 Wel canol falch! Mae'n badaeth yn sonodd darlai! Mae'n gweithio'n dweithio! Mae'n dangos y dyfodol a'i ardal! Mae'n mynd i'n adnodd mor i gyd. Mae'n dda'i ddim, a'r sofa'r cwylio'r gwahol a mae'n rhaid i gyd, i ddim yw'n dweud. Mae'n ddyfodol. Mae'n gweithio'n ddwy'r gwahol, a mae'n gweithio'n bwysig. Mae'n gwahanol, mae'n gweithio'n ddwy'r gwahol. Mae'n gweithio. i ar nog y gallwn ein bod, ond ac yn gweld i yw bod David yw meddwl. A dyna ei hyn, am ei gennym. Fyddwch, feddwl, ei feddwl. when you mentioned that it was June, changes were afoot at heaven last time you were in, Marcel Brans and Marco Silva. Just come in, so what have you kind of made of that time so far, obviously you were in March and we aren't going to win the league. So what have you made so far? Ond ydych yn ei wneud cos mae'r ystafell amddwys y newydd a newid yr ysgol ni, mae'n ogymwych yn dod o ran xerfa'r Cymyn Fiasgo ymlaen. Efallai, mae'n rhan o gyfer byw yma, ac mae'n tynnu a'r sg sein yw mae'n notio, i wneud byw yn ymlaen i deall, mae'n sic grinddau sydd wedi cyffredinol. Diolch ond mae'n oedd oedd y cyflog, oedd oedd oedd yn oedd yn oed a'r oedd yn oedd ar gwyfodol. Ac mae'n gweithio beth amddangos ei hun, oes ydyna i'r ymddangos ar gyfer a ydy meddwl 40 pwy, Felly wedi'u gweithio. Rwy'i gweithio, mae yna'n gweithio ar y boden i'r ymddangos. Gweithio ar y gweithio â'r ymddangos wedi'n cerddwyr y gallwn ei gael gwahanol. Rhaid i ni d tbspb, ond mae'n gweithio. Mae'n dda i companies llwyrd i ni, baseballau gennym. O'r eu cyfrosio, mae'n gwybodaeth am y dyfodol sy'n gyfwysig â chyfrosio. Rydych chi'n ddysgu'n gwybod o'r hynny mewn gwneud a chyfrosio'n gweithio'n gwybod. Ond o'r ddweud, rwy'n gweithio, ychydig i fi'n fwy o'r cyffredig am y cyfrosio a'r rhai gynhyrch. A chyfrosio, ychydig i fi ddim yn cael ei wneud, fe yma'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio. I would have hoped that he would have had a more solid first season. I think we all would have thought that. But it's a long job and I think also you've got to question the attitude of some of the players throughout the season. Because there have been certain performances that have just frankly not been good enough. And the manager can't take all the rap for that. Yes, I know there's been certain instances where people are questioning his tactics. Why did you take that player off? Why did you bring that player on? And when? Why didn't you start with him? All these different things. But ultimately a lot of the performances haven't been good enough. And you've then got a question why that is within the squad and why players aren't seemingly giving it 100% week in week out. The season started okay. We had the excitement of Deadline Day and we brought three players in from Barcelona. And I thought we started okay. We had a good performance down at Wolves at 10 now. We lost Jags in the first half and we were unlucky not to win. And we beat Southampton and we turned up at Bournemouth and should have won that one and threw that away. Going into September or October we started finding our feasts. Doing some momentum there wasn't it? Some rarely good performances away from home and we were just waiting quite getting them at Arsenal in Manchester United to go draw the Chelsea. The Chelsea game for me was a turning point. That was the point. That draw against Chelsea on paper wouldn't have meant much to people. But I think for Evertonians you saw that and you thought actually this is where we kick on. There's been the first series of first games where the manager is getting used to new players. New players are getting used to the squad etc etc. And that to me felt like right. This is now a foundation upon which to build. And things were looking better. And then it just seemed to fall apart. Amsfield happened. I mean let's face it though. They played well in the dark. They did. Everybody was gutted when that goal went in. But they still played well. And actually when you looked at the series of results things were still good. It was like ok that's disappointing. But things are still fine. But then it starts to crumble again. I think the two home games after the Derby knew Castle and Wafford. The Wafford won. I remember I was there as good as the Wafford won. And it just wasn't good now. We collapsed. We were winning one and the Charleston scored. I think everyone after the Derby it was like we come in here and we were filming. And we played really well. I remember saying at the time I wish we were playing him again on Wednesday. Because we played that well and we missed chances with the header. Stuff like that. And we had Newcastle at home. We didn't beat them and it was flat. And it was like right Wafford we got to beat these tonight. We didn't left four days. So you think come on. And then you write the Wafford game. We took the lead in that game. There was other Charleston scores. And nothing really happened. It was flattening within a couple of minutes after the break. We were getting beat too. And that to me. That to me again in the same way that the draw against Chelsea was significant. I thought at the time in terms of putting a marker down and kind of go right. This is where we move on from. That just put all sorts of doubt in my head again. And I just thought we're at home. We're playing Wafford. There's added reasons why Marco Silva will want to do well again. I'm not saying that he didn't want to do well. But just as a squad performance I just thought it's just not good enough. And for our club who have got the aspirations that we had and knew have. You've got to be winning those games. And it was just the abject collapse. I don't mind losing as long as they've played well. And actually no one likes losing a Derby. However, as a result you could put that one into that category. It was annoying and disappointing at the end. But ultimately they played well. I don't mind that. But it's when it's games that they should have won and through one reason and another they haven't done. And you walk away and you kind of go we deserve nothing more from that game. They were the better side. They took their chances. They totally deserved the three points. That's the disappointing thing. And there's been too many of those performances that just haven't been good enough. We missed the penalty after I went through on up two minutes later. We looked at Dean rescues us in injury time at a free kick. Then we had a couple of spares batted us at home. We went up barely and we lose again. It was like that. But you went into that turn of the year you think. We might be able to get a little bit of momentum here. We beat Lincoln in the cup and then Millwall happened. Just when you think can we get a bright spot in this season. Absolutely something to sort of prop up the season and actually keep some hope of something. And then as you say, then Millwall happens. What were your feelings with that Millwall game? Well, my first feelings of the Millwall game is that a few of my mates said Do you fancy going? And I'm like, no, because I went last time we drew them in the third round of the cup. And I said, never again. I like going to a way game. And I've been to a lot of places, but I've got no desire to ever go back to the new den again. And as it turned out, it wasn't a peaceful day. But yeah, that whole just the way it happened. And again, just felt like the life had been sucked out of us at the end. And then that's a bit like, oh, there's another thing off the list. That's it, isn't it? Another thing that we won't be achieving this season. And then you start to think. You start to look at the table and you go, I can't believe we're doing this. But we, you start to look at the games that are left and you go, I'm not sure where the points are coming from. Because, you know, when you look at, you know, you look at fixtures. It's like putting a bet on or whatever. And you look at certain fixtures and you look at, you kind of go right. Man City versus Burnley. They should do that, right? Or you look at so and so versus so and so draw. So and so versus so and so away with. But because the results have been, well, you know, as I said, but like with the Waffa game at home, games that on paper, Everton should have won. And then they didn't, you know, and Bournemouth and other fixtures like this. And then you sort of look at it and you go, I don't know where the next points are coming from. Because these ones that on paper should be easy, easy results are not now. And then there's calls for maybe the manager isn't right and get rid of him now. And there's polls on Twitter and stuff. And what do you think? Right man, not the right man. Get rid of him now, keep until the end of the season. And you start to look through and you think we potentially could be in trouble here. You know, we could be, I mean, I know that's been the story of Everton for a lot of years. You know, many people have predicted that we would be the big club that would just fall through the floor. You know, when you're sitting in an OK position, but then do that drop right down. I mean, then that's going back, Christ, God knows how many years. But I did look at it and I thought, and I was trying to map out where the points were going to come from. And you know, we've now got, and who'd have thought that actually we would have got to 40 points after being Chelsea? You know, because that was the thing, you start to look at all those big games. And you go, we still got Arsenal to play, we still got Manchester United to play, you know, still got Chelsea to play. And you just automatically, at that point Liverpool to play. And you automatically just think, well, there's nothing there, there's nothing there, there's nothing there. So, yeah, I feel, I feel relieved, I suppose, from where I am. But ultimately it's all, it's all a bit flat. All I can do now is put this season down to hopefully being a foundation. Hopefully this is the season that Marco finds out what he's got, what he hasn't got, what he needs. And between him and Brands, they build upon that and hopefully go forward. But, yeah, I mean, finishing mid table is the best that we can hope for. I mean, it's mad, isn't it, because after Millwall, you know, I remember we went to Huddersfield on the Tuesday, and it was a big game, you know, you're looking and going. Well, I was going to come to that, but then there was a snow, wasn't it? The only reason I never, I mean, if there's one place that's always going to get snow, it's Huddersfield, isn't it? Even if it's not snowing anywhere else, Huddersfield will have snow. And I thought, I can't really risk it because I'm on the radio the next day in Manchester. And I thought, if I get stuck somewhere or whatever and I don't get back, you know, it'll be. So I didn't make it in the end, but, yeah, that was an important result. That was a massive win and a clean sheet after the way we'd folded at the weekend. But then we have Wolff's at home and I was thinking, oh no, this is it. No, we'll beat these and they beat us 3-1. And you're right, you were looking, I know that Ped was very concerned at one stage with where our points were coming from, but you're right. Because of the way they've been, there was no clear way. There was no result where you go, that's a win. We'll beat them, we'll beat them. I mean, I'm always confident, so I was like, yeah, we'll win there, we'll win there. But I thought we'd win at Waffford and we got beat and I thought we'd beat Wolff's at home and lost. So you start going, well, if we're not winning the games, that's the thing we might win. Yeah, and then how on earth are you going to get past the so-called bigger teams? The bigger teams and other teams are winning below that and all of a sudden you start getting worried. And then also you look towards the end of the season and you kind of go, well, those ones should be good, but then you're going to have teams that are fighting for their lives. So what, seven games left at the moment? Seven games left, but on 40 points. On 40 points, West Ham, Arsenal, Fulham, United, Palace, Burnley, Spurs. Well, Burnley are going to be fighting. But that's a game you should win. I know it is. I mean, listen, I know what you're going to say. I'm actually kind of less concerned now than I was, but going back a few weeks, when you were looking through those fixtures and you kind of go, well, West Ham ain't going to be easy. Arsenal, no. Fulham, yes, but they'll be fighting. United, no. Palace, who knows? Who knows, that could go either way. We could win 3-0, we could lose 3-0, there could be anything in between. Who knows what's going to happen there? And then Burnley, yes, we should win. Spurs in the new stadium, no. But now then, OK, we've got the 40 points and let's talk about the last game because the last game was a very good. I mean, we started the first 20 minutes, it was back to the wall. We just gave them too much respect. But second half against Chelsea in particular, ever on the better side and good value for the victory. And that's the level for me, that second half. That's the level that Everton have got. They have to be at that level every single time. And if they can, these conversations will never happen because they'll finish higher and higher with better players. But how can you give that performance in the first 20 minutes and then the performance in the second half? But this ultimately is the whole root problem. It's in the same way that people always talk about cup competitions, for example, and in the cup, anybody can win in the cup. And that's small side from division, whatever, a play in the game of their life and they're giving it 110% man to a man and they can actually take that big scale. Because they're putting in everything they can put in. And as you say, it doesn't matter which side it is, right? Every side in the league can be another side if they give it their all. Granted, there's a bit of luck in the following wind at times, but everybody can give it their all. And as you say, the second half against Chelsea, that's Everton playing to the level that they should be playing. Players playing to a decent level. And with that in mind, Everton should be competing week out with Chelsea and with Arsenal. And I thought we played well against City at home. I didn't think that was a bad performance actually. I know we never won and ultimately the outcome was perhaps what people may have thought on paper. But as a performance and I was there for that one as well and I thought I wasn't despondent about the City performance. A frustration really wasn't it? But then why, when you know professional footballers with everything they could possibly need to perform at the highest level, why are they not doing it week in, week out? Why did they not do it at home against Watford? Why did they not do it in several other fixtures where there was just too many people who weren't performing to their ability and seemed to be happy to coast along 55, 60% or something like that. It's just not good enough. So bear that in mind with the Chelsea result last time out. Are you more confident now say for Arsenal at home? Because for me Everton can beat Arsenal. Of course I can. No, I agree. But which team turns that? And that's it, isn't it? And that's it. If Everton played the way that they can play and we know that they can play, then yeah, there's no reason why they can't be Arsenal. But they could also come out half-assed and get tonked 4-0. That's the thing. And that's the problem. Do you put any of that on the manager? Well, if you don't, it's a difficult one isn't it? Because I suppose on one hand if you don't put it on the manager then what's the manager doing? Or rather what's the value of one manager over another? But it's tough, it's tough because I do feel that you see the manager can prepare the side as best he can before but he can't. Once they're out really it's up to them to do it. And yes tactics come in and substitutions and whatnot. They've got to play the right way and obviously play to the player's strengths. But it's a mixture, isn't it? I know it sounds like a cop-out answer, but it's the manager. But ultimately I actually put far more blame with the players this season than I do with the manager. I know that the critics of Silver will question some of his substitutions and I've questioned some of his substitutions as well. When you think why do that? Ni'w cas allawad i'r yw eich dystod. Exactly, the subs have been strange. And you wonder why is Luckman not getting more of a chance? Why's Luckman not started or even featured in more games when Warcott has been sitting in that position? I'm not here to slag off players and I'm not having a go at Theo Warcott per se because I think that we've got really good options. And actually why is Warcott not coming on for more of a balance of a game because he's got youth, he's got skill, he's got pace, he can change a game, but he needs game time, he needs confidence to develop him as a player otherwise what he's going to do is he's going to go elsewhere. The manager said, I talked about him last week, didn't he? He's not consistent in training, but I suppose and he had to look at, obviously he looked at the whole week don't he rather than just a game, but then the flip side to that might be if he had a bit more of a carrot, do you know what I mean? If he had a bit more of a carrot, Luckman said I don't know, he may be training better performances or do more in training, but you've right there's been. I think everybody's right to question the manager as well without you can question him without saying he needs to go because he's made mistakes, there's no question about that. He's learning in a job and a big job. Here's a question for you though. Do you think that the players respect him or do the big players respect him? Well what I'm told is they all really like him. I'm not saying that they don't. I would say yes and I'll tell you why I would say yes because of the second half performance against Chelsea. I think enough was said at half-time in that dressing room and they came out and give a night and day performance. Now I think if you don't really respect the manager you get the performances like you've said, half-assed, people, well there's been too many of them. Now what I would say is has he said something different in that half-time against Chelsea because that hasn't always been the case this season. What I think, where I think the big changes come Dave and what they really do is the 17 day break they had between Watford and Cardiff when he had more time with them on the training ground. I think, and I don't know this and it hasn't been reported, but I think there was a lot of home truth said in that period about who was doing what and who wasn't doing what because bar in 25 minutes against Newcastle in general performances have been a lot better. They came back after that break. That was a tricky game by the way. That was a really tricky game. We went to Cardiff month 3-0. We then played Liverpool at home, second best attack in the Premier League, restricted them to very little and probably should have won the game in the end. We then go to Newcastle and a turn up in Causton until we have a collapse and we've responded really well with the victory against Chelsea. So I think since the break whatever went on in that break I think that some people have kind of gone or I'm playing for me ever in the future now and he started, I've noticed he started to be a little bit more blunt, a little bit more critical of the players and a bit more, if you don't do it you won't be here. I think that's the thing we all want from them. We want them. Ped wants them to smile a bit more and be a bit more animated but I want them to be a bit more straight down the middle and go if they don't do it we will get people in who can do it because this is a big club and just because you're on big money you have to perform and I just think when people are calling for his head to me there's no... people are talking about Miquel Artheta. Get him in from city's peps number two is this but he's never managed in the Premier League to gamble. He could be amazing Artheta. It's a massive gamble. Artheta for example and I've got a lot of time for Artheta and I hope that he does go on to become a good manager somewhere. And why not? He's having a great education in management where he is but he's got to go off and cut his teeth somewhere else and work his way up. He don't suddenly pluck somebody off the assistance bench at city and kind of put him in. What, because he played for us? I mean that's just nonsense isn't it? And that's just when people get blinded by sentimentality and whatnot and they're just sort of grasping at stuff. You know... You can understand that though a little bit but a link because we've... I can understand it. We've been lost haven't we for a few seasons. I can understand a link in so much as Miquel Artheta is somebody who understands the club understands what it means to play for the club understands the fans and that's important of course it is, don't get me wrong. And if it was a case in years to come when Artheta has hopefully done something and is potentially on a short list for a club like Everton and if it's between Artheta and somebody else who's equally qualified then yeah, Artheta is an interesting option because he gives something extra because of the fact that he is association with the club and the way he played football as well he's also of significance but I think at the moment just to... At the time when those calls were happening I just thought there's no point because although funny enough when they first started happening there's no point because we're not going to go down and there's enough games now there's no point let's just play out whatever let's play out whatever is going to play out this season it's been disappointing there's no two ways about it but let's just play it out till the summer and then we take a look at it in the summer and then what will be will be and then unfortunately there was another couple of results and then I thought but we could actually go down now even though I said we weren't going to go down the games start running out and you know as you said before and then you think I don't know whether that is going to be or then that was not going to be and then there's another one there and you do question it which is why we all are we're all relieved that actually we've hopefully got to the point it's not going to be the end of the points don't get me to stick my house on where those next points are going to come from but there will be there's other points in these second games of course there is still finished seventh I know it's four points I think the gap at the minute we might not and probably we won't but Wofford and Wolford are in seventh and eighth they're both in the FA Cup semi-final so their priorities or their eyes may be on that Everton could quite easily go to West Ham at the weekend and win and then followed that up with a win against Arsenal being the boxy so they could easily lose both of those games as well by the way but that's because we don't know where they are Wofford is exactly right, they could beat us 3-0 we could beat them 3-0 but both are similar so we could have that finish what I was saying about Silver and I don't know whether you agree is let's get to the summit and let's see if he can bring in another few of his players and mould that team because if he's coming in and he's got an idea how we want to play you do learn once the season starts about players so he might have got to October, November, December in particular when things started the wheels falling off going these can't do what I need them to do and so cutting them nearly before he's had the chance to improve that squad for me doesn't really make any sense I agree, I agree, I mean the question with Silver is what are his type of players because don't forget this is the first big job he's had arguably well it is in England the biggest job he's had in England now we know obviously what for them before with all due respect to them too so he's operating at a different level now in terms of his finances absolutely, as you say with greater spend comes greater criticism as well as he'll be interesting to see who he does decide to bring in and what you know maybe in 12 months time if all is still fine I wasn't supposed to rhyme by the way if you know we'll be sat here and we might have more of a measure of who the Marco Silver players are because at the moment like any new manager coming in you can't you know nobody nobody gets a completely new team from day one so there's always an element of blending new players with existing players and whatnot and trying to get the best out of things and slowly he'll start to shape that but yeah it'll be interesting to see who his kind of players are to sort of understand the kind of football that he wants to play at a club where we should be able to provide him with the necessary finances to build his property given the right amount of time I think which he wouldn't have had again with the greatest due respect he wouldn't have had at Watford and he wouldn't have had at home no and I suppose going forward then that falls into Marcel Branzu we mentioned right at the very start it's too early to almost judge him isn't it of what of what he wants to do I mean we might get more of an idea this summer now that he's had 12 months and with the players I mean he's been linked with Raphael I don't know what to say second name Leiaw or something in France he's a young striker and people are like that's the kind of play we should be going after and people will know this with some of his targets it probably won't be the most obvious people but again with him we're not going to really know how successful he's been until arguably another 12 months down the line next summer and at least and maybe even longer than that so this is all very new I just think we have to almost and it'll be easier now because we've got the 40 points and you're right it's not a god given right that the 40 points equals safety but yeah you would think the 7 games left now there's some more points Cardiff had after win almost as many as they've won all season to catch a show absolutely so now a few weeks on you can sit in a slightly more comfortable position you can plan for maybe next season a bit more well yeah you know I'm pleased that I'm here now and not a month ago so you knew what you were doing when you were texting me when you were coming in I was stalling because I wanted to get to 40 points that's what it was to make sure but yeah it will be interesting to see what happens and I would like to think that we have a young manager an exciting future who will lead us into a new stadium that would be great because if he doesn't where are we going to go I mean you know but in so much is but the problem is that when Cooman came in we had this top European manager played at the highest level doesn't take any bullshit from anybody you know he's not going to be messed around with he's going to you know he brings styles and an iron fist and he's got everything we want and then who would have then thought that we'd then have Sam Allardyce and Sammy Lee and it's just like what's happened we can mess things up spectacularly nobody would have predicted that from where we were but it happened and then fortunately or rather hopefully that's just a little a blip what is it ultimately upward trajectory we hope that's all we can do isn't it and hopefully we'll get a few more points this season and the manager then can get out players who we decided you know isn't for him basically because we need to lose half a dozen of that squad and some big air and it's in there who are contributing and maybe it is a Theo Walcott I feel the way rather than the way you want it I think so Theo's had a great career it's no doubt he's coming to the end of his career he's given us stuff don't get me wrong and I would hope that the likes of Luckman and other young players are actually learning from the senior players because they've got to be picking up stuff that's how it works but he's not going to be a long term proposition here's one for you, will we sign Gomez I think we will I think he's shown enough at times to be if you can get him get him pre-season because don't forget that's another big fact that that three or four of them didn't even have pre-season so if you can get Gomez signed I think it's a big boost for everybody get him pre-season under his belt and get a little bit of a steady team around stable team because what we need more than anything is stability I think he can be a big player for us he's neat and tidy and some games he's looked exceptional I think for the most part he looks a class act I'd agree with you, I think there have been certain performances where he's not he's not lived up to expectations but for me looking at on balance of the season I think he's certainly added something I think he's when he's on his game just the time that he has on the ball is something that we haven't seen in that position for a long time in my opinion in a way he wants him to have a fairly disappointing last seven games the reason being that if he plays great now he's going to be in the shot window for everybody and there's a lot of people out there that can out-bit us for his signature and I know that he has caught the eye of a lot of people already and even just watching games in the pub with fans of other sides and they know about him and they're like always a good player and I'm a bit like forget about him in a way I don't want him to have a great seven games now I want him to have an average maybe even poor towards the end just to sort of tail off and then we know he's a good player and we can get the best out of him exactly and then hopefully get him at a better price that's what I'd like to say we shall see big thanks for Dave thank you very much Dave, pleasure as always when you're next then hopefully we'll be amazing well I might have him back in a few weeks and we'll be back to you it's just never now and I'll see you later