 Welcome to Toffy TV. I am joined by John Blay. We're going to just have a quick chat about the Fixie List before we do this video is sponsored by One Football, the app that keeps you up to date with the latest stats, scores and transfer rumours and also Fixies like today. To download the One Football, I'll click the link in the description. John, Fixies have been announced. What's your initial thoughts on Everton Start? It looks a good one. I'm just looking at it here. Palace away. That's a hell of a miserable place to get to. I remember a number of years ago, the last time Norwich were in the league, I think we played Norwich the first game of the season away and we flew back from holiday and it's a nightmare. That's probably as difficult to get to. But yeah, that's a decent start. At least we didn't get a promoter team first day up. I wouldn't have minded Norwich. I mean Liverpool got given that. I wouldn't have minded Norwich your own faith. It's just a coronation for the Champions League thing. Most people, I guess, will look at that and think we get less than nine points. We'll be disappointed. Out of the opening four. I mean they're all tricky in their own way, but they're all very winnable as well. Totally. I mean it wouldn't surprise me if we got 12. There'll be Everton fans out there saying that it would surprise me if we got three or six or whatever. But yeah, I mean Palace Away, you know, it's a good atmosphere there. But I mean we've done them recently and we'll do them again. Watford, we should beat Watford. Villa, I mean they've come up the hard way and don't know what's going to happen with their ability to lose £50m a year and how that fits with whether they're going to get punished or not. And then we'll find out whether Wolves have got the death to be able to do it now everyone knows them. So I think that on paper the hardest game there is the last one and it's at home. Yeah, I mean I've looked at it. Watford are all good because they're a big strong shot. The Silver Dabby, you might say for some reason like to Chris, isn't it? Is it really? Weird. I mean Palace Away, you know, we were there in April and we drew nil nil, but we should have beat them, you know, and they're not. In fact the last time we played Palace on the opening day they beat us at Goddison Lombardo in 97. We got beat three won, yeah. One of those, Tony Thomas' debut. I think Slav and Billets go the goal at nil nil got this lad off the floor. Got a job now. Got a job, hasn't he, Billets? Big Slav, has he? Where's he gone? He's gone to West Brom, hasn't he? Has he? Haven't they announced that today? Maybe they have. Sorry, Peter. I haven't looked at West Brom, but I think he's got the West Brom job, I think. If they have, that's a good move. I think he's a decent manager. But you're right, it's a start that you look at and you think we can get off to a good start. Obviously, if there's a break then the international break, we come back with a way out of me, and then we've got two home games born with a man's city. The games up to city all look, you know... Winnable. Yeah, I'm just going to avoid that. They are winnable, whether or not. All games are winnable. Of course, but you look at them. The so-called big team doesn't arrive till city, does it? And then, what about December? December. They've done it again to us, haven't they? And then in February, Mark. I mean, what do you... It can't be random, it's as simple as that. It panned out though last season, it worked out okay for us at home. The second group it did. You know, but the first group knocked us, didn't it? Knocked us with six, really. They've learnt from that last year. I mean, I look at, you know what? You look at it and you go, oh my God, look at them games. But then, if you take a step back, Liverpool will be always hard, no matter what, no matter where we are or they are, it's always going to be a tough game. But I look at this moment before anyone signed anyone. I look at Arsenal and Chelsea and United and just go, two of those games are at home. We beat Arsenal and Chelsea at home last season. They're games that we can win again. I expect us to be stronger. They'll probably be stronger as well, although depending on what happens with Chelsea's ban, we don't know. And then United could be one of two ways. I think it worked for us last season in the second batch of games. That we got on that little bit of a run and the belief was there. So then big games came, everyone was up for it ready. And we got some positive results. So there's no reason why you couldn't go into them game. Who knows where we'll be when we play them? Well, the thing is, of course, that having done it, beating those two, particularly at home, and had, apart from Spurs, of course, and broadly, even though, you know, when we had the away sort of series of them, they were all reasonably close games. There was some bad fortune in some of them and a better look for the opposite and so on. So they should come through that thinking, well, you know, we have to do that again. We know we can beat them at home for sure. So this season's objective is to beat them away. Yeah, that's the challenge. Blue's being blue. His expectation now is that we've beaten them at home. We should do it again. But haven't we got to beat one of these two? It's been a long time since we've, you know, it was two and a half years since we've beaten any of the top six at home. And Michael Silver put that right last season. Do that, beating them away from home against the universe's most magnificent team, that would be best. I mean, yeah, I mean, it's about time we beat Liverpool, isn't it? Let's be honest, but it's about time, it's definitely about time we beat them away. But it's about time we beat them at home as well. So I still think, as is Everton's way, or fans' way, optimism at this, if you'll be optimistic now, people, then, you know. You're never going to be. But I think if you look at it, and we do it in Everton, we look at who the first game is, and you look at, say, a New Year's Day, which is interesting, or Boxing Day. Boxing Day is at home and all that sort of stuff. But I mean, the way they fall is OK. And that's second round of the so-called big teams is after the winter break. So again, they can't say it's... Tiredness. Tiredness and all that. Of course it'll be a winter break for them as well. But those so-called big teams are the ones more likely to go off and try and do a lucrative friendly somewhere, aren't they? Well, we've also, with that, means that the running isn't as difficult as what it was. I was going to say it's done earlier. It's a little bit of a month or two earlier, isn't it? Six weeks earlier. If we get a bit of momentum again, then go on. But you need to do... I mean, this is like a preview of the fixtures, isn't it, in the sense that... I guess you guys need to do a preview of the season. I think, well, what is a reasonable expectation? I mean, there'll be people out there going, oh well, wolves will be great. But they've got Europe to contend with. And where do we think? People have asked us on the live shows, and have asked us what my thoughts are for this season, and whatever. And I honestly believe Everton are capable of finishing anywhere between fourth and eighth. That's what I believe. And I think, because at this moment, United haven't signed anybody, that makes me go, we've got no chance of catching them. And I've got £40 million to spend, which isn't the hell of a lot of money. Chelsea, we don't know. Chelsea is a fluctuate month. Wolves, you've just said, they've got the extra complication of... Well, there's two things for wolves. Second season, syndrome, can they do it again? Was last season a fluke, or are they genuinely a good enough team to be in that top seven, eight? We'll find out this year. And lone players become impermanent. You've got them back there, and you've also got the European factor. Lester, I think, Lester have got five of the top six in the first seven games. Yeah, they've got what we've got. So it's a tough start for them. But they'll be a no-good team. So I honestly believe, Everton, at this moment in time, if we can be smart in the transfer window, which we're trying to be, then I don't see any reason why we can't push to be higher. I think the issue for the league itself is, I mean, clearly when Mishiri turned up, the aspirations for us was to break into, make that so-called big six or big seven type of thing. But it's closer now to being a big four than it is a big six. Yeah. Not necessarily in resources and so on. But if United have another wobble, going through transition, might be a polite way, or Chelsea suffer because of transfer embargoes and Arsenal be as flaky as they have the potential to be, you can almost say it becomes a three, and then any one, two or three from four, five or six. But that's what I think it is. And being in that mix, I think power for us has got to be qualifying for Europe, of course. Yeah. And if you've been objective about it, qualifying for Europe through the league. So that means fifth, doesn't it? Sixth. Probably sixth in practical terms. Yeah, practical and sedent if it's like this season. Yeah, yeah. But I mean genuinely qualifying through the league. Let me ask you this. Let me ask you this just to finish fifth in the league and in Europe. Win a cup. Or eighth and win a cup. Win a cup, of course. Because I know a lot of people will judge how good your team is by how you finish and probably write your song. It's about winning things. But we do have to break this ridiculous length of time. It's about winning things. Winning domestic trophies as well. They count more. They do. Let's leave it there. Let us know what you think in the comments section below. She's got it, haven't she? Yeah. I knew I was waiting for it. I'll be honest, I was waiting for it. Let us know what you think in the comments section below. Are you happy with Everton Start? How many points can we realistically get from the opening fixes? Are you just not asked that we've got those four teams on the run in December? Are you just like bring it? In fact, we've got five in December. We've got city as well at the end of the problem. So are you just like bring it on? We can do them. 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