Quote Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman View Post
I honestly don't know. City were an utterly dreadful team to watch during most of his time here. The football was largely prehistoric. Would Glatzel have done any better in a team that set out to play in the way City did yesterday? Maybe, maybe not, but one thing's for sure - I'd have him in the side ahead of Watters or Harris without any hesitation.

I'm more interested in the wider question about the quality of Bundesliga 2, though. Is it a weaker league than the Championship? No idea. I don't think it's possible to compare the two with any kind of certainty. As I said before, Doyle couldn't get a game at Hamburg but walked into City's Championship side. Collins, who came from a mid-ranking Bundesliga 2 club, looked very useful again yesterday, just as he did against Norwich.

What puzzles me more than anything is the notion that the Championship is a strong league. It's competitive without a doubt, and it's physically-demanding for sure. It's a tough division to play in, often unpredictable, but the quality of the football rarely looks particularly good, especially in recent years.

It would be really interesting to see how the top ten Bundesliga 2 sides would compare with the the top ten Championship sides if they were to play each other over the course of a season, but it's something that's never going to happen so we can only guess how it would work out.
As you say, it's difficult to compare. My impression fwiw (very little!) after going to a couple of St.Pauli games last season, and watching the two B1/B2 relegation games on TV, is that any one of the teams I saw would have struggled against the likes of Fulham or Bournemouth last season. I was surprised by what seemed like a lack of quality at the top of B2. Obviously watching City this season but also going to a few German games in October (including the Hamburg derby if I'm lucky) and be interesting to see if it confirms my view that this year's City could probably more than match most in B2.