Here we are again boys and girls.. my weekly musings on the world, or more accurately which particular Mighty Reds should run about on the pitch and how things would be far better if I was in charge and probably would be if my career path had differed slightly and I'd been one of the greatest players in history rather than colouring in spreadsheets for a living.
Not for one minute am I suggesting that Kenny Dalglish isn't the right man to be in charge of Liverpool FC as I am not an idiot and I am not insane.. I even have the documentation to prove it.
Having said that I'm going to try and pick holes in things because I'm a bit bored and have nothing better to do...
One of the things I do find curious is Dalglish's reluctance to change things round during games. We don't seem to make many substitutions during games.. as opposed to substitutions after games which tend to just confuse matters.
Over the past 10 games we have scored a grand total of 4 goals after we've made any changes.. this is including 2 from Luis Suarez at Stoke after Jamie Carragher had gone off injured at half time.. so only 2 goals after unforced changes in 10 games really. Doesn't sound like a lot to me, although I didn't see how this compares with other sides to be honest for the sake of my sanity.. I'm going to assume this is pretty low.
It also seems that we don't make many changes and when we do they tend to be too late to really change anything - whether this 2 goals in 10 games backs this up I'm not sure.
Also, it seems rarely that we make all 3 subs and often just the one.. and this isn't really in games when we haven't needed to change things. Especially when you look at home games against weaker opposition.
It's something I've noticed anyway.. quite whether we've got the back-up to be making radical changes is something to consider. I would suggest that it ought to be given the amount of money we've spent populating it this season. It would be helpful for Andy Carroll to be given longer in games as an 'impact' player.. particularly when Plan A doesn't seem to be working.
Whether £35m should be a plan B amount of money is something that we can't really do much about now, unless Carroll scores against Chelsea and they want to buy him for £50m. Perhaps 25 minutes here and there and a few goals from the bench would help his confidence which I think is all that's really missing from Andy Carroll... and then he will hopefully start banging them in with all the finesse of a night out on the Bigg Market.
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