On Monday I found my self contemplating two different options. Either I watched the latest weekly installment of Monday Night RAW, or I watched a re-run of LOST.

Re-run or no re-run, LOST won hands down—anyway, judging by last week's RAW viewing figures, I didn't think I would've been missed. So Monday passed and then Tuesday passed (as Tuesday tends to follow Monday) and I didn't give RAW one thought until this morning, when I remembered that I hadn't checked up on the latest happenings on WWE's flagship show.

So with nothing else to do and with You Only Live Once by the Strokes blaring away in the background I checked out WWE.com. After reading about what seemed a pretty uneventful RAW (WWE seems determined to crap on Orton) I found myself on the RAW superstar page.

RAW, as we all know, has been marketed by the WWE as their "A" show, so why the hell is it so desperately lacking in talent? We usually get the obvious draft routine, RAW loses champion to smackdown, smackdown loses theirs to RAW etc. But last years veered away from that process and in doing so left RAW scratching their heads.

RAW over 2007 and the start of 2008 had put on the consistently better matches, so how are they rewarded? Triple H (the WWE champion at the time) gets drafted to smackdown, along with Jeff Hardy (the biggest guy at the WWE at the time) which leaves RAW with no champion until our "saviour," CM Punk, turns up and gives us probably the most forgettable title reign this side of 2000.

RAW managed to survive because Y2J and HBK were on their A game and put on a feud that caused many to forget about the rest of the below-par rubbish RAW was putting out ever week. If this sort of thing were to happen again this year, RAW might not survive.

This year, rather than the straight swaps we used to get, we need more of the top talent heading back to RAW (only not as much as the amount that left RAW for SD last year). I recently heard the phrase a "a swerve for the sake of it" darting around, and I think it pretty much sums up the WWE at the moment.

If everyone expected SD to get Christian, why didn't they just either let SD have him or give him to RAW?—at least RAW would have got some decent talent. Instead, Vince choose to put the instant classic on ECW so it would shock us.

But I think I speak for everybody when I say a shock isn't always a good one, to use an example a good shock would be Orton retaining at WM24 a bad shock would be a guy whose been hyped up for months end up on a show that Ric Flair wouldn't even come out of retirement for.

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