Silly season team manager.

mxb2
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Edited Date/Time 8/24/2014 12:09pm
If you were a team manager, would you hire a 1 top 3, race winner, consistent podium guy?, banking on 1 rider, or would you hire 2 solid 5-10 place guys and , thinking 1 rider team or rolling the dice him being at each race, but could win it. or be happy 2 riders 5-10 each week.
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8/23/2014 6:32pm
I would take Metcalfe and Peick.
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8/23/2014 6:39pm
I would roll with one rider. As a team manager you want to win races and be there in the championship hunt. There would be a LOT more exposure for a top 3 rider as well.
mxb2
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8/23/2014 6:45pm
i wd go metty,peick or metty , tickle , not sure about weimer, great talent, but not sure, mookie and weimer are also possible.
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8/23/2014 7:40pm
I'll take Villopoto... FTW!

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8/23/2014 9:29pm
So lets say you can only pick from guys available now. I would pick Metty and Sipes. I might think about baggett on a 450 too.
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8/23/2014 9:34pm
Dungey, Short and Peick would be a pretty solid team I believe.
TeamGreen
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8/23/2014 9:37pm
I'm goin' w/ 2 solid guys that stay healthy...
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8/23/2014 9:40pm Edited Date/Time 8/23/2014 9:40pm
Spat24 wrote:
So lets say you can only pick from guys available now. I would pick Metty and Sipes. I might think about baggett on a 450 too.
Expect Baggett to stay on a 250 for a while...unless something crazy happens.
8/24/2014 8:11am
Yeah dean Wilson's neibor said he's going to ktm also, but I think everyone already knows that.
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8/24/2014 8:18am
Milsaps
peick
both Suzuki backed

or

Grant
Brayton
both kawi backed

8/24/2014 8:25am
I would take Metcalfe and Peick.
And you'd be looking for a new job next year.
8/24/2014 8:31am
Yhe two best available according to my budget, Roczen and Barcia.
8/24/2014 8:33am
Spat24 wrote:
So lets say you can only pick from guys available now. I would pick Metty and Sipes. I might think about baggett on a 450 too.
Two best available right now? I'm taking Metty and Sipes too.
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8/24/2014 8:52am Edited Date/Time 8/24/2014 8:53am
2-5.

Take AC92.

Fast as lightning. 2 years as a pro, didnt start one series because someone forgot to tell him that beef builds beef, and beef and egg yolks keeps you from ending up sick due to being iron deficient, and crashed out of another and completely missed a 3rd race series. Been a No show since. They sold the shit out of the hype to Payton though.

He's 18 probably going on 19 now and he's built like a 12 year old. IMO, he's too fragile. One good crash and he's broke off. Muscle is what keeps the body together when you take a hit.

All these kids have to do is eat and train, and eat, and eat. Lots of these guys look like anorexic bulimic teen girls, not young vibrant healthy young men.

Ask Peick or the other pros about when he weeded himself in Florida........
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8/24/2014 9:17am
mxb2 wrote:
If you were a team manager, would you hire a 1 top 3, race winner, consistent podium guy?, banking on 1 rider, or would you hire...
If you were a team manager, would you hire a 1 top 3, race winner, consistent podium guy?, banking on 1 rider, or would you hire 2 solid 5-10 place guys and , thinking 1 rider team or rolling the dice him being at each race, but could win it. or be happy 2 riders 5-10 each week.
the best option would be 2 rider team.one main podium rider w/ one top ten rider slash team test rider.
so to answer your question,i would go with 1 podium rider,and if he gets injured/cant race..hope that team has a backup test rider or fill in .
only way it makes sence to go the other option of 2 top5-10 riders,would be if 1 was a test rider and the other has potential to be a podium rider by series end.
8/24/2014 9:44am
I think Pourcel is the best available.
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8/24/2014 12:09pm
Dart Board wrote:
I think Pourcel is the best available.
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