 Welcome to Toffy TV joined by Dave Feely to discuss the Marcel Brands Marco Silver Press Conference. Dave, the appointments are in place now. We've seen them for the first time yesterday. What do you make of the appointments? The positive? The irrespective of your views upon whether the right manager or not. Now that the decision has been made, the two of them together, both individually and in unison, look like the main business. They've thought about what the problems were that got them here in the first place and have come up with a plan to solve those problems. As a day one, first week kind of remit, that's exactly what we were looking for. What have you made of the changes off the pitch anyway? I know obviously we're fans so we go with it but what have you made with new chief executive, new finance director and things like that. Now we've got a director of football, now we've got a new head coach. What have you made? Are you feeling more positive that the club have made these changes? Yes, because they were patently glared and mistakes what were made previously. So I went on your show three or four times and highlighted those specific issues. So now they've identified them and haven't just identified and thereby by definition admitted that we were right in drawing attention to it. They've actually done something about it. So again, without just playing a game of football, this is as positive as it could possibly be. We haven't signed any on, we haven't kicked the ball. So we haven't got into the winning or losing the points. So I'll take that on board. However, from the point where we are now in early June, yes, they are doing everything ostensibly on the face of it that we had highlighted last time. So then somebody's listened, somebody's recognised that we had an issue, our arguments had veracity in the first place and now they're looking to deal with it. So that's kind of a positive product. Moving forward, what are your thoughts on Marco Silver? He's had a listen, we know his time in England has been a mixed bag, very successful in Europe. What are your thoughts on his young coach, he's 40, 41 and so you like. So what are your thoughts about him? My thoughts are that I didn't see the list he was choosing from. So obviously I'm not privy to that. However, I would suggest that he's already got Premier League experience, albeit at two clubs where he wasn't there for that long. However, what you just said then, he's 41, not quite 41 yet. He's already won a trophy in a different league, has got an experience in two different leagues and has been in this league already with two different teams. Well, I'm saying as a 41-year-old manager, if he's learning the lessons he should be, like what an apprentice would be, going through his time, well then you'd look to say that those mistakes, those things were custom last time will be the first things he looks at this time and we would look to move forward. The fact the appointments of Marcel Brands actually gives me more optimism for the whole thing because he's kind of behind him with the wisdom, don't do that, do do that, sway him, sign him, like that. Well then, our previous two appointments as manager, that's where I think they were laughing, they didn't have that. If Roberto Martinez had had a Howard Kendall figure over his shoulder or Cumin for that matter, I believe that they would have dealt with the crowd completely different, they would have dealt with the picking of the team and the methodology completely different because they're not seeing what these need. And I think Marcel Brands strikes me, I don't know the fella I've never met him before, but he strikes me as a fella who switched on to that side and that side proper needed the dressing as far as I'm concerned. Just finally, what do you think, what areas do you think you're looking, what's a key area you think we'd be looking to strengthen in this summer? Central midfield to start. Central midfield, a second striker, some kind of full back cover, centre half cover and basically going through the team, but immediately if you're asking me what to do first, central midfield, we've got to stop teams running over the top of us where in 20 minutes we're out of a game we haven't even got into yet, that's got to go. Cos then, the thing about this league is, you find after Christmas going into the east end of January and February, it starts splitting into a group at the bottom, a group at the top and everybody else in the middle. Well the everybody else in the middle are the people who don't lose games at the start of the season, they draw loads of them, they don't win loads of them but they're not getting beat and in this league that's the first port of call. You have to get from this bottom group into the middle group and with your aspirations and planning and stuff, then you look to move on. We've got to go from here because the problem with Marco Silva, his biggest issue is if you come here now, buy more players and he loses three of the first five games of the season, that's going to then become a problem. What's not actually to do with his initial 10 years, you see what I mean, cos there's no honey mountain period. So if we avoid that scenario and just become a team who doesn't get beat that often and look to defend as a unit, tuck in if they're coming down the side, not like last year where they were just, it was like firefighting it. We both know what we're talking about. Remove that first of all, get to Christmas, get to Easter and see where we are. If he does that, I'd say he's got a chance of doing three to five years of everything because that'll give you the fact and plus the goodwill, the bank of goodwill from the Evertonians. You'll be able to draw on that and then look to get positive as we go through. If you don't and you go the other way and buy November the fifth foot in the bottom three and we've got two wins or three wins, well I think he might struggle to be honest with you. There you go, thanks very much Dave. If you haven't subscribed, give us a subscribe, it takes a few seconds. See you next time on Toffy TV. Welcome to Toffy TV and joined by Keith Mullan to discuss the appointment of Marco Silva. Keith, what have you made of the appointment of obviously Marcel Brand and Marco Silva? To be perfectly honest with you, Badi, I've pretty much the same as a lot of Evertonians at the moment. I don't really know a lot about Silva prior to coming to the Premier League, so I've got my money going on based on what I've seen. He's been on a couple of teams and he's jumped ship quite easily and things like that. It was for Everton though, that's what he wanted? I have to counter that with the fact that it was for Everton and stuff like that. He's a young manager, he seems very ambitious, he's got a particular brand of football and style of play, which I think is what we want to see as Evertonians, which is attractive football. How far you can push that and take that, I think the jury's out, but it's certainly better than what we've been subject to I think for the last two seasons. I didn't particularly like the brand of football that Cumin was pushing out either. Allardyce was what, he was just coming in to do a job and he was never ever the future for this club. I'm happy really, for me it's just the case of let's see what happens, it can't be really any worse than what we've had, God forbid. I mean if it is, well then we are in trouble. There seems to be, I don't know, I'm a little bit more interested at the moment in the goings on in the back room staff here, there's a hell of a lot going on there this season, there's a lot of changes and again that can be a good thing. So it seems to me like that thing we were talking about a couple of months ago on Toffy TV where there needs to be some form of restructure and as Dave was sort of saying, who signed off on this at the beginning of the season, I think that looked to me like those issues are being dealt with in an evident way where you find out on the day when all of these things are going on and happening and there's rumours about several different aliens landing on the pitch and various other things in advance of it. The Marcel Brands thing, he seems to have a good pedigree, he seems to really know how to play football and from what I'm hearing, what I'm gathering is a lot more hands on than the other fella, he wasn't really a director of football, he was a really really good scout. So if they can work together as a team, who knows, there seems to be a lot of, it could be really really great. Save me about four questions there Keith, it was the longest answer ever but it was great and just very quickly, looks like Wayne Rooney is leaving Everton Football Club now, that's what it looks like anyway. The right decision for all parties or would you rather Wayne stayed? Well you know, obviously I was happy just like every other Evertonian when Wayne came back, you know, I thought great. If I'm going to be really really honest, I never ever thought we would be hanging out entire season on them. I never ever thought that when Wayne was coming back, I thought brilliant, you know, it's a great time when he's coming back. I never thought he was going to be playing every game because it's whether or not he's physically capable of doing that. He's not the player he was five years ago and so I think he's had an alright season here, he's done okay. If he stays or if he goes, I'm indifferent to be perfectly honest with you. I just think if he did stay, I wouldn't want the same situation where you're hanging all your hopes on that one player. At the twilight zone of his sort of career, it's at the end of his career, the sunset, not the twilight zone. That was that strange thing with the music which he used to go on and that. I'm just having that type of time. The sun is setting on his career, I suppose. If he goes over there, I'm fine with it. I'm not bothered at all now because I think you want the next Wayne Rooney, don't you? If he comes back one day as a coach, because I think he'd make a brilliant coach, he's obviously still got the passion for it. He obviously still loves football, but one thing was always in my mind. Man United don't necessarily let great players go in their prime, obviously unless you're Ronaldo. But they sort of try to avoid that. So I think he's at the end part of his career. He's come back here and the fairy tale never happened, if anything, the nightmare occurred. I think he's had a good season. I think he played some great football, especially when he was playing the deeper role. I watched some decent football when he was playing that role. But with him going, I'm not really that bothered to be honest with you. There you go. What more can you say Keith? Nothing. I think I'm done. I'm just watching a drone go past the window. It is a little bit unsettling, but interesting as well. Thanks for watching Sophie TV.