Traditionally November is seen by most long serving Liverpool fans as a bogey month. I don’t have the stats because I’m not a true stats man but apparently it goes right back to the Shankly days. I think this year we are a month early because October has been a bit of nightmare and I’m just hoping I wake up as soon as possible to end the doom and gloom. The one saving grace has been the Man United win at Anfield last weekend and I can’t imagine how I’d feel right now had that been a loss as well.

We’ll need a change in tradition this year because we can’t afford a poor November. We need a boast from somewhere, maybe something new, either a young classy player coming through or the change in form of a player who hasn’t been performing. There is one young player in the squad who I’d like to see given a few bench outings. Although Daniel Pacheco is only 18, it is quite obvious that he has a very good future ahead of him and I think he warrants a place on the bench, especially in home games because if we happen to find ourselves a couple of goals to the good he could come on without pressure. We are not doing enough for Ryan Babel either. I don’t think he has had enough consecutive chances over the course of last season and the beginning of this. Its alright people adding up all of his appearances but it just seems to me that he’s only been given the odd chance and then had to wait a few games for his next. He may end up leaving Liverpool as a failure but don’t be surprised when you see him performing well in the Champions League for another team.

We’re all frustrated at the moment but we have to believe that things will get better. I’m sure that if we can get most of our top players fit again we will be able to go on a good run that will see us at least challenge the top teams. The RafaOut brigade are running riot at the moment but even those folk should try to get behind the team because he’s still in the first six months of a five year contract so he wont be sacked. We are Liverpool after all so trying to force him into resigning is not our way of working. It is depressing I know as you keep reminding yourself that we’ve lost six out of the last seven games but one thing that hasn’t been mentioned is the fact that only two of those games were played at Anfield and one of them was the Man United win last weekend. I suppose that is the only positive apart from the fact that we have a striker who can outperform most Premier League strikers even when he’s only half fit. Torres’s strike yesterday against Fulham was just fantastic, get him and Gerrard fully fit again and we’ll be back in business.