 Welcome to Toffy TV, it is my three talking points from Everton One, Brighton, Hovalbyn, Four, The Blues, Destroyed, at Gullison tonight at Fair Play to Brighton. A club that is very much knows what it's doing, a club that is very progressive, a club that has succession plans not only for players but for managers and a club that has assembled a team that has got players in it who've cost £3m, £4m, £5m and a club that always passes the ball forward, something which Everton don't do. That's my first point that I'm going to start with tonight. I don't understand what Everton are trying to do under Frank Llanparg. I've said before and I get a bit of stick for it fair enough if people feel that way inclined for saying I do like Frank Llanparg, I think he's a bubbly manager, I think he wants to do really well for Everton, I think he tries to do well for Everton. I just don't understand a few of the things that he's done recently. I don't understand the team tonight. I don't understand the formation when we've just done well at City. I don't understand why after a year we don't play forward. We'll just watch the team come to us tonight. You've lost a manager who's really built this thing along with Graham Barber and people like that at Brighton. They lost them to Chelsea and they just went and got the Sassuolo manager. Sassuolo manager who plays attacking football in a similar vein and has come in and it's just like a seamless thing. He's coming. They fly forward. They get goals. You look at them and go through the team and you go on and we'll solid mark. Would everyone be celebrating in the streets of Everton? No. Does he do a job? Yeah. Would he get an Everton team? Yeah. You know, Metomo cost £4 million, £4.5 million, tears us apart. Young Evan Ferguson up front, 18 years of age, scores with the weekend, get to start tonight, scores tonight, looks a handful. You know, the left back is stupid, £5 million. You just go through the team. Casido, £5 million. And there's us spend hundreds of millions of pounds paying big wages week-in, week-out, can't live with Brighton. And the thing that it is that annoyed me was it was just like choking cheese tonight. I was watching a team pass the ball forward every time. Pass, pass, pass. It goes forward. Someone makes a space. They know what they're doing at the end. They're messing their arm with it. They was doing backflicks on the edge of our box. And I watch Everton get the ball and we look like we've not got a clue. We look like we don't know what we're doing. We pass it around the back. It goes back to Jordan Pickford. It eventually kicks it long, which could have been done 30 passes before and got us up the pitch. But now, because we've asked about what we did at the back, we knock it back, that we've moved on the pitch. It's knocked up and we're under pressure again. I don't know what we're trying to do. And I just wish the manager would just settle on one thing. Last season, we were in dire straits and he changed it and we give him credit for it. Flexibility. He's done well. He's recognised it. Excellent. So why have we moved away from it? This team, the setup doesn't know how to play attacking football in any way, shape or form. So, therefore, have a bit of insurance. Have a team that has got three centrebacks in play. You've just done it at the weekend and it worked to a degree. Keep that for the next few weeks. Try and stick some points on the board. Try and get a bit of durability. Try and get a bit of confidence flowing through the team. Lost four home games on the run now. Four home games on the run. How do you even stay up with that? The last three have been united with no great shakes. Teams like Villar have batted them at home and other teams have beaten United. But they beat us so fair enough. But we've lost to Leicester City. We're in the bottom three. Fulham have gone there and beat them tonight. We've lost to Wolves, so it's not very good. And we've lost now to Brighton. They were a good shot. Don't get me wrong. But tonight, before the game kicked off, Brighton had lost six and Evan had lost eight. So even though I've got loads of time for Brighton and they are a good shot, they are not Manchester City. Evan had lost four home games on the run. The home is supposed to be what makes you a winner in any kind of trouble this season. And it's all been torn up. It's all been blown wide open. But I come back to that thing of what are we trying to do? Just put something in place and stick to it. And right now, I would have two strikers, whether that be Damari Gray off-dom, or whether it be Malpie off-dom, or whether it be Ella Sims off-dom, or whatever, whatever, whatever. Get the two of them up there and go back to the front. I don't care. People can go on about why I don't want to see that kind of football. I want points on the board. They're not going to work the way we're playing. Second point. The second point is the recruitment. And I've probably done this to death, but I'm going to continue to do it. Again, just to reiterate, I've just watched a team that hasn't spent anywhere near the amount of money Evan has spent. I've watched a team that don't pay anywhere near the wages that Evan football club pay. Come to Godderson and beat us 4-1. And it could have been more. If they had gone half a leather, I think they'd get 6-0-7. They were messing around with the ball at the end. They brought four or five people on. They didn't even bring Trossard on, who's one of their best players. They just beat us so easily by going forward, knowing what they're doing. They've got players who cost relatively speaking a few million, that's it, all playing in a formation, all playing in a shape, all playing forward progressive football, because the recruitment has been really good. And we are watching the flip side, watching Evan and looking and seeing players on big wages with no idea what to do. No real desire and hunger. Yes, the two centre backs have got it. Tarkovsky and Cody, I get that, they have. Other people want to do well and the goalkeeper wants to do well. I think Paterson really wants to do. It'd be silly to say players don't really want to do well. But some haven't got it. They haven't either got it upstairs or they just haven't got it because the confidence has gone or whatever. They just don't shoot everything. But I'm seeing a Brighton team where the recruitment has been excellent. There is players out there that improve you. There is players out there that will stick to a game plan. There is players out there that are comfortable in possession and go forward. The name of the game or the idea of football is to score goals and win games. We don't seem to have won across the halfway line. There is passing. Barry Williams sits right behind me and we are talking and he is going. There was just one passing to play in the second half of an event and given this three passes we thought it was back with Pickford. On the third pass it went back to Pickford. And that was just one indication of the way we play. There is no clear plan. But we haven't bought the right players. The recruitment team have had four months to come up with some solutions to the manager. For the manager in attacking sense. And there we are on January the third and there is nobody coming through the door. There is no links of players coming through the door. It's not good enough. It isn't good enough. And too many people have got away with making these mistakes. It's poor. It's poor. And Kevin Thelwell has got to come up with some answers and he's got to come up with some players right now. And if the board who has sat there is sitting on the hands after watching that. Now I know that you haven't got off a tunnel and other things and all of that. You cannot sit there and think that that's okay on any level. So get your hand in your pocket and give the manager or whatever. Bring some players into this squad who know how to go forward and score goals. Cos otherwise it's going to cost you way more than what it'll cost you to bring reinforcements in this month. A third one. I don't know. I honestly don't know. A third one. Ella Sims. Good to see him get on the pitch. Don't know why he was warming up from about the 60th minute. It took till the 83rd minute to put him on. I really don't understand that. I know the manager is trying to give Dominic Hall that Lewin minutes to get him up to speed. But why not put him in Sims up top and really just go along and give Brighton something to think about. One can run off the other. Putting Neil Mawpai on a Saturdays didn't teach anybody anything. Did it? Really? Nobody. It didn't do anything. We were gone anyway. It's game over. We all know about Mawpai. Play him on Friday if you need to. But you know, you give Isaac Price a long time, you brought Sims back. You should have given him in my opinion 20 minutes. Now bring the lab back. Have him training and give him 6 or 7 minutes here and there. It's not going to do anything. And I'm not saying he's the right answer and he's going to solve the problems. I'm just talking about a thing of at least give the lad a little bit of time. You know, a little bit to see whether he can do anything. And you know, give them a real test. Cos none of our other players really give them a test. Yeah, listen, it's one of them, isn't it? And I was right about another crap as well. There's something else. Let's leave it there. Let me know what you think in the comments section below. Thanks for watching. Subscribe if you haven't given the video a like. If you so wish. I can understand it. If you're not interested in watching this video and you've just had enough of evidence for now, I fully understand it. But thanks anyway. Happy New Year. Although it isn't at the moment, is it? What a terrible start from the Premier League forever for 2023. Losing a home game to Brighton as we did 12 months ago. So there you go. Anyway, thanks for watching. See you later.