 Welcome to Toffy TV, it's my three talking points from Brighton and Howvalby and One, Everton One at the AmEx today. The Toffy's a good point. I still am a bit gut at the fact we conceded the equaliser in injury time. It is one of them. If you'd have offered me a point of three o'clock I'd have been made up with it. I think Brighton are an excellent side and have been on a good run and are difficult to beat. I haven't lost a home since August in the Premier League so it was always going to be a tough one that way. But we haven't won in 2024. It's nine games without a win. It's the longest run in 30 years. The longest winless run in 30 years. Which doesn't make great reading for the management team. All these set of players, such that is poor. I'll be honest, I don't think any Premier League side should go nine games without a win. But we are where we are. But because they've scored so late. I can't sit here and make a massive case saying Everton deserved to win. Brighton got lucky because Brighton were far the better side. Everton made a better game of it in the second half. The first half was the first opening 20. I was unacceptable for me to be. It was just a taffy defence and our passing was awful. The manager looked a little bit annoyed as well at times with our final ball. We have to be better than that. We have to be better than that. Let's get on to that. Let's start with our style of play. Which is the first thing. Brighton are a really good side. They're man city light aren't they? They used the ball really well. Knock it round. The movement is second and none. They've got good players. They're not all amazing footballers but they are coached absolutely brilliantly. They know how to create space and how to get clever movement in and around the final third. All opposite of what we do. We are so basic at times. We need points. That's true. Listen, there's nothing wrong with being basic and direct if that's your skill set. That's what John Dike has built his teams on. Being defensively sound structurally and relying on set pieces and occasional breakaways and counterattack football. That's okay but I think we have to be better. I think we've got better players than what our style of play allows. I think when you are giving the ball up so much, certainly like we were today, when you get, and this isn't always on the manager or the coaches, but they do have to get some coaching patterns into this team. I keep saying it. It's more relevant daily at Gooderson when we're on the front foot and that was shown up like a sore thumb on Monday against Crystal Palace, how poor we are in the attacking third. But when you are playing against a good side like Brighton, they highlight how poor you are with the ball. Again, like I say, I think it's down to a belief from the players and a belief from the management team, whether you can do it, but even if you want to be basic, we got wide a couple of times in the first half, Michael Enco, great overlap, put a ball in, he just overheated it, McNeill put a good ball in, which Brighton just managed to clear. We have to do that and keep doing it and keep doing it. Jack Harrison on the other side got himself three or four times into an area to cross it with his right foot and then come back in on his left side. Now that's okay every now and again, but we know that he can stand it up with his right foot. So there has to be more of that. There's an issue on the right because Ben Goffrey, he had a decent gain, well now he had a good gain defensively. It's going your way with Ben that you don't get anything out of it really. He has to be able to overlap, he has to be able to run beyond Harrison, which gives him that little bit of space and that's where we see it, but the patterns of play have got to improve both home and away when we're playing structurally and defensively. I think the manager has done a brilliant job that way and away. The away results will tell you that in the year that he's been here, we have been strong away from home, but it annoyed me today that you know that you're not, and you remember the game at Godderson, we did this as well. We gave up so much possession to them and when we got it, we were useless with the ball and we were like that today. Second half it did improve in the counter attack. The passing has got to be so much better than what it is. Sorry, the bell's just gone and the dog's going off it's head. It's got to be so much better than what it is, but we've got a point. Is that a point more than I thought we'd have? I don't know. I said the other day after the palace game, I weirdly felt more confident about this game than Crystal Palace at home because I know that we go away and we're structurally very good away from home, but we've got to be coached to use the ball better than better than we do and that's that can only come down to the management, but also the players have got to be braver as well. It's not all on Sean Dyche or Ian Wong or Steve Stone. It's on the players as well, be braver. Yeah, you can tell it's bugging me because I've spent far too long on that point. The second thing I want to talk about is Jared Branthwaite, who I thought was magnificent today. I give him man on a match. I thought he dealt with Evan Fagers and I think he's going to be a top-top player and he's a handful. You can tell he's a little bit short of confidence at the moment because he hasn't scored. That's what happens with Shrike as we're seeing it at the other end with Dominic Alvaluin of course, but I thought Branthwaite handled himself brilliantly today, always calm and collected. A couple of really good recovery tackles and comes up with an absolute worthy of a goal into the top corner, brilliant Shrike. You look at him right foot, left foot. He's under pressure to get himself out of it because he is two-footed and again the assurance. There was one in the second half on a drinker in the box and he makes the challenge and he has to get it right otherwise it's a penalty and he times it to perfection and he's just so classy that you can understand why there's a buzz about him now. Hopefully Evan get out of this mess within in the Premier League this season and we can keep him for another year. I'd love to see him develop again at Godderson Park. There is a lot of noise about him. I'd be devastated if he went this one. I'd be devastated if he went this one because I think he really should do another year for Evan and I'd love to see that development because he's such a classy player to watch. I played off-front. I'm more excited by wingers and strikers than I am about defenders and particularly centrebacks but I just think he's brilliant to watch. He really is. The calmness of the kid and that's evidence scouting team and recruitment team. It's on you now to go and find another one like him and I guess there's such a buzz about him because there isn't many centrebacks. It was six for five quick and played with both feet and that calm under pressure but he's ours at the minute and he scored a brilliant goal today and he's a joy to watch at the moment and in a season that has been horrible. I think the football we've played at times has been a bit crap. I think the pressure of the Premier League, the deduction which is nonsense, the other stuff with the takeover and where we are. I think it's added all Snowball to be such a horrible season but he has been one of the bright spots and he's been superb and I hope as a club we are strong enough to say no he remains here. He signed a new contract not that long ago so let's keep him for another season and watch him develop and enjoy him because he's absolutely brilliant. The final point I'm going to make today is to really finish with Branthby because he's a positive because this one is a little bit of a negative point only from the standpoint from the manager not playing Amadou O'n Arna. Now listen, a dresser gan a game may well be out for a bit now he's gone off with what looked like a groin injury so therefore he may well be missing for a couple of weeks. Hopefully not, hopefully he just felt it and he's got off before it gets any worse but you wonder if he was feeling that first half and he tried it again because it came so quickly after half time but O'n Arna has to play, he has to play. I don't understand the man that he's thinking and not having him in there today and then when he come on he would have got my man of Amadou and he Branthby was brilliant and scored the cracker. The goal tipped it over because when O'n Arna come on we just looked such looked like we had a bit more control his passion he takes the ball forward he's a threat off set pieces and some of his tackling on the edge of the box was sublime but I just don't understand why the man that he leaves him out, I really don't. He left him out on Monday against Palace and it was the wrong decision, he came off the bench we got a grip of the game equalised and again today he come off and we got a bit more of a grip he made it a bit more difficult for them in midfield particularly in the first half where they were just waltzing through our midfield there was a huge hole and that's where he sits and surveys and he gets on the ball and he makes us pass the ball and we didn't have that and I just don't think the manager can afford to leave him out now like I've just said he he may have no choice now because of this he may well be out for a couple of weeks fingers crossed he isn't to reiterate that as well but I just think the manager has to play him and if it's leaving James going out then so be it it's the way that you dare to make those tough decisions and Amadou O'n Arna makes Evan a better side and he is one I think we'll leave in the summer I think he may well leave after the euros hopefully he has a brilliant euros then if that's going to be the case and we can bump his price up a bit more and I think you'll see when he goes to a better side than us just how good a player he is and I think we need them right now we need someone who's calm in the middle of the pitch we've got 12 games left we need what are we on 21 points we probably need five wins out of those 12 a win today would have cut it down to four ish an O'n Arna's going to be absolutely instrumental in them in my opinion so get them back in the side sure and make a tough decision on the other two whether it's a dress or whether it's James Garner that's what you paid for and do it if I just think we're a better team with Amadou O'n Arna in it let me know what you think in the comments section below about any of those three points listen we didn't lose I keep telling myself that we've got an extra point on the board um you know we've got a home game against Westam to come it'll be tough Moise coming back to Goddison and all that but we have got to start winning home games and let's be positive and who knows but I mean I'll say this with a huge bag of salt this time next week we may well know what the outcome of the appeal is we might even have a decision on the takeover listen if you if your Premier League if you're not passing triple seven put it out there that you've rejected them for now but bringing into this if you're passing them then pass them let's just all get on with it we might we might know more I well I would hope we know a lot more by next Saturday and let's hope this time next Saturday Evan have won the game against Westam and Goddison we can all feel better about ourselves because it is at the moment the longest run for 30 years longest win winless run for 30 years which is incredible no wins in nine games I've I'm struggle to accept that and I think it's the longest run without a goal in or I think one goal in nine is it from open play or in 10 now from open play which is the way it's running 23 years so we've got to put these things to bed very very quickly let's hope we do it with a home win against Westam next week right check out the Alan Stubbs interview I did it's absolutely brilliant Stubbs is brilliant that's on more than a game go and check that out thank you give this video a thumbs up subscribe to the channel if you haven't and have a really good rest of your weekend thanks for taking the time to watch see you later