 Welcome to Toffy TV, there's the play ratings for Newcastle 1, Everton 0, another disappointing defeat 3 in a row. Yep, let's get into it, Jordan Pickford in goal. I thought Pickford was alright tonight. The goal itself, I don't know, I mean Shagiven was on the TV and he was saying there's nothing he can do about it. Is he too far off his line? I don't know, I'm not a goalkeeper. It seemed like it was just a really good strike and he was too far out of his goal but it was a great strike scene, that kid did that already this season. I don't think he was unsettled too much by the crowd, although his kick in the times was not poor, just probably in the wrong place in terms of the plays it went to. I've given Jordan Pickford the 6th, I don't think he had to make too many actual point blank saves. It wasn't like he was keeping us in the game, it wasn't like that kind of game really. They had one big chance and they took it really. It wasn't even a chance really so fair play, it was a good goal but yeah, so I've given him a 6th. Sheamus Coleman looked as 8th tonight, I thought he would have changed it tonight. I really did think he would have changed it, I thought he would have put someone else right back. He played Saturday, it was a difficult game for him and did he have enough in the tank tonight and I'll be honest, I don't think he did, I don't think he got up the pitch. He didn't defend terribly, he just didn't look like he had too much life in him to be honest. We need our full backs to start pushing up and they're just not and it's something we've lost massively from Patterson. It's something we don't really have on the other side which we'll come to in a minute but yeah, it was a difficult night for Sheamus, I've given him 4.5. On the other side, Michelin Cole, I didn't think he was great, I don't think he's been great all season. I think if there's a period in the pitch we could definitely strengthen his left back. I personally just don't think he's good enough, I don't think he gets, I don't think a modern day full back can play like that. I think you have to be up and down, I think you have to have an engine, I think what we've seen from Nathan Patterson is exactly what you need and I just don't think he's gory. I just don't, I think he'd be a decent squad player, he'd be a good backup or even a left sided centre back in a 3 but I personally don't think he's good enough, I've seen enough of him now and I think he's a decent defender but I think you need more than that. And I think just little things like in the second half he let Alvin and come on and his left foot again and he killed one just over it and stuff like that, I just think you've got to get out of them. I don't think he covers the ground quick enough either so I've given him a 4, he's passing sloppy as well and he just doesn't get up and down the pitch for me and I think that's what a modern full back's got to do. You've got to help out your wide man, we're crying out for some kind of attack and prowess going forward. You've got to help the wide man as much as poor as the wide man have been, they do get quite isolated, that's about the full backs basing through, I don't think Seamus can do it and I don't think this kid can do either, I really don't. In a game like that why not throw an aggrom for the last 15 minutes and just see if you can change it. I don't think Frank's got the bottle, I think Frank in terms of substitutes is abysmal. I've always thought that, I think he gets caught in the headlights, I think he sets teams up well before games but I think when they go on the pitch, I think he loses it personally. I don't think he's a good in-game manager at all, at all. I think he's an average manager at best and I think in terms of in-game he's poor, very poor in fact. I'll be honest, I'm not massively impressed by Frank Lampard, I never have been, I don't get caught up in the hyper or anything of that, which other people do, it's fair enough, you and I get caught up in all that, that's fine. I don't get caught up in it, I'm trying to keep myself quite neutral, I don't get caught up in it, I think he's a very average manager who's laying as he goes along and might become a better manager. But I think his in-game management stuff is just, I think it's dreadful, every game I have question marks about his subs and I see other people have question marks about his subs every game as well. I think they're woeful, I think the subs tonight were woeful, I really do. So I've given him a four. The centre-backs, Conor Coley, James Tarkowski have done both sevens, a fourth he played, again that level he played every game. I think his centre-backs go, we're fine in there, we could do with maybe a little bit of pace, but I think we're fine in there. I think these two have given us maybe a better start, they're the backbone of the team and I think since they got into a partnership I think they've kept. They've kept us quite solid and they've done the jobs brilliantly. Personally I think there's other things you could add to it, maybe a little bit of pace or whatever and that helps when you do have a pattern. But I thought they were fine tonight, they looked really quite untroubled and they're always committed, they always give everything. They do genuinely hit people for the sake of winning the ball, not just for show, they do it because it's to win the ball and keep the ball. I've given them both sevens, no issue with either of them tonight. Into midfield, going on a game and sometimes in the game he looked good. In other parts of the game he looked sloppy, picked up a yellow card, very very sloppy for the yellow card. Still quite loose on the ball, but was nicking in there and breaking things up. Wasn't terrible by any means, I think in the last couple of games people have gone a little bit overboard. You'll see a little bit of that tonight, he's terrible at bringing back. I don't think he was terrible tonight, I don't think he's quite worked out the midfield. Tonight it was more like him and Onan were both playing as the six and a woby was ahead of them. In other games he's on his own, I don't think we've quite figured that area of the park out yet. But I thought he was fine, I've given him a six. Onan, wow me open the first half because I actually think he's a foul for the goal because he's running down the left hand wing, left hand side. And he's got the ball and he just gets a push or a touch and he goes down and he loses it. But what annoyed me was he'd already done that two or three times and not won the foul. And then suddenly he's like, he's got to be stronger, he's a big physical player. He's got to start being stronger on the ball. Stop going down every time someone touches you, you're not going to get the foul. Start realising that and you'll be fine because you're a... I said this on my match reaction, he was one where we had the ball and he went down holding his head and there was nothing in it. And he actually cost us possession when we had the ball because the rest stopped the game and there was nothing in it. He's a big strong lad, stop going down, stay on your feet, be strong, shrug the tackles off and run past them. And you know what, you'll do alright if you do that. When he picks the ball up and moves it, he's quite graceful and he's difficult to stop but he's very easy to stop if he goes down because he's not getting the foul and that's what annoys me. And I know that happens to a lot of players when they come into the Premier League. They go down every two minutes, I know that happens to a lot of people who are bleeding English and come into the Premier League. We've got another one of them on our team. Stay on your feet and be strong and when he lost that ball on the left-hand side, they broke then and a minute later the ball was in the back of the net and it all started from him. And he doesn't need to do that and it winds me up so much, really does wind me up so much. I think he got better in the second half, in the second half I think he did start picking her up and start carrying her and playing nice little one-twos with a woby and then going into the space because there was loads of space on the pitch. There was huge pockets of space that both teams were at times running into and we weren't capitalising that enough. And in the second half him and a woby started doing that a little bit more but that's because he's picking the ball up, getting it and giving it and getting it back. But this thing of going down every time you get in touch, that needs to be sorted out. It's not good enough. You won't get fouls in the Premier League for that, especially when it's a bit of a hostile crowd and people are on your back. It's too easy to go down nowadays, but you're not getting the fouls. I did think he improved second half and that's why I've given him a six. A woby never really got into the game. Again, nice little one-twos but none of it really came off. It wasn't for the one-to-trying, I don't think. I don't think it was for the one-to-trying. I think he was trying things and just weren't coming off. There's a couple of times when you get the ball and put it into an area and other people weren't reacting. I think that area of the pitch needs to be solidified in what we're trying to do. I don't think a woby is breaking through the lines enough. I don't think he's carrying the ball enough. I don't think O'Nan is carrying the ball enough into the spaces. I don't think they're waking off each other enough. I don't think they do it as individuals. There needs to be a bit more in there, a bit more communication, a bit more talking of what we're trying to do. That'll come in time, hopefully, because they're good players. But a woby was just a little bit off of tonight. I've given him a six as well, funny enough. That might be the end of the six actually, but there's got to be a little bit more responsibility of what they're doing in terms of who's doing what jobs and when do they swap right and who replaces who in there. Don't get me wrong, it's not the major issue of this football team. Not by any means. There's definitely room to grow there. Definitely room to grow because they're all good players and James Garner can come in. I think James Garner can add something else to this team because he keeps the ball so well and his passing is good as well. I'll come on to him but Frank Lampard's going to have to find something a little bit different in there. Damari Grey was probably the best of the bad bunch in terms of the front three and the subs he came on. I think in terms of take-ons and passes and crosses, he was probably most effective but still very, very poor. So I've given him a five. There's no end product. He's toothless. He's got to just have a shot now and again. He's got to get on to the right foot and have a crack now and again and see what happens because this is just, it's abysmal having no shots on target. It is abysmal and Grey can. We've talked a few times on the show about if our team, who would you send to see the Wizards of Oswald. There's quite a few who need a brain but I think Damari Grey is definitely one of them who needs a brain. He's got to, he just seems to pick, he's got the tools in the bag. He just seems to pick the wrong tool. When it's time to cross, he dribbles. When it's time to dribble, he crosses. When it's time to shoot, he overplays it. So I don't think he's the worst by any way. It's something he's got a brain. I just don't think he's got a brain and it's almost like he's too fast, too frantic, doesn't quite know. He's got no end product because he's, I don't think he knows what he's going to do and that must make it hard for the manager to create situations where you're building play in the final third. I've given him a five. Anthony Gordon. I thought he started well in terms of he was in the game. I thought he did more in the first 20 minutes than he did against Manchester United in terms of being in the game, being alive in situations. But I think he faded and went out the game and everything he tried was just awful then. There's just so many little things trying to take people on, trying to do skills, not happening. Again, no shots, no crosses, no take-ons, his pass was poor. He offers or he is offering very, very little at the moment, very, very little. When the team needs something. This is a kid who said three weeks ago he wanted to go the Wale Cup. You wouldn't get in the Qatari team, mate. You wouldn't. You wouldn't get in the Qatari team. How you're playing, it's abysmal, abysmal. He was thrown himself over for a penalty. Listen, you harry cane, you get that. I appreciate that. You harry cane, you get that. But getting up and having all the attitude, save all that. Save all that. What's the point? Save all that. Because it's wasted. You're wasting your energy. You're not going to normally buy half-time anyway. And then he could have been sent off in the second half. He got booked for that and then he could have been second. Like tackle. And I think the referee actually probably not sending off Joel Linton probably saved him from getting sent off tonight. So it's nowhere near good enough for me. How he didn't accept the money from Chelsea's beyond me. Absolutely beyond me. I don't know what they were trying to make a statement or whatever but I think we could have used that money. Whatever it was, 40 million or whatever, we could have used that money brilliantly. Could have brought some money. I've given him a three. I thought he was dead full. I'll be honest, I thought he was dead full. I think he's so overrated, it's unbelievable. That's not his fault necessarily for being overrated. But there are certain things when you take the number 10 shared and all that kind of thing. People do expect something. I think he's been dead full for the last... Well, since... What? I don't know. Since... Since Leeds was it? Oh yeah, Leeds. I think he's been dead full since Leeds. I've given him a three. Tom, tough knife for him. Never really got in the game. Got himself stupidly booked early on. What was the point? What was the point of that? Getting yourself booked early on. Ridiculous. Ridiculous. Just... I don't know if that had an impact on his game after that, but very rarely in it. Any crosses that did come in, timing was massively off and obviously went off. Probably good that he got a one-out. Probably good that he got an hour under his belt or 70 minutes under the belt. Probably good that he's got that, but no threat. There was a couple of opportunities where he nearly got in, but the fitness was just completely lacking that it wasn't there and it wasn't there. So probably good that he's got 70 minutes under his belt tonight because I don't think Mau Pai as an alternative would have done any better. I really don't. So I've given him a four, but it's probably good that he's got 70 minutes under his belt. And hopefully he can back her up on Satie and really, really do a little bit more if he's available, of course. Yeah, I've given him a four. The sub's James Garner. Come on. Again, not being dramatic, but didn't do anything dramatic, sorry, but came on, did okay. Kept the ball well. I think again his past completion is something like 90%. It was 100% on Satie. Keeps the ball well. I think there's definitely an opportunity to get this lad in the team soon in a role. Maybe we have to be better on the ball to get him to get. I don't know, but you get him in the team. You've got, you're better. Yeah, I thought he did okay. I've given him six and a half. I think, as I said, that's where he's keeping the ball well. And he, you know, he's not, he's not opening teams up, but you need players who are comfortable on the ball, players that can get it, get it back, give it, get it back and move you up the pitch or just open up teams with a pass. He's not quite at that level, but I do like what I see. Dwight McNeill. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Not 100%. Still not 100%. There's a lot of conspiracy theories when we do our shows on ToffeeTVPremium about why we bought Dwight McNeill. And you can maybe, you can understand giving Burnley 20 million quid. You can maybe work out what those conspiracy theories are, but he's not good enough for me. Not good enough. No, he's not good enough for me. I know there's a lot of people out there who say he's only 22. He ain't getting any faster, is he? He ain't getting any faster. He's 22 and he's got, he's got no right foot. So I just don't think he's anywhere near the level. I could say a lot worse things. I just don't think he's anywhere near the level. You know, I think he's, I think he's a bang average footballer. I've given him a five and Malpie have given him a five. Again, the way we play doesn't suit him. There might be a decent player in there. There might be a good little split striker in there. There might be someone who comes off and is busy on the ball when he was for Brighton. He ain't a number nine. He ain't what we need. Definitely not what we need. So he might be, if you play him off Dom, he might be, but you've got to change the way you play then. He's somebody who wants to come off, off the centre back and get the ball. But then who runs past them? Nobody. Can't throw crosses into the box when he's hit, when he's on. Sorry. I mean, they do because they don't put crosses in when Dom's on, but when he comes on, they do. Amazing. Again, he's got no pace. Again, another play we've got with no pace. There you go. It was just an absolutely rubbish, rubbish performance from Everton tonight. And as I said, defensively, I think we're better. I think we're much better than last year defensively. But what difference does it make if you get beat one nil? What difference does it make if you do not have a shot on target? What difference does it make? It makes no difference. It's pointless. Now, we have to get the other end sorted or change the style or something because it's not being good enough. Don't get me wrong. I think we've been beaten by three teams who are better than us. Newcastle are better than us. Tottenham are better than Manchester United are better than us. I fully get that. We were absolutely terrible last season, but we've got to come up with a way of creating chances. Now, whether that's a long ball, whether that's a diagonal ball, whether that's set pieces, whether that's whatever that is, we have to come up with a way to create chances and score goals because ultimately that's all it's about is scoring goals. You only get points by scoring goals. You might get the occasional nil-nil, but they don't happen that often. You have to score goals and this is a football team that can't score goals and that's got to change. That's my, they are my player ratings. Let me know your thoughts. 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