It's my impression that our trusty right-back is going through something of a lull at the moment after a couple of really solid seasons. I haven't seen any of yesterdays game, but his name did crop up in a couple of post-mortems on the goal and overall I think he's suffering a lack of confidence.
I did make the point a season or so ago that playing behind Steven Gerrard at right-mid might just be the biggest dream ticket around for a right full-back, and that we may all be slightly overestimating the Irishmans abilities because of that. On reflection, that may have been a tad harsh, Finnan is a good player but teams are beginning to get at him a bit and whenever Gerrard doesn't play right-mid, he has the look of the playground bullies best mate when the harder lad gets shoved in a young offenders. He looked distinctly uncomfortable against Bolton just with the sheer physicality of the challenge and more than most, he is suffering a crisis of confidence.
Professor s0d is up to his old tricks again as Finnan is the only outfield player who can't really be rotated (I know Carragher can play there but it's not really an option). So what do we do? Do we stick with him or is it the case that Palletta can fill in?, do we have a young kid who can step into the fray? or did Aurelio play half a season at right-back for Valencia two years ago ( nice to see him go back to left-back yesterday, I've always felt he would be better there). Anybody else concerned about our Mr Rock Steady Eddie?