 Sean, you had James Garner back on the bench last week, who's fit to return this week and who isn't? Miko illness just making a decision on his strength coming out of illness but trained today. Pato's played another game but still getting that true much sharpness. Dom's around it again with us training but you know still making a decision on when he's truly right to come back in so that'll be as the next few days go on. In terms of Dom being truly right, what do you need to see? Just all the markers you can imagine. There's some statistical markers from his history. There's some training markers from his history as well, from his training regime before we got here. The week that he trained before he was injured and then of course speaking to him as well. It's often the case when especially his players get a little bit older. They start learning more about their bodies and he will have done that. It's a tough run he's had on and off over the last couple of years but you do learn more about your body. So speaking to him and making sure that he feels right about things as well as the medical team. If not this week then looking positive to next week? Well it's early yet he's just gone on the grass with us but he's done a lot of rehab and the stats and facts and the way he's feeling is good. So positive signs that's for sure. Obviously this week we've seen confirmation that Moise Keane has effectively left the club. It just goes in, I suppose it carries on from the fact that with Charleston when in the summer Anthony Gordon went in his transfer window. I appreciate all these deals were done effectively before you arrived at the football club. But what change can you affect Shaun to make sure that in the future this football club doesn't find themselves so short of forward options? Well I'm learning about the past if you like. Decisions, the right's wrongs ins and outs. It's very difficult for sure by the way recruitment I think over the years we've all seen you know not speaking of it and just clubs in general have put lots and lots of money in the situation. It doesn't always work so it's very difficult in general anyway recruiting, recruiting at the right numbers now. I've said many times over these years I've been in the Premier League that the market doesn't care what we think anymore. You either pay it or you don't pay it. So you know figures we used to all probably have a, we could all probably chat through a certain player and probably come out with a similar view on their worth. Now it's out of the window you just pay what a club want or you don't pay so that can be tricky. So going forward I think open lines of communication with all the relevant people involved that are needed and defining the best options that we can get. What work then is being done now I suppose to bring in the forward options that you want in the summer because I'd imagine that's the priority for you. Well from what I've seen you say about the priorities but every situation has to be looked at because you know we are overloaded in certain areas so it has to be looked at with that as well. Of course striking options that's the plane to see everyone knows that but it's not just about striking options it's about forming a group that can be stronger going forwards. And you know I think there is a good group I said when I got here you know a lot of noise made about striking and of course I understand why and the importance of. But at the end of the day there's a very good group here I believe there's some very very good footballs here and you know I wouldn't go far away from looking at that. But then how can we adjust that of course is the ongoing way that football works so how we can adjust it positively and how we can keep increasing the team belief and the team capacity in winning games obviously. With the players that you have how did you feel DeMarie Gray did in that central striking role last week? Yeah I thought he did well you know we're asking to change a little bit we you know he works hard Neil Moore has been working very hard as well and he's worked great in training this week you know so there's no disappointments there he's got on with it. And I think DeMarie showed signs of what he can do he nicked a goal albeit from the penalty spot but you still get it you know another goal. Yeah so I've enjoyed his open mindedness to it because it's not he has played there but you know it's not always that familiar to him but I thought he delivered a good performance. What did you say to the players as a whole after the game against Nottingham Forest because the incident where you see the second goal conceded after like the Courage trying to be positive with his action on the ball yet ultimately gets caught out for the second goal. So how do you kind of what message do you put across the players because he was effectively doing what you want in trying to be positive in that? Yeah the biggest thing is eradicating what seems simple moments because we made a few like I said they seem simple things and not always as simple when you're out there you know I played for a long time and they're not always as simple when you're at pitch level and it's live and all that sort of stuff. But taking away you know some simple errors but he was terrific on the day and he has been since I walked in the building so I'm certainly not going to overthink his part in that. He's trying to do the right thing as you said it's more of a tactical thing actually because if you want players to play with freedom you want them to counter especially second half as far as we did many times find the key moments and what you're asking for then is the balance of the team. So it's not just the fact that the ball changes hands it's we just stripped the midfield and that's something that we've got to continue to learn about you know when you are counter attacking you still have to be balanced you still have to know what the team role is. And be aware that if the ball turns over in transition you've got to be you've got to be working sharp. So these are all learning curves and it's not about you can't remember the players a lot of these players are wise players have been in the Premier League not all but a lot have been in the Premier League for a long time. They know the details they know it and that's the frustrating bit they know them details are important but the game reminds you how important they are and we've got to make sure that we keep you know because a lot of the performance was correct especially for an away performance I felt. And then these you know we have been and I will say you know you don't cry you're lucky but we've been punished a little bit on a couple of turnovers where you think well because it's still got a bit to do and it could still I mean it's great finish but that can still fly over wide etc etc. You know it's one of them so and we have been punished a couple of times but we want to we want to make sure that we don't put teams in a chance give them a chance to to punish us or us with with attacking play of course. I used must win last week or asked you if he was getting to that. It's every week isn't it? Is that not every week? Kind of similar. I thought so yeah. But there'll be many you turn up and go to some park feeling that it is a must win particularly with the games that you've got to come after that as well. Look every game I've said it every week my mentality has always been every games I must win that's how you should play football in my opinion. Every game pre-season games you should be thinking I need to get myself in that winning feeling I need to work hard to get into that winning mode that's what I believe maybe because I was a limited footballer so I had to have I mean it's sincerely I was I was an okay footballer I had to have that edge I had to have it I had to I knew I did so I played every game like that that's what I thought you know got me right. So every games or should be a big game no matter what game you're playing in because it just reaffirms the mentality constantly and then it becomes normal and when you got that when that normality comes where it's just ingrained in you then that's a very helpful tool to have so that's what I speak to the players about is but you have to earn it of course. You know it's another team out there trying to stop you winning games every game should be the feeling should be and the prep should be it's a big game it's an important game. When it's outside forces like obviously fans they'll be feel nervous about the situation what impact does that have when you've tried to create that kind of bubble within your dressing room. Part of being a footballer is to understand that you know and I think we've got players who certainly do I certainly do as a manager my staff do and that's part of being a professional you know everyone who wants to be a footballer because when you know people who are into football want to be footballers when you kid you want to be a footballer. Well at some point you become a professional footballer the professional bit that's the key you know that's the bit that makes you handle things that's the way that you can conduct yourself and play with freedom even though you know it's professional freedom as I call it when you want to play you want to enjoy it but you know there's a professional responsibility and a job to do. So the players should understand that I certainly do and I'm sure the players do here so that's part of what comes you know part of with the precious stresses the thoughts on football. It's all in the melting pot and part of playing the big games for different reasons of course but they're all big games as I said for me it was normalising that just going right my mental is every time I go out there that's a big game and it's important. So therefore in my opinion when we get that kind of thought process big small games whatever the outside world deems you're ready and that's what I'm trying to encourage the players to think like you know every day counts every game counts. What kind of tests do DeBranford present? Well they've done well they're proving that they're a good outfit they're learning from last season going this season I know the manager a little bit spent a bit of time with him I like what he's done he's not a brand this he plays direct when they need to they can play force football when they need to they can play physically but they can play as well and I think they've got a good mix there so you know that's another challenge right in front of us. But as said you know every team in the Premier League they're there for a reason you know I don't think there's you know teams can have bad spells and stuff but they're not bad teams necessarily so you know yet again the method that we use or what we try and use to plan for these games is making sure that all the necessary information is given to the players they understand the opposition but then what we can do to look after ourselves and get results so that process is ongoing and they're just another side in the Premier League which are a good outfit. Obviously Ivan Tony is a big part of what they do as well how do you feel about a situation though where he's admitted gambling charges and breaking FA rules contested others yet he's still allowed to play. Well I don't know what the exact protocols for that are I've only really been through one situation with Joey a number of years ago that the lapse from when it gets reported about the best then when it happens I can't remember what the time scale was on that off the top of my head. But there will be a reason I'm sure you know these things take time and that's up to the powers of me there's nothing to do with me and so they'll decide when it's right and do whatever they have to do. Thanks Finney we'll go to you. Hi Sean just on Andrews Townsend how far away is he in terms of injury. Yeah I didn't mention him in the injury list just because he's not close really yet whereas he had those coming back into the fold but he's going on steadily obviously he'd had a pretty serious knee injury and had a couple of setbacks with it but it seems to be calming now and he seems to be in a better place with himself with it as well because it gets very frustrating for players when you're out for a long time. You picked up five yellow cards against Forrest and that possibly reflected the sort of game it was. Are you mindful of discipline within the squad and is there a line between being aggressive and being over the top. I actually don't I don't think you see over the top nowadays in football very rarely. I actually didn't think it was a particularly aggressive game. I was surprised by the amount of yellow cards on the day. Sometimes it happens you know with the referee and decisions sometimes it doesn't they let somethings go they don't. I think most most of football and fans with my time out were discussing they like the idea that the refs are now trying to let the game be a little bit more open a little bit more free flowing. It's still still one of them things that's a strange one to me. I mean we did see it actually in the week but you know players have a tackle and get a yellow card play players dive all over the place and get nothing although they sort of beginning to show signs they want to affect that. Still a little bug bearer mine but generally speaking I didn't think there was much in the game to be honest I didn't think it was that much that was untoward. They have to give yellow cards as the modern game they give them for not very much nowadays. Overall looking at the Forrest game how much of a platform does that give you now to take into the Brentford match? Yeah things just the mentality that I've been speaking about since I got here and speaking with the players about you know as a group. The mentality to perform but also to take on whatever comes in front of you or whatever challenge you know the way we work the way that we want to sort of get the team working is a bit tight enough where we can affect games defensively but also loose enough where we can affect openly. And I thought for large parts of the game particularly the first half of Forrest we were very good on both and I thought we were you know a mistake and a soft one against Villar I thought it was a pretty thorough performance to be honest. We've got against Leeds so you know there's strong signs but obviously no one gives you anything you know you don't just win because there's strong signs you win because you get everything right all the way through a 90-odd minute match. Like I've said to you before I said in this room before all of us would take a lucky one now and again all of us anyone but you can't really build on lucky ones you know you've got to build on something that's real and I see something that's real happening. You know I see the team working effectively and efficiently I see the shape getting better working on transition better and beginning to find better ways of operating in the attack in third my interest into the box more quality entrance of the box and now of course you're adding in the final detail the moment of truth when someone takes a chance. And we're beginning to look more effective in different ways you know we don't have never been wanting pure football all the time how many different ways can you affect the opposition that's what I believe is correct about football and that's what we're trying to do. And just away from the first team squad Isaac Price has had a good week been called into the Northern Ireland squad for the first time what are your thoughts on that and have you had a chance to speak to him? Nobody spoke to him I'd speak to other players casually around the training ground and he put a big shift in last week physically we got a bit of a knock so he hadn't trained a couple of days but nothing serious. He's a good young player I mean I'm new to the young group here I've watched one game and tried to get clips another my staff have been to other games so we're trying to pick up the young players as we go but he's been training with the group quite a lot since I've been here. And he looks like a good prospect. Thank you. Go to Shimmerian at the BBC. Hi Sean, what have you made of Brentford's progress and is it a sort of club that teams in the low end of the table should aspire to be like? I'm not sure you aspire to be like anyone I think most teams would have a way of working a format that they trust you know the more of the story Brentford has been learning from you know trying to buy players and making the ups and downs of recruitment. They've come through a spell they've got it right that's obvious with some of the players they've bought in and the manager's doing a great job there as well. And it's a lot of years you know people think it's a recent story it's not it's been going a long time to get it to where it's got to and they've done very well in the bigger picture and the most recent manager's done very well too. And like I said I've spent a bit of time with him you know so I sort of know a bit about him and I like him I think he wants his team to just play real football play hard football play committed and put everything you know on the pitch and I think they've shown signs of that this season and particularly I think it's 12 games they've had so. But you know he's like all Premier League managers he will not be coming to good as some thinking that just rolls on he'll know that he'll have to be ready and his team will have to be ready. Did you learn anything new or different from Thomas? From what sorry? Did you learn anything new or different from him? I wasn't that kind of trip trust me. You've spoken about balance in the team and being tight at the back and more loose up front I assume as the season goes on and the players get more used to what they're doing you expect them to get a little bit more loose up front? It's not really it's not allowance it's just reading the game it's understanding the nature of the game it's the game management you know as you mature as a player and as a group. Knowing the moments when it's when it's more attacking bound knowing the momentum of a game the feel of a game you know that's that kind of things on pitch stuff. You know you can only coach so many things on the training ground it's learning from what the game offers you at any given time. And like I say I thought a forest was a good example of playing very well first half had a 10 minutes when we gave away chances to them really from from silly decisions in the first half but very good first half I thought strong first half. And then second half a different kind of half but I was pleased in the sense apart from a mistake that led to a goal obviously I was pleased with the way we adapted to that because they tried to play forwards a lot tried to chip it forwards over ads we kept turning back and then counter it and then your only question the moments of truth you know because we got in so many good positions against Forest second half to go and find the final pass the final finish etc etc. That's the next stage of the team building you know because I've been pleased with the physicality that's the stats my eyes prove that but the stats as well. You know the running power of the group has improved in the way that we have to go about our business I mean the shape's been good the belief in the shape the belief in what they're doing. And now it's the details you know that's the next step how can you find the right details but but the markers are quite strong you know getting balls into better areas getting more bodies in the box getting more quality going into the box. The markers there but you still got to go and finish them chances and keep the backdoor shut whilst you're attacking. Because obviously your wins have also all been by a single goal so is there a manager's dream now manager's dreaming I'll tell you speak to the best manager they love a 1-0 trust me. I can imagine they do but it's a 1-0 it's a scoreline you can never guarantee if there's a mentality with the players. You can never guarantee any score you know unless you're miles away and if a man's sitting when they're four up they're probably going to see that one but there aren't many. So don't worry about scorelines it's how you're handling a game how you're managing a game and how you're managing your performance. What I do know is the relentless mentality I want from the players and we've been speaking about that a lot you know that relentless mentality. Anything's achievable at any given moment in a game so we take on the game to the last breath and like I say an error here and there particularly as far as there's no absolutely physically a very very strong performance. The energy of the side the shape of the side but then details are important. Thank you. Hi Sean. Here's a lot about Donner-Covallan's fitness but how's he being behind the scenes mentally because it can't be easy the amount of setbacks he's had and I'm sure he's aware of the question you're being fired every week towards him. Yeah he seems okay to me. You know we shared a few fashion ideas like you do and he's pointing me in the right direction. You mentioned Brentford's recruiter there. Obviously he went out and got Ivan Tony when he was playing league one for Brentford's for Peterborough Beggypard and all the other in the championship at the time but do you think dipping down to the lower leagues can be something Everton can utilise a little bit more you know in the past. Like John Stone, Tim Kale. A lot of them players though you know it's one of them funny footballers when they sign for clubs often become mythical figures because it's like he just arrived on the scene. His journey has been started from Northampton Town years ago. Getting a pretty big move to Newcastle, not really getting it sorted there. Then having to really learn his trade you know and earn the right to keep going up the ladder. When he did they didn't pay like 800 grand for him you know they paid like 8 million or something. There's a lot of money for a player coming out of Peterborough at that time and then it still took him time to build on the back of that. So you know it's not a you know it's poor water on players like him. He's worked very hard for his career that's for sure and done very well. Just finally as a price you mentioned him earlier where are you with contracts with him? Just you know ongoing discussions you know because I've still pretty new to it really being in here I mean. So just chatting with the right people at the right time seeing what you know develops. And then you know obviously over the coming weeks we'll analyse it more deeply and more in more detail sorry. But all the players know the situation or their situation.