 Welcome to Toffy TV, it is the Everton women's show I am joined by Kyra, once again to look back, we've only got one game to talk about, we will talk about what happened but this week's fix a bit later on but last week Everton played Manchester United at Walton Hall Park, a great opportunity to show what they're all about and show that they're a team that should be fighting for a European place but we jinxed it. We really did, obviously I thought we had it in us to do it to beat them and it was our opportunity to show what we are made of and that we can beat a topside like Man United and unfortunately we fell under the pressure but it was a disappointing game. Yeah, it was quite flat wasn't it, I had seen it, it just seemed like quite a flat game and of course Kyra Parris who we spoke about in the preview, come back to Haunters, obviously she was played for Everton when she was younger and there was different things about her not wanting to win Everton Shea because she was Liverpool fan and ironically now she plays for Manchester United and she came back to Haunters and we mentioned it last week if there was someone we didn't want to score and the danger was there. She got the goal after 13 minutes? Yeah unfortunately she did and being a former Evertonian as well, Everton player hurt even more to be honest but it was a mistake by our goalkeeper in defence but the way that we were set up to play we had two in midfield against Manchester United having free in midfield and our midfield really struggled obviously we started Claire Wheeler who's only on a six month loan with us she hasn't started many games and to start and play it all the way through. Against the top team like Manchester United I thought was unfair and obviously Manchester United have got their captain Katie Zelman in midfield and it's not like she's not known for being a good player because she's an exceptional player so why would you put one of our obviously in the nicest way possible weakest midfielders up against someone as strong as her? Only the manager can tell us but are you right though cos when you're playing a team we were obviously in great form Manchester United have been brilliant all season and now taking 15 points out of the six games now it is those little things you've got to be a full cent if you're going to beat them but I was watching the game and I thought back to something you'd said the week before and this was after a win you actually said this, this was after Villa you said. I was talking about the passing round at the back and I was watching the game and it did frustrate me cos number one it reminded me so much of the men's team doing exactly the same team and we've seen that the weekend just gone but there was, there was a lot of passing round at the back and it was at such a slow tempo that it didn't actually go anyway and then a lot of Manchester United players to really press high and you know we saw her in the second half. Everton didn't really create that many chances and I don't think Manchester United overly created too many chances but it just seemed that all they had to do was sit on the back three, wait for them to lose the ball getting it into midfield and they would be on it and it would give them opportunities and the goals they scored in the second half I just thought were really, really poor really cos it's annoying sometimes you have a game where you're really having a go and it's end to end but it didn't feel like that to me. Well obviously the setup of the players as well was completely different from what we usually play obviously Gabby George has been playing left wing back, we've moved it to right wing back and brought Lucy Graham on as left wing back, the substitutions didn't help us at all, we brought on our best midfielder in Izzy Christiansen to play on the wing which I thought was one of the most stupidest ideas I've ever seen but obviously they had the goals, they were soft goals and Mary Epps had so many comfortable saves just to make it. It was easy for the man United, our defence struggled really because the midfield was so open, I think that's why we conceded the three goals. Yeah I think the one, I think it was the third goal, the one that was killed then it was just, they were allowed to just play without anybody going to press them and really get, that's what annoyed me from watching the game was how slow it was. And it just felt like, because sometimes when you're at a match, you've been to Walton O Park and it's a nice little ground and you get this when you're obviously good at this one as well, there's an energy in both the fans and the players feed off each other and I just felt thought the whole, and I don't know whether it was because there was an early goal but the whole thing just felt really really flat all the way through it and the pitch looked really dry as well so the ball wasn't moving and it just, the whole just sort of fed into helping Manchester United and because they've got better players, you need the same level of energy and I think you need this at any level of football and I just didn't think that, I just didn't think they had it in that game. No, obviously man United bring quite a lot of fans with them as it isn't too far and they created lots of noise and lots of atmosphere for their team and we sold out Walton O Park again and beat the record but as you said after that first goal it just went silent. I think we knew what was coming because it was really slow and it was just disappointing. Yeah, Everton ended up having three shots on target but Manchester United have five and obviously three of them going the back of the net but they had a bit more tempo about them and they were just waiting to pick the Everton players off and they've ended up doing it and again it's one of those games isn't it? We saw this against Chelsea, I mean Everton have dropped a seventh now but it's just another one of those games where very much like Chelsea at home you've got an opportunity to almost make a statement and it's a little bit flat and again this is too reminiscent of the men's team. It's like when you get a chance to have a real goal and you're in some kind of decent form it just seems to be a little bit too far for them. Yeah, it seemed like they really did struggle and obviously with the substitutions that we made we made all our possible substitutions and our best player was Catrin Veier and unfortunately she got injured and then we were down to 10 players which really didn't help us. So a disappointing result, you couldn't get in last week because of working so hard with your studies to preview the Tottenham game but in the end you didn't have to do it because the game was called off of course and causing a lot of anger amongst fans because of the lightness of it being kicked off. I know, the kickoff was two o'clock yesterday and unfortunately two hours before the kickoff we got a message to you to say it had been postponed due to what a log pitch. Now I've seen a few tweets from players as well and professionals who were in the game saying just how poor this is it's supposed to be professionally and pitches are getting waterlogged which does happen. Well calling a game off two hours before you're trying to make the game bigger you're trying to make it better. Everton fans have actually travelled to London for this game as well and to call it off two hours before just sort of showed a real lack of professionalism. It really did obviously, I know I've seen on Twitter I'm devastated for the Everton fans that travelled because there was fans from Sweden that had come to watch the Swedish players and then they got there and it had been postponed. Obviously the supporters club had come down as well to support them. It's sad really that as the women's game has grown this is still happening and I know that Tottenham played it late in Orient which is obviously games in that league get cancelled for what a lot of pitches isn't rare. I think in a way it's more to do with the bigger picture because I don't know whether you've seen this story but Luton town women were supposed to play yesterday and the game was called off because the men had a training session on it. Two minutes before they were supposed to come. Two minutes before it was postponed because the men had a training session on Monday and to me that exemplified what again is going wrong in women's football in terms of getting the balance. Spears playing at like 9s great but if they're then at the mercy of another club's football team and Grand I think this is what's got to be sorted out because if you're going to take it seriously you're not going to be playing at your Grand every week at your men's Grand. More and more clubs need to start investing. They really do. In their own Grand. Yeah it's a shame really because obviously we are the elite league in English women's football and you'd expect such a high standard from that. I understand why the players were so angry because they prepared for the game obviously after the defeat and wanted to prove themselves and then get there for two hours later for it to be postponed. And not only the elite league obviously here but the elite league in the wealth. That's what they're trying to look at themselves at. Obviously you've got the Champions League and stuff but the WSL is trying to show that and I think a lot more teams need to start. And this is what we spoke about loads what they said about kick off times and making it so that the men's game and the women's game are not going to clash. But it's funny isn't it because you mentioned that then and I think Chelsea and Everton are two of the only teams to have their own Grands. And we were talking a couple of weeks ago off camera about Chelsea about their Grand and how the under 21s played there and how their junior ranks and how they're using that Grand for all of their levels where there'd be men and for the women's team. Now Everton this week are going to play two men's under 21 game after women's ground. Now some people might look at that and say well it's the women's ground it should only be the women. But I think it's really important that Everton under 21s and maybe under 18s do use Baltimore Park. Because I think that's an example to other clubs of how you can have a second stadium and how you can make it worthwhile and why it's worth investing in either buying. Because in London there's loads of old grounds knocking about so it shows to me that you can make an investment in a ground and use it not only for your women's team both for your under 21s and for your under 18s. No it's really really good to see obviously what an old park is such a good ground to have as your second ground obviously for the women and it's such good facilities and everything. I think it is an amazing idea to have the under 21s play especially with us winning so many games in that league as well so I think it would attract more fans as well. The playing PSG on Wednesday and there's a little room in Bap A's brother is playing for PSG so that would be really exciting. What I like about that is if the under 21s are playing it or do you start to play it we don't know whether it will happen more and more. But then the facilities can be made better for the women as well because again this is something we spoke about a couple weeks ago almost like for shadow when this was. Barcelona when they built their ground, their second ground they put facilities in for men and women and I'd love to see that at Wampano Park wherever maybe knock down or add to the existence stand and put in state of the art facilities for the women and separate area for the men's teams as well so that you know they've got nice changing rooms and play a specific changing rooms. And really invest in that ground and I think that's how we go forward and that's how I think other clubs can go forward so we don't get these situations where women's games are being cancelled. Yeah but we do need to build up Wampano Park obviously loads of investments gone into it and we've got that one stand that I think it would be good to see if it was built up and like I know someone said the other day why don't we take down the God district right brick and build it back up there but I think a better stand would be good. That's not a bad idea, that use some of the parts out of Goddison and stick them in Wampano Park. I mean I know there is, they've got limited room there but yeah I mean maybe standing in three sides of it which are open during the winters and off the greatest things especially when Wampano Park is quite open and quite windy but yeah I haven't now playing a couple of games there as well so make sure, good opportunity to get down as well if you have another opportunity, you'll go into these games, it's just like waltano park, you just go, just hang around waiting for the game to come. So if you haven't been this is a really good opportunity and maybe you go well maybe now I know where it is I can go down and watch some of the women's games because the next home game we're not going to preview it right now, we'll get Kira back in. But it's on the 19th so week on Saturday, three o'clock kick off, there's no evident game because obviously that's when the break starts but that's a really good opportunity for people to go down if they want to watch a game at three o'clock and start the afternoon. It's not sold out yet either so there are still tickets available but yeah it's obviously against Man City who are one of the top teams in our league and there will be such a good team to go and watch as well as well as obviously supporting Everton. So if you need your footy fix and you haven't been down to watch the women's game and you think right this is my opportunity, there's no football on, there'll be no football on that day, the world cup starts the next day. So that's your opportunity to get down to waltano park to watch Everton women's play or maybe go this week to watch 121s and go I like this. Kira's running around taking pictures of everybody and getting selfie and you'll be able to get loads of selfies with loads of like Paris Saint-Germain players as well and Everton players, not only the women's game. So make sure you check them out, all the details on the Everton website, make sure you check out Kira as well on Twitter, it's KiraNox06. She's putting all her stuff on there, what she does for the women's game, her blogs and her other videos and stuff and make sure to check them out as well. So there you go, thank you for watching and we'll see you soon.