As for Kenny I will reserve my judgement til after the next four games.
This is mental. Welcome to Newcastle thinking.
And isn't the point of changing the manager, seeing if someone else can get more out of the same players than the previous bloke? What we've seen from CP under Roy, the few games he played, wasn't good enough. Then again, look through the squad. Pretty much everyone performed way below their level. Why shouldn't Kenny have a look and see what these fellas can offer him? Under his guidance?
Especially in a week with three games and no Ste, now is the time to experiment, see what he's got and settle on a preferred style (which we all reckon we have an idea which way he'll go) and a preferred use of the existing personell. Also, don't forget that January is transfer time and that works both ways. No one will buy a player they've seen nothing of for months, but someone in Germany or France might fancy CP. He could do a job for teams at some level.
Besides, was he that bad at Blackpool? Obviously Kenny didn't think so or he''d have been off much earlier in the game.
And to be honest, if Kenny Dalglish reckons a player is good enough to represent Liverpool from the squad then that's good enough for me. He can only pick from the squad he's got, but he didn't have to play CP or Jova on wednesday night.
He figured they were up to it, and wanted a look at them. Who am I to argue with that?