After having never won a Grand Tour stage in his career before 2014, Michael Rogers ended the season with three great solo wins, with two in the Giro and one in the Tour de France to his name. now the experienced Australian is setting his sights on the Giro-Tour double with Alberto Contador.

"I really want to win the Tour with Alberto. And I think we can do it. Together and as a team," he tells Cyclingnews the morning after his team talk.

"My talk last night, well every year we get together as riders and we discuss what went well and what didn't and how we can improve. I'm the representative for the riders and work between them and the staff. I enjoy the teamwork. I know how important the strength of a team can be."

Tinkoff-Saxo certainly look like they have the fire power do succeed in both Grand Tours in 2015, with riders like Rogers, Peter Sagan, Robert Kiserlovski, Rafal Majka, Daniele Bennati and, depending on his biological passport case, Roman Kreuziger, all there to help Contador. But, for now, Rogers is reluctant to admit that they have the best squad in the professional peloton.

"It's hard to say if it's the strongest team in the world," muses Rogers.

"A lot of factors come into it. If the team management or the synergy between the riders isn't right then you can have a team of champions who cancel each other out. If you have champion team then you can do powerful things."

Rogers says that while he enjoyed his own persona; success this year, he gets more satisfaction from seeing his team win.

"Wining on my own or as a team, they're quite different experiences. There's something special about wining as a team. When it's as an individual, and if I'm lucky, it's once or twice a year, for me. It's a nice moment but when you win as a team you share that with everyone involved. I spend more time with these guys than my family during the year so it's hard to explain, but that sort of camaraderie is something that drives me on."