 Welcome to ToffeeTV, it is the it's the instant match reaction. Crystal Palace Nail, Everton Nail, a pretty poor game down at L.A's Park let's say. A game that felt like it was there for the taking if I'm honest about an hour into the game we just looked at it and thought this is there, this is there, these aren't that arsed, these don't look that bothered. And then again that finishes probably happy with the point because obviously making Hallgate was sent off to bookable offences. How the manager never saw that coming I'll never know and why the manager persists on playing players at right back who aren't right backs instead of putting a right back in there is beyond me. I know some football you know I know some managers I like have players they trust and this manager certainly has players he trusts why he's not why Michael Keane's playing instead of instead of yelling me in it is beyond me is absolutely beyond me. Well listen we defended okay we defended okay when we went down to 10 minutes to be honest and you know they've only had two shots on target and there's nothing really there that Jordan Pickford's act to actually make a wealthy from. The disappointing part for me for today is that they were they were there for the taking they had signed off they you know they've got 37 points now they're 36 before before the game they didn't look they didn't look that arsed if I'm honest and that's the disappointing factor and again we haven't created chances have we that's really I've always had a decent effort in the first half push wide and Dominic Alvin Newman for my long ball as creators from Pickford sorry he's created something out of not a brilliant brilliant spin and then just put it wider the post but we haven't created anything again against the team now as I said didn't look that arsed I'll be honest and as I just think the manager got it completely wrong on the Mason Hallgate situation he you know he'd been booked early on for something that was stupid more than anything he'd lost are you basically and then he was poor during the game and it was always bound to happen it was it wasn't it wasn't a major you know incident or anything but he was he was his general defending was just awful all day and that's what happens when you pick a player to play right back that hasn't played for most of the season it's as simple as that I just thought it was a really poor decision and the manager's manager's decision making since we lost to Corey has just been has just been really really poor and obviously leading Tony was picking up one one point from the three games I think it's been really poor he hasn't had the clue out of deal with it and obviously losing Seamus Coleman as well is added to that but he just hasn't had a clue how to deal with the situation whatsoever he just without having that man it was it looked a little bit better early on in this game we we were sort of playing a four two three one and it looked a little bit better but then I will be grey you know McNeil they just drift out the game they don't actually add anything they don't really create any chances as I said I will be at a really good effort and a goal but but I just look at the I can't I can't for the life life of me understand what the manager is doing you know he did have sort of the his his perfect setup with the Corey in there but it's how can you not see the Hallgate was getting absolutely destroyed even from a footballing point of view even from a we need to be better here why wouldn't you why wouldn't you put bengal you start a bengal three day last week you start a bengal three at left back so why wouldn't you bring them on after about an hour and say right you make sure you've done you're done for today you're on a yellow card we don't want to take any chances making all gate wasn't having a particularly good game was he and he hasn't and he's left he's left them again and that's what he tends to do show and vice it's what he tends to do and and you know people might say why you know why you're having to go with the manager not having to go with the team because the team's poor we know the team's poor the manager was brought in to make those kinds of decisions he's made decisions so far that you know what are on him and in terms of like bringing Michael Keen back in you know bringing the Corey into the midfield their decisions he's made for the team rightly or wrongly saying he got the decor anyone right but I think you have to I think you have to be you have to you have to look at the big picture there and as I said I think I think he got it completely wrong on that one the game itself it was as I said it was a bit of a nothing game it just needed someone after the bar and hour to grab all of it by the by the screw for the neck and and we don't have those players sadly we don't have those players available to us who've got that ability you can do that you can change the game as I said in a second I say quite consistently you know will be the Marey Gray McNeill they just don't offer you anything creative creatively in the final third they don't keep hold of the ball we give the ball away far too much and we don't build up the play and it leads to it leads to obviously games like that where you just you can't build up any momentum during the game of football and and I think if you if we could do that it would lead us to go on and create more more chances obviously obviously more chances we have more chances we have a scoring but that's the major worry I have is again the goal scoring threat just isn't there and we've got you know tough we've got tougher games coming up Crystal Palace is one of our more winnable games for the for the rest of the season with the likes of Newcastle coming up Manchester City Brighton away Leicester's going to be obviously a very tough game they've won it they've won today and that's put us in the bottom three and we have you know we've we've gained a point on Leeds and we've gained a point on over on Forest so they're they're positives you know Thursday is a huge game now we have to run Thursday obviously get something against Newcastle it's going to be a really tough game but obviously Dominic Arvenloom another 90 minutes that well another 90 minutes 90 minutes that's that's good news long as nothing there's no issues off the back of it and Thursday is going to be an absolutely humongous game now it's one that you look at and when you look at the games that we've got left on obviously our away form our away form is absolutely it it's embarrassing our away form absolutely embarrassing and the general form in general is embarrassing one winning nine is you know when all the teams are have been picking up the wins the likes of obviously Wolves and obviously the likes of Bournemouth and Crystal Palace have pulled away from us with picking up wins rather than just just draws but the what disappointed me as I said was with about an an hour to go it was an hour gone it was to me how much did we want it how much were we willing to risk and I didn't this team is caught I imagine at times of thinking well the point will be a good result here and obviously the manager is a very pragmatic manager even though the stats are that the we've actually improved attack and wise rather than defensively since he came in but you know it's it thursday is huge now absolutely huge obviously there's there's midweek games and there's some there's obviously some really big games during the week that will obviously by the time we get to thursday could could make things obviously even worse um leads play less there which is absolutely huge on tuesday um forest at home to Brighton west time i've got Liverpool at home and then on thursday obviously it's us and Newcastle Southampton play bit Bournemouth Southampton at home would obviously last night's point against Arsenal will will obviously be huge will be big on their minds but it is what it is listen we've took we were down to 10 men for the last 10 minutes and we've dug in and we've got a point it is what it is and i'm under no illusions about this side this side is is poor anyone who watches me regularly knows how i feel about this side i'm not i'm not delusional this is a very very poor side that is going to have to it's going to take some goals from Dominic Arvin Lewin let's not kid ourselves that's why everyone's been obviously been looking at when he'd be back and asking the question every single week of when he'd be back because he is so important he gives us a figurehead he can make chances a chance out of nothing and as i said earlier the chance he had today um that he just put wide that was that was fashioned out of nothing and maybe a little bit sharp at that ends up in the back of the net but um we took up we get a point and as i said it's on it's on to thursday now and that that has become just absolutely absolutely humongous when when you look the next game after that home will be Manchester City and then it's born off on the last day of the season so um sadly we are we are in the bottom three now we are in the bottom three on on gold difference um Leicester have got a better goal difference on us by nine um we're a point behind Leeds they've got a better goal difference behind uh one who knows maybe Leeds get beaten the week and we we we get a draw um and that puts us above us it's it's going to be fine margins for the next few games i imagine that five i think is still the five that'll be there they're about for the rest of the season obviously for Leicester that's a huge moral boost and result today coming from behind to win that's huge for them um and it has got them out the it has got them out the bottom three so there you go there you go um i'll be back soon to do my player ratings bars i'll be doing his videos as well so make sure you check out them thanks for watching and i'll see you in a bit