Recently Liverpool played Swansea. Although the importance to myself for the "milk cup" is less this year than last year mainly because we have a European title to compete for. Liverpool's bread and butter is Europe, I would swap a good run in that for a run in the "Milk Cup" its 4 fewer games and to be honest, some of those players who played against Swansea should never be allowed near Melwood again, Sorry Joe Cole.  After the game against Swansea there was a lot of jerking knees in action, all over Twitter, Facebook, Forums all called for Rodger's head. Jesus, fickle or what. I am now going to give you some subtle reminders of why the faith in Brendan will be rewarded by comparing him to our last successful manager, Rafael Benitez. Although it is hard to judge Brendan's season, I can see the type of pattern which may follow from Rafa's first season. The start of an erabuilding of a team and trying your damn hardest to keep your shirt. All new managers have players they will not fit the system. Rodgers has managed to oversea a number of them, but due to problems with *cough* the owners bank balance we could not get more numbers in, or at least replace the ones out with players coming in. Rafa Benitez had the same problem as Brendan in a way. One striker. In October 2004 Cisse snapped his leg, he was our main striker at the time, with