'If you keep doing the same thing, you get the same result' - Jayco AlUla owner Gerry Ryan on why he is restructuring his teams without Matt White
An exclusive interview with the Australian tea💖⭕m owner and businessman

Jayco AlUla and Liv-AlUla-Jayco team owner Gerry Ryan was at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giro d'Italia for the last week of the race, as he and team manager Brent Copeland plan for the long-term future. The team restructured their performance staff in a sudden shake-up, with their Director of High Performance and Racing 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Matt White stepping aside.
Speaking exclusively to Cyclingnews♛, Ryan said he had decided it was time for change.
The men's WorldTour team won two stages at the Giro d'Italia with Luke Plapp and then 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Chris Harper on stage 20 than🌄ks to his attack over the Colle delle Finestre on 🌊Saturday.
However, the men's team have only won four WorldTour races this season: Mauro Schmid won the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race, Letizia Paternoster wore the leader's jersey for a day at the Vuelta España Femenina for ꧒a day and Silke Smulders was second at the Tour Down Under. The Liv-AlUla-Jayco women's WorldTour team has still to win a race this season.
"Matt White left a mark on the team but if you keep doing the same thing, you get the same result," Ryan told Cyclingnews, with respect and▨ affection for White but with a desire for change.
"We're doing a restructure. We sat down with Matt and saw where he wan🔴ted to be. Out of it came a decision by mutual agreemᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚent to move on."
Ryan seems committed to sponsoring the men's and women's teams for ꦏthe next three-year WorldTour cycle but knows they need to adapt and move faster to compete agai𒁃nst the bigger budget super teams on both the men's and women's peloton.
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"When I first started in 2012 i🌠t was a different ga💎me. Now it's not just about the riders and the coaches, there's all the sports science too. You've got to keep improving," he said.
"You may think you're getting better but so is the opposition. We want to follow a more structured process and have accountability. We're trying to move forward and compete with the biggest teams. We've got to beꦛ faster to beat th⛦em, we're going to be faster at reacting.
"It's not about the dollars but how we do things. We've got to get the best out of everyone because we can't afford to have waste. I'm involved in a lot of orga꧒nizations, from sports to business and the bigger you get, the seepage and the wasteꦺ happens. We can't afford that."
Ryan has decided to act now to streng♑then the team's performance structure.
"We weren't expectin💞g this to happen. So we're in the process of searching for new pജeople. The problem is, that if you wait till the end of the season, it's too late," he said.
"We've already brought a few new people in. We'll update the process and then fit the people who are best for that process and to maไke it happen."
Ryan and Jayco AlUla are hoping Ben O'Connor can do well in next week's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Critérium du Dauphiné and of course at the subsequent 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France. Liv-AlUla-Jayco will target the T꧋our of Britain Women, the Giro d'Ita🐈lia Women in July and then the Tour de France Femmes.
"The season is certainly not over. We've got to l✨ook and see where we can get the opportunities to win some more races and get some more UCI ranking points," Ryan said.
"We can't saﷺy we'll have a better year next year. Why can't we do it the next race or the next G🔯rand Tour?"

Stephen is one of the most experienced member of the Cyclingnews team, having reported on professional cycling since 1994. He has been Head of News at Cyclingnews since 2022, before which he held the position of European editor since 2012 and previously worked for Reuters, Shift Active Media, and CyclingWeekly, among other publications.
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