 Welcome to ToffeeTV, it is the Everton Women show I am joined once again by Kira, but for the first time we've had to do it on Zoom because I don't know if anyone else has realised this, but being an Evertonian is really nuts at the moment and I have been absolutely up the wall in the studio and I really really wanted to make time for Kira because Everton women have come back from the break and they have been on fire Kira. They have, they've been phenomenal the whole time. These three games we really needed to get as many points as we could and to get the maximum points out of all three games has just been crazy. I mean if you've never watched the women's before, think of the men and the exact top of everything they've done. So you mentioned the three games there, you're including the spares game obviously aren't you which I think we talked about before the break we had, we've last spoke about that. So they beat spares 3-0 away really probably one of the best performances of the season and then they got beat by Durham in the Continental Cup, no one cares, they were already out. So they've come back from the break and Sunday the 15th of January played Reading at home and got a 3-2 victory. They went 3-0 up in the game and sorry they went 2-0 up then 2-1 then 3-1 then 3-2. Quite a slight squeaky bum time at the end but what a fantastic way to come back with that win over Reading. It really was, I think the result flattered Reading a bit because we definitely deserve more goals. Don't get me wrong Reading are a good size but we really fought for them three points in that game and we definitely deserve more goals and can we just mention that Gaby George's goal from that game? No, from the nominal. We spoke about Gaby George like a little bit this season and because I'm the guy sitting on the outside who doesn't really know anything about women's football. Loads of people have told me that in the comments. That's fine. Loads of people have told me that. Gaby George who wants to centre back has been moved more to like a left wing back position and I've seen a little bit of it on Saty as well trying to grab goals against West Ham but what a goal and for that to be the winner as well that's so deserved to be the winning goal. Goal of the season that I reckon. Get the end of the season. That is not incontention. I will fume. That is one of the best goals I think I've ever seen. We also had a pretty decent goal from Jess Parker as well. She was like your standout player so far this season. That was her first goal I believe at Walton O Park as well. It's really good that she managed to get a goal in front of all the fans. She's been amazing for us this season already but she's always seemed to score away from home. We've all been gutted that we've never been able to see it. To see it in person was great. It was just a really really good finish for her. Catches Snorysh as well. She scored didn't she I think. That game and her goal was more of a team goal and you could really see it clicking in that game the team and the actual overall performance of them all working together you could really see. We hadn't really seen that before this season. We've seen it at Amfield and we've seen it in a couple other games but that it really really clicked at Redding and that goal by Catches Snorysh was really good finish as well actually. Yeah it was a good goal as you said. Team goal. Jess Park doing her thing and then it ended up with a sensational strike to get Everton over the line. As you said it probably should have been a little bit more comfortable but that's just Everton for you. We move on to this weekend. Just gone. Everton played West Ham and West Ham have been doing OK of recent. They weren't that far behind Everton. In fact they were on the same points where they did before the game. So this was a really again another really important game because again we spoke about this and without being critical because we're trying not to be critical here by the way people are watching. We're trying to be positive about the team but we're also being trying to be honest because I find I think that's really important. I always think no matter who you talk about it's really important to be honest about what's going on about that time but try and look for positives. Everton women have been getting beat consistently by the teams above them. Right that's fine. That's fine. There's a golfing class at the moment. Everton have to breach that golfing class but it's really important that Everton so that makes it really doubly important that Everton beat the teams around them. Obviously beating Redding who were on seven points and not that far away would have jumped a couple of points behind Everton if they won the game. Going in against West Ham who were on 15 points the same as Everton before the game started. It's hugely important that Everton win these games and what was great about Sunday again is straight from the start Everton were at it. They scored quite quickly again got the second one quite quickly settled everybody down and then got a third goal in the second half and it's so important and it's really nice to see Everton going up against a rival in the table and really putting them to bed early. Yeah it really was it was just I think that maybe I think that's top the Anfield performance for me this season it was just they were just incredible all of them. And obviously all three goals were really good as well and it's great to see Nico come back from injury and start that process again of recovery and playing again so well like I don't think I've seen a player come back from an ACL and start as well as she has. And now we've got back on corners and free kicks and as you've seen the first goal of that game that Karen Holmdad her header that come from the corner by Nico and Jess. It's just great to see her back as well. Yeah and then obviously Megan Finnington got a goal as well from a set piece as well good header at the far post there and it is something I've noticed in the women's game if you are good on set pieces it's so important. You know, more than the men's game I would imagine there's a there can be a difference in if you've got a player like about Megan Finnington is good in the air who looks who looks imposing. If you can get a good delivery in there and it makes a big difference and it was a she put in you know it was a really good goal just to just again I wouldn't say to settle everyone down but to go to know about over 12 after 12 minutes. I mean that's that confidence wise that can settle you down so much in a game of football anyone who's played football knows that you can be nervous. You can be a little bit tense special after last week I imagine as well with it being 3-2 for the last half an hour. You can feel those nerves you know important these games are. So to go 2-0 up after 12 minutes and really control the game against a decent team in West Ham it was huge and important. It really was. Megan was just phenomenal that whole game I think that is the best performance I've seen from a centre back ever. Men's all in football I think that is the best ever. I'm going to run it out there. So last week you said it was like the best performance, the best goal sorry ever. Now you've just said it someone's had the best comeback ever from an ACL and now you're saying it's the best centre back performance ever. These are bold words. These are bold bold statements. I know you're a lot younger than me. I'm just going to take you away for it. I can't argue with this. This is what you're saying. If you're saying that's the best centre back performance I'm going with it. Who might tell you otherwise? And who's anyone else to say otherwise? Right well then in my opinion that was the best one. Now if anyone hasn't actually seen it please go watch the game back. It's on the FA player I'm sure in this highlight so please watch Megan's performance in that game. I promise you will not be disappointed. Brilliant and also let me just say this as well. The third goal was nearly identical to Gabby Georges from last week. It was unbelievable. It was like such deja vu. The third goal gets the ball just outside the area and puts it you know smashes it in literally in the same place. So again you know confidence must be flying if they're just going to sod it. Let's just smash one in from here. Yeah I know I mentioned it I think in the last video that we needed our confidence to grow against these bigger teams. It's like they've watched the video to be honest. Listen to every word I've said. I think so. That's what I believe. Forget the haters out there. I think the plays have been won. Well hang on let me just pull you up on something then let me just pull you up on something. So if Gabby Georges is the greatest goal of all time with this one right because it's the same goal. I can't see a difference. I know. Do you know if Gabby hadn't scored last week I think that'd be goal of the season. But they've both got to be up for goal of the month. So let me I'm going to pull you I'm going to I'm going to pull you up on something in a moment. I'm just going to let you worry and tune for a moment. But this game was put back slightly wasn't it again because of the weather. So this is something I just wanted to bring up because we've spoke about this previously this season. With the game that got called off at Space and we've seen other things happen. We've seen over the weekend the Chelsea Liverpool game which water fast by the way because six minutes and it gets called off this game. Especially when it being televised as well. See that's why it was called off. That's why it was started though. That's why it was and what I I actually sat down and I watched the first six minutes of the game on the I play on BPC I play. Because I wanted to see I wanted to get a feel of what had gone on and I listened to the commentators and I listened to the people talking after the game and what I really really love. And by the way, this is what I love about the women's game as a whole. It's the honesty of people defending their game. You know whether it's whether you're watching a women's game on the pitch and seeing how honest players are and they're going for tackles and there's no diving and people just tend to bounce up and get on with things. But also how people defend their game and when you hear people literally on the TV channel saying well the reason this has been played is because we're here on TV. And I thought that's so refreshing to hear people being so critical and after the game and you know the Chelsea manager coming over and basically going this is a joke. This game should never been kicked off. The Liverpool manager saying the same thing. And I think that's such a refreshing part of the women's game is saying listen. This is a this this can't go on any longer that we're used as like you know as some kind of like weird experiment. Because like you know to be to have a game kicked off just because it's on TV. And you know anyone who's seen any of it will see that you know players were going down holding themselves when they like skidded on the on the because it looked like concrete. It really did. And then the Hays has been very vocal recently. She's come out and spoke about VAR needs to be introduced into the game. I thought that was quite funny because West Ham definitely should have had a goal on Saturday. It was well over the line. I 3-0. It was so over the line. It was unbelievable. But she's been calling for VAR. She's been caught. She's talked about this game. And it's that honesty that I really love about people defending coming together and defending the women's game together and saying this has to get better because you're trying to like you're trying to put us on this like weird pedestal of like look how amazing the women's game is. People come tuning in by the way you want to be dismissive. Definitely want to be dismissive. They switch it on and after six minutes it's called off and they go ha. That's a joke. And those people may never ever come back and watch a women's game. And that's that's where I really love the likes of Alex Jones. Alex Scottery. Defending the game really defending the game and getting stuck into the people who run it. Yeah. They really don't beat around the bush in this. Oh no. You've really got to be honest about it. And I like the fact that Emma Hayes come over and she she spoke to the crowds about what was going on. Apologize to the traveling fans as well. But yeah, I just think the people that have bought tickets to watch this game. There was a pitch inspection about two hours before kickoff. You could see it on Twitter. I don't know if anyone else has seen it and it was like loads of tweets. There was a thread going on like constant updates on this pitch and you could tell it wasn't ready to be played on and they still went ahead with it. Yeah. And there was a little bit of doubt on as we saying there was a little bit of doubt at the I won't know part. What was the pitch like? I won't know parking. Was it did it did it soften up because there's a little bit more sun on it. Did it did it look okay? Was there any kind of did it look poor in places or was it just one of those things where they just give a little bit more time to warm up and and get on with it? I think it was just one of those things where they gave it a bit more time and just got on with it really because it seemed fine to us. No one was slipping. No one was falling injured themselves. So. Well, that's I mean that's it. Isn't it because number one you've got to you've got to look after plays. You've got to look after any level. You've got to look after the health of plays and to see it was so stupid watching that game and people slipping and sliding. And like I said, you know, one of the girls went over and you know, she looked like she was playing on like old school Astro. I know. Well, like what a what like a really like pathetic thing though. That is to like go if we're going to play any more patterns. So yeah, it's made it's made a few people look stupid and it's made it's made it's made the league look a little bit stupid and that needs to be cut out because it's the wrong people to make the making look stupid anyway. So it's embarrassing. It is embarrassing. Isn't it? And it shouldn't happen. And it shouldn't happen. You know, the likes of Everton, the likes of Chelsea, you've obviously got their own pitches and obviously Man City's is amazing. You know, you don't have to look at that. You know, when they were playing Villa at the weekend and I switched it over and I was just looking at the ground thinking, God, look at the difference. Don't get me wrong. Everton looks great by the way. I really like Walton or Park when you see the difference, but they have to get their heads together and they have to get if they can afford to get under soil heating. Or I'll be honest, right? This might be a conservation thing, but I think maybe some of them should go and get 4G pitches. And by the way, I think that about a lot of lower division teams in men's side as well. Because if you have to play on pitches and you haven't got the money to have perfect pitches every week, then just go and get a 4G pitch. Because they're using them all over the world now at the highest level. We've even had them in the men's champions league. Go and get 4G so you can play every single week and there's no issue. I know a lot of people will say that's wrong, but that's my opinion in general. I think lower league teams should have them. Because if you're playing them, it should never have games getting called off. It's not fair on people travelling. No, it's really not. Especially when we had, as you mentioned, the Tottenham game that we had away. And it was literally cancelled maybe half an hour before kickoff. And I know there was fans that travelled from Sweden to watch the Swedish girls playing. They'd come in for that and then for it to be cancelled that late on. It's embarrassing for the league. It shouldn't be happening. If you're going to do a pitch, you should do it properly. Yeah, and as I said, if you know what the temperatures are going to be, don't mess about. If you know that the pitch is frozen, then call it off the next day. Call it off the day before. That moves us on. And this is the thing I wanted to say. This is the thing I wanted you worrying about and stewing about. It is right. So we had a chat about the chance for a window. And the one thing, as you said, you were really worried about goals. Nine goals in the last three games, Kira. I put it to you that you may be wrong on goals. What's going on? If they need goals, why have they just scored nine goals in the last three games? I apologise, people. I apologise. No, it seems they seem to really click down. But yeah, it seems to really, really click now. And I'm going to look stupid. Kira, I have been doing this for 12 years. I look stupid all the time. That's just life, honestly. You get used to it. You will say things, and then they will do the complete opposite, just to spite you, because they've been watching the videos, I think. Yeah, probably. But we've still got Jess Park, and we've got Katya Snosh, and who else have we got? Everyone's been scoring very lightly, Sam. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, obviously. Gabby George got one. They're all smashing them in from all angles, aren't they? Yeah. You know, as I said, three-nil win, a three-two victory, a three-nil against Spares, okay, they've got two against Manchester United, they've got three against Sheffield United. So just in the last few weeks, it just does seem to have clicked a little bit, doesn't it? It seems to be... Yeah. They just seem to be putting them in, and obviously, you mentioned there, Gio's obviously gone back to Arsenal, and she was maybe looked at being someone for the second half of the season, but just in terms of the... So tell us when the transfer window shuts for the women's. I'm pretty sure it's the same day as men's, to be honest. Okay. So what do these... Do you think they still need goals, because they've not been in the transfer market? There's a lot of money. There certainly doesn't seem to be a lot of money for the men's team, but so what do you still think there's parts of the squad that need strengthening? I still definitely think forward. Obviously now Gio's gone back, I'd like to find a replacement for her. Yeah. But we've brought back Sierra Home Guard, who's coming home guard to Twins, so that's been confusing, from a six-month loan at an obvious club, which I can't pronounce the name of, and I'm not even going to try. No, don't even bother. And Clare Wheeler, who's the midfielder we had on loan, she signed a permanent two-and-a-half-year contract with us now. But yeah, I'm definitely thinking forward, especially a winger, because Katju Snowys has come on loads in these past couple of games. I think the West Ham was her best performance in the Neverton shirt so far. I'd see her getting in so much confidence and getting more goals. I think that's really important for us as a team. Yeah, and maybe the break has been the thing that has just given them a little bit more of a rest, get some confidence going, give the manager, who seems to be Brian Solanson, seems to be really switched on. This doesn't seem to be, like we said loads of times, there's no drama this year. No. There's no drama. It's all settled down. The playing, obviously, Walt No Park weekend and week out with crowds, which are turning up and that, you know, brilliantly getting sellouts after right in centre. And the group just seems to have settled down loads and I think that's so important. And the group, like, we said it on the last couple of videos, I think it can be annoying when you are watching a particular style of play and it's not necessarily working, it's not necessarily clicking. But sometimes you have to go through tough times to get to those good times. I've been saying that for 27 years. But sometimes you have to go through, you have to go through all the tough games and you have to get, you get beat by all the top sides. But like I said before, they continue to beat the teams around them. And at West Ham, obviously, beat them early on in the season, you know, the first away game, I think it was. But most of the time, they've gone and beaten the teams around them. And I think that's so important. And hopefully, as we go into the second half of the season and go back up against those tough sides, something that, you know, will continue, it will continue to grow. And there's more opportunities, maybe to beat those sides. Yeah, I really hope so. It's been a massive improvement from last season, obviously, with where we were. And beating those teams around us is so, so important, like you said. Because it moves us up in the table with 5th now, with 5 points behind Van City, which is huge for us. I know we've got many, like, away coming up soon. So that would be an important game for us. Even if we got a draw, I think that would be quite a positive result for us. We've got Villa at home. We've got Liverpool at home. Those are teams we can beat and the teams that are near us are below us, really, that we do need to be beaten. Yeah, 5th in the table and doing really well. And obviously, having a couple of games back to back at home has been really, really good as well. And obviously, that continues this Sunday with Everton playing, Birmingham City in the Women's FA Cup, Birmingham City who are in the WSL 2, currently 5th in the table with 19 points. Good opportunity to get a third straight win at home and obviously, you know, just a brilliant opportunity again to progress in the FA Cup as well. Yeah, it really is. Obviously Birmingham were away in the WSL last season. They got relegated, unfortunately. But they are a good side, but I'm pretty sure we'll beat them and hopefully we will progress into the further stages of the FA Cup. But to get off the consecutive home win would be massive for us. In the west, how much of the consecutive win in the season? That's not happening since October 2020 when we had that incredible season. So to see those results and stats coming back, it is really important. But yeah, I think a big win again in the FA Cup would be really good for us. Yeah, I mean, obviously, Everton got to a cup final. What was it? Was it the season before last? Because I'm trying to think because I know that the women's cup finals have been all over the place, haven't they, in the last couple of years? Because of COVID. So it was, yeah, they got beat 2-1, didn't they? So got really, really close again, a trophy. And it would just be great. It would be great. I know it's not going to be easy because those teams are both, but it'd be great to have a real go. I know what people always say, great to have a good cup run. No, it's not good to have a good cup run. What it is good is to win a cup, right? Cup runs are rubbish. Win the trophy. So let's hope when it comes to the final on May 14th of May, Sunday the 14th of May, that Evan can possibly be there. There you go. Let's hope so anyway. Loads of positivity at the moment. Hope all the comments are positive. We aim to bring you the best possible show we can covering Evan and women's. Please be nice to us. Please be nice. Construct the criticisms fine. Just be nice to us. There you go. Keira, lovely to see you again. Hopefully we can get you back in the studio really, really soon because it's better than doing this because it's rubbish. But there you go. 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