 Welcome to Toffy TV, it's the match preview, it's the first Premier League game of the season at Goddison Park by Southampton at home, which was our last home game, wasn't it? It was. With the last minute scramble, Tom Davis goal, are you excited? I am, I actually can't wait, to be honest with you, it's been a while, a good while since I've been excited to watch everything, well since last Friday, but since to go to Goddison and be excited about watching the Blues, and I just think, I think such a lot has changed since we walked out to there in May, you know, we kind of, it was a bind, I mean stayed, I stayed to see what was happening at the end and stuff, every little fella with me, he wanted to see the players, also I think he stayed, so there was 5,000 of us left in the ground, the mood, the mood from then to now was full on, wasn't it? The manager, new manager's come in and has got that enthusiasm going, he said everyone, the players, I'm talking about saying to be buying right into it, see the little clips on the training ground where he's like giving all high fives and hoax and stuff, and just I think that line day really got a lot of people back on side as well, I feel anyway, just reading between the lines with like the social media side of it, what people are saying, I feel as though a lot of people who would have been kind of critical and waiting for it all to go wrong have kind of gone, actually it looks like there is a plan, so yeah I'm nearly, I can't wait to be honest. Yeah Saturday I think was a big part of that wasn't it, because I think expectations have been tempered and rightly so, because of all the changes that happened in the last couple of years at Everton and as you said, trying to pay a deadline there was a big part of it, you know getting in players that were needed, but not just getting players in, the level of player I think, not even that old bass, for me, certainly it was the fact of that these were players that Everton had seen sort of gone for for a while, so me and the case in point, a player that we've been linked with and there was a lot of talk about other clubs coming in and then you know, since that sign and we've heard Marcel Brands talk about it saying we wanted him two months before, we'd spoken to him and he wanted to come, you know, we watched the England game, we watched the England game with Bill and we were both like, when he's going to England, shit. You know, things like that I think, if you go out on Deadline, they can go, Oh, yeah, I want one of them and I want one of them, people don't buy it but when you actually go, we've been after this off for two months and we got them on Deadline down, we went after them, we put the system, we thought we were always going to get them, he wanted to come, I think that's different. I think, I think people are like, these have actually got a plan, these know what they want to do. This is not just Scattergum recruitment, this is, this has got a real plan with real, real people who really know what they're doing and I think what, you know, since Saturday as well with the game and the way we played and the level of how we, how we, how we worked and I see a little clip online earlier of, of a, of a Walls corner and how we, I think Hoggy Head does it out and then Coleman presses and then Theo presses and then Shank Toakson presses and we end up getting possession back and it's like, you know, that bat stays away, the signs there that this team's going to be very different. And then the fans will bite into that. Oh, we'll go back. If we see you working, and on the pitch like that, then we're all in, we will back you till the hilt and that's what, it felt like that, it just felt like that was all joined back together, you know, or a long way to be in joining back together where it's being fragmented. Listen, this is something little, I suppose, or people might look at it as a big thing, seeing a man that's celebrating, properly celebrating when we scored, like this means something where Kuman was just like, I'm not saying Ronald Kuman didn't celebrate, but it was few and far between. It was like, you know, I'm walk away with this, you see, with silver, the real, you know, desire to, to do better, and I think, I don't know, maybe just because it felt so disjointed and so disharmonious under Sam Alladys, not all Sam Alladys is doing, let's, let's have it right, the cracks were there anyway, that just was like the fire, the, the paraffin on, on top of the fire that's already burning. So it feels to me like there's a lot of things that have been healed, I'm not saying it's all done and it's perfect and it's going to be great, but I just mean a lot of healing, I feel healing that's taking place, but people are starting to feel like, you know what, things are moving in the right direction and I want to get behind it. That's how it feels to me anyway. Yeah, saying Ian, obviously, Marcel Brands has spoken this week and it's, you know, it's great to hear from him with something we'd mentioned during the, during the window and now that it's all done and dusted and, you know, you probably have a bit of a lie down, maybe for a few days. You know, it's, he can come out and he can, and he can speak and he hasn't spoken really well, but, you know, at the end of the day, this is the first Premier League game at home and let's see a bit of it at home, you know, and that's the thing, isn't it? It's a decent first game, it's a decent point, considering everything that's gone on and we're descending off and Saturday's a chance to, you know, get in front of the home fans and show, show what they have been working on and where we're going. Definitely, and I think everyone should be enthused by Saturday and we've said this on a couple of videos now. I mean, you haven't really sat down and gone through it because you were doing other stuff Monday, but the fact that the Charles was the only new addition in a side that was from last season. I know, listen, I know, well-contained, so some of it, but they played last season. So to see such a change in tactics, changing the way we played the game, changing shape and pressing and everything, I think that was magnificent, especially when you're looking, you think there's another four or five to put pressure on this team as well and good level of players, you know, that we've we haven't just brought players in like you said, and just gone deadline day, we need them, we need that one. You know, it's been, Bernard was going on for a bit, we've got that sort of and he's a top quality player, you know, me, like you said, he nailed his colours to the mast in May according to brands and said, I want to join him, I want to join him, Barca kept it on. Gomez, I think he tried to buy, but it was too expensive, he said, and he ended up getting them on loan and stuff. And obviously we've, we've, you know, got K-trimer, it was someone who did the tracking anyway. So it's great, that level of play, because I think honestly, if you look at that level of player, it's probably better than everyone we've got in the team. If you know what I mean, it's like, it seems to be, whether it portray, whether it like transpires to be that way, we won't know until we play games, but looking at the level of play, you can look and go, well, he's better than what we've got and he's better than what we've got and he's better than what we've got. If they play the way they can to the football centre. So that's, that to me, it's really lifted me. But it's a game Saturday that we've got to win. It's a game we can win. You know, I was looking through before, I haven't been unbeaten in the last 13 games against Southampton. I never like to do this, but I'm going to do it. Last season's one-one draw was the only the fifth draw in the Premier League, a good of some between the two sides. We've, we've lost once in our last eight home games. So that's the way it tells you that. What we've managed to do over the last few seasons is maintain. Well, since Ronald Coombe arrived last season, we were terrible around, but Ronald Coombe and we've kind of got that going again. I think we won 14 that season or 13. And then last season, I think we ended up with 11 home wins. So that's quite, that's got to be the core, isn't it? Because away form isn't great. Marco Silva won six of his first seven home games we've had. And there's only won three home games since, for Woffin. So there's obviously things to temper it. We could have obviously four, four debuts in Saturday, you know, a good of some with Rituala, some Dean, been adding Zuma while playing the first game, good of some. And they were about this for a little bit of a stat. About this. Rituala's unscored with both of his shots last week, and he hadn't scored with his previous 53 for Woffin, which is quality. Well, I've got another stat for you. Come on. If Kate Zuma plays, you're the first ever to play, to begin with the letter Z, to play for Evan. See what you're getting, you're getting. Stat, this is just Evan. And on the year of the one football app, which it was on before, 20,000 votes, 85% of the votes straight at home. Yeah, I mean, Southampton, obviously, they were lucky to stay up last year. Mark Hughes came in. I think he just, what he did was he just organised and simple-flired the play. And I've told to Freddie this week from the Southampton channel, and we were talking, I was saying, I said to him, funny enough, the first thing that went through my head when we got with the Valadise was Southampton. I was thinking, look what happened then, they got rid of their board and sort of, you know, manager who'd done all right for them and things the way they went last year, but I think they approached the way they've just been doing things in general, just gone downhill. I think, you know, they, it's... Is he enthused by Hughes? No, no, I don't think so. I don't think so. I don't think he's enthused by anything he sees at Southampton, but, you know, one thing that strikes me with Southampton is you just can't keep selling the family silver. You really can't, because at some point, cat is up. It's swansy, please. You're just going to get, you're just going to start buying way, some way, some way, some way, some place. It's all right. I suppose it's okay if you're producing your own and it's at a high-end talent and you've got maybe the Pickens. So you've got a club like, you know, like a club of kayaks or PSV or someone who, you know, have got the Pickens of anyone and it's just, it will always happen that players will leave them, but when you're Southampton, I know in the past, they've done things differently and they've had a big catchment area and they've been able to draw people into play for them because of that catchment area, but it's just getting lesser and lesser and lesser and I think you've seen that this summer. They haven't sold anyone good because they haven't got anyone good to sell any. But you've only got some kayaks. No, I know, but I mean, he's gone. Yeah, yeah, but he's gone. Even he's gone, but as I say, it just catches up with you after a while, the principle of doing things and, you know, and I'm not saying what they did was wrong, but I just feel that, you know, with the money in the Premier League and the money that they've actually got at their club from the owners, I think they've really let the fans down because I look at it this season and look who they've bought and I don't see anyone particularly game-changing for them. I see they've brought in, I think they've brought a centre-back in from Germany. First the guard, he's good. Yeah, I know what I'm saying. They've brought very sort of, they've brought players in that are, yeah, I imagine will make them stronger in terms of more organised and things like that, but there's no real match winners in there. They look at Danny Ings, won't they? Well, Ings is one that's come in, they're the line, they... Well, Sal Danton, they've won three. They've won three of the last 32 Premier League games, they played in August, they've only won three of them. They've won the last away game of last season, of course, winning at Swansea, which basically kept them up, didn't it? Tiali Austin scored three goals and three appearances against Devon, but it's all been at St Mary's. So far, since the start of the 2016-17 season, so when Coomberman, they've had 13-0-0 draws in the Premier League. And that won last week, of course, against Bairley? Last week against Bairley. I don't, Danny Ings is the one to watch. Yeah. So he come on, he come on last week. In the 54th minute, he was subbed. So we had three shots, all off target, but that three, he completed 14 of his 18 passes, received the ball 25 times, so in that amount of time that he was on, obviously he was playing a little bit deeper, trying to link the play with Austin, he created four chances from open play, completed two take-ons, won three out of three aerial duels. It's a big lad. So he's doing all right there, and he completed six out of seven passes in the attack and third, finished with a 77.8% pass completion rate. So he's gonna be a live wire, and by all accounts, when he came on, he stepped up and he finished the game. They'll look to him, they'll look to Danny Ings because, you know, okay, he's had a bad injury, or a couple of bad injuries over the last couple of years, but last season it was, he was in the team. Did he play against us? He did, he did. Did, in the middle, did, in the slanky, we're off front. He's obviously scored in the derby as well. He scored a few years ago. Or me too, or me too, with some. He's a live wire. He's a good player, and he will have got better. I think he's got better as a player, training with those players every single day. And I think he's a player that understands the game as well, and that's what they'll be looking at itself, and they'll be looking at him to be their focal point, someone, yeah, their talisman. So he certainly is a danger, and we'll have to watch out for. Stop the supply. You know, stop the ball getting to him. Listen, let's be honest, right? It's a bad event on Saturday, for me. And that's not being disrespectful to Sheldon. We're the team that shall be on the front foot. I think we'll play him with loads of confidence. I think for us, I think obviously KT, we'll play, I don't think Yeri Meena will be able to... Do you think you'll play over Hallgate? I do, you know? I do. Because I'm not sure how fit Mason is. I'm not sure how... And now he's come back last week, and I know he's trained this week, but he's recovering himself from tendonitis in his Achilles, so you have to let that settle down. And I think Zuma, he's had a full week's train, he's played 88 games, I think, in the Premier League, he knows the Premier League, he's trained all week, which I think is a big advantage. And I think he'll start, yeah, I do. I think Ben shall keep his place at left back, and I think Zuma will be in the long term... I suppose with Hallgate now, I suppose with that injury, like you said, like last week, he hasn't trained, or he hasn't played in games, sorry, in pre-season, a lot of games. And I imagine it is just to make sure to get that settled down. Now, obviously he has to be on the bench on Saturday because we have nobody else. But I imagine now if Zuma's in there, and Jeri Mina is there or thereabouts, he might be able to just say to Hallgate, listen, let's get that absolutely sorted, get it settled down, and then you can come back, rather than coming in, coming out, coming in, coming out. If he's carrying something, we don't want him to play, but we don't need that. At the moment, we've got cover, we've got players, and I think Zuma's very good in terms of he knows, a very good option, I mean, to say, because he knows the Premier League is strong, he's quick. So I think it's a good opportunity. I've made some on the bench by all, by all, you know, for now, until Jeri Mina is available, I've been on the bench there as cover, but you've right to get that settled. To be honest, the one I worry more, not that Mori's maybe a too big a word a bit, but the player I think will maybe drop out if those players are all fit is John Joe. I can imagine I'm putting Horgate on the bench, I'm putting... Well, he covers super positions. Exactly, yeah, rather than having... Well, that's it, I mean, again, what that's a thing is... No, no, that's it. That's the thing with having a stronger squad, you know? John Joe Kenny needs to make himself undropable in terms of being in the 18, and you do that by training well every day. And if, listen, if you get to the stage where he's a little bit frustrated and he thinks you need games, maybe have a lot towards the very end of the window to go, do you fancy a short term loan just to get you games because we've got Horgate and we've got Coleman there. Or maybe not, maybe Silver will go, no, we won't stay with us until he's anywhere. He might have a look at what we do because you may get your opportunity. We don't know, it just depends, doesn't it? But I think it's right if you can have a... You can have someone on a bench you can play, especially defender who can play both positions. It saves you the defence or something. I think the rest of the team pretty much picked itself, doesn't it, at this moment? Just simply because the player's not, you know, Bernard's had a few days training. I think he might be on a bench, though. Well, he might be just a little bit of an X factor, maybe just get him on, get him used to it. Obviously, Gomez, I don't think we'll see till after the end of the window. He's three weeks, so he's probably the end of September. That shouldn't matter by the time he's fit and trained. The Charleston, obviously, will be available after the bit of cramp, so... I think the team pretty much picked itself from going forward. So, again, it's just... It's a gilfy to be able to play the full 91 when I'm getting dragged off by necessity after half an hour or whatever, 40 minutes, whatever it was, so... I can get a good opportunity for us. I think it'll be a tough game, because they all are. But I think if we can get in front, I think the crowd will take over. I think all of us will be bouncing anyway. Well, I do. I think a lot of people will be going there excited. All of us. Excited to see it, and, you know, you look online and you see what people are saying about going to game and looking for tickets and all the rest of it, and it does seem like people are really excited to get back to Goodison on Saturday. But you know what? We are easily pleased in terms of what I mean by that, is we just want to see. The first thing we want to see is attacking football from our team and the players giving everything. We can worry about the next stage, that perhaps first. We feel like... I think we feel like we've been starved at this for a good number of years now, and we're going to get back in. But it's just important, isn't it, to get off to that winning start, because, you know, with the game, obviously, we've got Bournemouth, Huddersfield... Westam. Westam after the break. You've got a great opportunity to have a good start here. And, you know, in terms of... By the time we get into a part of the play that we like and we get these players in, by the time we get to those tougher games, that momentum that you've already picked up is, you know, is going, and that's where these games are important. You give those better sides, something to worry about. They look at you coming in and go, these are actually dangerous, and the confidence in the playing. Well, so, you've got... I mean, we've got... You know, we should... We could have won at Walsh, but we've got a decent point, given the circumstances. We played well. We get our first win at the season on Saturday, and we're up and running around. The manager's first win at Huddersfield, and things like that. We can get a goal for Jentshawson and get that out the way. You know, hopefully Saturday night we'll be talking about a victory and we can go from there, and we know better than anyone. If you start the season well, you end up... It takes a lot for you to drop away from the pack, because it's... And we've got this opportunity where, like you just said, you just named the next four games, and they're all very winnable. So it's about being able to translate that now into points. So that when we go to Arsenal at the end of September, we're in Goodnich and ready to have a go. Hopefully so. Yeah, looking forward to it. Interesting to see who will come in, who will be on the bench, any of those new players around the squad will be there. Let us know your thoughts in the comments. Are you looking forward to it? Are you positive? Do you think we'll get to three points? Let us know your thoughts in the comments. Don't forget, if you haven't already subscribed, please do click the bell for a late. And if you want more videos, like loads, if you have already, join us on Patreon. We'll see you later. See you later.