Sky's tactical shift opens door for one-day wonder Optimistic ... Mathew Hayman, who hopes to claim a classic victory, warms up on the Tour of Qatar this month. MATHEW HAYMAN concedes a lack of confidence has stopped him evolving in his 12 years as a professional into a one-day classic winner. However, as the 34-year-old from Camperdown looks to a new season with the British Sky team, for which he has been a star domestique since 2010, he realises he has a golden opportunity to rectify that. Hayman, whose winning highlights include the 2006 Commonwealth Games road race in Melbourne and the 2011 Paris-Bourges race in France, could become a beneficiary of the British Sky team's plan to show it is not just a team that can win tours such as the Tour de France. The team's campaign to try to win stage races will be as strong as ever with British riders Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome leading, but Sky also wants to show it can deliver in the one-day classics. To do that, it has created a classics squad that, like its grand tour line-up, races and trains together. "Last year, we were ranked as No.1 team," Sky's Norwegian classics team director, Kurt Asle Arvesen, said. But if we want to be looked at as the best team in the world, we need to perform in the classics as well - not only in stage races. The tour program - the Giro and Tour - will keep running like last year, and that is something that is always improving; but now we have a lot of focus on the classic guys and we will give them all the support. Arvesen, who said Sky's goal is to win one of the European spring one-day classics that start with Milan-San Remo on March 17, followed by the Tour of Flanders, Paris-Roubaix, Amstel Gold Race, Fleche Wallonne and Liege-Bastogne-Liege in two years, labelled his squad as "young." But he still cited the seasoned Hayman as a rider to watch for: "Edvald [Boasson Hagen of Norway] showed he is a classic rider at the world titles [last year, placing second] ... maybe other riders like Matthew Hayman. Geraint Thomas will be our man for a race like Flanders. Hayman has been regularly in the mix, as his eighth and 10th placings in Paris-Roubaix last year and in 2011, respectively, showed. He was also third in the 2011 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad semi-classic in Belgium, of which Saturday's edition will provide him with his first sign of how how he is tracking. Hayman dreams of one day vying for a win in the Tour of Flanders and especially Paris-Roubaix, which are run in April. But as the seasoned campaigner he is, he can see what has stopped him so far. "A little bit of confidence, for sure," he said. Maybe I would have got a few more results with a bit more confidence in my ability. That's for me, personally, but for the team ... we have come up against some pretty good riders. Hayman, who is off contract with Sky after this year, praised his team management for having the foresight to ramp up support for its classics squad. "Look at the team and the way they won the Tour ... you [could] easily see the team [becoming] a tour team," Hayman said. But they said, 'Let's not just be a Tour team.' That would have been so easy, to focus on what you are doing well. Sky said, 'What are we not doing well, and let's fix that?"' Twitter - @rupertguinness Milan-San Remo: March 17 Tour of Flanders: March 31 Paris-Roubaix: April 7 Liege-Bastogne-Liege: April 21 Giro di Lombardia: October 6