 What are your feelings about the AR? I'm a fan of it in the decision-making side of things, because I think it's important that where the game is at now, as a spectacle, the business side of the spectacle, sorry I should say, I think it would be unfair for some decisions to go against teams if it cost them the ultimate price of possibly getting relegated or whatever that may be. The other side of me as a fan, just a football fan, obviously I'm aware it slows the game down, it makes it feel different and I think it's a fine line to get it right at the minute. I know there's a lot of noise about the obvious decision going wrong, how they can streamline it, how they can hopefully improve the senses of sitting in a room, it's different. Referees trying to ref naturally make a decision, I can only imagine, I've not done it, but would be sitting there in front of a screen and gives you that different view and maybe they almost get too analytical about it rather than going somewhat with an instinct about what they would normally on the grass without VR as the case. You know, we've seen that with ourselves. A kind of nothing instant on a keeper led to a goal of ours being disallowed and yet I was down at Forest watching them play Brentford and the keeper, Faunas-Stru on Visser I think it is, he stays on his feet, tries to score a goal and gets nothing and it's clearly a penalty and possibly a sending off in that moment. So you know, they're the things where I think we're all a bit lost in it, but overall I still think I'm a fan of it, like I say from the business point of view I must make that clear, I understand from a fan point of view, it just loses that fluidity of the fan feel of what it is. Yeah good, it's a very frustrating one. I said half towards pulling you out a little I've got. You know, because we played well, frustrating on set pieces but a very good performance, a strong performance and dominant in so many metrics after the game that is on analysis, also on your eyes in the field but you don't get a win and I'm well aware the business is about winning games and that's something I've always been actually acutely aware of even. You know, with people who have sometimes asked why you play this way, why you play that way, ultimately you've got to win football matches and that's what we're looking to do. We've delivered the performances but we've not won enough games and that's got to change, quite obviously. There was a video on social media of Donut Cavillurian and James Tarkovsky dancing with some older people but part of the Everton community and they clearly get what it is to be an Everton player. Do you feel all the players kind of buy into the club at the moment? Yeah, I think I went down to the people's place last year and you know, try and add in my little bit when I can. The players likewise and I think, you know, I'm learning all the time about the depth of the club, not just the gloss and glamour of the Premier League and the size of the club and the history but also the depth of it. Now it goes into the community and all the good work done and I think the varying groups who came up, one of them from the people's place actually and school groups who came up the other day to see the players, I think it was a good experience for the players and for them hopefully as well and just reaffirming really to the players the amount of good they can do and when they are active in the community. And on the pitch, you know, goodness and part, the home record hasn't been good. It's a weird link to our questions today. Jumping around a little bit. But yeah, since you came in, the home record hasn't been great. I think it's 30% win ratio, which is half what you were at Burnley. Why is that? And what can you do to help the fans going to help get that? Yeah, we're trying to change a two-year-old story, you know, and I think the performances have, the outcomes haven't, you know, and so I'm never shy away from outcomes. That's my big thing about whether it's on or off the pitch, you know, and I think the last thing we've got to change, I mean, there's other things, but the last big thing is taking opportunities and taking control of the games that we're dominating and the control, the best way to control it is scoring goals, of course, and keeping clean sheets and winning games. And I think it's one of them for Australian ones, as I said, we're so close, so far away, you know, to changing the story, changing the rhetoric and the noise, as I call it, you know, because the performance is there, but we've got to turn the performances into wins. And I think it's a change in a kind of two-year-old story, but it's certainly not to do with the fans. I mean, I can't think of anything better currently than the scoring at home because of the sheer fact that the fans go mad, you know, and score. It was one the other week, early season, I think Duke scored against Wolves and the roof comes off, you know, and I'm like, if there's ever a freedom to go and score any player, by the way, on the team, you know, then that's got to be a benefit, you know, and your fans give that kind of reaction, scoring goals. So I don't think it's anything to do with the fans. I think it's just taking chances, keep creating. We've got to keep doing it. We've got to keep creating and taking chances, but it's a team thing. It's not just one individual. It's a whole team, you know, that whole team element to go and take on games in order to win, working in both boxes, not just scoring either, defending well. The stats suggest we're creating a lot. The stats suggest we're low on XGs against. Like I said, there are only stats. There are only a guideline measure. I must make that clear. They don't define it. But when you get them stats right historically over a longer period, then they pay you back. But the point is, you've got to make it. You know, make it up. And I was talking to the Blades just today about that. You know, stats and facts and all the rest of it, we've got to make it up. And I think that's a big thing for me. I'm making it happen. Does Bournemouth become a must-win for you? I've heard that so many times as I'm at this club, to be honest. Every game's a must-win in my view. That's the way I like to think about football. But virtually ever since I've been here, it's been talked about. Every game's a must-win. And finally for me, there's pressure on you, there's pressure on the players. Are you feeling that at all? It's a reality of my job as a manager. I've been in it long enough now. I was a player all my life. I've been in football all my life. And I'm a manager 10, pushing 11 years. You know, going over 500 games in a week. So you want the pressure to be a different one. You want it at the top. You want it when you win in. You want the pressure to come constantly performing and winning games. Sometimes it's the reverse pressure when it's hard yards. You know, and these are hard yards. When you're looking for them results, you're looking to define the thing that is the last thing to click to make it work when you do win games. But that's part and parcel of it. I think without that, you'd be in the wrong industry if you're a football manager because that is a constant pressure in football manager and for players, but slightly different. It's a constant. So you have to get used to managing it in yourself, not just with a team and the group around you and your own way of working. And I just try and find a calmness to make sure I stay focused on the job in hand. Thanks, Sonny. We'll go to Harriet. Hi, Sean. Yeah, you mentioned there that 23 chances against Luton and the attempts on goal. Dominic Kovac-Lewan is a player that is taking his chances, scored three in the last three games. Just how impressive you've been with him and how he's returned back to fitness and being able to make an instant impact. Yeah, he's getting there to true total fitness, if you like. The closer I'd seen him or probably arguably the best I'd seen was down at Brighton last year when I thought his all-round game was excellent. He's shown signs of that recently. Scoring goals is obviously a good habit. And I think he's getting to the really end point of being totally fit, clear of mind, clear of body and doing what he does best, which is creating and scoring goals. And I think he's shown really strong signs of that. Yeah, another player who's shown strong signs at the start of the season is Branthwaite. Are you surprised that there's external kind of noise and praise from him or is it something you expected because he's had a particularly good start to the season taking the chances he's got? Yeah, someone we were monitoring last year. We were hearing good things about him. I spoke to him a couple of times briefly. Not too much depth, just a chat, really, to catch up. Made it clear that we wanted to come back in in pre-season and do what he does in front of us. Because you can only tell so much through a screen. But as I said, the stories back were very positive. He missed a bit of pre-season, which is unfortunate, to get him to real fitness. He's come in the side and he's done well. I mean, he's still got a lot to learn and I've wrenched him recently. Sorry, you know, not over-coaching, but there's some pointers that I've given him and some reminders of as he matures the centre half. And I think he's a very good player. And I think he will continue to mature as long as he keeps working hard. Yeah, finally, you've touched previously on the relentless attitude of your players. Is it difficult to find that togetherness in that mentality in the aftermath of a result that hasn't gone your way like at the weekend? Well, the challenge you had, you know, it's one-two previously and the noise is changing, you know, and the field changes very quickly and then it's a big step forward and a big step back and we've got to change that. You know, we had a very good opportunity and that's no disrespect to it. In every game in the Premier League, it's a tough game. The performance is there, the outcome's not. You know, so the story could have changed very quickly. It can again. Your next one. We've got to keep taking steps forward and we just seem to get that thing forward, back, forward, back, forward, back. Slow increments, obviously, last season, but we got there in the end to get the first big job done, which is staying in the Premier League. And then this season, you know, definitely a more consistent level of performance but not the consistent level of outcomes that we want. So reaffirming to them the goods, reminding them of the things we've got to do better and really the details amongst games that are so important. I think there's a good mindset towards it. It's just frustrating that every time we get it going and we're just on the cusp of change and all the noise and all the things you ask and then we just step back again and we've got to change that. Thank you. Just on Jarrod Branthwaite there, first of all, he seems to be enjoying his football despite the pressure. There was a tackle I think he put in against Luton and he celebrated it, which I think a lot of the fans like to see, but also there's a lot of talks today about him extending his contract. Can you give us anything further on that? Well, first of all, it's a strange thing about football celebrating a tackle. That's actually a job. It was fun. That one a bit is odd. We've got a couple of players who do that. I do remind them that's our actual job. No, I get your point. He's going along nicely, enjoying it. I do want players to enjoy it, mind you. I don't mind a human reaction as long as it's the right one. But yeah, I mean, he's going about his business in the right way at the moment, learning all the time. He's playing some good players around him. Good challenge in training by the centre forwards, particularly with Dom coming back fit and Beto, different kind of players. So that's reaffirming the work you have to do as well in training, which is always important, not just in the games. The contract then? Yeah, well, yeah. These are probably close now. We've been speaking to him for a while, like we do with all players. Keep open the lines of communication. Bournemouth have conceded 15 goals in the Premier League so far. I know we've spoken before about if Beto and Dominic will start together. Given that stat, are you looking at a more attacking lineup? The attacking side of things is pretty positive whenever you play, in the sense of if Dom's just got three and three, however many got from Christmas onwards for us last season, five maybe? A couple of this season. That's a pretty attacking lineup. We've got Dwight Moneal, we've got Jack Harrison who, Dwight started up very strong last season, Jack did as well and he's just coming back to true fitness. Then for a loner, a pretty attacking lineup, supporting that through the midfield, kind of not as freely in the sense of goals but certainly very good players. So no, I think the attacking line-up idea, if you employ which I'm not saying you are, two up front, then that's got to work. You've got two centre forwards who are predominantly played as a one centre forward team. Dom and Beto more or less played on their own up there with the supporting kind of attacking midfield player, whether you guys are number 10 or two eighths supporting that role. So it is slightly different getting two centre forwards to combine, so that does take a bit of time but I think the teams we put out are, well, like I say, I don't like trusting in stats but even I have to at some point. The XG is very very high. It's the highest it's been here for eight seasons so we've got to bear that in mind. We are creating things so it's a pretty attacking format that we try and use. In pre-season you had a really small squad just because of the number of injuries and it now feels like you're getting almost everybody back. Is this now a case of what you would have loved to have happened in the summer and worked out sort of the best starting 11 for you and your style and what you want to do but you're having to do it as well. That's the truth of the story. We couldn't get deals done in the summer quickly. I've gone through that enough time so getting the teams together late and then getting people fit late is not ideal of course. Winning games in the process of them getting truly fit makes it more challenging despite all the stats and facts and that kind of part. You want a fully fit squad and you want it as early as you can in pre-season so they can mould and learn about each other very quickly. Some of the players are literally coming back to fitness and just having to get out there and hit the ground running. We've got to make that happen quickly and gel quickly of course. It is more challenging than if you get them players in early in pre-season and they get whatever it could be two, three, four weeks together to learn about each other. Conceded four goals and set pieces. So what's going on here at the moment is the same where it's very unusual by my standards and our standards here during my time as a manager. That's one thing that's not impossible but it hasn't happened very many times. I don't really overthink that because I think generally the teams that I've worked with have been strong on set pieces both for and against but it's a reminder to the players if you don't do the details which we didn't do on both set pieces then you don't keep clean sheets. Thank you. Cheers. Hi Sean. Just wanted to do a quick team news check. Is it the same squad as before just the three that have been out still out? Yeah, Shams is still making progress but a bit away yet. Andrei's been in and out with niggly calf injuries so he's touching go whether he makes the squad. They're the main two. And I guess I just wanted to ask about the final... He's a bit longer term. The final game of last season what are your sort of memories of that occasion and I guess where do you think the team has progressed to what extent do you think the team has progressed since then? My insta-memory is pleasure and pain. Pleasure to get what was a very tough task probably the arguably my hardest task in management from when I got into getting what happened. So the pleasure of that, the pain of being there in the first place because I thought we had a squad who were achieving things better than what the outcome was going into the last game of the season so I feel like that now. The pleasure of working with a group that I think is a bit more balanced and performing to a certain level which I know can win games and they're not winning. So it's a similar but different scenario. Obviously a different end of the season. It was obviously far more important in the sense but yes, that hasn't changed and I want to change it to more pleasure than pain, that's for sure. That's the job that's what I'm trying to do for all concerned at Everton Football Club. All right, cheers. Thanks. Any further questions in the open section before we move on? Hi Sean, just a few people are asking about James Garner playing out wide when he played so long. Which people? Which few? Which few people are? A lot of people were very impressive against their villa and wanted to see that in central areas. Jack Harrison back, is that more likely to happen now? I think he gives us more options for Jimmy. I think he's applied himself to anything we've asked of him which is terrific for him as a young player in the sense of the Premier League. Playing wide, playing wing back certainly in one of our main hours of need at the end of the season doing a very good job. I thought he played very well down at Brentford in a wider position. I think he can perform from there because of his delivery and the power he's got and the workload he does and I thought his villa was very good as well. So I like the fact he's adaptable. I do see him long the term as being a central midfield player and I think he sees himself as being that but I think he's flexible and adaptable. It's a very good thing and a very good open mind of things to have as a young player. Thanks. Thank you. We'll now move on to the embargo section with the papers. Excuse me.