It's the same old "Liverpool disease" we've suffered from since 1990. It'll take something extraordinary to cure. Lifting the likes of Lucas to worldclass labes by the mere fact they play for Liverpool ain't gonna help us realise what's the problem. We've seen this for quite a few years now, one weekend we score an incredible result against all odds, only to drop silly points the following weekend at home to relegation fodder.
The reason we'll miss out on 4th this season doesn't spell Roy alone, it spell accumulating a mediocre squad over the past 12 years. The reason we'll miss out on 4th isn't the ineptitude of Roy alone, it spells losing/drawing at home to Blackpool, Wolves and Wigan. These are sides that are so poor the quality of the manager doesn't come in to it, these are sides our allegedly strong squad should brush aside regardless of who's occupying the dugout.
Maxi - so lame, so weak, so what have you. A nice flich and pass here and there but I'd much rather we had Riise instead.

Lucas - good at passing the ball sideways at the halfway line. Other than that he has no surge, no nothing that can see him break the pattern.
Aurelio - I think is a good player in bottom but features to regurarly to contribute.
Jovanovic - usually break the pattern with his irrational style of play. Yesterday he was dreadful. I think he's forgiven tho. One PL start since September and only a handful of substitions making up to half a game. Quite rich to ask of him to come in and change the game.
Ngog - don't know where to start. Winning a corner here and there seems to have some people claming he's good enough to be part of a side that challenge for 4th, instead of realising he'd probably don't hold down a spot regurarly for any other PL side. To think he was our 2nd striker for over 18 months.
I think Kenny got it wrong yesterday. He should've stayed with 3 centrebacks playing Johnson to the right and Aurelio to the left. That way we would've kept the continuity from the other games alive. Now we looked lost and disjointed for large periods of the game. I don't know, I don't see us challenge for 4th on this side of 2015. It'll take many years to repair the damages done by GH and Rafa.