Now The Video games Start!

The FSA DS submission deadline has handed, however the enjoying is nearly to start out

Whew! I don’t learn about you however because the one answering password requests and different emails, I’m actually glad now we have the entry deadline behind us and might begin the enjoyable of truly enjoying the 2023 FSA Directeur Sportif! Use this thread to inform us about your squad. I’ll edit it in a bit so as to add within the stats, though you might beat me to it in feedback.

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My workforce has 4 predominant options:

• I needed to take Remco once more as my GC man. I can’t say no to the man, for no matter motive, and anyway he did so proper by me final 12 months. Certain, he’s no Pogs, however he’s form of Valverdean in that he’s tremendous dependable for scoring factors. Very excessive flooring, assuming he stays off it.

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• I needed to take Mathieu van der Poel, as a result of he’s merely my favourite rider and he dropped out of the double restricted zone this 12 months as a result of some again bother whereas we have been doing the pricing. He’s high-quality for now, though nonetheless working along with his medical doctors to unravel the continued subject. Fingers crossed.
• I took 5 People — all the large names besides Sepp Kuss. I simply actually like all of them — Powless, Jorgenson, McNulty, Simmons and Sheffield. I do know for positive I’m going to be rooting for them, so it would as properly profit me. [Yes, I have moved on from Simmons’ politics.] As my workforce identify says, I’m So Bored With the USA (however What Can I Do?).
• Lastly, I predict Jonathan Milan will likely be a very powerful younger rider this 12 months. Johnny Milan appears like a superhero, and he appears to be like like one on the observe too. I’m all in! [Or he will waste his time doing track, but whatever.]

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On the ladies’s aspect I simply piled on a bunch of Dutch athletes round my new fave Silvia Persico. Group deal with is the Ongoing Dutch Hegemony, which for older members right here you’ll recall me happening and on about how Dutch males have been about to take over the game within the aughts. [And Lars Boom would become President of the Netherlands.] Effectively, it didn’t occur fairly to that dramatic extent, however on the ladies’s aspect, the dominance is getting out of hand. So why struggle it?

OK, what’s your squad about? Any themes, predictions or methods you’re keen to share? Do you could have each males’s and girls’s? Does your workforce identify want explaining? We all know you’ve been dying to share, now’s the time!

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