Horrorshow at the Hawthorns

Well Well Well, we should have see that one coming, if anyone knows how to beat us it would be Uncle Woy. After all he oversaw so many limp and lifeless performances in his short pitiful time in charge.

I have to me honest I could not bring myself to watch the game in full on LFC TV, I think the Match of the day highlights were traumatic enough. Lets be honest if it wasnt for Pepe Reina we would have lost 6-1. He made a string of excellent saves and had we drawn he would probably have been man of the match.

Our gameplan was not helped by first Glenn Johnson (Thank you England) and then Dan Agger (Mange tak Danemark) going off injured after 22 minutes.The curse of the leftback continues.

Oh and a special thanks to Sepp Blatter for sticking more unwanted fixtures in our calander. I hope Bin Hamman wins the 'transparent' FIFA election. Another 4 years of Blatter will ruin football completely.

From the lowlights shown we kept lumping long balls at Carroll ala Braga and we got the same result nothing.I do like repeating myself, cant play big lump if you have no wingers to cross the ball.FACT!

I think we looked better with a 4-2-3-1 with Suarez on his own with Dirk and Meireles supporting. 4-4-2 with Meireles stuck out wide and Carroll upfront doesn't work at the moment for me. Yes we have paid £35 mill for Carroll but at the moment Suarez looks the one more likely to hurt the opposition so we should be tailoring our formation to suit him.

As to the 2 penalties, Soty can have no complaints on the 1st one and he again put Reina in a vulnerable position for the second one. Soty is fast adding himself to my clearout list for the summer.

So 7 games to play Man City and Arsenal next and we really need to lose those 2 games in the hope that someone will finish ahead of the Legions of Doom. Knowing us though we will win both game 2-0 and then lose to Birmingham,Newcastle and Fulham in the next 3 so helping ManUre to win the title.

The alternative doesnt bear thinking about. The way things are panning out a treble looks good for them after Schalke trounced Inter tonight. If they beat Chelski they will have a bye in the semi. For the God-fearing among you that should prove He doesnt exist as the alternative means that he is in fact a Man U fan which is much much much worse!

As for us qualifying for Europe next season we just need Spurs to continue their collapse and win all 7 remaining games. 'Simples' as our favourite meerkat would say. I really think 6th is as good as we can do and hope City or ManUre win the cup. No Europe would put a serious dent in our recruitment policy over the summer, no established player would come and so we would be left with squad players from other clubs to choose from. Not great.

I am not going to attempt to guess what Kenny wiill do as far as selection goes for Sunday. My own efforts at this have proved woefully inaccurate so far since he took over. We still havent shaken off our inability to perform away from home, we seem tentative and scared. If we do score first, we go into our shell ala Benitez, its not the Liverpool way and not what we expect.

So putting the remainder of this pathetic wrist-slitting season aside who should go and who should stay? First the keepers

Reina- despite horrible rumours that ManUre want him, that cant happen. It sends the completely wrong message out and gives them one of the best keepers in the world. Let then go and find their own! They have everything else!

Defence we should keep - Darby,Carra,Skrtel,Kelly,Wilson,Johnson(leftback or right winger).
Midfield - Lucas,Spearing,Shelvey,Meireles,Gerrard,Pacheco,Aquilani
Strikers - Suarez,Carroll,Kuyt, Ngog (but he needs to go on loan)

The rest as far as I am concerned can go, reasons below. Hell we still have El Zhar and Degen on our books!

Left Back - Konchesky and Insua arent good enough and Aurelio is always broken.
Centrebacks - Soty is too rash under pressure (Spurs and West Brom to name but 2) and Agger like Fab is always broken.
Rightback - Degen, why oh why did we ever buy this clown????
Midfield - Jovanovic not good enough. Maxi not really offering anything going forward simply a disciplined midfielder. Joe Cole, waste of time, money and effort. We have young Pacheco who will be ten times the player Cole thinks he is! Poulsen completely useless. If you offered him to Forest Green Rovers they wouldnt take him! El Zhar - Pigmy Morrocans are not what is required in the Premier League.

So that leaves us requiring at least 1 left back preferably 2. 1 or 2 centrebacks, 4 wingers and possibly another striker. I cant see us generating too much income from the dross we have to sell. Mr Comolli will certaily have to start and earn his crust.

My wishlist follows bearing in mind the '8 homegrown' rule I have highlighted those in the keepers who qualify. We dont have to name those that are under 21 (So Darby,Pacheco and Shelvey may remain un-named in the 25 man squad) So that would leave us with only 6 players who qualify.

Leftback - Baines - more rumblings at Everton that Moyes will have to sell as Mr Kenwright has nothing to give.

Centreback - Cahill at Bolton, Shawcross at Stoke and Roger Johnson at Birmingham come to mind. If we want a footballing centrehalf we will need to look abroad. Cant see any obvious candidates in the PL at the moment. One of these three would be good, 2 would be great.

Wingers - N'Zogbia,Podolski,Etherington,Eagles. There are plenty options here, I would like to see 2 or 3 of these type of players brought in. Add in the likes of Ecclestone,Amoo,Ince and Sterling and we have a good healthy crop of exciting players who can change a game.

Strikers - If Ngog is going out on loan, suggest a swop with Leicester, we get Connor Wickham for a season they have Ngog we get 1st option to buy Wickham.
I also wouldnt mind a cheeky bid to Chelsea for Daniel Sturridge, big, strong, quick and shot like a rocket, we could always give them Joe Cole back!!!

YNWA