Welcome back to the Lantern Rouge cycling podcast with Benji Nice and I'm quite excited to do this preview. This is the educate. No, sorry, EF Education Nippo Benji

Isn't that like saying ATM machine? Isn't it? I thought it was education first the EF so isn't education first education Nippo or am I missing something here?

Yeah, I thought so as well and the thing was like I think a few years ago it was also called EF Education first that I already had like what's going on here?

Yeah, because you're basically making the name EF EF and then I look at the website and it's also like you have a means education first. Yeah, I think I don't know. I think you're bottling the name.

Yeah, I'm confused by it. Other news from this team before we get into the standard order which you know, you know the rules by now is 2020 season review transfers.

Pobbles brand tour teams items team in there as well. Maybe some hot takes. We've got a fan hot take as well at the end of this podcast. But before we get to that.

Benji, they brought the kid out, I guess I'm feeding into what they what they want me to do which is to talk about the kid. I don't like the kid as much as before. I think it's pretty boring. It's just seeing I know they got the sort of cursive handwritten stuff on it, but you can't see that from the helicopter.

And I really like that. I really like what they had before. So last year's I think it was much better. Or do you like this year's kit, which is mainly just playing pink from more than five meters away.

I like it like this. I am generally a fan of the current kid. I like the contrast between the shorts and the actual Jersey. I like the edgy idea, although it probably isn't really correct.

I think I think what they did was to try and like counter the UCI a bit, but I think their plan fails a bit because well, we know that they did that kid in the gym. They got fine for that.

And they got fine because they didn't put it up early enough or something, something along those lines, right. They didn't tell the UCI about it or something.

They didn't die with a play with held a design element of the kid.

Okay, so the sponsor leaking that it was no hours.

For this kit, they're basically saying we made it to comply to the rules, but it wasn't the kid itself that was not complying to the rules.

It was the fact that you would help information about it. So, doesn't that defeat the whole point of what the Jersey is now being edgy for?

No, Benji, that's not how this works. You see, UCI always bad. Jonathan Volta is always right.

And yeah, that's what I wanted to mention that because despite their cringe-inducing marketing, which is so if anyone over about the age of 15 or over with an IQ over 65,

this team, that's sort of masks, in my view, the true narrative of this team, which is easily a top, I thought a top three or four team last year.

Their 2020 season was outrageously good and credit to voters. I don't know, or whoever is making the signing decisions on that team.

And that's why I think their narrative, maybe it's not as marketable, but I would have been like, we are a lower budget team or a mid-budget team,

and we're competing, getting a lot of wins, and we're developing young talent from Colombia, from Britain, from Canada, from Portugal, from Ecuador,

Australia getting wins there, and Italian, it's a complete, you know, very cosmopolitan team, and they got 17 wins last year, Benji.

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