 Welcome to Toffy TV, it is the player ratings Everton won, Nothing in Forest won a big opportunity for Everton to get their face win, but Everton just won good enough today at all. No cutting edge at the final third, build up play wasn't good enough, face 20 minutes was fine, like I mentioned in my match reaction, but no, serious things need to be looked at, the players getting brought in, the formation isn't getting the best out of it. That's a big opportunity miss because I thought they were very very ordinary, very very ordinary, and to have to score a 88 minute goal to get a draw against the promoter side is pretty poor isn't it, pretty poor. Let's get into the player ratings then Jordan Pickford, to be fair he was not an issue for most of the game, but on their goal sadly he's palmed the ball out straight to Brendan Johnson, he's finished it really well, but the shot I don't even think was that hard and he's palmed it right back into the only player in the box. I've watched it again and just poor goal keeping, because really if he keeps his arms flat he palms it away, away from the goal, there's almost like an angle on where he parries it to and it goes straight to the goal scorer, I thought that was really really poor. He made a slight amends with the assist for the goal, it was a great ball over the top, most of the game he was fine, some of his kicking sometimes was a little bit, especially when Brendan went off and we didn't really have a centre forward, some way he would kick him. Big mistake for me, big mistake, I've given Pickford a six just for his all round gaming because he did set up the winning goal, but big big mistake that really shouldn't be palming out there, it should be going out and wide not back into the goal area. To move on, Nathan Patterson, again attacking wise, not too bad defensively, he still needs to learn a hell of a lot defensively because there's far too many times where his body shape's all wrong and people just walk past him in the box. So that is definitely something he has to hugely improve on. Going forward, I think he's improving, sometimes he makes poor decisions, but he is a notice today trying to be available, especially if the ball's on the left hand side, he's trying to make himself available on the right hand side all the time. If anyone's got the ball in and can get a cross out there, so slowly, I do think being in a, as a wing back will help him as he gets used to the Premier League, so that will help him. He has always played in that position when he's played for Scotland, and that's why that helps him. He hasn't played a lot at right back, so it's not necessarily the position that he's used to, so maybe again that's one of the reasons why we're looking at playing with wing backs. But everything has got to evolve into a system where it's three, four, three, and not five, two, three. It's got to evolve, otherwise we just don't create enough and we don't have enough width. So, I've given Paterson six on the other side, Michal Lenco, good into the tackle, offensively not really given us anything at all. It's something that's been clearing all three games, how little is coming from him on the left hand side, and that has to improve, has to improve. I think defensively he's still doing it, he's funny because he's on the other side, I think defensively he's alright to a point, but offensively I don't think we're getting anything from him. If you're playing with them as your width, you've got to start off on something, so we're going to have to, in the next few weeks going to be interesting if this system continues. It suits the centre backs to a point, but it doesn't, at the moment, the way we're playing it, it is like having five at the back of times. There's no adventure from the wing backs to get forward enough and play high enough, and that's where someone in the midfield, a gana type player would make so much difference to this team, having someone who can fill in and allow those plays to get forward. But also it's what happens when they get forward, where they offer something, Michael Enco to me has offered nothing in the three games. He's almost one that you look and go well, he's a left back, he's a defensive left back. Maybe we have to start in games like that, start looking and go well maybe we can bring Bernard Green and he can be more offensive, it's something they're going to have to look at going forward. Right now the team for me just doesn't wake, just doesn't wake the players we've got in the setup. I've given Michael Enco five and a half because I just, I don't, going forward I thought he was pulling. James Tarkowski, I just out here the shocker today, absolute shocker. Everything he touched just, or everything he didn't touch ended up. He had a horrible game, he just had an absolutely horrible game. Things were bouncing off on him, he's letting things bounce, he was some of his clearances. I don't know if playing on the left hand side of the three suits him, but he was really poor today, really poor. He just started badly and just never improved. And now maybe it's because he, maybe Cody's took the role he thought he was going to be in the middle, but he was poor today. And hopefully it's just an isolated game, hopefully it's just one of those games, but there's so many little things like letting the ball bounce and the ball going over his head and things. Just dead basic defensive things and as I said, I hope that's something that improves going forward. I think Ben Godfrey is such a big miss at the back because he was the one who was really versatile and had the legs. And obviously him playing out there I don't think really works. He's had to be shifted over there to accommodate Mason Holgate on the other side where Ben Godfrey would have played on the left hand side. So not a good day for him at all, I've given him a five. Conor Cody, I thought Conor Cody had that. There was little moments today I really, really enjoyed seeing. He was like, there was one where, there was one where a Wobie got back on the left hand side in the Gladys Street, in the corner with the Gladys Street and the Bullens. And he came over to a Wobie and his partner and he's given the fist bumps and stuff. And there was little things like that today where I just thought, you should be the captain of this team. I know it's your first down game, but he really led, like really led by example today. I put his body in the way and if he made a mistake, he made sure he rectified it. I thought from that side of things, I thought he was excellent today. He's a proper, proper defender. He doesn't make, he doesn't tend to let things bounce or just, he tends to win pretty much everything that's in the air as well. And I thought, I thought he done really well today. I thought he was the real leader that was needed, the organisers, getting us up the pitch. Just little things that I think I've been missing in the last couple of years. Getting us up the pitch when the ball, getting the team up the pitch. Getting for old school basic centre-back stuff that is maybe going out the window a little bit, but I've really enjoyed seeing that side of his game today. It's a long time since I've seen that from a centre-back. So I've given Conoco the seven and a half. Mason Hallgate, solid, pretty solid game. No issues as such. Yeah, he's been, been, been fine, been fine. I've given him a seven. As I said, he's come in in the last couple of games and he's, he's looked. He just looks like someone, a nice, steady player that you don't have to really worry about. Okay, he hasn't got the pace of a Ben Goffy or the strength and that's still missing. Cos as I said then, the back three's had to be shifted around a little bit. But yeah, dead, dead, dead steady today, really steady. Into midfield Tom Davis, bit of a surprise inclusion. I told Tom was fine today. I honestly don't know why we subbed Tom off. I don't know why we subbed him off. I thought he was getting his foot in and getting us out of a few little moments where he was coming back and helping the defenders and just putting his foot in. There was one, he dragged wide in the first half. I thought he'd scored. But Tom was fine today. He was exactly like he was when he came on against Aston Villa. And I really don't understand why Frank Llanparg took him off. I really don't. Unless it was a fitness thing, I really don't know. It was like he had this new toy on the bench and he just couldn't wait to get it out. And I really think, I just don't think that worked. I really think Tom was the easy sub. But he was our only real defensive sitter. You know, we'll come on to it in a minute, but I just don't understand why. I just thought the sub, the stubble sub, I just don't think it worked at all. I don't think it worked at all. And I'd have left Tom on and I would have brought, if you're bringing on O'nana on, listening after seeing O'nana, I wouldn't have brought O'nana on for till maybe the last 10 minutes. Because he was, we'll come on to O'nana. But I just, I thought Tom was steady, absolute steady. I'm going to give Tom a 6.75. I thought he was nice and steady, not amazing. Didn't do anything incredible. Just did his job, but he's such an easy sub to come off. But when he came off, we lost something. We lost a player sitting in the middle of the midfield who just did the basics. I just didn't understand why we took him off. It just seemed really stupid to me. Really, really stupid sub. So, yeah. And I thought that made a big change on the game. Next one, a Wobie. A four to four of his games again. Four he did his job picking up the bits, defending, trying to break forward. Excellent, excellent. Excellent play. Again, little things like maybe a couple of times where under it passes and things like that. But he was trying to get forward. He was trying to play on the front foot, trying to get plays in behind. And I thought he had a good game. I did. I thought he had a good game. I've given him a 7.75. So, yeah. He's been our best player in the three games. So, great start of the season. Going to be interesting if we get the plays we want in, where he fits into it all. But did really well, did really well. Damari Greid, the goalscorer, started really well. Again, face 20 minutes. Like some other people's, some other players who play today started really well. But unfortunately drifted out of the game. But then obviously got the goal. That was a great run. Well-timed. Great face touch to be fit. To be honest, reminded me of the goal he scored against Bayne last season. And a really good finish. But during the game he was just far too many times when, again, a little bit running through blind alley. 100% sure he was going to do with it. And he picked it up. I've given him a 7.5. But needs to just have a bit more direction when he plays. Needs to have a bit more, when he picks the ball, you need to know what he's going to do with it. And I don't think him and Anthony Gordon had enough of that today. But it was a really good goal. It was a really good ball by John Pickford. Great face touch and a really good finish. So fair play. We needed it obviously. We needed it obviously to get us a point. Another defeat would have been horrendous for us today, wouldn't it? It is really disappointing that we haven't got three points. But if we haven't got a goal scorer, then what can you do? Anthony Gordon again started really well. He faced 20 minutes on the front foot, getting, cutting through off the right hand side. A couple of moments where I thought he'll score here. He put a good ball in. But after 20 minutes he just went out the game. He picked up an absolutely stupid... He looked really hyped up for the game. And I can understand why with everything that's gone on. He looked really hyped up for the game. And then he just put in a stupid tackle. Got a yellow card. It was absolutely stupid. And then that was it. He drifted out the game. And then he started bottling little 50-50s. And there was one where I think someone put him through and he bottled the challenge on the goalkeeper. And he just drifted out the game completely. A few little moments where he picks up the ball. But far too many times we slowed the game down in the final third. And he was a big culprit of that. He slowed the game down. And I just thought... Do you know when you're looking at anything that someone's offered nearly 50 million quid for him? You think? DM me. DM me out. I'd expect more for a player that someone values for 50 million quid. I've given him a six. But he needs to do better. He needs to do better. There's just far too many times in a game when he's just trying to pick up the ball and beat everybody and it just doesn't come off. There's no end product at all with him. And that's... It's worrying that everyone would knock back money that is vitally needed for strikers. Rondon. Honestly, again, I don't... Unless Rondon was absolutely on his ass, which I didn't think he was. I don't know why we took Rondon off. Because I think he gave... Listen, I don't particularly think he had a very good game. Or, you know, when he gets caught offside or he's slow to get back. But he gave us a shape. He gave us something to play off. He pushed the centre back and stretched the game a little bit. And when we took him off and played the white mark Neil for the off-runs, then the game just... The game just become frantic. The centre backs were allowed to push forward. And, yeah, it was just... To me, it didn't work. It just didn't work at all. And I'd have kept Rondon on as long as possible to keep the shape for the team. But the simple fact is, when you've got someone from play centre forward, you have a shape to your team. And it's so obvious what we need now. And if the club don't go and get what we need, I'm not asked about Domino Cavalluno when he's back. If the club don't get what we need, then we're going to be in the same situation we were last season. It's as simple as that. It's as simple as that. Because for us to dros, you know, and they might improve, they might improve because of the plays they brought in. But we are dros. Sorry, they are dros, but we are in front of goal. We can not put the ball in the back of the net. We need to bring in strikers. We need to bring in attacking players. You can do that. Because we haven't got them at the moment. They have to do that quickly because that's almost like another game we've threw away there today. Rondon had won that. I think he just put wide a really good effort in the second half. Took it and turned. We had a striker of any note there today. We just scored a couple of goals there. We just scored a couple of goals without a doubt. I've given Rondon a six. The subs. O nanne. Well, he's got 30 minutes under his belt as me in the Premier League. He's frantic, isn't he? Absolutely frantic. Again, reminded me of when Fellaini came. The pace of the game at this stage is too quick for him. Straight away, he's taking a touch and he thinks he's got time and he hasn't. That's where he got his yellow card. Bringing the lad down. Then he has another one where you're thinking, oh, here we go. Then after that, he settled down but he couldn't tackle anyone or do anything. That's where the manager again has to train his money. He must have seen that in training. Listen, he's a good player. He's got loads of talent. He just needs to settle down and, of course, he'll improve and game time is good for him. It just didn't work today because he got booked really early once he got booked. You can tell he's neat inside. He's got loads of little touches but he's also quite confident about his own ability. He's only been in the Premier League for two minutes. He has to settle down and understand the speed and do things that are just the basics. Just get the basics right for the first few weeks. Keep it nice and tidy for the first few weeks. Then grow. Your skills will start coming out. It was a poor game when you look at in terms of the yellow card and how frantic he was. I'm sure he's going to improve. He's a very, very talented player who's got no experience playing in the Premier League and he just needs time to settle down. The minute on the pitch will help that, of course, he will. It's just that when it's 0-0 and it's still half an hour to go and you haven't got another holding midfielder and it's not easy. Hopefully, he looks a really good confident player and I'm sure he'll become a vital asset for Evan. So, not his best starter was Evan Crier at home. I'll give him a five. Dwight MacNeill didn't really offer anything. He was brought on up front. He's not a centre forward. Again, shows you where the club is. That's why I can't understand why he took Rondon off. He didn't look like he was dying out there. Give him a five as well. Tried to do things, but never really come off for him. Evan needs to bring plays in ASAP. Simple as that. We are not a good team and we need to bring in players. We need to bring in forwards. We need to bring in attacking players. We need to bring in people who can score goals with the ball in the back of the net. Someone who will grab one early in that game and then take it away from Forrest. If we'd scored first in that game today, I think I'm quite confident we would have won the game. But it never happens. So, there you go. My player ratings. Let me know your thoughts in the comments. Lots of you who are live already have some bizarre comments as well. There you go. On to Tuesday night against Fleetwood. Brenford next week. Make sure you check out Baz's videos as well. Check out my instant reaction from the Gladys Deed. I'll catch you all later.