Pedrocito wrote:I don't want to argue about Rasta's idea, but about sitting too; so I'll write here.
Some guys won't agree with my proposal, but lets talk a bit.
In my mind, when you create a team, it's just to play. Not for glory. It's a game, when you win something, you can be proud of yourself. Yes, YOURSELF, not an other guy who is playing with your team.
You have the possibility to be sitted from time to time, but too many teams misuse, and I'm a little bit bored with that.
I don't understand how you can be happy if the result doesn't depend of your action. Ok, maybe you told the sitter to do that, but that's not the same thing...
Well, it's just my opinion, maybe nobody thinks like me, maybe I'm too "honest"; but that's not the fact here.
Here is my proposal: no points and no money gain if you are sitted. But you can lose money, for sure. Gain time (and boni, if there are) is more than enough to reward to guy who couldn't be there / didn't want to ride.
I have nothing against this idea.
I think sitting is a good thing but often gets abused.
Actually the pros for sitting I think are:
1) You don't get out of the tour, in terms of GC time
2) You are in the race, your riders ride; in small groups one/two teams more or less can make the difference.
But agree that money and points can be also not given. The problem then is:
1) Buh won't implement it anyway
2) Even if Buh will implement it, some guys can just avoid the thing by not saying they are sitting.
But yes, the abuse of sitting is quite annoying, we said to put a certain % of stages that must be ridden, but nothing was decided. Time to move on.
