 Welcome to Toffee TV, it's the final word. Everton One, Cardiff, City, Neil, another win, sixth place. Or is it like, top five gap? Seventh. You decide. Oh be careful, some people don't like, you know, some people don't like the fact that people don't like the fact that Evan had ignored, that he's only on Twitter. I don't care. I don't care if they ignore us. I do. I just don't care. You don't care. Let them ignore us. No, no, no, no. Let them ignore us in me. No, but I'm just saying. I'm saying it's a lack of respect. And now ultimately it doesn't mean anything, but it's a lack of respect. When you're saying there's top five and then seven. Seventh place team. We're the big six. That's embarrassing. No, no. Although Sky did say yesterday, you know, it's a top seven now from the top. Well, it's not a top seven. It's a top six and Everton. It's not a top seven till we make it a top seven. We said this. It's not get ahead of ourselves. It's about us making it a top seven. It's about us creating. Not the illusion, the reality of where we are and what we're trying to do. The rest of the team should be chasing us to try. You know what I mean? Without getting ahead of ourselves, that's what Everton needs to do. And we've said that for weeks, months, years. That is the next step. But, you know, first off, started this game. We obviously started with the same team. Any surprise? Were you surprised? No, I wasn't surprised with Mina and the key. Because in my opinion, they did stay in after the performance against Chelsea. It's unlucky on Zoom, it's been really good. Luckman was one who thought could come in. I wasn't surprised. It was welcome. But Luckman was one who thought he could come in. He's getting more and more minutes. This is a game. I don't think I've got a dab. But, you know, ultimately now I didn't have any problem with the side. But that would have been the one change, potentially. Yeah! I agree on that. I'm not an advocate for absolutely demanding that Luckman should play. But I can say that this could have been the game where you would play. But, I honestly think that this is a situation the manager will look at. Once the dab is gone, I really do. I still think Wolcott has got a lot to offer. And I think the goal, which we'll talk about, shows you what he's got to offer. Because you can huff and you can puff all day. But sometimes you just get a break of the ball and you need someone like Wolcott to just get away from players. And that's why the manager likes him. And I like Wolcott. I really do like Wolcott. He's also got loads of experience. And I think in the next few weeks, Luckman's going to come into this team. He is. Because we've got so many games to play. I'm talking about trying to keep Theo fresh and also resetting it. I completely agree with you. I just think that going into the next couple of games. And don't forget as well, Wolcott, Luckman, there might have been a little doubt on his fitness as well. It's the only train really. Because I always think that the game after an international break is always scrappy. Because the players haven't had much time together. We were a little bit fortunate probably that Guilfee and Gomez didn't go away on international. They probably trained a lot more than obviously they would have. I just think that you've got to time things right when you're putting players in the team. Or even when you're putting players out of the team. So I had no problem with that. No problem with Meena. Because I think Meena is the number one. I really do. I think he will be the number one. And I think the other two are going to end up battling it out. I mean all three of them should be battling out. And that's not again. I've got no problem with that or whatever. It's brilliant. It's absolutely brilliant. These quality players in the team sitting on the bench. And you just trust the manager's judgement of the best managers. Or the best manager Alex Ferguson. He knew exactly when to put a player in and pull a player out. He knew exactly. Other managers have struggled with that task. So hopefully we have a manager who knows how to do that. That's the only time we'll tell. But obviously no changes. First half obviously lots and lots and lots and lots. And lots of possession. But just never really had the last final ball. They'd been the final third. No. It was 77% of something in the first half of having the ball. It was just too slow. It was too ponderous. When teams come, we've said it before. I mean let's not ignore the dead of right full back. Scotland's right back up front. Callum Patterson. It's a gold one. But he's a limited dog. He's a donkey. It's a bit harsh. He's just a big lad. No, no. But he's the right back playing up front. Exactly. So as a centre forward he's poor. But they had... Oh where he is. Got love for you Steve Watson. Got love for you. Exactly. Well there you go. I love Steve Watson where he was terrible up front. Go gold. Not up front he never. It was seven games up front in the goal. Went back to right back. Got a hat there. But they had... They were very well disciplined. As Neil won excited, they come. They were some big lads. Right behind. Stab behind the ball. They do that at Goddison. We have to lean on to move the ball quicker. Too many times in first half this season. It's been too slow. So when teams come and sit. And we're passing it slowly. You're not moving them up to position. So it's easy for them to defend them. We only really got through a couple of times in the first half. And that's not really been like us. Because normally we do create quite a few chances. We had long grain shots and Gomez and Garner. You know, the best opportunity, I suppose, was to do the challenge that he should have scored from. Other than that, it was huffing and puffing. They didn't have any. The best chance they had was when Meena decided to try and do the double-edder. Instead, they just did. They were very early on. You know, he got it under the ball. And Paterson... It's like they were about 50 foot wide when he should have done better. But other than that, they had nothing. So I think sometimes when it's that easy. Because it was like a training game at times. In terms of possession. You need to move the ball quicker. See, I didn't really have a problem with the first half in terms of... It wasn't brilliant and we had loads of possession. I just thought, with it being that game coming back from international duty, you always... You always maybe just need to get the blood pumping through the veins a little bit and just get into a game. And you're right. I still think there's that little bit of... Not uneasiness, but I think there's two factors. It's almost like... I think we've been here a couple of times this season where we've had loads of possession and the team just put a long ball down and suddenly we find ourselves giving them a chance. So maybe there's a little bit of like, let's see where we are. And I think football is... Like you just said, when you get into that training game exercise, the pace... They don't necessarily quicken the pace up because it almost becomes like a training exercise. And I think for me on Saturday, I think the biggest problem we had Saturday was that the Charleston didn't look sharp. So you were maybe looking for that final ball, that final little bit of movement and it really wasn't there up front Saturday at all. He had quite a ball game really. And that's not a criticism of him because he... Not saying he didn't try because he still tries. He just wasn't on it Saturday. And he was frustrated and had to go looking for the ball. And without that focal point, they dealt with it quite easy. And it's funny you just said about long shots. I want us to have more shots. That is a criticism of this team is that we need to just... In games like this where you're like, you know what, I have a shot because... It's not just that bad, but it's going to come back to us in about two minutes. You know, there's not going to be that... I understand where teams will go, well, you know, we'll have the ball for a little bit. So let's not waste our long shot because we might have the ball back for a couple, you know, against a decent team. But it was always just going to come back to us. So I think at times, I'd like to have seen as just some of our players just rip shots on outside the area or take chance, like you just said. You might get a deflection or might pop in. That's what sometimes it takes in a game like this. But saying that, we were patient. And as a team, we were patient. And as a fan base, we were patient. I suppose it was flat at the first time. Well, it was. It was flat. The crowd was flat. And I think they had the games. And I know, listen, we've had this discussion. It's not going to happen. A million times. It's not going to happen. But I'm just saying at times, the crowd, somehow, I've got to create some noise and pull the player. Especially now where you can feel like that connection is there with the team again. So it generally happens. I think we need to be maybe just a little bit better as a crowd. We were second half. You know, we've got better. I agree with you. But the problem is, right, that the fans... It's like a double-edged thing, this. The fans are being conditioned into not panicking and not getting worried or faced our performances. Oh, yeah. Because in the last few weeks. You don't have to be. I just mean supportive. No, I know. Singing and stuff. Both fans are just like, well, it'll be alright. Because second half, we'll beat these. So the first half, they're almost like, just sitting back, relaxing, watching the football. And you're right, but that needs to be like, that's where you need... That's where you need maybe a... A singing section. Well, I was just going to say, nicely tackled or something like that. Oh, yeah. But yeah, like, that does help some kind of organization. But that's one of those things in the game where you're looking for something to go against you where you can get your riled up and it gets both sets of fans riled up. I mean, you know, the incident with Jordan Pickford in the second half, which was horrendous. That helps. You know, that helps. Well, that should have been sent off. Well, it should have. It's terrible. But it should have been sent off anyway, for the simple reason, not even an automatic red, although it could have been. It was... He pulled the... He put an A back in the first half. Yeah. And got away with it. The referee didn't book him. Even though he went like that. He let it go, because he didn't go out. He had that being in the second yellow. So... But I just thought, it was consoled. The crowd were good in terms of people weren't getting on anyone's back. The frustrations weren't there. But it was just a finer ball. A few times there was a lovely little move and that last ball wasn't there or... Bernard Swice played the ball and there was no one there. Dean hadn't gone or whatever. And he's like, and you've gone and looked the other way. Gomez don't brilliantly dance the way from two and then it's a shot and he had another four yards to run into and he could have gone the other corner and it was just like that. Little... Little bits where the ball almost came off Coleman. Lovely little one too and then didn't pick anyone out with a cross and then all the times they were trying to get him in and it did defender him. It just wouldn't break. It's just finer balls. Yeah. They just didn't look sharp and they have done. But again, feeding that back into we haven't played for two weeks we've been away. The likes of Coleman as we've been there. Sigarton and Gomez, I think Silver said they only got everyone on Friday. Yeah. The first time everyone trains Friday. Yeah. So, they've been there before and they've had managers over the years. Over the last 30 or years saying that the game after an international just get the three points. Yeah. To get that you never really see a good performance after it so just get the point and move on. So it's all... that's an obvious... that's an obvious, you know, constant, isn't it? Mm-hmm. They don't get the players back. They don't get to work or they don't get to go through things. Oftentimes the team might be thrown together. It is what it is and you know... the reason probably why you went with the same team. Yeah, exactly. Because they kind of know each other's game. That's the thing where you know, people were coming up with all kind of outlandish predictions for this game. You know, fours and fives. And I never felt like it was going to be like that because I think I think Karrif have got two... Karrif would... they're just a team that would rather get beat. One nil or two nil didn't take a hammering because the manager knows that he can... they're like kind of team where he can say to them they honestly say to his players we'll take a defeat here, lads. I think he's a very honest manager, isn't he? I think he's a type of manager who will go these will beat us here but not good. Because he'll say in a press conference he might say it's 11 vs 11 but these are probably a better side. So don't get hammered. Yeah, exactly. Don't get hammered. Don't do anything stupid. Don't get sent off for the next important game. That's the mindset he would be in. Listen, he stuck them out to do a job. And... I mean, he must be frustrated as a carder, because the last 20 minutes I know he didn't really take that much but he had more of a go didn't he? He had more of a threat. He had no option or did he really? He had no option to have a go. But then again, I suppose, had they started the game like that, we'd have put them together. And I suppose... That was the... you know, that was a frustrating thing about the game, but come on to that. You mentioned Gomez, the... best guy with an evidential. Wasn't it really? You know what? I didn't think it was. No, I thought he was... I thought... Crystal Palace, at home. Okay. Absolutely the runners. I thought he... Don't get me wrong, he was the best player we had on Saturday. I thought his performance against Palace might have just been because I hadn't seen him in an evidential that day. But he was, certainly in the first half, he was our best player by a mile. The one who was trying to get on the ball and he got better and better. I thought Ghana was on the mat for me at the weekend because he just, he was every bit. And he enables Gomez to play and he enables Sigurdsons to play. But everything we did in the first half, the one where he went past three men and it decided that he should have pulled it. He should have added it earlier, he took an extra touch or he should have cut it back. But I haven't seen him in field and be able to do that centre in the field for a while. See, I thought it was his best game because I just thought, I just seen him do things that I've not seen him do yet and that's the confidence of the, and the fitness in the fitness that's the thing is the confidence in the fitness coming back coming back after after the injury and adapting to the Premier League and things like that. And it was like, listen, it was like like a man against boys in there. He just kept on getting the ball and every time someone tried to get near them he just stepped away from the body in between them like you're saying a couple of times getting away from people and not really... Well, that's what he did at Valencia. Yes. The kind of player he was like, I remember saying to you when he was out looking at this and when he was off Barcelona or something like that but Valencia... Well, at Barcelona he asked them to play like a sitting row and he was just frustrated. He'd get the ball and just give the ball to Messi or something like that and you can understand that but he just didn't suit his game and you know, and everything, you know, he's getting to do what he wants to do and we're waiting, you know, there's tough, obviously tougher tests ahead but hopefully going on those tougher tests now that he's got a little bit more fitness and more confidence in himself he just looks a hell of a player and as you just rightly said we're garnered in there as well the pair of them compliments and then with Guilfee in front of them you just got a three now that all just work individually and work hard. They do. They all work hard and they all just go and do their jobs brilliantly and... I think the thing with the... I think Gomez he won a lot of headers at the weekend as well he's not someone who ducks out which is really good you know, that can be intimidating coming to the Premier League and it's more cutting thrust he was winning headers but I think what it does is Garner's unable to just get on with his job now that he's he's seen Garner what we've first seen under Cumin when he was in there for the first half of that season and he just went go and do what you need to do he's doing it he hasn't got the complications of snarling alongside him or whatever and he's what you see with Garner now as well as more confidence on the ball he's going past players like they're not getting further forward and you're like because he knows he's got that insurance as well behind him just going behind him and all three of them are good footballers you know, they're comfortable in possession certainly Sigurdsons made up having Gomez because then too just fired it in and touched off pop, pop, pop and Guilfee's now looking like a 45 million pound player he's the player that we all did what B-12 months ago when he came in he's doing it I think in the first half what we lacked was Guilfee making runs into them into the defence then maybe the maybe the space wasn't there but I thought that was something that was a lot more obvious second half and obviously in the two of us like it was the two big chances I'd say around you know to me brother-lord and making that and said to them we miss it a kale in this game we miss someone coming from midfield and arriving late and that's what we miss all over when the charlatans not in games we miss someone else in the box and I just thought second half Guilfee started to really to get in the box so for the one way he went round the goalkeeper he almost arrived he watched that he arrives late and we've seen that with Benard before where he's he's coming from behind but he's basting to get into the box and he arrives late and that takes everyone by surprise I mean don't get me wrong Guilfee was bot all day he'd give that a the sun didn't he? who? the Icelandic fella oh Gunnison Gunnison yeah oh we had them all day all day he was even like just touching it by him and then he got a bit nicking it for him he would have been better than X in that Viking program honestly but all day play well but second half I just thought he started to make those runs that's what we've been missing and that's for me what what changed it up a little bit because they just couldn't handle that much because Gomez was just was just prodding and poking and because Gomez was it allowed Guilfee a lot more time and space and second half he started utilising it so the one way he goes round the keeper it's funny because I actually thought that I know it wasn't I think it was a heavy touch but he didn't actually have to go round the goalkeeper if he'd almost if the control had been tighter he could have just put it past the goalkeeper but the fact that he did that little tap off which he'd been doing all day it sent him round the goalkeeper but it just allowed that that defender enough time to get back whereas I thought if he took the ball maybe the other way closer to him he could have just stroked it on but me that's that's enough there but for the goal the touch though by Bernard for that oh I know yeah the goal come out the sky he was killed and it was the little no eyes yeah and that's brilliant because that's what I'm saying about unlocking defences is that Guilfee's made that run I think he's level with Bernard when Bernard pulls the ball down so he sprints past and they're looking at the tierless and obviously and Bernard but that's why that's why Guilfee's got to do more of that I'd like to see Guilfee start to make more of those runs because I really do think it's the one thing we need to start doing more as we're having that late run into the box Ghana could do it as well you've seen him get in and around but Guilfee obviously's got the talent to get that ball and we've seen it we have seen it a few times this season that's why he's getting more goals that's why he's getting into the areas where he's a danger now and people are starting to pay that shift the ball so well the one before he scored when he just got cut back to him when he put it over he just shifted it and that lad was like where am I absolute quality his level's gone like that I've said it since day one he's absolute quality you said it before you put better players around and we've got better players we've seen the last year with him and Rooney the interchanges neither of them was the same neither of them was the team exactly but the goal you know a term of the late run as we mentioned before it breaks off one of the players it breaks off one of the players and Wolcott's just faster than everyone else and that's why he's in the team he's ready for it he is, he is ready for it you know and he hasn't had much of a game up to that game he's been unlucky at times they kept on trying to play that that ball the little ones so he could get out of it in through the full between the full back and it just never came off but this is where you did the you see if Luchman picks that ball up he's not going to go straight and he hasn't got the pace to go straight he would have done what he would have done but that's all about pace and this and he's confidence I don't think confidence is massively high with him so he's just trying to hit the target he does keep a push it to Guilfe and Guilfe if you watch it if you watch it again all the time Theo's got the ball Guilfe's screaming for it he's saying pass it inside all the time so he's ready for it he's breaking he's breaking exactly on the same runners they're on parallel runs and it falls on and that's that's where you want to centre forward to tap with but if you're caught if you look and go why is he on his own but it's because he's running so good that's what it is they're running so and they caught on the hop because obviously it's they're coming together and the ball breaks and Walcott and he's listen he should have scored but he done what he should have done which was he made the goalkeeper save and he bent across the keeper if he's confident there if he's on a good run he bends that to the other side of the goal he doesn't go across from me he bends up but he's not so he's trying to just get it on target keep a get to and the right thing to do aim for the bigger target because he's having to go down loads of players there would have just smashed it and it's gone over and your chance is gone but he's put it to a position where at least Guilfe's got a tapping and it's a tapping but watch the run watch Daddy screaming for it watch Daddy's always involved Guilfe you know now we've got a week to prepare to go to Snake Mountain not his Castle Grey School that's where he never lived Snake Mountain and we go listen go there and go through my life we've had we've four out of five we've got four clean sheets in the last five games we've won five out of seven we're up to six we're scoring goals you know we scored in every home game haven't we you know and I think we've had had decent results at Chelsea last time out so we've got the players you can hit them they've got the players you can undoubtedly hit us they're a good side but a lot of teams have have gone on course then what for what for you had a penalty at 0-0 at the weekend Stonewall penalty you know so you're going to get opportunities what I would say is we will go and have a go with them won't we and that's the thing and hopefully we're a bit more disciplined than men we'll play our own game and that's the main thing and we'll see what happens um yeah do you have it the final word let us know your thoughts in the comments on the listen we spoke for ages again about 1-0 in it I don't know how we do it we've won the game I know I'm being and that's why we speak last year do you remember 12 months 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