stop confusing me
LOL, I knew what I meant, but I can see how it was confusing.
I'll try and simplify it.
we've been giving reasons as to why the EL and a successful domestic campaign combined, seem very difficult.
I personally don't like using the excuses of:
Thursday-sunday matches, distance travelled, always playing a game a day after everyone else in the league etc. etc.
However, there must be something in it. Maybe a combination of lots of things, including the above (in bold). As I've said, you can look at the form of serveral teams in recent years to see that the EL has some sort of affect.
My point in the previous post was a reply to your comment about "not being able to handle the CL if we can't handle the EL".
what I was trying to say, is that when we were in CL, we had much less depth in our squad, yet we managed to reach the 1/4 finals of the CL and still finished 5th. - so saying that we wouldn't be able to deal with the CL/prem, just because we can't deal with the EL/prem, isn't necessarily true. Ok, our first team performed much better back then, but we have far more depth now.
So, if we now take into consideration that the CL
usually involves less traveling, playing on a Saturday (not always under pressure after seeing everyone else's results), and extra day's rest potentially (tues-sat), AND the fact that we've got more squad depth, perhaps we would be ok dealing with a CL and prem campaign?
To write one off (CL), just because we find the other difficult (EL), may not actually be at all accurate, especially if some of those things above in bold have some truth to them.
