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The original was posted on /r/aleague by /u/No_Break_1312 on 2025-07-14 05:07:43+00:00.

Some quotes basically asking Joe Lolley of Sydney FC who’s briefly been in the Premier League played in 5 different divisions in England.

“Everyone’s a bit of a beast in England when it comes physicality, defensively and off the ball and those sort of things,” he said. Not so much in the A-League.”

Secondly: squad depth, which is crucial in a gruelling 46-game season. When he was in the Championship, Lolley recalls most teams having about 20-odd players of approximately the same level, competing for starting spots, and the difference between the best and the worst in the division was not huge.

‘The A-League, in contrast, is a lot more “spread out”, and the impact of losing two or three key players can be enormous. There are individuals in Australia who could arguably hold their own in the Premier League, he said, but then some who would probably be better suited to non-league. That’s not being harsh; that’s just the nature of A-League squads, most of which are backfilled by unproven scholarship players and journeymen, and a time when clubs are strapped for cash.’

But, hypothetically, where would the best teams he’s seen or been part of in Australia wash up in England, on the basis of quality in the starting XI?

“Probably the lower end of the Championship,” Lolley says.

In my humble noob opinion … I doubt English players are more physical than Aussies in a general sense.

But they might be smaller physically built wise, at least in the A-League as our league has so many starting younger and thus are playing smaller players.

I mean those Wrexham guys look huge compared to Victory last week.