 Hello, welcome to Toffy TV. It is my three things. Bormath 2, Everton 1 at the Vitality Stadium today. Another defeat down there for Everton. It's an awful record down at Bormath. We really have... We got a 3-3 draw in 2015, was it? And even that day we should have won the game. We would turn them up in 3-2 up in injury time and they'd ended 3-3. And since then, Bormath have beat us every time we've gone there. Today is no different, but today is a hugely damaging defeat, I think, because we played against the side. That wasn't really on it. I've seen a bit of them this season. They were okay today, but they were there for the taking. And the big thing was, without the... And it's gone past the point now where you can say without the point deduction we'd be alright. But without it, there'd been four points between us at the start of play. But now we're at a stage where teams are pulling points back and it's really, really disappointing. The first thing I want to talk about is mistakes from individual plays. And today Jordan Pickford, for me, with the second goal, I think that's really, really poor goalkeeping from him. He's got to clean that ball into the box within injury time. It's a ball in. He lets it bounce, it kicks past them, it's calm and goes in. Who knows if he'd come and claim that? We might have had one more attack and might have nicked an unlikely winner from somewhere, but he doesn't. He let it go past them and it's in. And now, in these last nine games, Everton are going to have to ensure there's no more of them moments. People have to do their jobs properly. It's a time where you need to almost be perfect. And we just can't afford any more moments like that. There's been a few of them of late. We've allowed people to cross the ball like a Brighton and Lewis Duncan headed one in. Today, James Coleman hasn't got out quick enough to Lloyd Kelly and Salanki's got between two men. I don't know how that's possible when you've got two defenders, one defender cross the other one defend the man. I thought that's what he would have been working on a Finch farm for three weeks and in Portugal since we last played. So we're going to have to eradicate all of this. And it is a worry at this stage because I could say this, if this wasn't Everton and we were looking at, you know, say this was, I don't know, say this was Forrest or Palace or something and we were looking at their farm and it was April the next time they take the pit and they haven't won a game in 2024. We'd be saying they're going, they're a mess. They haven't won a game, 12 games without a win. They don't score goals. They don't look like scoring goals. They can't keep clean sheets of late. We will be, you know, when I think about averaging conceding two goals a game for the last five or six games or something, apparently, if you look at the stats, whatever, we will be looking at them. I think they're going, they're the team that just drops right into it. And I think what happened is the points deduction and the takeover stuff has took the focus away from how bad our form really is and how poor we are, you know, and we're peddling the message of how difficult it is for everyone. And, you know, we're doing, we're not four months without a win or three and a half months where everybody's without a win is atrocious and it needs to be corrected and the mistakes are going to have to stop otherwise. We're fighting up, we're going to be swimming upstream without any hope of getting to where we need to go. So we've got to sort that out before, well, now we've got nine games to go, haven't we? Second thing I want to talk about is the formation because I believe the formation needs to change. I've seen it again today and you watch the game. It's fine, I think, for teams like Bournemouth who've got pace in wide areas. I think when you play 4-3-3, you centre forward, there's got to score goals in general and your wingers have got to be quick and that's everything that isn't happening with Evanton right now. Neither Harrison, Harrison's not slow, but he's not quick. McNeill's one pace, he's not quick at all and Dominic Alderloo is not scoring goals. So we're almost giving ourselves very little opportunity anyway with the style of play. Alderloo, he's not got his form back up to what it was for his injury and we look bereft of any idea what we're doing. There's no dynamism, the moments that we get an opportunity, there was one in the second half where they misplaced the back pass and it went to Jack Harrison and he should have just set off towards goal and he didn't, he tried to play it to the core, it went to the core and then the core had space and didn't want to attack it and tried to give Harrison it back and over it and I think he went off for a goal kick and you would have flipped the two teams breaking there, they would have gone directly into the penalty area and our plate just isn't directly in the slightest. So I think we've got to, I really do think the manager's got to change the formation, got to try and get Beto and Calvert Llewman on the pitch. We saw when Beto come on with what was his 10-15 minutes left, he scores a goal, all of a sudden we look a little bit more of a threat but I imagine if we actually worked on that, played three at the back, played two wing backs, three in midfield and tried to get crosses and create chances because this team isn't going to score the goals that we need to win games of football the way it is in its current guise, it's just not. 30 goals they've scored now in 29 games, it's atrocious and like I say, we can't score goals and we can't keep clean sheets right now, it's a terrible combination and no one can really argue, they're just the facts, we've lost another game of football today and that's the worry and I know, at least I know some people keep saying it because, and the reason I'm saying it is because these are the kind of comments and conversations you have that we get back to us, some people are quite happy with the way it is, they can see progress, they can see all these chances we create even though we created nothing today and they can't carry on, otherwise evidently they'll be in the Champions League so the manager's got to come up with something different, he's got to, it's all very well saying we went to Portugal and we've been off for three weeks and we're just going to do the same thing which is kind of what he alluded to in his press conference now that could have just been a load of nonsense for the press that he hasn't looked at other things but he's got to start playing a different way and that has, doesn't mean that's the way he's got to play forever for us but we have to try and win games with football and we only do that by scoring goals and to me that is a change of formation, we've tried everything else, we're just going to keep doing the same thing and getting beat or drawing, well if that's the case we will be relegated so I think he has to change, he's got to find a way to get done and better on the pitch I think right from the very start and then maybe bring on on, Chimity has something for the last 15 and give or Dan Duma when he's back and given them opportunities don't think either wingers playing well enough could complain if they were out of the team at all, I think if you're going to do 3-5-2 then McNeill could play left wing back if you want him in the team because of his come on me and he was anonymous today but he put a crossing with the goalkeeper dropped and better off score from it so if you want McNeill in for that left foot then play him left wing back but I think something's got to change because we're in trouble, we're in massive, massive trouble if we get a point deduction and listen, you know you can look around and see, read between the lines and it could be nothing of course but this is, they're either not going to get any points there's a school of thought that says they get two points and there's another one saying they're definitely getting six so it'll be somewhere between that scale but I'm matching if we got six points taken off us right now would you really bet against us, well would you bet against us staying up is that the right phrase, would you bet that we'd stay up or finish above looting or forest with another six points taken off to do that we'd have to win games of football which we seem totally incapable of doing at the moment so I just think you've got to mix it up and change it and we've got three weeks off, we've come back today, today was the reset and we've lost so it needs a different a different view point I think and finally we need the conclusion of everything now we still the takeover stuff still up in the air the point deduction thing we need to we need to know about that but we may well not know that until the back end of you know this common week we've got a horrible game at Newcastle on Tuesday night but the football club does just seem to me like it's just in a state of limbo and it's in limbo because of those three huge things we don't know where we are in terms of the takeover being approved I think it'll be approved they've already said it's gonna be approved but it hasn't been and so without that then there's always question marks and also those people aren't in place and trying to turn the club or push the club in the right direction the points deduction thing we don't know where we are we can look at a league table tonight and go with okay we are um two points off whatever it is three points off relegation at the moment but that could be turned on a dead if we lose six points could me be could be three points adrift of relegation to try and stay up changes the whole thing again and then you throw into that our form which is utterly disgraceful it really is I don't know how anyone I'll be honest I don't know how anyone can look at the fact that it's 12 matches without winning the game of football in the premier league four months nearly and not be alarmed and not think this is unacceptable I just I do find it weird I can only attribute it to a lower in the standards really because why would you our standards seem lower than the snakes belly at the moment you really do that there's no one questioning anybody and that's worrying to me and but you can see where it comes from because there's no one driving those values either we we've got a board that isn't real let's be honest our CEO's not real as he's an interim so he's not really going to be able to do anything other than just keep it ticking over there's no demands for better from from what we've got with with the leadership team so here and everyone's in limbo no one knows how they're going to be here and they're going to be aware of you up to who's driving this football club forward it's a it's a dangerous set of of circumstances at the moment on without that getting sorted out it could drift and drift it just feels honestly it feels to me like there's a state of limbo and games are just coming and we're losing them and then they're going and people are going oh well you know we've we've had some chances I mean we lost the excuse today so I don't know what the excuse will be today but that's how it seems and I don't think you can have that on any level you can't have it on an ownership level you can't have it from a management level with the team and you can't have it from the playing level where players just seem to be going oh you know we're trying our best we're running around but we're losing games because this team I still believe it the team is better than it's shown in my opinion much better than it's shown and at the moment it's it's really poor so I am worried I'm not going to lie this is probably the most worried I've been in the last three years with in terms of well I always felt we'd get out of it when Lampard coming and then last year I felt that we'd get out of it regardless when Dyche coming I thought we'd get out of it now I'm not convinced in the slightest that we'll get out of it I pray in hope and I still a look and I go now we can just get these wins but then I watch us play and show me confidence and faith that we will get out of it it is eroded and I think the problem is you see this with some teams you see a team down there for a few seasons and you start thinking the circle and the drain analogy you think they're gonna go they can't keep doing it and yet when we've got so many things that mean people are now just sort of in a state of limbo I think it's a terrifying time at the moment so let's hope that we can get some wins quickly because it's I don't know where they're coming from right now let me know what you think in the comments section below give the video a thumbs up and subscribe if you haven't see you later