 Welcome to Toffy TV, it's the match preview and we're playing Manchester City on New Year's Eve. What a way to wrap up 2022 with Everton going away to the champions when we can't win points against teams that are at the bottom of the league. Never mind teams that are around the top. What a horrendous game, no matter when you're playing Manchester City, it's going to be tough. But what a horrendous time to be playing them. Is it just getting done and dusted? It's still round off and as horrible as the Queen once said, because that's what it's been 2022. It's been an awful year of football. It started with an awful home defeat by Brighton and it's going to end. I imagine with the defeat by Manchester City, obviously it's a tremendous football side with tremendous players, but to go into this game, normally I have some positivity and think that I might be way wrong on the other hand, I just don't see any way and don't lose the game. No, of course we lose the game. The problem is about it, is that we're crap. Let's get it right with rubbish, right? And we've got no confidence, right? So you look at their last home game and they played Brentford, they got B2 on obviously their last minute goal. You look at the Brentford side and they took risks because they can't take risks, they got players in there who can break, who can get forward, who can score goals. We haven't got any of that. So the other option is to sit deep and put five men behind the ball and try and stop them scoring seven goals. And that literally is the two options we've got because it's not a case of going, I'd be brave, I'd love us to be brave, I'd love us to be one of those teams that rolls up the city and goes, no today, we might as well either have a goal because we're not capable of having a goal and this is the real problem with this seven team if it's not capable of having a goal. It hasn't got tactical now, it hasn't got good enough players and it's horrible to be sitting in, you know, you talk about, you know, I don't even think there's any point in talking about this game, you know, in what we do. It's more about the year, isn't it, wrapping up the year in New Year's Eve and I'm glad this does fall on New Year's Eve and not on New Year's Day so we can put it together like you just said in one big horrible batch. But it's that thing of you, we've just been talking about it off air, they're going, just sitting here thinking, it's now acceptable for people to say, Evan just in a relegation fight, like there's no other, there's nothing else, there's no other expectation from the football club. But this comes on Frank Lampard again, we're in a relegation fight, that's the thing this season, so therefore that's come from the club, stay up and this game doesn't matter to Evan and Football Club, let's get it right, this game doesn't matter. To Evan and Football Club, as a club, this doesn't matter, this is an acceptable defeat because that's what it is, there's no thought process like Brentford would have had of how we can beat them. It's get 10 men behind the ball and hope that they don't score early so that it doesn't become a massively long day, keep them out as long as you can, like it was last season. And that's where we are now and that's what 2022 represents as a year, as the year it became acceptable to talk about Evan as one of the relegation teams because before that we weren't. This time two years ago we were second in the table, they were about till the West Ham game and then the wheels started falling off, but even then we'd had a great December. We were still in the Champions League places in March though. And now what 2022 has done is we've become a team that everyone thought we were going to go down this year last year and most people think we're going to go down this year and that's happened in 2022, the space of a year by the way. It wasn't necessarily something people were talking about in 2021, even when we were having bad luck. We were as fans going this could be tough, this could be edgy this. But I don't think so. I don't think so. I think people on the outside thought they didn't think that, Evan, definitely fine. Raffer will get it sorted and all that. But 2022 that's what it's become, we are now looked upon as a relegation team and a lot of people expect us to go down. I expect us to go down if things don't change one way or another football club. And I'm just glad, as I said, that this game fits in nicely into 2022, 2023 because it's just been an horrendous year. It's been terrible. I think we've had nine league wins under Frank, but it'll be nine league wins in a year because Raffer Benitez didn't win a game for him early December. So, I haven't won nine games in, I think there's about, I think, Frank's had 34 I think. So it'll be 37 in the morning. So nine league wins in 37 games in this year. This will be the 38 obviously, which is dreadful. That's 27 points. Absolutely dreadful we won. In the second half of last season we had five wins or something and we've had three wins this season. We've had three wins and we're talking about the game on New Year's Eve and we've only won three games of football. It's been an awful year. I can't remember a year like this to be honest. Falling so quickly from a team that was... Cos, let's be honest, when Benitez took over, obviously Carlawd had just got 59 points, hadn't he missed out on Europe by a couple of points. When Benitez got it, I know a lot of people didn't want to have it in rightly show but you can't forget we started that season with 10 points out of 12 and a lot of people had everything down as getting into Europe. It'll be like seventh place or something but certainly being in the fight for Europe in football and that was only the beginning of last season where we were in the fight for Europe in football. Obviously it didn't turn out like that in injuries and we ended up franking in and we still had bad luck with injuries and we were playing well and we ended up that. We started this season and when we started out, goals were needed to be brought in. We lost our centre forward four days before the season started and we allowed it to just play on each week and we eventually got more playing and he didn't play until September. So a lot of people were saying at the time, unless ever I'm buying goals, they're going to struggle and it's not rocket science that anybody is that. Yes, I understand when people go, we don't create anything either, I accept that, absolutely accept it but if you've got a lad who's a handful up front, you will get goals and you'll get things from it. Newcastle, I think it won one game last Christmas and Eddie Hogg didn't win for about ten games but when he first came in he got draws and things like that. A year later this second in the Premier League, within the calendar year he had a tremendous and absolutely tremendous 2022. Come back with a 3-0 win at Leicester, whatever it was a 3-0, 3-1, whatever it was, 3-0 sorry. So Dave shewn you and you can go from a team that's everybody, they were relegated, last December everyone's gone. It's all be funny when they get relegated with all the money you know and they were able to go right in January we need bang bang bang and we've had a tremendous, tremendous year and gone from relegated. A team that nailed on for relegations has been second in the Premier League and will have that transformation. Now they won't because they haven't got the people at the football club. It shows you how quickly it can go that way but we've shown how quickly it can go the other way. That's a football club that's got all its ducks in a row, simple as that. They got rid of the problems, they got boards out, got rid of the problems at the top, didn't keep any angers on or anyone who causes any problems. They got it all done, both the players they needed, both defenders, both are really good midfielders. They already had the attackers, they added on to it and look where they are flying with confidence. Whether it lasts it, whether it lasts, it'll be fantastic. They're going to probably get in the way. They'll get in Europe, they'll get in Europe. They might even, they'll leak up, they've got a good chance of leaking up. That's the point and we go to a club which has untold ambition. The kind of ambition. That's where it comes from, doesn't it of course. But it's got ambition on top of the wealth. We've had the wealth, not their wealth, but we've had a level of wealth. Again, it's not their wealth, but we've had a level of wealth where there's no planning. Three watt sticks to the wall, three watt sticks. Now we are where we are because of it and you go there and this is where we are. By the way, this is a club that a few years ago I did not fear even when you were good. I was talking about this yesterday funny enough. Saying that, I remember when we went there and beat them 2-1. It was like the coldest night ever. Bains on Anna Chaby, Anna Chaby got sent off on it and beat them 2-1. We had the Indians sign over them for ages and then obviously it stopped. But it wasn't a team I feared because we went there and we had to go. And I was never worried about, I've never worried going to city. Because I thought we'll have to go here. But now I look at them and even in my heart, I look at the team and I just think, you're not even capable of having a go. It doesn't matter what team we pick. Let's just look at the team from the world's game. Actually, let's just look at the Manchester City team face from the Leeds game. Obviously 3-1 win. I mean you can see there an embarrassment of riches for the side. Obviously Harland off front getting a couple will talk about him more in a minute. But they had the likes of Calvin Phillips, Carl Walker, Concello, Le Porte, Bernardo Silva, Phil Foden, all on the bench. You know, only Foden and Concello came on Young Cope Army. It's just embarrassing to look at that team and you just think any combination of that team or the players that we've just mentioned there, will absolutely have the potential to absolutely destroy us on Saturday. So it's never, ever easy going to Manchester City, but Harland is in unbelievable form. Let's just have a little look at his stats. 20 goals and 14 Premier League games. 3 assists, 4.3 shots a game, which is just absolutely ridiculous. But you know what? You look at him and you look at the numbers and you think, you could see him not going against everything, but it doesn't matter, does he? Cos look at all those players, look at all those players that they've got available. Yeah, it's just an embarrassing of riches. And when you look at what they've got in the forward lines in midfield and then you look at what we've got, you just can't compare them. So yeah, do you have it? It's just ridiculous. But let's have a look at the evident team from the Walls game anyway. Now, I imagine Conor Cody comes back. For me now, yeah. And I can even see another centre back maybe coming in. I'm going to three at the back. Well, five at the back? Yeah, five at the back. So maybe God 3 comes in for the pitch. You go three at the back and then you have five at the back and then you maybe take Mach Neil out the team and play with one up front and one off and then have your three in midfield. Maybe. Well, that's out. I mean, if you're going to do it, that's what you do. I mean, if you do it at space, you're going to do it here, aren't you? Do you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. God 3 will come in for the pitch, I imagine, and Cody will come back to organise and play a few of five, three, two, you may as well. You may as well have. And I go, no ddim ar i greu, alongside Maupai, because that's who it's going to be, because Dom will be ready, man, he's even said Brighton, you know. He's not going to start Tom Cannon, is he? Or Lau? Why not? Why not? Because I mean, Maupai's not really pulled up any trees at the moment. But, you know, maybe if you were that brave, you'd start Maupai and Cannon up front and play three in the field and go five, three, two, and that's how we'll play, to give the kid a bit of Premier League experience. He won't, obviously. He'll probably play grey off Maupai and just having busy trying to bob around and have the other three in the field, but... I can't, listen, I'm not... I'm not going to put stock on this and have a go for Anglampard and the culture stuff of this one. This is a game that will be difficult at the best of times, but... It is sad that we're going without any kind of hope. And mad things happen in football, sometimes teams win games you'd never expect them to, but we don't have the right mentality for that. Code deal improved the mentality being on the pitch, of course you will, but there's no way I just don't see any way I haven't got any kind of result here, other than it being a Christmas miracle, which it would have to be in my opinion. I mean, listen, we saw, we saw in the Walls game, we saw a goal from a sepish which is nice and if we can continue maybe that, that could be a threat. And we had the sepish in second half from Damari Grey, which almost led to a goal. So that day might be small instances, that we can... It's going to be two hours of just gritting your teeth, isn't it? We've got it. I'm just letting it roll. What we have to do is there has to be, and for the manatee this is as well, there has to be some sort of springboard, there has to be, and it might be that we get to one, but we play out. There has to be something, because right now, it's got that horrible, there's just a horrible shink and feel around it, where it's flat. Do you mean Gabriel feel about it? It just feels flat, and it's a inevitability about something. And it's like, he loses his job when we go down. That's the... I can't see the other in it. I don't know whether there's another in it. But that's just how it feels right now. And that can change, of course. It can change quickly, and it has to change quickly if we're to get on or off. But you've got to look at these games, go, all right, we're probably going to get beat, because they're a good side, and we're not. And they're at home, and they've got the best strike in the world, and we haven't. And the other things that you have to point to, so what can we take as positives out of this game? And maybe it is, mix it up a little bit. Maybe it is. Get Tom Cannon on a pit for a bit longer, or garage price in there, or Stanley, or wine. Why was the point of having Malpide run around for... We're probably going to lose the game anyway. So give them... Oh, but you've got a side out, haven't you? So give them, give the other lad a little bit of Premier League experience. Can we do it? It is difficult. We've got, for me, the real, you know, the Brighton games more important, because it's a home game. Even though Brighton will be a good side on score goals, it'll be a tough game. But that's a game where we're at home, and we've got to... That's where... If Everton are going to stay up, that's where they'll get most of the points. And it's hard to say that I haven't just lost to the bottom of the table side. You are very good, and you've got a good side coming. But that's what I'm saying when I'm talking about can there be something that can come out of this game. That's a bit of a springboard, because I don't know what it is. It's been a horrendous year of football for Everton Football Club. It really hasn't. We scraped survival by the skin of our teeth. There was no changes made over the summer, which there should have been at board level. It did nothing. We've gone into this season. The malaise is there again, because we didn't recruit correctly in the summer. We needed to buy goals in the summer, and whether that was buying goals where you were taking a chance with it, but these players had the ability to do it. We gambled, and we also gambled on players who don't have a history scoring goals, and we sat here going, we don't score enough goals. Why don't we score enough goals? So, you can't... That's where we are, and 2023 has to be totally different. It has to be totally different. Otherwise, guess what? When you become one of those teams, you just miss it one year, and then they go and everyone goes, well, they really should have probably gone last year. It's very, very strange. You know, and on and off, we have been... Listen, this is a football club, ever since Michele came in. Let's get it right. The year he came in, it was unacceptable, so he got rid of the manager, but then he had a clean slate. He had a clean slate. It was his opportunity to put his mark on it. The problem is, he did put his mark on it. He didn't go out and find experts or the right people. He just decided, and he's a man who knows nothing about football. It's clear this day. The evidence has been presented. That's not me making a comment. The evidence is there. He knows nothing about football, and he relies on the wrong people. We know he relied on agents in his ear for too long, and all that's happened is, we have a year, and then we get to 18 months, and then we sack, and then we rinse and repeat. It's come shorter and shorter. Yeah, it's come shorter, and then he went big, and he was following. In hindsight, it was the wrong move. He should have gone for a moise. People thought, but he should have, because financially, everything couldn't cope with what a Carlo Ancelotti manager wanted. And needed. Which was your hammer to the draegus of the world, where we needed a moise, and that's from a financial point of view, because we've seen what's happened since. Ancelotti leaves. He picks the wrong man. Six months. Binged another man in, and we are where we are, because, not because of the manager we've got now, but because of the players we've got now, because the quality's been cut, and cut, and cut, and cut, and the team we've got now is a championship team. It really is, it really is a championship. It's got a championship front three. Si, Franck Llympard, wedna, Aia Matien hameis wedi pleidon y Llympard. And Aia Matien, Llucia Dym wedi pleidon y Llympard. I wonder what he would have done with Moise Keane. You know what I'm saying? Moise Keane's the answer, but he's a centre for, and he's young and he's mobile. Llympard didn't have any of them tools, they were all gone. They thought he got the gilfysig, and obviously for different reasons. All of them, goals and opportunities for goals were all gone. The manager's been left with a difficult hand to play, because it's gone, but the one thing that you'd have to say is, if it was just a decision to bring in a couple of day attack on players, Neil Mopard, like McNeill, which weren't really what I needed, then that's the, he's got to be included in that, because, like I said on the final word, if you bring Mopard in alongside another six, four, three centre forward, then you go and he's going to play off them and play around them and get that. I totally get that, but to not do that, I don't know, I don't know who it is, but they have to be ready to go and get people through it, because at least they've ever been bringing two or three dish window and preferably two very quickly. The fans will go right, all right then, we can see something developing here. If one week and two week goes by and we're waiting, we're going into a new window now, the window opens on. You know, a couple of days or whatever it is, so therefore, Evan have got to be ready to go, and we're waiting, and games are just, you know, we're up. But talking about writing another three points off here, by the way, and then all of a sudden we're in Brighton and we've come back from the break and we've lost two games out of two. The pressure on the Brighton, and it will be pressure on the Brighton game, because we are probably going to lose this game. We will lose this game. The pressure then on the Brighton game is huge. Then we go to Manchester United and the FA Cup game at Old Trafford. We could quite easily lose that game as well. And then you're talking about, you know, all of a sudden it becomes unbearable, so Evan have got to be able to, to throw something in the way that goes, stop this, we're going, the momentum's going one way. We have to push it the other way. By the way, you're absolutely right about the signings, because if Evan do get signings in, the fan base says to, we'll go right with Evan to go. So you're absolutely right about that. If they don't and they wait, the fan base will go the other way. Of course they will. And they will turn on, Everyone? Everyone. Because it's our football club. I've said this before. Listen, you were saying that social media is an awful place, in my opinion, it really is. But apparently people are having a go with each other on social media. And the easiest thing to do is to sit behind a keyboard or on your phone and slag other people off. It's the lowest common denominator to what people like to do in our society, the way it is. But everyone's entitled to an opinion. But people are locked on on different things here. But ultimately, even if you don't agree with another Evertonian, or there's Evertonians acting like school kids, throwing mud at each other, for no reason. Instead of just being a nice human being. They're all, I've got the one thing at the core where there's a fella here who disagrees with me and doesn't like me or I don't. Well, wherever, we all want the same thing and ask for the football club to be better. But Everton have to give us something to hang on to. And they have to bring these people in. And he can't hide behind a, it's a difficult window. Oh, we've got to get the right people in. All that work should be getting done on September the first when the window shuts. So you go right when this window opens easily and easily to go. And you bounce them in and you have to get the right people in. You have to get the right people in. You have to get the right people in. You have to get the right people in. And you bounce them in and the fans all of a sudden go, these do you care like we do? We want to get it. Or they can at least see that happening. If it's not happening, then we are going to, there's only so much people can give that really is. And everyone give a lot last season. We'll be relegated. It's not a big, scary word. It's a big, scary thing to happen. But we will be relegated with this thing. They are not good enough. They are one of the worst three teams in the league. It's just so, it's there. So it's in plain sight. Ever need to improve the squad if they don't. Then we're in massive trouble. It's not, we've not got that talent. When we not got that leader like we did last season. No one's, we all now know that Dominic Harvan isn't the saviour. He's not coming to save us. We're not falling for that trick again. It's not happening. Because you can't be relied on someone. So you can't pin your open on someone. So everyone have to bring plays in and they have to be ready. And that's a simple fact. And if they don't, there's no way this team's goodness will stay up. It just isn't. It's a poor team. Even if Domin gets fit, by the way, and plays, you can't put all the pressure on him. You need more goals. Regardless of whether he stays fit the whole season. You put all of the goals on him. You've got to score for us. You've got to have a ladder. You look to the bench and go, I can put him on either next to him or replace him. You play against Leicester and Mr Sitter at 1-0. You can't say it's all that to Dominic Harvan. Good teams or even bad teams have three or four goalscores who just weigh in. You can't, you know, patterns of play. Good set pieces. You can't say, well, if Don Cun's back, all these chances are going to fall to him. They're all going to, you know, the Anthony Gordon chance against, you know, at the weekend against Wall Street. Well, that would have fell to Don. But it doesn't fall to Don because why would he be in that position if that position Anthony Gordon's taken up? All these other players have to start scoring goals or they have to be replaced. It's as simple as that, isn't it? It's as simple as that. There is no other answer. The only way we start upwardly moving as a football club is to get a team that can create goals and score goals. It's the only chance. It's not stupid, but it's the only way. It's not stupid. It's the name of the game, isn't it? It's not the name, but you know what I mean? It's the premise of the game. Back net, put the ball in net, nothing else matters. And keep it out the other end. Nothing else. You know, there's been people in football who go, yeah, I know what we do is we just lump the ball or flick it on and score because all that matters. Peck what the older does it by having a million passes. That's the way he does it. But ultimately, you put the ball in that net and you get the same value as whether it's a million passes. Or one. Yeah, one. And that's it. But we don't do either of these things. We showed that this season of me first around. Peck what kicks a ball from the penalty spot. Gray brings it down. And it's in the net. Three touches in the balls in the back of the net. And we'd gone 91 minutes trying to do other stuff and couldn't score. And it's as simple as that, isn't it? In teams, less the city won the league with 28% possession because they didn't need possession. It was bangi fardigol, bangi fardigol. And that was it. And I'm not saying that everything should fully do that, but that's what we need to do because... What a miserable video. There you go. No point talking too much about this game. They've got amazing players who can all hit. All of them can hit us. That's it. That's the end of it, isn't it? They've got amazing players that can hit us. And I don't know how we hit them. I really don't. I really don't. It's like Ned's gone to fight, you know. Anyone. It's going to be tough. So let's, you know, New Year's Eve out the way and then hopefully on to a better 2023. We all hope anyway. It's got to be, hasn't it? It's got to be, mate. It's got to be. 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