While the net is awash with knee-jerk reactions to the result and arguments that 'it's only a friendly' and 'its not our first 11', I do think we shouldn't totally disregard these performances.
Pre-season is the time when the squad should be easing themselves back into full fitness, a time for the manager to see his new signings in action and try out new tactics. Results aren't important. However, poor performances should be grounds for concern, and I do hope Kenny is tackling these as they appear.
In the last few years, since Gerard Houllier's tenure at least and also under Rafael Benitez, Liverpool have used pre-season to put unwanted players in the shop window. I've always doubted the need to do this to such a great extent. The reason those players are unwanted is nearly always because they aren't good enough and giving them 90 minutes to display that isn't doing us any favours, especially when it is at the expense of the opportunity to give someone else the chance to get valuable playing time under their belt.
With only a few exceptions, for the last few years we have struggled during the opening few weeks of the Premier League season, often slipping up to lower quality opposition. I put this down to the first choice team not being fully prepared due to poor pre-season preparations and being rested in favour of those we are trying to sell.
The Far East trip was rightly a more relaxed affair and should be disregarded, but as we get into the final weeks before the Sunderland match we should now be upping our game, facing stronger, more serious opposition and starting to look like the Liverpool which ended last season, not started it. Both Hull and Galatasaray were disappointing performances. We now only have two more friendlies, against Valerenga and Valencia. Let's hope we take the opportunity to prepare our first team for 13 August, rather than waste it showing how bad Philip Degen, Emiliano Insua and Christian Poulson really are.