 Welcome to ToffeeTV, it is the match previewing FA Cup third round time against Lincoln City. This video is sponsored by the One Football app. One Football app makes it easy to keep up to date with transfer news, scores and stats in one place. To download the One Football app, click the link in the description. FA Cup time. Ooh, I'm dead excited. I'm not one bit excited by this game of football. Hoorah. That's got nothing to do with Lincoln City. No, it's not bad. It's not. This is three hours there. I could be playing Red Dead. Do you know what I'm saying? That's it. Once you're taking it away from Red Dead, I know the feeling, mate. I'm the only thing I need to get back to Arthur. That's all I'm thinking right now. That's what I'm saying to you. In fact, as I look at you, you are dressed in a cowboy outfit. I'm wondering, mate, I'm so warm. I'm wondering why. I'm saying I like have a crib at all. Okay, okay. Anyway. Yeah, I'm trying to, I was going to give you 25 cents to give me a bath. No. What did they call it? A luxury bath? A luxury bath. Yeah. She scrubs his leg inside. So this game keeps taking me away. But no, listen, listen. It's the FA Cup. It's the land of milk and honey and dreams. Dreams do come true, like Gabrielle said. She did say that. She did say that. It's about time this football club made a few of our fans' dreams come true, starting on Saturday against Lincoln City. The imps. The weirdest badge ever. The weirdest imp ever. Look at him. He's an angry imp. He's weird, isn't he? He's an angry imp. Yeah, it's, you know, a welcome break from the monotomy of the Premier League at the moment for us because we're having a bad time. I suppose on Lincoln's point of view, it's a great time to play for us because we're not, we've got no confidence in team. The players look like they're running on empty. And I should have mentioned they bring in more eight hours and they must have something out there to move me seat. Yeah, that's right. So, I'm back down in the, I'm still in the bullions, but I'm in the corner, by glad to see. So, you know, they're going to come and make loads of noise. They're flying to the good side in their division, they're doing really well. So it's going to be a tough, tough game for us and we're not playing well. So, no. I suppose what this game does, it's one of those games where you've just got to dig in, show your Premier League class. And I think that's exactly what we need in the Premier League. And I think we need to start out here on Saturday. Again, when you know the opposition, listen, these are top of the league too. They're coming with all the confidence in the wheel. As you just said, the fans will be bouncing, they're all, you know. They'll have inflatable limbs. We walked all week and couldn't get them unless someone, we said at the time, someone needs to get inflatable limbs. They'll be coming flying and they'll, you know, they'll make you very uncomfortable for us. But I think this is exactly what we need in terms of a game to show a certain type of performance. Because I honestly believe that in a few of our last games, if we just rolled up our sleeves and dug in and just played basic football and gone, you know what, we're a better team than you. We'll match you for work, right? We'll match you for fight. We'll match you for desire. All the things that these Lincoln players will bring, I think that's what we've been missing out of our game. I think far too much in the Premier League is made of tactics and formations and I know the rest of it where there's just some good, honest, hard work where players just go, I'm going to win my battle today. I'm up against you and I'm winning my battle. And he's winning his battle and he's winning his battle and far too many times in the last month players have just not won their battle. So we end up going, you end up going, he was cracked today, he was cracked today, he was cracked today, he was cracked today and you have four, five, six players just completely off it. You never win games of football like that. You win games of football if everybody's at it, that you can walk off the pitch and go, did my job today. What, wasn't brilliant, wasn't spectacular, I just did my job and it meant that he couldn't do it. And that's what we'll need on Saturday and I think if we can do that on Saturday and go, to take that into the next game, let's take that into the next game, I think that's what'll win us more football games or just get us out of this little bit of a rut that we're in. Yeah, you've always got to match the opposition. We haven't done it enough. That's how, that's how Leicester beat us the other day, they just dug in when you needed to. Brighton did, they made sure they won the battles and we were below par in both. And we can't afford to be below par at the weekend because then we will, there will be a banana skin for us. They'll come for the day out to enjoy your football, so I think they've got a chance and they have got a chance, they have to come. So we have to go out, show them maximum respect and see if they're playing Manchester City or something like that and roll our sleeves up and go, yeah, yeah, for the fight here. You're not going to come and out fight us, do you know what I mean? At our own play, you know, it's not going to happen and then our quality will show through. If we allow them to out fight us and out scrap us, then we may have a little bit of a problem, you know. We've seen, we played in the Carabao Cup area in the season, we had to roll up our sleeves and rather than come and show them, you know, and when we did do that, we stepped away from them, but if you don't do it, you can be caught out in everything. Listen, the players have got a point to prove here because it hasn't been good enough of Leight, it hasn't been good enough, the manager's got a point to prove, the manager's got to start getting a consistent run of results, you know, we've got it and it's started the weekend, we've almost, you know, we started the new year in a typical event and the fashion of disappointing everybody and we have to roll our sleeves up now and almost press the reset button again and go, right, this is where we've reached that, we've reached that and we've had a bad month of December, we took it into January, the first game, this is our opportunity, last year we felt it, we played Liverpool and we were out, you know, the Friday night we were gone, we were in third and it was done, but the league is the best we can outfall now, seventh and it's going to be difficult but in the scrap to get that, this is something, this is a welcome distraction, this can keep your season taking over, the FA Cup, you know, if you could beat Lincoln and we might get another decent home draw and then all of a sudden you're in the fifth round and things start, you start looking at Wembley then and things like that, we've got players who, if they're at their level, everything could win this FA Cup with some of the players we've got, yes, we've made a bit of luck and everything else, but we've got players who, we've got the semi-finals before but when we haven't got a squad anywhere near as talented as this, so, but what those other squads had was a bit of desire and a bit of devil and a bit of fight and that's, these are going to dig in when you need to, isn't it, it's digging in when you need to and there'll be players that come in the team, I imagine Saturday, a few more squad players, quick points to prove, surely? That's not a problem, you know, Willie changed the goalkeeper, probably, I hope he doesn't, because I just don't see the point in it, I really don't, but then you can bring the likes of Bane's in, maybe Jags in, you know, John Joe can continue it right back, Jerry Mina, you know, Tom Davis will come in morning, Tom I imagine will come in, maybe Domin, maybe Domin Towson in the front, might, might be Addison's way to go into it, maybe more 4-4-2, you know, obviously it depends what, what Lincoln line up with, but it doesn't really matter though, does it? No, I'm saying, but that's what football managers do, they look and go, hold it, I just play 4-4-2, I play Bernard once side, hopefully Luckman, hopefully Luckman the other side, I'd have Calvert looking at Towson through the middle, and then I'd have the likes of Attialus and Luka D, Walthcott on the bench if needed, and then go out and match them, you know, middle of the park, I've changed McCarthy and Tom Davis, two of that, two of that, we will scrap the fight, but I've got that little bit of quality, and let's, let's get the ball down, and let's, and you know, let's get closer. Don't get me wrong, I'm not an advocate for loads of changes, I just think for this game, just, I think changes might be necessary just to bring that sort of side of things out in a few, you know, from a few players, I think it's important, maybe like, so Jags and Bains coming to the side, just to, just to give, as I said, that other side of things. I think it's also Richard Mentley, the likes of Michael Key, Kear, Truman, you know, people like that. I think Luka D, he's played a lot of football, he's brilliant, and he's done, there's a lot of work down that left hand side. Personally, I hope he plays, but I think Bains will play, and I think it's probably like the Bains will play to home game, you know, I think, I've Luka on the bench by all means, if Bains, he's not good after an hour then switch it, but you've got to give some players a breather, you know, Gomez shouldn't be anywhere near the team, Guilfee may be on the bench, just in case you need a little bit of quality in the end. You've got to give some players a breather, you know, hopefully the lads who come in want to take it, but it's an opportunity for the likes of Bernat to stay in the, to get in, back in the team, score a goal, get his first goal for everything, you know, it's an, a hell of a living, always a threat against these teams, you know, Gentosians crying out for a goal, keep his confidence going, a chance for Luchman to come in and hopefully be able to take the game to them. So, I'd like to see, I'd like to see McCarthy play down, and that's not me clutching at straws hard, you know, you love being out what a year only, and as I say, that, that, I think, I think McCarthy managed in the right way can be a valuable asset to this squad for the rest of the season, just because I think he does bring in energies to the side, he brings, he's a player who can get round the pitch quickly, you bring, you know, he's got assets that I think that you, like we're talking about, someone who'll get in the face of the opposition, and that's what, you know, those things are, they're solely missed, there's an energy that, that is brought, and I think that's what, an energy that's been missing from the team. We've said it loads of times, haven't we? We've said it last season, funny enough we changed McCarthy, when, and the season before, I think as well, it's that, sometimes when you're in a game, and it's a bit of a lull, you just need someone to start getting in people's faces to be the example, and then the next one goes, and then the next one goes, and before you know, you've got three or four, pressin' and harrying and getting people's faces, and that can be the big difference in these games, where the real team like this come, who are obviously very confident, and I think the last three games, okay, they've won one, lost one, and it's all won, but they're still top of the lead, they've got a decent lead, this is a team that two years ago had a really good cup run, and that'll still be fresh in their minds, and their fans will want a bit more of that, and they'll be thinking, let's be honest, all their fans are thinking, we could do these, I imagine if the TV could pick a fixture this week, they'd pick this one, because they'll be thinking, all those Lincoln fans go, the Everton fans will be thinking, oh no, we don't want that this week, and they'll be thinking there's an upset there, there's an upset there. They've lost that last couple, lost three in the last four, so they should be confident, they should be thinking four of the last five, so they're looking, they could think, you know what, we get an early goal, yeah, this could be our game, you know, and the team and all the owners and Everton fans, and so there's obviously that little link there, but it's up to us to go out and put it to bed and go, nah, not today lads, you know. And I think this is a game where you see the true mentality of some players, who fancies it, who fancies playing it. Let me just ask you with the terms of the changes though, is it better not to try and keep the majority of our first team in this game, because is it, what also means, like, say we make the changes we just said, so say it's, forget the goalie, but say it's like Kenny, Mina, Jax and Bains, in general three of them won't play, and then you midfields, McCarthy, Davis, and Luchman. No, yeah, I know what you're getting at, and then we win, but that team's not going to play. No, no, I think us as fans need it. I'm not advocating for all of those players, like what I'm saying is that I do get... You could see it, I can genuinely see it for sure. We touched on this when we did the final word for the game against Leicester, it's that now, because we didn't rotate enough over Christmas, it's come to this game and you feel like we do need to make half a dozen changes, because players do need the rest, whereas maybe if some of these players have been used better over Christmas, then you go into this game thinking, oh, we could play. You need eight of them. Eight of our starting team without a problem and just make a few changes, but for me poor management, and that's what I put it down to, poor game management from the manager has led to the fact that we might have to put all that eggs in the basket for this game and go, this is the third round of the every cup, it doesn't matter how we get through, we just get through and it doesn't matter, and you say to all those players individually, aren't you, this is the carrot, right? You're not all 18, not going to be in the team, or 11 or whatever, not going to be in the team next week, but you look after your own self, you know, because this play is like, you've just mentioned, like I said, Towson, Towson should be looking at a goal, everyone's saying everything you need to strike, everything you need to strike it. He's been here, this will signify here at the club and he'll be thinking, I'm worth more, I should be doing more, everyone keeps on talking about needing a new strike here, that should be me, but if you don't go out there and score a game like this, if you're given the opportunity, then I'm sorry, or if you don't go out there and run your socks off, you know, look man, look, if look man plays in this game, you can terrify these, you should tear them to bits, absolutely tear them to bits, but not exactly the same, you know, anyone who comes in for this game, if Meena comes in, or Jags comes in, or Bayans come in, they should be like, Meena should dominate, and I think Meena should be, because you imagine a team like this, the way a lot of teams, you know, they play, not saying, listen, I'm not putting them all into the same, but you know, set pieces, they're generally, for some reason, very, very good, like people in lower leagues can take boss corners, you know, Premier League players are taking corners, that's the only thing that they work hard on. Yeah, they probably do, because there's percentages, isn't it? You know, Jags or Bayans, if they come in, if one of them comes in, if both comes in, they bring that experience, if Tom comes in, let's see what you've got, you've been out the team, let's see, why haven't you played up more over this? You've got an answer, yeah. McCarthy the same, anyone who comes to this team, I want to see the right attitude, the right attitude that gets us through, and then you see the wrong attitude, and you go, well, maybe you're not there, you're not out for us, but I'll tell you what, I'm not taking this game lightly by any stretch of the imagination, because I think these know exactly, I don't think they are coming for the day out, they'll come, and let's be honest, they'll bear me out for most of the game, because lower league teams have the worst set of songs ever in the history. Oh, but unless they've tried it, unless they were still doing your shit, I wouldn't even take it. Well, they would also sing in your, where do you sing? Champions of England, you'll never sing that, but lower league teams have the worst set of songs ever, they just literally, it's like a playbook from the 70s and 80s, they're just horrendous, horrendous songs, so please don't do that, because what should they sing? Just sing normal football songs, just don't bear me out with anything that criticises this city, or just like, oh, you know what I'm talking about? Yeah. Well, listen, how about our fans are singing then as well? Yeah, that's another discussion that I can't really talk about on it. Not the singer of the fans, just cup randoms. Cup randoms. But I'm going to be a cup random, because I know what I am, because I've been moved, haven't I? Cup randoms, mate. I just think, I think for us, we've got to match everything they can be, because they, when I say they out, I don't mean it, like, they just come, they don't care, they lose 11-0. What I mean is, they're coming through the ground, he doesn't go through, no pressure, we can have a right to go on and see what happens, and the fans don't go to places like Gouldersen every week, of course, they don't at the moment, so they can come to Gouldersen, enjoy the trip, enjoy being an FA Cup thing. You're absolutely right, if the TV could go, we'll just pick a random game this weekend to put on, this will be the one I'll put on, because this will be the one that could be the shock of the day, you've ever known, haven't you? We've got to go out, like I said before, this is Manchester City, or Liverpool, that's what we've got to treat it as a home game, against the big side, get on, get the attitude right. If Everton come out, and Ararith in the first whistle, and a good high tempo, Everton could have this Cup title shown up after it. She and her family last week, we went out and done the job by 20 past three, the game's over, but if we come out, like we have been the last few games, and it's flattened, it's quiet, and it's slow, and we play into their hands, it'll be a difficult afternoon, and what we need as fans is, we need a response, we need a see, we need a home win, just to get everyone going, because we've all forgotten what it's like, it's been a month since we've won our home, a bit longer, so we've forgot that, we need a win to go, you know what, right, that's it, we've got our win now, let's move on from that. Gouldersen was a very difficult place to get a result to, you know, but the last couple of weeks we've lost the last two home games, so it's all of a sudden it's uncomfortable, it's not being funny if it becomes three in a row, then there'll be more than knives out for silver, they will, because this will just highlight this kind of game, you see this all the time in football, where someone's gone through a little bad spell, and then you get a game like this, and it's, it amplifies you, that's what it does, it's mad if we won 5-0, people will just, you know, will be expecting it, but if we get beat it, it'll be like he's got to go, it's mad isn't it, because no one will say he's got to stay, that's football, isn't it, that is football, it's a, but to know, it's a, you know, it's a, you don't, look, it's not a knowing situation, because if you win you've won, so it's a situation that you've won it, but these are the games where you just got to be professional, and that's what I want to start seeing from Everton, is the ability to roll up the sleeves and go, because that's what all the best teams do, they just roll up the sleeves and go, we're getting through this little sticky period, and we're going to win because we're going to match it for everything you've got, and we haven't done that enough for me, and I think that's it, that's it straight, that, good squad doesn't go, well, that's an evidence does it, no, so far, not all the ability in the world, you can be skillful and, you know, good technical players and might, but if you haven't got the ability to mix it, then you've done it. And sadly, that's something that's been missing from Everton for, for a while, for a while, sincerely, since David Moyes left, it's that ability to just roll up your sleeves, get through a game, grind it out, and we need to see more of that, because that's what get, that's what the best teams have, that's what get you 10 games, 10 wins a season, stay to the right, for me, it's, the best teams, you look at the best teams, they're not always winning five nil every game, it's, they have to go away and win one nil and two won, and, and, and battle and, and go on, or I might be a, have an element to control in a game, but you still have to roll your sleeves, and we've, we've been weak of Leighton, mentally weak teams, generally the ones who were, they were knocked out cups, because that's where the upset comes from, so we'll have to make sure that this weekend we're right on it, diesel composing a different set of, of questions for us, and we've got to find answers, and we haven't been able to find them of Leighton, it starts now really for, for the second half of the season. Keep the season going, got it. Keep it going, otherwise, I've said it before, everything just drops off, fans become less interested in what's going on, and everything starts becoming a little bit samey samey, and that's, that'll be, it's a long, it's a long way to, it's a long way to me, you know, I haven't even checked on google maps, to be honest, something probably should, should do just to show you know, but let's get, let's just win, get through, and move on, move forward hopefully, you know, safe journey, an enjoyable day for Lincoln, without the results hopefully, from our perspective, but it's, you know, we've got to turn up for a performance, and get a result, and make sure our names in the half of the next round, and try to build from here, and see where we end up. Indeed. Let us know you thought it's going to be a bit of a tricky one, let's not make it a tricky one, let's not. 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