RobNewcastle
Senior Member
You may be right. Sky riders (Porte especially) were accused of still occupying their usual roles in the train even after they changed teams, so I wonder if Froome will take up his usual position as "train driver" behind his former Ineos teammates, maybe sending some of ISN's climbers into breakaways for later slingshot after an attack... I also wonder how Ineos will handle that, as the obvious would be their usual co-leaders doing one-two punches to try to wear Froome down chasing, but that won't work if ISN can indeed sign someone as good as Nieve so Froome and Nieve can mark one each.
Oh, I really hope Froome is as opportunistic as he's seemed at times during the last couple of years and as stubborn as he's often looked. I'd really like to see what someone like that could do with recent inside knowledge of Ineos if they tried to fark them up. I think he'll stop short of a Movistar-style attack while Ineos's leader is crashed but that's about it.
Nevertheless, I expect lots of bland interviews from both INS and ISN about how everyone is still good friends right up to the day where Froome tries something cynical.
Porte and Nieve make sense, good, long-standing relationships. Porte could go back to his usual role for Froome but still have plenty of cracks at week long races and maybe Vuelta etc. Nieve is the ever dependable climber. I saw an article online about other possible options:https://www.cyclingnews.com/feature...elp-chris-froome-win-the-2021-tour-de-france/ ..............Izagirre brothers are solid climbers too There must have been long discussions about additional recruitment before he signed. It’ll be interesting to see who joins from August. Porte nailed on for me.