Gerrans out, shoulder infected, new surgery, ouch.

reserve team
Gene Bates ( SA), Shaun Higgerson (NSW), Aaron Kemps (Qld), Chris Sutton (NSW), Russell Van Hout (SA)

be a cop out to get Van Hout for a one day race when he won't ride the tt. Might say he deserves it and poetic justice, I would like to see big Robbie Maclachlan in. He won a stage in the Chinese Quinghai Lake stage race, this is like the tour in China. In the peasant distrcts the proletariat are crowded around the communal tv to watch this race.

If Van Hout, why not Milostic? I say give the big guy Robbie Maclachlan the bookend to his Barcelona Olympics. Or an under23 rider, Simon Clarke.

Russel "of wood" is a nice guy. That is about as much as I can say about his legs. "Carnegie Caulfield C grade crit".