 Welcome to Toffy TV, it is my three things, Everton nil, West Ham United 1. Bit depressing really to lose games. Like I said on my matriax and I thought it was a tight game. I thought to me it looked like it was heading for the nil nil draw and that would have been a decent point I think because we just never looked like scoring today. The first thing I'm going to talk about today is Salomon Rondon. When he come in, I understood absolutely why the manager plumped for him. Personally I'd have liked it a different centre forward, a better one, mobile, young. I'd have liked Edward who went to Palace or someone like that. But money obviously was a problem and Everton, I mean Huang was the other one as well who we wanted in and almost Adam in January I don't understand why we didn't go back and get him. He would have been a better option but we've gone with Rondon and I understood it. I thought he's free, he's experienced, he can not play as a bout. He was good for Newcastle, he was good for West Brom, albeit a few years ago. I think the plan was for him to come in and be a sublet, to be perfectly honest. He wasn't brought in as a starter was he? And he's had to be a starter. He's lost Dominic Calvert-Lewin for God knows how long. And he's had to play and having no ritualism has meant he's had to play. But at the minute he just doesn't seem to be getting any sharper or any fitter. He obviously is but he just doesn't look like it in his play. I thought that he was really poor and I don't want to dig him up too much because I still think he can be a useful member of Everton's squad. But I just think at the minute something's not quite right and I think for me I just hope that ritualism is back against Wafford and we can put him back to being sub and that might suit him better for now. No expectation on him. Last 15-20 minutes come on, be the batter on Ram and do your work in those 15-20 minutes put everything into that because it looks like he's having to pace himself at the moment and that's not good because it's stopping us. It certainly stopped us today. So he needs to get sharper, get fitter and hopefully that will be because we've got ritualism back and we can go with him through the middle because like I say, Dom, I think he's going to be out for a bit longer. So that's where we are at Ronddon. He's got to get himself. He's got to do the things that we thought we were getting. So today, in my opinion, he's up against Lord Bonner in the room and I thought he could have really knocked them about. I don't think either of them are brilliant but they were quite comfortable today because he just didn't pin himself to one of them and knocked them about and give them a difficult game. I've seen them come to Godderson and do that to our defenders backing, knocked them about, engage them. He didn't do anything like that today and as well as not doing that, which is the things you think you're getting off him, he wasn't even in the penalty area when we were putting balls in. Once in the second half and he glanced the header wide, which he should have hit the target with, two ffizzed across the six-yard box and he's done very great. No way to be seen. And that to me isn't good enough and had to drag them off personally, had to tuck them off after an hour because he offered nothing today but he's got to get better. There's no question about it and I hope the man has yet demands more of him because at this moment he's not giving us anything and that's not good. Second thing I want to talk about is the substitutions. Today I thought Rafa Benitez got them wrong. I think he's done a lot of things right since he came in. There's no question about it. He will make mistakes. There's no question about it. No manager. It's perfect. And Evan will lose games of football as well but I just think today you could feel, like I've said before, I thought me personally, other people seeing it differently, fine. But I was watching it and I wasn't too worried about West Ham. I didn't think it wasn't like we were hanging on, we were carving us open, we weren't. The best way to score a goal was when I said play that what do you look like? We give away cheap corners, look at the two or three times just added the ball out or kicked the ball out for a corner when it could have been cleared the other way. I didn't understand that. But once we, certainly once we went behind, I don't understand why he didn't put Dobbano. I don't understand why he didn't put a Gabamano or a Davies and put something extra in there. We just carried on doing the thing that didn't work. You could say after an hour we needed something different. He was warming, Dobbano, he was warming Tom Davies up. He was warming Gabamano for a while, went nothing. Anthony Gordon was up and down and yet he waited till we went behind and he put Gordon on for a woby. Which was fine, it was the right thing to do but it should have been 15 minutes early. Even with that he should have then put on Dobbano and he should have put on Gabamano Davies and just gone, we're changing it up. What we were trying is not working so therefore let's try something else. And we didn't, we just kind of wimpered to a defeat and that's frustrating. You know, I've seen a lot of people saying to me why didn't he put Jerry Meenon on or from for the last 10 minutes because at least he won't hit us again, so you were an odd bonner and we could have been a little bit more direct. I don't know whether Raffa Bonita is that kind of manager that he's going to put a centre back up front but maybe, maybe that's what he should have done. So it was a disappointing sub today with disappointing. I get it that maybe he looks at Dobban and thinks he's not ready and that's fine but at least the kid will come on and run around, he's mobile. There was no-one trying to stretch West Ham and you know looking at Rondon and defend and set plays but we've already, certainly after the goal were already behind, aren't we? So there's reasons maybe why he didn't do it but I just would have liked him to try to get an equaliser in that game and sticking with what we had didn't really do anything. It was like an anti-lottie substitution for me. It didn't really do anything other than what was on the pitch. There was no change, there was no imagination to it. There was no listen, we're going to do this and make West Ham think. We just swapped one of the pieces and went over, you go off-golden, you go on. Didn't really work. So I'm a bit disappointed with the subs today definitely. Final thing I want to talk about is just the season in general. The only thing today is a day where people should get to disheartened about it. It's a frustrated listen, it's horrible losing any game of football. It's absolutely horrible losing any game of football. I've just worked out because of Covid and the games you went to. That's the first time I've seen Everton lose a good listen since November 2019, when Norwich beat us. It's been a while since I've had to come home from a good listen with a defeat. I don't like the feeling, so I hope it's another two years since we lose the next one. But we're going to just have to take these on the team for now because we haven't got a strong squad. We knew that. We haven't got quality sat on the bench. You can change it. And when you're missing your two best players, which we are, and Mina's been one of our best, so we have three of our players who get in our first 11. When they're missing, then things aren't going to run as smoothly. We've done brilliantly to get away with stuff so far. I think having Mina on the pitch today maybe prevents the goal for the corner, who knows. He's a big lad, dog boners are big lad. But he wasn't on the pitch and they had it. We're going to lose games of football and we have to just keep going. Next week, we win that. We're back on track, albeit we go to Wolves next, which will be a tricky game as well. Definitely, but it's about momentum and we've had a good start to the season. It would have been great had we won today. We haven't, so we have to just say, okay, take our medicine and get on to the next one. I think if we keep doing what we're doing, get the Charles on back. From there, he's a goal threat or he's a runner, he's someone who's mobile which will create more space for other players. Get Mina back in that side, get our best defender back in. Get our best defender back in and then see where we go from there and then hopefully just stay in. Got to take it game by game, stay in amongst the pack, get to January and then bring another couple of players in and maybe shape a couple out if we can and improve the squad that way and that's what we're going to have to do. This is not going to be fixed quickly. It's going to be built over a couple of transfers more than a couple probably. But we have got some good players and we've got a build on top of that. It's the squad. It's thin. We need people to step up but we are lighting the final third. We need a winger, we need another striker as well. We need Don back, we need Richie back. Then you can start looking at options and getting excited. Right now we're down to the bare bones. We're having to play with an unfit Solomon Rondon up front. So we do need a Tialyson back but we will have these days. Let's hope there's days when we're the team that nicks the tight game off a set play or something like that. We don't seem to do that too often. We seem to be the team on the other end of it. So that's the next thing to do but keep going. What for the Rome next Saturday right there my three things. Give the video a thumbs up. Subscribe if you haven't and if you want more videos join us on Patreon. Have a good weekend. See you later.