Bennett (again, not because he got injured )

If you have an issue with time lines , take it up with someone else ! Lying ? How ?

The injury had not been conclusively confirmed when he made the comments .

He expressed his his view when asked to comment about question marks over Sam’s availability , which Sam had not conclusively confirmed at that point ; concerning , in Sam’s public media words “minor incident during training” which caused a “short term injury”

Sam acted in a weak and unprofessional professional (long list given above) . Leading up to the event . You try that with HR at your workplace (where they are entitled to assess you themselves and seek proofs ) see how far you’d get .

There was still doubt as to the extent of the injury. Sam himself gave vague comments to the press leaving some hope that he’d line up at the last minute

That’s not **** on! Not returning calls from your boss is a sackable offence

This is the TDF not community games or some domestic race . It’s bad show when the team doctors and team owner can’t confirm or deny , within barely two weeks before the TDF (time of statements) whether their star man is going to turn up to the biggest race

Its pretty weak to be stringing people along !

And it’s pretty unfair on Cav to all of a sudden be mentally ready to do TDF at short notice (well, lesser guys would have got scared . He was only too delighted)

There’d have been no suggestions or implications that he was faking it if Bennett and his team made it clear that he was injured to the extent that he couldn’t even chance the first week - even then PLF wouldn’t put out their guy only for him to quit early.

Its not the first time out of contract riders through a stripe and refuse to ride , even for the TDF . Plf had very reason to be suspicious and every right to call out the lack of respect that was shown to him and the team