 Welcome to ToffeeTV, it is the match preview for Newcastle United versus Everton. Everton having to travel up to St. James' Park only 48 hours after playing, well less than 48 hours isn't it? After playing a tough game against Burnley at home. I absolutely think this game is nonsense, right? I do, right? I have a problem, I think we both have a problem with the Christmas period before we start, we say this every year. Boxing Day I understand, it's a very traditional fixture, I understand that. I met, seen a lot of people yesterday, you see a lot of people come home for the game and things like that. So fair enough I understand that, but I think this game is nonsense. 48 hours after playing, well less than 48 hours after walking off a pitch and having to get recovery in straight away, then come in the next day, transport up. And I just think, and you know what's worse about it, and genuinely this is the worst thing, the games are crap. The games are always crap, there's no quality. Newcastle played after us, so they finished at half seven at United. I mean, it's good to quantify that because people will be saying, yeah? So, you know, as a fixture, well just answer me this, why couldn't all the games have been on Sunday? Yeah, yeah. Why did they have to be Saturday? Give the players an extra day's rest and just have a full Premier League, fixture on Sunday or whatever, because let's be honest, you can do what they want. You know, Man City are playing Wolves tonight after everyone has played yesterday, so every game should have been Sunday. So A, players are going to get injured, risk getting injured, they've just finished a game and people can go, oh come on, they can play. They've just played Saturday, then they play Thursday and they've got to play Saturday and then they play Wednesday, then they play Saturday or Sunday and they have to pick up. You know, it's great going off those games every couple of days, but A, flogging the players isn't good, and B, as a fan, it's crap. It's crap, remember that Leicester game on New Year's Day last year? It was the worst game of football I've ever seen. And also, both teams are knackered. And also, and this is the flip side of it, and people may agree or disagree with me, people actually, and people say, oh you don't need to, but people actually like to spend a little bit of time with their family at Christmas. Honestly, I just think this, I know next year the boxing day is on the Saturday, so I don't know when the following game will be. The bank holiday was Monday, but honestly, and I know it's television, they take it, but like you've just said, an extra day. So they've got to do what they did for the boxing game fixture, is have all the games on. Staggered or they give city and wolves the next day. Or had whatever, you know, whatever it is. Well it's mad because wolves play tonight, at the time of recording this, in the night against city, and then they play Sunday against Liverpool. So Liverpool have had an extra day as well, and wolves have got to go to Liverpool on Sunday, instead of every club. It's just, to me, it's bizarre. And the thing about it is though, and this is what I think from a television point of view is, and I know we've got this on New Year's Day, fans, if you do it like the Amazon did, and you put it on so every game is on, and I know on New Year's Day BT have got every game on, I think. Yeah, I think they've got every game over New Year's Day, and if there's games on the second live, covering everything, I believe. Why can't you do like that as well? Why can't this be the test that boxing day was of saying, what do we like? Well what we want is we'll watch our own team, and then we might watch another team, and maybe... So you can still have like four live games in a day, but every game can be live. So that three o'clock one or whatever, you can pick what you want, if that's the way it falls. I don't know whether this game falls like that, but if you'd put it on Sunday, would it fall like that? Saturday, three o'clock is a different Sunday, you can do what you want with them. That's the irony of that really, really bizarre rule, that still needs to be bombed. And it will be bombed because, excuse me, this is why you were nutting me on a lot of videos. That rule has been shown by Amazon, and the Amazon stuff is brilliant. I mean even if you go on the Amazon app and watch the new plays, it's so good. The only issue is the delay in the game, and I'm sure they'll sort that out. So yeah, we go to Newcastle, and as it's just said, they're at Newcastle in the same boat. They've played my leg way after us. So the quality of the game straight away, you've got on Saturday, Brighton and Bournemouth are half-twelfth, so they've both played yesterday and they're playing a half-twelfth. I just think it's pathetic. I think it's mad, and there's no reason for it. Well, there is a reason for it. Well, there is. There's no reason for it being Saturday. There's none at all, mate, honestly, it's tradition now. No, it could be Sunday, mate, it could easily be Sunday. It could easily be Sunday. The boxing day would have been Friday, it'd have been Sunday, wouldn't it? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. It could have been Sunday. It could have been a lot fairer if all the games had been on Sunday. And we'd be like, hey, give the players a rest. B, give the fans a rest. Yeah, hands to quality. And let everyone just have a day's break, and then you're ready to go again, and they'll be Newcastle fans who've come home from old traffic, and they got in a bar one o'clock in the morning or something. Well, not that far, but that far. They got in at, like, 11 o'clock, say, at night. Go to bed, and they're going to mat again tomorrow. Do you know what I mean? It's like, give it a... But I just, yeah, anyway, listen. So, because of that, it's really hard to know what's going to happen in this game. It is a flip of a coin. It could be the worst game in the world, or it could be 5-0. You know, that's the problem with this time of year. And I know, listen, I, for one, don't think that's a fair representation of teams at times. And don't get me wrong, listen. Newcastle are sitting ahead of us in the Premier League. At the moment, if we win the game, we'll go above them on goal difference. And they've had a good start. A lot better start than what people thought. They've reached a set of them down. Got that sort of raffa-bonita shape. But I think with the attack and plays, he was allowed to bring in with the money that he got from Perez. They've bowed quite well, and they've got a little bit of pace in the team now. And I think with that solidness at the back, I think they're a turkey team now. And especially at home, they've got really good record. You know, this is a difficult game, this first game. Four wins, four draws and one defeat, you know. And I think that defeat was Arsenal, wasn't it? First, eh? Yeah. I think, since then. First weekend, yeah. They haven't lost since. So, they're on a good run. Everton have won four of the last six games. I think James and Parke, I can't believe that. Yeah. They've been shooting a lot there last year. So, decent record up there. But like you just said, it's what's difficult is knowing what plays are going to be available on both teams. You know, because like you said, you've got to look after the players. And a day's recovery isn't enough. There's nothing to play a game again. Because people might... Kind of saying enough. You know, you're there. You know, players are being in the training ground today, having massages and like, probably doing a little cooldown and stuff, but then to go. So, the game's going to be played at like 70%, isn't it? Because players will. So, it'll probably be a slow one. And stakes will be made. Stakes. Because it's tired. Like you said. And it too starts the game as well forever. And you just don't know because I think Carl Hanselotti's already hinted at the fact that some of those players won't play, or he just can't play. And then you're relying on the plays you've got on your bench and for us, you know, okay, I've got the likes of, you know, Moise Keeney could maybe come in. And Michael Keeney could come in, maybe Leighton Baines if needed. There are a couple of options on there, but you still know. You're still not getting your full 17. You'll shake toes and maybe, but then you are saying, well, it's going to be completely different to what you've had in the previous game. You know, well cut's going to be, I think well cut will start. I think so. I think Moise Keeney could start. It's who you decide to flog, isn't it? I think the problem is that for us, that we've got players where you go, well actually, we don't need to change that position, but we've got other positions where you're like, we've got nobody else. And that's the problem for us at the moment. Do you think he might play five at the back? What like five have I played on the weekend? No, but like, or three at the back. Maybe been Keeney and Michael Keeney and then just sit a little bit deeper. It's hard, isn't it? Because it's like, who would you take out the defence to rest someone? But the problem with that is, that's a question we don't know the answer to because we don't know their limits. Levels. Like the likes of, see, for me this play is like Mason, I imagine Mason Hogg hitting Dominic Harbourloo and he'll be fine to play. To play. I honestly do, did it. That can't, the really, really... I wouldn't play Delpho Shigerton. I'd take one of them, wouldn't be like Tom Davis would come in for me. To give it a little bit of energy. And because of that shoot on Christmas day. And the shoot on Christmas day. It'd be easier to play footwear than that. Yeah. I'd have. You see, I'd be tempted to have Moise Keane in there. I'd be tempted to have Tom Davis in there. I'd be tempted to have Theo Walcott in there. Yeah. You know, and just give it that little bit of freshness. Freshness, yeah. And maybe have Coleman or Shidaby right back and then maybe with Luck to replace one of them with that. You know what I mean? Freshness. I think the most important thing for this game is, and I think again, Karo and Shorty mentioned it and I think you mentioned it and Dave mentioned it on the Final Word because two clean sheets back to back now. First time. Never really looked under too much threat on the bay even from a lot of the set pieces. If we can get that sorted, the back and get back to being. So we've spoke about loads of time. So then you're defeated to draws and you draw into wins. And this is a game where, if we come away from the point from this game and I'm sitting here right now, I wouldn't be disappointed because I just think it's another point at a difficult time of the year. Man sitting here today, live a bit like Sunday in the FA Cup and then you start looking to them and then after that you look at the fixtures and go, now we're back to having a good run of games. One run at one, good, well I think there's, there's a midweek one isn't there? But in general it's... Against Newcastle? Newcastle at home. Yeah, yeah. So you're looking at the fixtures then again, right? Now we hit a bit of a run where it's not too bad looking, you know, we got rid of that tough, that tough spell of fixtures. So you go over to Newcastle and you look at their home record. And you go, actually I probably take a point here because it's a tough time of season and that's sometimes, I'm not saying that's the thinking you go in with as a player or a manager, as a coach, but it is that don't get beat. Yeah, yeah. Just don't get beat because every point, you're just, you know, you're adding, just totting up. We're beforehand, we were getting beat and they were all totting up and you're looking and going well, you know what? We're still, we're still madly in the mix for you which is busy. Seven points off every United. Yeah. So you have to look and just go, look, keep topping up, top up, top up. And then when we get that run where it's one a week in general and the winnable games, what we say, they're not all against teams you will have to drop into the league. I know it's difficult, we've had difficulty with both, but we're on a different journey now, aren't we, I suppose, if you're looking at it that way with the manager. You'd look for them and then think like, yeah, every point and then we can say and then ones into threes. If we were to come away with a positive result, either a victory or a draw, you're looking at five Premier League games and beating them, you start looking and going, we go to city with a bit more confidence and it's a bit of a free hit next week in Man City. You know, to game you can get something out of but they'll be heavily expecting to win and that's the way it is, but then, you know, people will be looking and going, but this is a game we can win because Newcastle haven't got the biggest squad. They'll have to make changes. Just coming off the back of the first one. They were all on the feet of United. They were exploited lots of times by United, you know. But in terms of clean sheets, we haven't had, not to say in the rear, we haven't had the clean sheet in the last eight games away from home. We haven't had five in the previous nine. So if we could get a clean sheet, that's just starting position. That's, I mean, let's... Remember the cleverly game? Oh yeah, last minute. That's boxing day for us. Last minute, yeah. I mean, let's get it right. Our home form will always take care of itself. It always has and always will do. Unless you're a bit of a man. It's the away form we need to get hold of and start picking up points and getting, you know, win every three games or whatever if you seriously want a challenge. You've got to be able to go away and go, we can do what we do at home away from home and get that mentality. And there's no better time than starting your first game when you've got trips to Manchester City and Liverpool coming up, you know what I mean. So, for me, I mean, that's always, that's been the big thing for the last three, four managers. I think the only one who sort of, I mean, Allardyces away record wasn't terrible, but again, that's because that was built on. I mean, he threw some away, but then in others, he didn't, you know, we went up to Newcastle and got a win. You know, we got a win, we went to Anfield and got the draw and threw it at Westbourne. You know, he looked at those games as don't lose. Cooman was the same. Trying to get a draw away from home and win your own games. And of course, that gets you to a certain level, but if you can create that and then you start taking those draws into wins and it's having that no fear. We, as a club, just seem to fear away games. It's just like we don't have the comfort blanket of the fans around us. Because we haven't, it's because we just haven't been good enough. Let's be honest, that we haven't had good enough players or even when we have had good enough players, the mentality hasn't been quite right. I mean, I've answered a lot, but if we were to win, it'd be only the third ever managing the Premier League to win his opening three games. Moise and Royce won both of their third opening three. But, you know, you've got to, we'll have to go up there and be tight. You know, they've got people like Tietra, who's lighting and they've got Alma Ron, who's a good player. You know, Joel Linton's a handful of times. Dwight Gale. Those two kids in the middle of the park from Game of Thrones. Yeah, long staff in the middle of the park. You scored two goals both against Matthew. And what I would say is, from set pieces, they've become very dangerous as well. Yeah, yeah. Bruces, that was almost like the turning point for them. They've bruised, drilling them, getting the goals from set pieces. So they've become very good at that as well. I think they've scored, I think they've scored 10 goals in nine home games. You can see that's seven. So, not bad at all. So, listen, it's a tough shot. John Joe Chelvey's come back a little bit as well at least now. He's a good player. When you get him right, he's a good player. He can shoot from distance. He's a good passer at the ball. It's just... No, no, it's a ball. Sutton's mission with him. Yeah. That consists of... He's just needs to mature. I don't know whether he has matured or whether he is matured or not. He's a good... Technically, he's a very good footballer. Yes, so they're not a bad side at all, to be fair to them. You know, they've had a better season than us so far. It's a case of go up there, try to win the game and if you can't, don't get beaten up. That can be the only thing at this time of the year. A lot of games, like you say. We don't know. The manatee might make four or five changes tomorrow. We don't want to do it. I'd have Anthony Gordon in the squad as well. I'm sure he will. That bit of freshness. Get him in a tent that's a plane. But certainly have him in there and see what we can get of him. We can keep it tight. There's no reason why. It'd be great if we can get in front. Once I think that would be a big thing. Put the pressure on them and then see how we cope with it. Because our waveforms are terrific. We're in the bottom three for a waveform. It's just terrible. Run one away again. I just don't think when we go away, I don't think we impose ourselves on anyone and we don't have the players to impose. I think last season was a perfect representation when we went to Newcast. So we got to tune it up and then the first bad thing that happened to us, we felt a bit. We felt a bit. It almost happened in Southampton. Luckily enough, the switch went the other way. That was the perfect representation of not having the ability in last season when we went there. We nearly went either 3-0 or 3-1 up. Dominic Cavallon just won. But things just never quite fell for us. You've got to be able to tough it out. That's the whole point of getting wins away from home is toughen out the part of the game now. The crowd start getting on top here and they're throwing chances at you. We just last seen, last year, like House of Cards. We need Pickford to just be calm. Not be a no-bed. No, no. Not be a no-bed. Because last year, he was a no-bed. He was, yeah. Right? He contributed to this. We did. Massively. His performance, the third goal wasn't about the smiles offside. He couldn't do anything about it. But the first and the second goal, first one went under him to the save. And the second one, he pushed it back out to Peres to put it in. Awful goalkeeping. Because he lost his focus? Because he lost the focus. And yet up to then, he had saved the penalty. He was doing everything alright. And then he got involved in laughing with their fans and winding them up because we were winning 3-0. Instead of just, if you're going to do that, wait until you've won the game, you can have a wink and a smile at them. In a game, you've got to, and it'll stop him being the keeper he probably shall be, unless he can get it out of his game. And that'll be tantamount to whether we can get a result. It's going to be interesting. It's a professionalism. It is, isn't it? And to be honest with you, I think now, maybe having this manager, it's who you can... Oh, I don't think this manager will suffer any further. That's what I'm saying. And I think maybe he'll know that. And I think he'll look and be like, I've seen him apologising to Antelots. He was a couple of times in the Berniga, giving the ball away so cheekily, and he was like, that and pick. You know, I've not seen that. He's not serious. Who's he at? He's at Cumin. You know, and then he has Aladise, and he's at Silver. This is a different fella. This is different gravy. The level isn't it, so it's not from Aladise gravy, so... So, yeah, you'll get the eyebrow if he's not careful. You will get the eyebrow, and that no one wants the eyebrow, really. But we've just, like you say, you know, we've got the players to win. Newcastle have got match winners as well, so it's got to be tight. It is. And I think I'm with you. I think if you're off with me, a guaranteed point now, I think I'll go, yeah. And that's not being, like, move on. That's not being defeated by the way. I honestly just find it mad how many games are played. Because we haven't played since Saturday. I'd be saying, like, we can win this. Let's get there, put the pressure on, and press them. We can run them into the ground. We'll win the game, because I think we've got better quality. It's a difficult place to go anyway, you know what it is. But just coming on the bat. And on that day, yeah, they're both in the same boat. For both teams, they probably could do without this game. Or certainly could do the other days' rest. So it could be, literally, a game, a flip of a coin, because, you know, both teams might have five changes, because players are knackered. That's it, yeah. That is not your thoughts. And there's probably loads, if you're out there going, fuck, he's great at sports. I mean, that's great. I just remember, this time last year, we played barely beating 5-1, then we had to go to Brighton, and he beat us 1-0. In the worst game ever. In the worst game ever. And that's the way I look at it. This time of year, it's just that crap. One day, you'll have one thing, and then the next day, you'll have something completely different. Maybe if they were going to do the holiday. And that was after we'd been beating 6-2 by Tottenham. But it's based on the holiday games. Maybe it should just be a game on Boxing Day, a game on New Year's Day. And just cut the middle game off. But as I said, next year, I think the Boxing Day game is on the satay, so I don't know when the following game is going to be. How about you do the Monday? But I'd rather have an extra mid-week game in, like, April, or something, than have this game. I just... You could even fit it in in February, this game, and mid-week game. I just find it... I find it baffled. I honestly find it baffled. And yet they're having a... And yet Inja and you, we were having... We were having a Wednesday break. And it's like, well, no, instead of having this game, you could have just... Whatever. I just think it's mad that it's one day's rest. That's what I can't get my head around. I know they used to do it... I know they used to do it years ago, Easter, at play satay Monday. No, they used to do it in the old days. Used to do back-to-back games. But that's when the players were having, you know, having a smoker at half-time and having a bitter, you know, immediately after the game or probably before the game. It's a different time. Yeah, but that's why you'd get eight to one day, and seven nil the next day. Exactly, yeah. The other team, so we'll see. We'll see. There you go. There's no other thoughts in the comments on this one. Do you think we can win? Who do you think should come into the team? Should he just go with the same team? Should he just go mad and just go... Go on. All right. Get on with it. You might do. I might play the same team. You might play the same team. You might play that same team for an hour and then make three teams. Yeah, we'll see. We'll wait and see. If you haven't already subscribed, please do. Click the bell for alerts. You know exactly when a video is coming out. Give this video a like. And if you want more great videos, join us over on Patreon or the links in the description. Thanks for watching. We'll see you later.