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I've always been led to believe that the EPL is europes most all-action league and that despite our shortcomings as a country, we have always had great defensive players (hence our tediously boring inetrnational team). How come then, a player like c.ronaldo has a goals:games ratio which is more than double what it was in England? The likes of messi and ronaldo wouldn't get close to the number of goals in england that they get in spain.....(would they?)

So what's the deal....?

I don't think it's down to the spanish also-rans being any worse than the epl also-rans. And I don't think that ronaldo suddenly became twice the player when he left Utd.

Maybe it's just a case of Madrid and Barca being further ahead of the also rans in Spain than Manu are here.

The style of play is completely different - more open and less "kicking lumps out of each other" in Spain.

The Mid / lower half table teams in Spain aren't any worse than there Premier equivalents, it's just a free'r scoring league.

God I hate Stoke.

La Liga must have it's 'Stokes' though. Surely they don't all try and play like Barca even with far inferior players?! it would be tactical suicide.

But bar those two teams (Real / Barca) the league pretty much evens it'self out, much like the Premiere league.

http://espnfc.com/tables/_/league/esp.1/spanish-primera-division?cc=5739

Put out your reserves against the big boys and battle it out with the others.

That whole "the prem is so exciting because anyone can beat anyone" malarky is rubbish.

The top teams in every league run away with it, leaving the rest to sort themselves out.

I rather think that it's because Barca and Real are far far better than the rest while in the EPL, there are 4-5 teams which are quite close to each other despite having 3 better than the rest. The gap between the top 5 and the rest is also much narrower in the EPL than the top 2 their followers in Spain.

That could be a damn good plan. Play a very weak team against the top 4 and play our best team against everyone else. That would really p!ss off the big clubs and might actually even give us a better chance of getting into the CL!

Hmmmmmmm...

Could you imagine the pandemonium on here if we actually did that??? Hahaaaa... it's bad enough on here after a weakened cup squad!

(might just be worth a punt though - at least park the bus and look for a point )

I would seriously love it we tried that. Under 18s and reserves vs utd, city, chelsea & arsenal twice a season (no point in tiring our good players out vs opponents that are going to beat us anyway). That would mean we could field a very strong, non-tired side for 30 games which should all be winnable. That my friend, is a title winning plan of epic proportions! Come on Brendan!!!!