 Os ydych chi'n ddysgu'n blaenau gan Llyfrgellbarth? Sean. Dni'n golygu. Roedd yng Nghymru gyda'r gweithio ymlaenau yma, mae'r gweithio'n ddysgu'n ddysgu. Rwy'n ddweud ddweud yn y gyrsgwrs, mae'n ddysgu'n ddysgu'n ddysgu'n ddysgu'n ddysgu'n ddysgu'n ddysgu'n ddysgu? Rwy'n ddysgu. Mae'r ddweud o ôl i'n ddweudio'r grwpheidio a chyfnodd gyrbur hwnnw yn fwy fyddion cyfieisiad ddyliadau. Rwy'n ei beth o mathon i ddweudio, ddweudio'n cynyddiol ac mae ni'n ddweud i'r ffordd gyda'r ffordd. Felly, dim rydyn ni'n dechrau i'n gwybod o gai unig iawn. Felly mae'n ddweud i chi'n ddweudio'r ffordd, o'ch ddweudio'r ddweudio'r eich rhyddau i Those records, very strong, they're very good outfit, we know that. Our record needs changing there, we know that. It's been a long time, we're not many wins. In that we're just tough places to go. I don't think we'll be listening to the kind of the noise around it, we're trying not to anyway but there is a lot of noise, rightly so, big gain but it's more about focus to get through that and contrast our performances because I think generally they've been strong ond we are taking on the top side. You've experienced one so far. How much are you looking forward to this one? I must say, from afar, you know the stories, but it's not the same as when you're in it. The focus stays the same. When the whistle blows, you're focusing on the teams, but the build-up, the feel around it, there's no choice but a proper derby. I've played in a few and I've been around a few, but it's certainly the biggest one I know that I've been involved in, but I'll certainly be looking forward to the next one. I know you're quoted as saying it's a game for the team. No, I only quite that because I think, you know, when it's something that your life is around, you know, I think it's different. So I don't try and jump into that. You know, it doesn't mean I don't challenge myself to care deeply about it. Of course I do about the result, the feel of the performance, the feel around the the Evertonians. Of course I do. I haven't got the depth, so I always reference that because I've always thought it was a strange thing in particular. I'm still relatively new to Everton, you know, as a manager, and I think you earn the right to have that same depth about these games. So I'm learning all the time. But yeah, that's why I mention it's about the people because it means so much. Great to head into it though. Isn't it around the place? What were the risks you did? Yeah, I think we were in decent spirits anyway, but I think it reaffirms to the players and the staff, by the way, the work that staff put in, as diligent as they all are, it reaffirms that when you get it right and you take your chances and you find them real cutting edges in the performance, then I've always said I think we're a decent outfit. I've never lost sight of that or belief in it. Even last season there was a lot of noise around it, but I never lost sight of that. I still think with all the challenges, all the recruitment challenges, we've still got a very, very strong group of players and it's about performing and delivering, but of course inevitably winning. So I was pleased that all came together to get not just a performance, but a very good win on top of very good performance. Does the approach change in... Well, it sometimes does, but it shouldn't really. You want your players to go out there enough of that fear. You want that edge that I've spoken about many, many times. You want that from any game, but it always adds that extra little bit when it is a game like this, or it always seems to. Not literalised, but it always seems to and it feels like there's that energy from the off. True, well. I know we didn't score a game before, and we know we can't have a total reliance on one player, but it does seem crucial to the way Everton played. Do you see it that way? I don't know about crucial, but we know he's an effective player. We know he's getting back to full fitness and sharpness. I think that's very obvious by the way he's playing. His stats support that as well, his physical stats. And really, I think he's just keeping out on the pitch as many times as possible until he's totally free-flowing because I think he's a very, very good player. I'm absolutely sure of that. Ydrissa Garnagay, is he a bit available? Yeah, he had a knock, unfortunately, that needed settling down. Virtually everyone apart from the longer term, Deli Alley and André. James is on the grass for the first time with us, but he's had one day, so he needs time, obviously after a long period, and out with us. Yeah, a lot of the players have come back fit and well, which we're pleased about on the international side of things. And the other group have worked hard in the meantime. No, it's more a case of the ongoing process, and we're about the process. Obviously I've stepped into the middle of it, so it's certainly not something that involves me as manager, but it sort of distantly does from the fact that I'm manager. So yeah, I'll wait and see what outcome, what it is, and when the timelines are at the minute. I don't know anyone on that. I'm sure there's been people talking about lots of different things. What we can control. I certainly can't control any of that side of the clip. Well, I think we've got some different players all play. I think with all due respect, we had to go with Simsie up front, you know, with Dom, all due respect, as I said. A very good young player, but Dom's a different category. I feel as a player with his experience, and especially now that he's getting fit. So we think that gives us a slightly stronger feel about the team, that is. The feel wise then, it was what I expected. The noise, it's hard to explain the details of it, but my main thing is staying focused, because I don't want to get carried away involved in it, because I don't want the players to. I want them to get involved with the performance. It sounds easy, every manager says that kind of thing, but it's not that easy when it's all the noise and the build up and all that sort of stuff, but the players are in a good place at the moment, so we want that to continue. That's whatever manager wants. You know, it's adding the feel, adding the noise, adding the build up into the tactical plan, the tactical understanding, the nature of performance. That's the blend you want, because it can bring energy, of course. These games bring in energy as well, and you've got to use that energy wisely as a team. I think sometimes it does. You know, tactically you shift and you change and you organise a team differently, but sometimes it's very subtle. You know, if you look at Liverpool's record, they tend to stick with a basic format, and there are twists and there are tweaks, and most teams do that, I think, when they've got a format they like, and me, likewise, you know, when they've got a format that I think works, it's twisting, tweaking, knowledge of the opposition, but also knowledge of what you can do to affect the game in a very positive manner. So it's finding that, again, it's a work. You know, that's the secret. Again, all these things sound really easy when we're talking about them. They're human beings running around to deliver. There's no messages. It's just an actual fact. It's an ongoing process. So that's it regarding the hearing, the take-up very similar. I mean, I've met them, which I've said to you, it was a casual meeting. All these things take a lot of time. I know that. I don't know the exact timescales on that either, but they take a lot of time in my limited knowledge, but my knowledge from afar at seeing these take-overs. Obviously there is lots being written about it. Is there any sort of destruction to you guys around it? Around the hearing? Yeah, I'm not looking at that. I've certainly haven't heard any voices around the change room speaking about it and around the staff. I remember I was just focused on what we do. In terms of Saturday, do you need to change the set-up somehow? Well, like I was just explaining, I think twists and tweaks, I think more than radical change. We have changed this season. We had 5-4-1 at Villa and delivered a very good performance. We've got a good outcome. We have the variances that we can, I think. That was part of the fact that I spoke bigger picture-wise of getting a more balanced squad. So you can tactically flex and change more. But I must say the last performance was a good one. So the performances around that have been strong as well. So I think it will be more tweaks rather than radical change, but we'll see. That's called depth? Yeah, absolutely. You want as many players fit and well as possible and also as many game fit players as well. So that's the next challenge. A few have got some minutes internationally as well, which is helpful getting everyone to that real game. Game fitness is important. And those details? It invariably does in every game. Most games, I would say. But the concentration and focus in every game, but particularly in these games, I think, when there is that extra added atmosphere and that build up, I think the concentration and focus for all the players is very important. I want some message to the players before the game. Just keep delivering the performances. It's, you know, to the adjustment that I've been searching for since I've been at the club is a higher level of consistency. Both on a weekly basis or bi-weekly having many games you're playing and also during a game. Keep the consistent level of performance. Keep the good habits of what we're trying to achieve and what we do on a weekly basis. And, you know, whatever game you're playing and we want that to be an automatic thing when we push the level to a higher level of consistent performance. Thank you. Hi, Sean. You said the players are in a good place at the moment. Is that simply off the back of the Bournemouth performance and the win, or is it just feeling like it's coming together a bit more? I think three out of four wins gives that extra bit of feeling. I think it was there. I just think it it gives them an enhanced feeling within the group. The one that got away in between as well. I think we made sense and I think the players did. So I think really it's partly the literal thing throughout four wins. And then partly the idea of the players are beginning to find each other's ways of playing and that adaption that they need does take a bit of time sometimes. I think it's continuing to grow. So, yeah, a bit of both I think. You mentioned about having the edge in the Mercy side, Darby. It's easy to have the edge and then sometimes tensions boil over a little bit in these games. How do you make sure the players have the edge but not too much edge? Well, the game's changed. I don't think it used it. It's not as physical now as it was as in I presume in the nature tackling and challenges. Yeah, I think it's more control but you want that in every performance. It's certainly very difficult in football to win games if you haven't got the right amount of players, that's for sure. So part of that in any game is to keep 11 on the pitch. But that's part and parcel of the Darby is that bit of control and focus which I just spoke about. I think that's important. The opposition managers had a lot to say about the 12-30 kick-offs. What is your take on them particularly after an international break? Yeah, I've always been a bit more open minded. The Premier League program gets laid down. It's a challenge. There's no two ways about it. More clubs are involved in all the competitions. It becomes an increased challenge for them, of course. So I don't understand to the manager when they mentioned that. I've had certainly one season burning through the Europa thing and all that. It does get very challenging. But the program is there. We know it early doors. Well, it does change because it's TV but we know it pretty early and I think you just adapt and change. I certainly speak to the players about that. Adapting and changing their routine trying to get that right for maximum performance. James Garner's becoming more and more popular with the Everton fans right now. How much of a role can he play in the Merseyside Derby? Just your general thoughts on his progress so far this season? Yeah, really happy for Jimmy and his progress. When I got in he'd been injured. I knew of him from the season before at Forest. I went down to Forest quite a bit that season. Well, I was having a rest. He was performing there. When I got in he was injured, as I said. To get back to true fitness delivery his adaptability for a young player is very, very pleasing. But I still have always seen him mainly in a central role. I still do. But I do like the flexibility of him. He's a player that can use that wisely and he does and he's been very open to use it for us and he's worked very hard in other positions, sorry. And he's growing into what he is and that's a very good footballer in my opinion. Gold to Carl. I presume by now you've got a very good method of shutting out the outside noise that's been going on in the club. Yeah, I just don't read it or listen to it. That's the easiest thing. Absolutely. Do you have a mechanism so you can work out what you don't need to hear and what you do need to hear? No, it's very difficult because the amount of attention every game gets now, Premier League games or Premier League teams get. This only enhances with Davies. It's very difficult. You can't stop all the messages outside of what we give them of course. The media, social media. So the players have to learn to adapt to it. Good, bad is an indifference. The players have to learn that's part of their careers. It's part of who they are. Managers as well, by the way of course. Staff as well. Everyone connected with it. I know there's a perfect way of dealing with it. You just manage it the best you can. In terms of the off-field stuff which obviously creates the most noise. It has created the most noise. Obviously there's a lot of stuff that goes. There's a lot of reports, a lot of stuff swirling around which sounds true, maybe not true but you put that to one side. Are the things that you think oh I need to know more about that I need to go and ask somebody about that? I can't really think of an example. Most of it's out there. Most of the players if they had a problem with it would come and see me or question me. I don't know. I know what I need to know and that's enough for me. I don't need to add in another level of someone's opinion and opinion on this because I know what I know from inside. It's often irrelevant what someone else is saying from the outside because I actually know what's going on. Any further questions in the open section? Could I just ask you one not completely connected with the game at all but we just spoke to Jack Dowling the first team physical performance coach who's going to run 26 malathins in 26. He is, mad as that is but for incredible cause. He's got to work hard. What does it go hard or go home? I don't know any other rules. He's been pretty quiet about it actually considering what an amazing challenge he is but we are going to be speaking to the players and try to see if we can put under our pockets and make sure that he's looked after. And his brothers are red. Well, yeah well. We'll let him deal with that. It's amazing what he's doing. Thanks for mentioning it. Hi Sean. I just want to say I spoke to Tony Bay last night and he gave it your stamp of approval. Tony? Tony Bellew. Sorry I didn't hear that. I just wanted to say about when you went with Burnley to Amfield and you broke the really long home on being record you had a little bit of a to-and-fro with Jurgen Klopp in the tunnel and some words on the touchline. You expect in a heat affair again this weekend? I don't think, I think I spoke clearly then that every manager should be passionate about what they do. You have to control it ever more so. But I think it's nothing other for me. You know that sort of stuff was commonplace when I was playing, when I was early in my managing career. It just gets blown up now. It was a commonplace thing. Full of respect, go fantastic, well done. That's the reality as I see it. It's not a manager I can think of that I've probably fell out with as in Holder Gridge never. I've played against many. I don't matter afterwards and chat with them and you crack on. So I've never had a problem with Jurgen Klopp or any other manager. We just both want the best for our teams whatever team that is. It was a different team for me then and every manager should do. There's nothing wrong with showing a bit of passion and a bit of commitment to the cause and it didn't go too far and it probably never will do me.