You say that "every season" Kuyt goes weeks with out scoring or playing well and still gets picked. Well last season he scored 12 goals in the league while playing 95%of his time on the right - the same number of goals as alleged "world-class" striker Rooney managed. He also contributed 9 assists, which was joint top with Gerrard last season (and three times as many assists as Alonso managed, interestingly). So he scored or made 27% of our league goals last season. This season he's joint second-highest scorer in the team on 5 league goals while still playing wide right, which is the same number as Gerrard, who's needed two penalties to reach that total. He's also made two assists, so this season has contributed directly to 19% of our goals. So for both this season and last season these are very impressive returns for a player you seem happy to slate. Perhaps Benitez isn't such a know-nothing idiot after all?