 Welcome to Toffy TV, it is my three things from Eddarton 2, Brighton 3 another hugely disappointing afternoon at Gooderson Park, first game of 2022 and Eddarton will lose it like they have done in the previous four seasons losing the first game of the new year and today was appalling really to be honest it was just shambolic from the moment the team was announced when the final whistle went, absolutely abysmal afternoon at Gooderson Park, the first thing I want to talk about is the formation, the manager, seeming to enjoy making things more difficult than they need to be, obviously he is falling out with Leucardine, seems there is no way back for the French international he was on the bench today but I think if those two were declared the differences he'd have started and if he wouldn't have started he'd have certainly came on a half time and he didn't so I think we can read from that, that looks done so I think from an Everton perspective it needs sorting out very quickly in terms of we need the bidding from whoever wants to take him and then off we go, we reinvest that money because quite clearly under Rafa Benitez he hasn't got a future of Everton, Leucardine probably doesn't want to stay and if he's going to go to Newcastle which is one of the teams who are after him then it shows the lad's ambition and it's probably more about money but the formation the manager picked today was appalling five at the back a home to Brighton who had won one game in 12 absolutely embarrassing to go with a formation like that to make it worse he had Seamus Coleman and John Joe Kenny in the same team with Seamus Coleman playing at left back which was again embarrassing and Seamus is struggling to play right back nowadays to ask him to play left back is just pathetic the last game I can remember him actually starting at left back was his debut in Ben Fieker and he lost 5-0 and he was torn apart that night but he was a young lad and he was torn apart by the likes of Angel Di Maria and Javier Euler and people like that, not by Brighton's players but he struggled today and Kenny had a go and had an assist I think he did have an assist for Gordon for the second goal but he wasn't great either but to play Seamus at left back was embarrassing like I said on my mat reaction you can start with an idea thinking we will try and get round it doing this that but if it doesn't work or it's clearly not working have the balls to change it and he didn't we were 2-0 down after 25 minutes against a team that hadn't really done anything it was just it was ridiculous and he just left it sat on his hands and we were playing flat back 5 a home to Brighton who had one striker it was incredible to watch really but not for any good reasons and I think all he's doing is making things more difficult than the art we're already very difficult we've had we have been decimated with injuries this season even today you know we had no Yeri Mina the Llywodraeth thing is doing all him and Llywodraeth is doing so whatever but we haven't got our first choice left back we haven't got our best centre back we haven't got Andrews Tarn's end who's injured we haven't got Richard Charleston who's injured but a lot of the other players play a lot of the other players are our first choice players ok we had Dominic Alvallun starting his first game in 4 months so he was off the pace but I thought he'd done alright one of few headers held it up had played his part in the second goal blazed the penalty over the bar in the first half instead of just hitting the target he'd be done alright so we're getting players back to fitness but we're still like you say we're still short on those three Jarapranthwaite it was injured as well which you know the lad scores a chelsian does well and has picked up an injury in the two and a half weeks that since we played that last game and that's the way the season's gone it's gone wherever anyone's tried to get some momentum they got injured and it's been like that from day one the manager is making it much more complicated than it needs to be Ben Godfrey's played that left back and did it quite well last season and he's done it a few times this season he's been alright he's not amazing there but he's ok and yet today he decided in his wisdom to change it all again why didn't he just play? he wanted to play Coleman if he thought 3 for 5 at the back was the right way to go about it why didn't he just play Coleman as the right centre back? I've whole gate a whole different story but why didn't he just do that? why did he change it so much? why was Dominic Calvert-Lewan totally and utterly isolated? you know Damari Grey's having to pick the ball up miles away from Calvert-Lewan and then go on a chink and run Anthony Gordon for the shame it's not good to watch Brighton knock it round though they're not amazing and they do it with I would say you know with average players where I presume as a good player don't get me wrong and you know Maupai works hard they're neat and tidy they're not amazing but Grey and Potter's got a way of playing they all buy into it they all work hard they pass it round a comfortable in possession we don't really have anything if your game plan is to smash it up to Dominic Calvert-Lewan and hope he can head it then ok that's fine if you look at it and go listen we haven't got the tools to do what they're doing then put people round them so that when he wins it or he knocks and he won a few today he flicked them on into space and if we'd have had a runner we'd have been in on goal or he'd have had someone to pick it up and it was embarrassing and I don't know what his thinking was and we lost the game basically because he put us on the back foot so shocken by the manager today absolutely appalled by the formation and he's making it very difficult people don't like him anyway and each week less and less people are believing in it and it gets to the stage where you're looking and saying there's just no way this is going to work because if he can't get the fans onside at home then he's struggling right now and I know listen it can change in a heartbeat but right now where are ever and getting seven wins from he just can't see it and I know listen it can change very quickly because he could win three games on the run and all of a sudden the complexion the whole thing changes massively but other teams are winning games Brighton if we don't want today we were we'd have gone two points behind Brighton I think we don't want today we'd have been 11 points clear of allegation and four wins is huge at that stage but we haven't we've lost again we're in trouble and it seems we are in trouble and it needs sort and he needs to either sort it or we need to make a change and he's not giving himself a chance because he keeps making stupid stupid decisions. The second thing I want to talk about is the defence very briefly on this we've had five defenders in there today and we've conceded three goals against the team that doesn't score a lot of goals. We you know we tried this formation before okay at Chelsea I kind of understood it because we were always going to be on the back foot we were always going to be up against the team that would have all the ball who would be creating chances and we had no players so I kind of understood it. Today was one of our strongest benches we've had this season and now listen I'm not saying the quality is amazing on the bench because it wasn't but we had a lot of players today on the bench who played in the first team and yet he went with a formation that was bizarre and one way people were out of position but that defence is appalling. Michael Keane was dreadful today like properly dreadful even things like thinking he could score a left footed half volley in the 91st minute 40 yards out was just he was pathetic all over the place. Garbage Mason Holgate was putting a garbage display today shameless wasn't very good but he was left back walking the Ben Godfrey for me was all over the place. Midfield were overran you know but those defenders at the back you know brightening waft for two teams you've never won a good isn't in the histories. I've got scored eight goals past us at home this season and okay Macalester's second goal was a tremendous strike but we could have done better with it. The first goal was a neat little move but we just we don't track runners no one reacts you know it's just pathetic and until he saw the defence out they're in trouble and I don't know is yet he mean it really going to come back in and sort all our problems out. We've just bought vitaly Michael Enco he's coming in or Michael Enco he's coming in is he going to solve all our problems at left back asking the kids to come from the Ukraine and into a team and just let goals in for fun. Nathan Patterson if we can get that over the line this week does he does he solve all our problems you know in the defence hopefully hopefully but you're putting a lot of pressure on a kid. So there's real problems there and the manager needs to sort it out playing five at the back is not the answer playing three in the field we can give you a bit of protection and also help your team of the other might be more of an answer but the defence has got to sort itself out very quickly. We let people run off us whether it be off a flick off a corner whether it just be in general play it's not good enough so it is worrying. Finally let's finish on a positive Anthony Gordon who was the only real positive I would say to that obviously having Dominic Alvertley when back was a huge positive and he'll get better over the weeks of course he will. Damari Gray I thought was good in the second half but Anthony Gordon I think ran himself into the ground still does things poor choices of time but he's a kid scored two goals won the penalty in the first half put a couple of great crosses in ran his socks off for us. So here's the real positive. The goals will help him massively that'll be a big boost to his confidence but he can't do it all on his own and we need we need better round and we need to help him out. But it was he was the real plus point today and it's a pity for him that we haven't got a more positive result with him getting his first goals but it's testament to him that the gladus reeds sung his name he was the only one really that got clapped off at the end. Gray got one as well but he was the one who the crab was singing his name and rightly so he put the effort in today and we're ultimately to defeat it another disappointing defeat against a team who I thought we could beat at home. I thought we could get maximum points and kickstart ourselves hoping coming off the back of the Chelsea game but it seems to be one step forward and three steps back at the moment. Until that changes everything going to be in a real battle at the wrong end of the table and right now you do start a worry. We're almost halfway through the season. We've got 19 points from 18 games which is appalling absolutely appalling but considering we had and then we had 13 points or something after about five or six games so it's absolutely appalling. One win since September 25th. Terrifying. Absolutely terrifying. There you go. There are my three things. There are my thoughts. I've rambled on far too long so happy new year to everyone watching. 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