 Welcome to Toffy TV, this is the final word, Everton Nill, Leicester City 1, this video is sponsored by One Football, One Football's app makes it easy to keep up to date with transfer news, stats, scores in one place to download the One Football app, click the link in the description, I'm sure there's a lot better things on there than there was at this game yesterday. Let's just, I might sound like a broken record and I know you've brought it up, but my God, New Year's Day 40 is absolutely shite. Who thinks, who honestly thinks at the powers of the bay that kicking off at half 12 on New Year's Day is a good idea? Right? Now, this is not a moan about, you know, Sky Pay you the money and all that, I understand that, I'm not someone who's sitting there going, you know, Sky's a job, Sky Pay hasn't bills enough for years, so I've got no problem with that. But I just mean generally in terms of game of faulty, 12-30 ensures that the ground is going to be absolutely dead, flat, people are not going to turn up, simply out of logistics on people, getting there on New Year's Day. Lows in the park and low spaces. Just simply out of logistics, getting things like... And it was sold out. Yeah, getting things like buses and things like that. I don't know whether they picked it because they thought because of maybe less disconnections in Thailand and things like that, that people in those countries might watch the game. But I honestly, for the life of me, this is the one thing I don't understand when he picked games is. Like, why would you think that was an intersection? Why would you put a game at that time? Who's watching? No matter what game it would have been. It's half 12 on... You know, fair enough you want to put the thingy games on a half five card of time. Fair enough people have woke up by then maybe, but half 12... I mean, I've got a problem with everything with this game. A real problem with us accepting to play on a day those three games yesterday. Six to day. And there's a little tiny game sort of. You know what? Exactly in terms of ever have just had to play four games in nine days. That's ridiculous. So, I know everyone has to put... Couldn't someone ever have gone? No, that's not happening. That is not happening. We'll play... All right, maybe we'll play the half five kickoff or... No, just we'll play on the second. Because at the end of the day, this is unfair on our players. We've had to have the shortest. We've had two away trips in the middle and you're asking us to play. Someone in Everton should have just gone now. It's not happening. Let someone else play at half 12. We don't want to be on telly. I just don't think we should have played. We, us and I don't think space should have played. It's not number in a champion to say, oh, oh, there are big outsiders in the race for the Premier League mother update. They played Saturday. They played exactly the same as us and they're going for the league. Everton and Tottenham should have had balls and gone. So you want us to play four o'clock on the 23rd and then you want us to play. All right, Tottenham didn't put Everton are playing half 12 on. It's just nonsense. And we said, we said this before the space game with the games coming up. Few of these games are going to be horrendous. And what it's done is it's literally it's wrecked Everton season almost. I think because we've just played two games where the players look like they couldn't run. Well, certainly, certainly, certainly one and a half. I know you did the stuff on Brighton. But certainly going into the second half of Brighton, you could see we had no legs. There was nothing. And then in this game you looked, there isn't. I don't know about you, but five minutes into the game, we weren't going to win again. I thought it was going to be 0-0 because both teams were just like knocking it around. There was nothing in the game. And again, what are you offering as a product? What are you saying? And this is why I don't understand why the winter break is coming in later on in January. I just think it's, honestly, I know that the TV deal demands Christmas games. But we said there's a way to fix it where everyone still gets the break. There's a way to fix it. You can have games. You don't put all the live games on. All of the games aren't live. So, therefore, if you want teams to play Boxing Day 27-28, just play two games a day and give everyone a proper break. There's no reason why Everton couldn't have played Boxing Day of Burnley. And then yesterday against Leicester, I missed the Brighton game out. And don't give me. There's no thing. And if this year, they've scrapped replays and they've picked up. So it's nonsense. And they started changing things around as well, but let's get it right. They've started, if you look at the Champions League teams now, none of them play on the Sunday. They all play. That's why they've brought that 745 kick-off on Saturday. So that the last Champions League team, it's normally spares, can play and no one plays on the Sunday. So it gives them a break. And also, don't give me this nonsense about they shouldn't be tired. The human beings, the elite athletes doesn't mean anything. Leif actually means actually that they run more and it's harder for them. You're asking lads to its percentages, little tiny percentages. And that's not letting them off. I'm just saying you're asking people to go out and give a level of performance, the same level. Every two days you're not going to get it. But you're right. I mean, look at us as a fan base. You can go on about the players. Well, what's the excuse for us being absolutely silent for two hours? Which is what we were. Because people are knackered and haven't woke up and stuff. So it happens all the way. You can tell. I can't remember a New Year's Day game of Godderson Park being a rip roar. Last year, man United was flat as a brick and cracker. That was not in the second. Whatever a game it was, it was United last year. It was horrendous. It was silent. It was crap. Everton was crap. The game was crap. United stepped up 5% a month in the middle. It was awful. This the same. Absolute nonsense game of football. It was just dreadful. They were terrible. Everton was terrible. No one wanted a beat. You could less than them on a beat there. It was just that. And as a product, for people who pay in a lot of money, because it costs money to go, doesn't it? It was season ticket, 600 quid, whatever. When you're buying that, you're buying it in the... Well, you're buying it now, aren't you? The way it works. You're always buying it. You're thinking that you're getting everyone at the peak level. It's going to be a good game of football. And then Sky come along, you know, whatever, come along and bounce these games one after the other. You know the product's getting worse and worse. And resulting yesterday, the game was flat. I don't even think anyone could be asked one of them. I think everyone literally was just like, load us, whistle us, let's go on. Cos it was just grim, you know. And credit to Leicester, they've had a good Christmas. Everton never had a good Christmas, let's be honest. But Leicester had a beat. Chelsea said it. I mean, we've had a good December, have they? But we've been on it, listen. Jimmy Gable? When? Yeah, it is a Jimmy Gable lesson. Other than the fact that we beat Burnley. But ever since Pickford dropped the ball on the field, it's been going on by, hasn't it? That's how it feels. And we need something to almost beat. So talking about the players and the amount of games. Obviously, it is a bad run. And some people have got their knives off Michael Silver. But what I would say is, even though, no, not entertaining that, just at this stage. I do feel that he's made genuine mistakes in the last few weeks. Bye. I mean, I think we've gone through the four games and I think we've only played 14 players, I think. I think there's only 14 players that we've played. And I just wonder whether he should have maybe dipped into the squad a little bit more and set up. Because the way I look at it, I look at it from what I can take home is, he's probably never played this amount of games in such a short time. And I look at him and I see a player that, when he was at his best going into that derby game, he was absolutely flying, he was running the midfield, helping us play the way we were playing. And I think it's no coincidence that as his quality has dropped off, the quality in the team has dropped off. His tempo was dropped off, so the tempo in the team has dropped off. I look at him and I just think to myself, would he have benefited from having maybe two games out, maybe the Baylor game or maybe the Blighting game and someone else gone in there who mightn't be as good as him? Let's say Tom Davies, I should say. Gomez recharges the batteries and then comes back because all I've seen is a player play two games, be pretty poor in both games and it's going to be just as well even more tired now. I just think to myself, is that where the manager has made a little bit of a mistake there where he should have really just gone, we need to change things up a little bit and quality is going to be dropped anyway so we might as well rest a couple of players. Yeah, I mean listen and defending, in fact so much so that I'm staying off Twitter as much as I can because I am defending Silver because it's got to me evidence problems on Marco Silver, not a chance. But he has made mistakes and it's changed perfect because he's not, of course he's made mistakes and the answer is Gomez won this and they never played with Brighton. They'll have come off against Spurs. I got told he was touching go whether he'd make any of the fixes that's what Everton thought that night after Tottenham because he was injured and it was holding his calf and it was a little bit of a worry and then he played against Burnley and it was like brilliant and he played well against Burnley. Now if he'd have kept the same team at Burnley sorry if he kept the same team from Burnley at Brighton because he played really well the other day but he didn't change then but he left Gomez in and dropped Guilfe and he was like once just passed the fitness test to play and the other one hasn't and it's out the team so really the flip should have been Gomez shouldn't have played the Brighton for me to the left him out the side totally and played Guilfe in there or Tom in there so that's probably where he's made a couple of the mistakes but people are picking on everything he's done people ask for changes what I'm saying is people ask for changes and when he's made those changes there's still more we all said Coleman needed to come out the side he came out the side we all said and he actually came in from nowhere so he's doing some things that we expect and he's doing other things that he should be doing he's doing wrong maybe the thing a lot's getting lost in the noise so it all sounds like everyone is just giving them grief but I think there are a question mark over how we handle the games and that other stuff should be put to the side but I do think, like you've just said for me Brighton, that was the game to play Carvel Llewyn off-front that was the game where you knew it was going to be a battle against Duncan and Duffy and you want someone like Carvel Llewyn in there and it's a counter attacking game and maybe Retalyson at home against Leicester was more of a better fit for him and I think that's just where I think that's for me he's just got it wrong I think he should have introduced more players into it as well and we all thought McCarthy was going for it Look my mother play but he's going to do it obviously but another one and again people might disagree with me Over the last four games was there not room for Bains to play a game I just look at plays and I think is there not room to play Dean's been alright Dean's been alright but again though as the games have gone on you've looked on and gone is he suffering from that little bit of tiredness does he just need freshening up a little bit and I just think it's this idea of saying oh bloody hell we've only got we know that best players are but if you squeeze them and you squeeze them you're going to lose the quality and then what's the point what's the difference this is something we did wrong last year early on we just didn't have the replacements so as players got more tired you've seen the quality drop off and then Bains got injured ironically and adjusting that's where he's made mistakes this year he's obviously doesn't fancy some of the plays in his squad and it's decidable I'd rather just stick with the plays we've got I just think that's irresponsible this is what happened with Moisey only Moisey didn't have any option he literally had 13 plays David Moisey's had no money to get so we'd play the same team all the time and then we'd have injuries or we'd just lose games we shouldn't and it was frustrating because when those plays refreshed those good plays this editing side is a very good side some people are watching this and they'll be but it is a good side we've seen when the fresh what a good side the potentially are but when they're tired they're not a good side and there's not enough goals but I think the Bain game showed that we can play against teams that we're supposed to beat and be very comfortable and that day was brilliant because it worked excellently with the narrow strikers and the three at the back and they looked like a lot of energy in that team and then the next couple of games you're looking at where's that energy gone and I think I just wonder why was Tolkien not in the squad for a couple of games that's strange to me I find that very strange I think he's not but he's another one that you think to yourself he's bright and away he sticks out on the front and lets see what he can do against them even if he just wears them out or has a good run right he's fresh yesterday maybe he should have early in the season when we were very good we looked exciting he was a key element it was just that good challenge on the front because we needed some a bit more pace I'm not saying it's a tough one because as the season's gone on you've seen the way he wants to play and Jank doesn't really probably fit that but at the moment everyone's slowing down so those two games were two of the slowest games I've ever seen Brighton and Lester yesterday's game there was nothing in it there was no pace in that game it was dreadful there was one piece of pace and it won the game so he probably wouldn't he could have played the other one for me he's well caught Theo had a great Theo had a decent game of burning and looked a threat again because he was going through the middle a bit more and they didn't know what to pick him up and B because we played Narrow 3 on the front so we looked more of a threat and Brighton he was horrendous he was terrible and he left them on for 90 minutes and then he started again and all he knowing Theo's qualities like he's pacey so let's start someone else and introduce them with 25 minutes to go half an hour to go when they're getting tired and you've got this fresh pair of legs coming on and he's not playing well players should only stay in a team if they're playing really well James Coleman rightly came on the side yesterday because he hasn't been playing well brother players have stayed in who are playing and you're going whether you think he's a striker or not at this moment in time you're a best striker because Dominic Halver living blessing does never look like he's going to score a goal a kid I'm sorry I don't even know who touched the ball yesterday one of his worst games I've ever seen him off for ever and that was up against two centres as you know the game but two centres as you give the ball away more than I've seen a pair of centres as you give the ball away other than that and he didn't really do a thing tossing, cungs on he had a head in there at the end other than that he didn't really do anything so the frustration probably from Silver is these lads are getting half a go and not taking the chance but I think with Charles you're putting them on the left he was driffled but then down the middle at least he's a bit of a threat if you keep moving people I don't think they know where they're playing and that's something he did as well I think he's just got lost on shot I think the managers game I really do I've got real problems with his subs as well I just brightened and yesterday I just looked at it but what would you have done yesterday differently I just think he was going to look at that bench there was no place we needed like a banach for me should all but I looked at them and they made the sub just to inject something into the game and I don't ever see him doing that brightening everybody knew we said this the other week a bar again you can see when something's going to happen and he doesn't say and I just wondered at a bar I'm thinking back to last year as well with him and I'm thinking this is more up to do with his style is that we were having the same drop off like Woff had the drop off last year maybe slightly different because of what happened and us trying to make him laugh but you can see that his style of playing asks a lot of the players asks a hell of a lot of the players because we were the best team in the Premier League for pressing from the front that's dropped off so that must you must need a lot of energy to do that look at the other fella across the park the first season in fact his first two seasons they started off flying and the next one they didn't win a game in the second season they were going and they didn't win a game in 10 or they had one win in 10 because they just got knackered and that's what we don't know that happened this season from that style of play with his all action running and I think they've tried to change it slightly and not be as vigorous in their running this season it's helping them a bit but it remains to be seen whether they can carry it through ours is we've got half a team that's new playing in the fastest league in the world playing a pressing game that demands a lot might be might be a big ask you're right it might be that we need what you've got to ask yourself with the question is the drop off due to the manager tactically now people go we've got no plan B I mean what does that even mean no plan B just someone else going on about tactics the other day but the most tactically astute manager probably around is Sam Allardyce whether we like it or not that fella can take a team that's and go and shut out one of the best like last year when we went to Hanfield they were incredible they scunned sevens and everything and he went there with Cucko Martina and got a drone and got limited them to nothing so if you want to tactically astute manager then we should have just kept Sam Allardyce right but if you pick a team and you play a certain way the players have got a career out pregwad diolch ond what's anything about him it's all you keep doing it you make mistakes you get it you don't make mistakes he's done it the other way he changed his midfield it could have cost him the league he poor Phil Foden John Stones and Gundawa as his midfield three against dogs like James McArthur cos he had a midfield that wasn't capable against a big organisation midfield and then he got beat to get and then all of a sudden you're looking at them going if they don't beat Liverpool this week then gone so even the best manager in the world if your players don't perform I agree with you some of to only use where's James McArthur I'm not saying James McArthur but he made any difference yesterday but he's fresh and he runs a man of pitch was great yesterday at Nick in the ball how many times did he pass the ball to dead play it's not just yesterday though you had a Brighton you've got Brighton and you've got two games in the space of three days or whatever it is that's something where you can go there's a play for that game I don't know he keeps on saying he's ready to play so why isn't he in the... maybe you like him or not he goes on and on he was coming on at Neil Neil yesterday and then they scored and he didn't come on and he came on a barely on the left and you're like but that's something where you like these players or not it doesn't matter that's not what matters what matters is if you've got a squad of players and you've settled on that squad whether you think they're good enough or not you've got to use them in this period and then he's not on the... why did Chris Mason meet Tolson in the Everton shop the day before the Brighton game what's going on? there's a picture of him it's like why was he on the bench that's something that's the only issue I've got with the manager that in his game management is just a simple fact you've got to in this period you've got to look at your squad now he's never been a manager I don't think he's ever been a manager over Christmas he's over now a hold and he got sacked before no no he was waffed that was a stand full that was a stand full at Waffa maybe he's never had a success but he might be looking at our squad I'm not I'm not defending I'm just saying for reasons you might just look and think like you said before but I can't take him off his roof maybe if we don't want a couple more games I know I'm just saying he might have gone that's the other problem I've got with the team at the moment though last two games Brighton that had one shot Leicester have had one shot and they've won both games they took the lead and won both games that to me is one stage scored their goals the game seemed over we often puffed at Brighton and we often puffed yesterday but we never showed any quality to go and win the game and sometimes and this is where you look at that squad and you think well it's not always about quality it's about lads digging in and saying we're going to get a result from this game and I don't see enough of that at Everton I don't see enough players who will roll up their sleeves yesterday when one went one-nil you might have blown a whistle then I didn't see anyone from that goal to the end of the game I'm going to roll up my sleeves and we're going to get something out of this I thought the only one who did it was Bernard when he came out he was the only one who looked like he'd be created and that one he put on a play for Calverloo in this embarrassing poor centre forward play because he should be ready he should want to tap him from a yard out that should be your breath one of them needs to go one of them needs to stop back it's ridiculous but we made the change what annoyed me slightly yesterday with the team was the fact that we played three at the back twice on the run and then it went yesterday and we knew Lester would come and try to get a draw on the save there was an opportunity to make it no issue with that watch however it works for them and with Farddie it's fantastic and it worked yesterday so we've got no problem with Lester doing that but if you're playing a formation it works with varying results we won't comfortably have been if we lost a Brighton but if you play as a tired then surely delighted Dean and Coleman could have played higher up the pitch at home anyway because really he would argue and say we didn't need three centre backs if we only had one so we'd go for that fair enough but we were just so deep anyway with the four that it made me just think if we had just played a three we could have played on higher up the pitch and asked some questions of them or why not just play 4-4-3 yesterday I said that 4-4-play tossing a culvert loon the charlots in wide if you want to play in wide someone on the well cut evening the other side stop to me feel there's play gilfee in Garnasle to go much, don't sit on the bench we might need you for the last 25 minutes to get on here and get your foot on the ball don't have to play him all the time it's noticeable now for me he's been on a diamond spiral I think since the derby I don't think he's had a good game since the derby but the last few weeks he's been really off it it's passing yesterday the amount of time on the court in possession just doesn't like him giving the ball away cheaply cos he looked naher it's not cos he's become a bad player cos he's quite clearly a brilliant player and this is a play don't bring it this is a play you didn't have a pre-season hasn't had a pre-season, had an injury he's come back in, was injured 8 days ago walking on the pitch you know only Everton walking on the pitch after half-time he's gone whack the ball and then you worry about whether he's going to make any of the games and he plays all of the games it's just that kind of thing but it's like taking meaner out why have you taken out I don't know it's just a couple if you play three at the back in that game and you don't and then you have Garni as your insurance with Guilfee in the middle of the back you say to your fullback you just can go as high as you want then you've got three central strikers who are two tucked in one one then you've got a threat haven't you but they have to change the way they play if we'd have gone on look the first half yes di and it's Harry McGuire I know you like him but again I just lost him yes di the amount of times you kick the ball to an Everton player under no pressure just that we didn't take it if we'd have a fatty yesterday we'd have won that about 3-0 because in the first half alone you give the ball to the Charles and twice you just started delaying delaying and didn't get a shot and that out I think we've caused them a lot of problems and I think that sort of has to change up there because again we've got no threat and we had two shots on target 17 attempts to go it's woeful we don't create chances I've said this for two months we don't create chances we just pass it round we put 30 crosses in yesterday I was I was in a different seat yes di so I was further along in the bullins above the wife fans and the amount of time we got in the final third and you could see the penalty area was wide open for anyone to make it run being gone in three times nobody moved everyone just stood there next to a player and you're like what are you supposed to do you put three balls in that if we'd have had any kind of movement when the score from nobody moved cald y lŵn just stood watching Walcott didn't show any kind of movement at all but he was throwing himself on the floor just stood a barriad away from Guilfee was just ambling and you're like you never gonna score these are defenders you'd like to defend Evans and McGuire loved to defend he got a pull on the round and move and there was nothing and you're thinking would it touch you made a difference in from the off I don't know but that's clearly where we are at the moment as a team that is the area we have to go and get a centre forward because Niais isn't good enough we saw that the other day but we've seen Vardy in this game we've seen the difference of having a centre forward that you hadn't had a sniff by the way no, you're over a centre forward that is you're right about what Dominic Avelnoun has said to himself you've got to make 10 runs over the top and you'll get one ball if you get one ball over the top Dominic Avelnoun is as fast as anyone in the Premier League but you never ever see him stretching centre backs with his Vardy somebody's been doing it for years somebody's been doing the lower leagues for years he just the minute anyone puts a ball over the top defenders just panic because he runs into such good areas it's not just a badest pace it's about where he runs he's got such intelligence running because he's had to lean on over the years playing he's laying by playing in the non-league running in the right areas with pace probably got him through all the time and the thing that's come on in the Premier League is his finishing his first year he couldn't enter a bad door but since then his finishing has come along leaps and bounds that's where for me Dom has got to start making those runs if he wants to play that's where the manager has got to say in games like this you've got to start playing on the shoulder and start running the line and start just offering yourself and if it doesn't come it doesn't come but he's got to start doing those runs what's the point of it when he comes off Dom's weird because with all that pace he actually likes to be a link player he likes to come short he likes to come short, get it get it back and spin but at times in games like this he's got to occupy the centre backs and he's only young but it's something he's got to start doing he's had enough games now but as a Premier League centre forward that he's got to start demanding backball and start saying to them I'm going to go you start looking it does nothing on stop giving it back to Golden Pickford and start looking to get me some as the king of it he would just just make a run and he'd add when you're a corner or a free kick or a throwing and he'd get the whole team 40 yards up the pitch and Moise loved them for it and the amount of times I remember we we nicked games or we won something you know end up scoring because he would it's a big thing in a game and I feel like this times where some managers or some team feel like that's too cheap you know the old man is where we're not going to have set pieces idea of football exactly we would never dare do that and I just don't think we have got enough of that there's nothing wrong with passing it around all lovely triangles and then mixing it with a bang of people because then I look at again the top two shots and Liverpool are top at the moment it's a banditre it's 70 yards a salator on and on your mum to goals they score a long ball and you're like why hasn't mum picked that up then they'll pass you in that shitty deal of it they pull you in and you just go bang out isn't the idea that you pass it and bring them out and when you've brought them out you give one over the top isn't that the point I said to you before me missus was there yesterday and she hasn't know anything about football just what football isn't even like football but she sat there yesterday and I said to her what were your observations then after the game everything just pass it from one side to the other then pass it back to the goalie this is someone who doesn't know football they never look like they were ever going to score a goal and I was like fair enough yeah because you don't know anything about it and you just see him with fresh eyes all of our problems he runs up and down all day long he doesn't even have a banana but no one else seems to run and the other one what she said and I was like it's a bit of a challenge on the floor you literally could be getting money from sky because you just said more but don't be doing that I think what you're doing on the Calvalluwin he annoys me because I really like him and I can see that he's got something so many games go by where he's he's kicked and you're going this is your chance this is everything Towson who paid a lot of money for can't get on the pitch comes on as a sub at best but Charlesons getting moved this is your opportunity to go I'm grabbing this and I'm gonna take it back to school for the next and I think if he we should be turning for Christ's sake he should have been that's the way Vardy loves it though Vardy run round yesterday because he probably knew all the game he was gonna get one chance and he was in so he was in but every time he loves it because he knows it's causing effect every time you put a defender under pressure you're putting it into their mind don't make a mistake don't and that leads to with Michael Keen that's what generally leads to every mistake yesterday with Michael Keen he played really well and then one mistake well two mistakes as it come from 50 bensad it was embarrassing that I was by welcome but just the first half I think every time it shows you that every time it's a better side but when they say better every time it's a shit we were a little bit more snappy than them in the challenge and we were winning the ball we looked like we could create a bit more what I mean is we were the team that was in isn't that the big problem for the manager though that's gotta be the number one problem we've got all these creative players and we don't create anything that's gotta be the biggest problem actually you know in those games I don't see no but you know what when he hit it and this is not a criticism of the lad is that when he hit it he looked like he hit it without any hope of actually showing up he didn't think that he was ever going to score and when he did the post it was almost like that went close but we've got all those creative players on the pitch we don't create anything that's the paradox of it how do you solve that is a manager the manager has got to and that's where that's what annoys me most about this team it's that I look at it and just think do you know if we had a kale in there we'd be in the top six do you know what I mean like if we had or even do you know that would I have run? if we had run maybe we'd be top six easy easy easy easy it's a different mindset with a player like that you are it's the same with Vadi though it's the same with Vadi it's the same with a player like Vadi o front I remember I remember when we lost Ron and I remember I can't remember where he came from but I remember someone say and we were losing games and they were saying well why aren't it someone said it's not the goals you've lost from losing Ron with Lula Caercy it's the idea now that an opposition team comes to play against you and plays ten yards further up the pitch because they know they're not playing against Ron Lula Caercy you haven't got Ron Lula Caercy and it's that mindset and it's that mindset of playing against Vadi now the lad fair play to him has created this in him that when you play against him you're terrified to make a mistake because you know his way of playing means that if he will see his own mistake and he did yesterday one chance it was a lovely little knock actually for him to get onto it and the minute he faced up I thought wouldn't he score I just knew he was going to score that's what top strikers do they get one opportunity and it's just what people can't understand when you're talking about centre forwards you've got goals in them the top players win new games like that we can have players who run in like Dominic Albalu but when I'm saying he ain't good enough to lead us yet he's not because he hasn't because a good centre fire works but he's even been in the right place Romelu Bukarku would have scored yesterday from Bernard's Cross because he'd have been a yard off the line ready to turn it in good centre forwards who get goals won a robbed goals off players he tried to rob Tom Davis' goal in the city that's what they do because they want goals now okay he's lost his way a little bit at United for whatever reason Rashford's better than at the moment and I know he scored at the weekend the fourth goal over whatever it was he's lost his way a little bit but when he was at Everton and Prime Everton if you'd have been able to put a few of these players round then we would have gone but that's where that's why Richarlison isn't the answer for me is because I don't see that in him he might get it and you're probably right he is probably the best centre forward we've got but he hasn't got that and Trent Olson saying he hasn't got it Trent Olson hasn't got the conviction that he's ever had the conviction to do that to say I'm going to score and it might just be me but that's that comes from self doubt though doesn't it top strikers don't have any self doubt there's a because what they do is but Vardy probably Vardy might play games where he doesn't think that he's going to score but he doesn't give off that impression because as long as he's working hard he knows he's going to form for me he's unique Vardy he's old school the way he is he's unique that's a way for everyone coming through he doesn't mind giving it a bit doesn't mind having a battle with you doesn't mind if he doesn't get any chances in the game but if he runs you up a blind alley you see what he's like mate I just lost him yes he just thought I'd love him I would love him I don't think this time has come but there are other players like that in the Premier League there's two of them for me who are that kind of but you know what everything everything are weird because I do think that we're in between we could have someone off run to people in my classes a yard dog but that would bring out maybe what we need in the other players a platform to build off and I just don't think we've got that's the thing we need goals Kevin Davis had did a job for us mate I'm mad to you we need it we've got to get more of a threat it might be literally the thought that that this lad through in the middle is going to score so therefore we have to worry about him and that freeze up a little bit we've got to get goals on that he's got everything else but he doesn't have any goals that's not good enough he's got to start scoring and he's skinned the lap he should have just took his time and he didn't Walcott go and look at the least goals he's scored for us I'm sure it's 12 and he's blading the right and he's getting opportunities where is he, why isn't he on double figures he's dropped off a cliff so that might simply be and it's not annoying because the Luchman situation is weird him being out he would have been in there Luchman would have been over this pair I don't think that you mentioned it before do you think that the manager should be looking to say how do we get the best out of here Walcott is it central do we play him at a central or we look to say you know what actually what's been our best performance in the last two months being the way do we look to that and go play straight at the back play straight at the back play high full backs which it would suit any of them that we've got and say this is what we're doing and it's going to get more out of Walcott, more out of Bernard Striker's going to have someone with them whoever it is, whether it be Don whether it be with Charleston probably suit with Charleston having a three dad of closer it even suits Towson because he's had two people playing maybe maybe it's time to go you know what, I haven't got all of the players I want to play the way I really want to play so let's meet and this is where you're right with the manager this is where he needs to earn his money now he's got good players the problem with evidence the real problem with evidence these players are consistent and that's the real issue evidence I've got and I'll say it again and whether people agree or disagree on top six, I don't think we're miles away from United other than they're from players and much better than what we've got because they've got goals the rest of the team part of the goalkeeper I think the rest are not much of a mutters after that you've got Everton Leicester Wafford possibly Westam and maybe Brighton you could finish 7 to 13 and all of them will drop down to consistency that's what it will come we've seen that over Christmas Westam I've had some great results we've spanked Burnley by 5 and they go and get beat her Burnley 3 days later Leicester beat City and Chelsea and get beat by Cardiff and then come and beat us so you've got a lot of the things you get up top and get beat 3 one at home to Wolves and then go to Cardiff and beat them at Leicester and beat Everton and Bournemouth they were better sized than Friggin you've got all of that where it's the teams like Liverpool where we consist and players turn up every week they're just knocking teams out of the box and confidence, Everton at the moment I've got zero confidence you can tell that by looking at them everything's going back to taking two touches now and it only needs one but he has to look at that team now that squad and go you know what it's not working for us now this so we're going to have to play this way what do you mean they're ever going to get better you didn't have a good game of Brighton no but I do generally feel people can say if I'm wrong and time will tell I still think Jenny Mina is our best defender I really do and he's only going to get better Zoomer probably looks like a better defender but I think Mina is the best defender we've got and I look at that and I don't listen Seconds that has fell for us really well that day because we scored early everything guarded them and that gave us the platform to go from but I look at that but I still I've never killed anyone like that but I just looked at that performance and I just thought and everything clicked into place on Boxing Day the three of the back were magnificent the two wing backs went well you know forward well Guilfee and Gomez played well you know everything just the two plays were fantastic Theo had a decent game everything just clicked into place and I was thinking is that not the best performance we've had so therefore should we not be sticking with that and no three days later we go to Brighton and it changed it changed it because he brought garnering and took Guilfee out and Guilfee playing that deeper role was playing you know it wasn't the team and also it's a game in quick proximity to that last game I just think that might be the solution going forward it might be the long team idea but I think at times you've got to go you know what because this is the other thing I know we haven't changed loads of players but we have changed players in the last few games like one in one out or something if you're changing players and formations doesn't make it easy for them in games also by the way when you get no time to prepare you're basically going yeah let's these do this this this and this you've got all week to prepare you're looking at all the intricacies of what they do and how you're going to beat them this is how we're going to beat them with this formation he does this job, he does that job watch any football document you look at all maybe not the sun how they break teams down and how much homework goes into it over Christmas it's just like that to get out there and you know we haven't even had time to watch the kit that's why we're playing the three different kits last season when under it wasn't there was no time for him to coach because he was literally game the cover that's what it's like and that's why the Brighton thing annoyed me because he made to me changes for the sake of it I think he should have just gone with the same team again or maybe if Gomez was tired he would have gone on the plan but I think he should have left on the front because that was the game for me said to the tialys you don't well when you come on a plane you're up front against Leicester at home you're going to take them apart so you come on here last 2025 left on what they gone for it but maybe now we just need to lick our wounds and go it's been a terrible run it has one win and eight to shut them whatever it is well listen Baz we said before December we came into December and we said this month will define where we were we came into December thinking that we could challenge for sixth we can't we're not in that now we know where we are we're in that middle section and we've got a time finish seventh that's what we've got a time listen we can't sit here we can't sit here though and say we should be beating this team and that team and that team we shouldn't because it's clearly not in us we've played Wathford Newcastle and Leicester at home and I haven't beaten any of them we haven't beaten a single one of them you know on two of them have beaten us and it's like so unless we are capable of beating one of the top six at home which we are capable of with a week's rest and everyone on it of course we're capable of it can we? I don't know we've got to we've got to start we've got to start digging in that's our biggest problem we still don't look like we've got any leaders which is why I would have Yeri mean it in there because anything else he looks like he's ready for the fight ok he can have a great game I honestly think he could have took any of the three centre backs off that trade or not a trade but the trade was just flat I don't think anyone's been terrible I think everyone's just flat I think that's the key that's probably fatigue changing it all up doesn't help in this game was just a further example I just think the other thing I think as well we're all guilty of it is we need to just look at the big picture I suppose and go it's not about now is it it'd be lovely to be flying and be fourth or fifth and all that but we're not so we have to look at it and go right we finished eighth last season you know I don't know how but we did we got eighth and we still have got better players in a lot of teams so hopefully we'll grind our wins but that comes first to being able to grind like that yesterday could we go somewhere score after an hour and hold on winning one but we've just been beaten by two sides that we should have that on the day we should have beat not we should be beating them because we're better but on the day we should have beat and you know the chances we have first half against Brighton you know it's the post you know they're two shitters for me were you right was we go somewhere and you know be dominated and go and nick a go and hold on and funny enough that I think we went to West Brom these days with Moise and beat them 1-0 on a TV something like that you know like that being able to go and nick it and go and then go on and dig in and be smashing it everywhere and go alright we've got away with that mum 1-0 we don't have that if we win it's because we dominated and we've got the win can we get a couple of them yes it'll get better once the game is over that's not what football is about because if you're going to be successful you'll have games every three days and it's can you be on it on it every few days at this set of players can't they proved it so what do we do at the end of the day better players make the better but also though I wouldn't just say better players how to handle these games how to manage these games and I think person I think he's done it very poorly over Christmas very very poorly still that doesn't mean we need to play some more I'm not saying you're saying it I'm saying what I'm saying you should be able to criticise the manager without going at the end of the sentence you need to go but you should be able to say listen no one's above someone said messes me today at the sexing just be this DM for me blah blah blah so I was having a look at people messes me and someone was like cos I had said the other day stop this silver out and someone was like are we not allowed to criticise me he is a bit of blame they're all to blame but he's not solely to blame he can't keep removing managers every few months we've just had a fourth manager in a year or in two years or something let's leave someone in place and go what difference would it make if we change the manager just literally what difference would it make if we change the manager now for me I look at the manager in exactly the same way I look at John Pickford I look at him and go loads of potential brilliant on his day sometimes you make some mistakes that cost these games of 40 but I'm hoping if he keeps his head there's only one way he's going to go but time will tell no one's saying to me now well let's drop John Pickford for Stechlenberg because he's made a couple of mistakes they're not the same you know what he's a good goalkeeper and he's just got to get through and all this will make him better and I hope that's the thing with them no no no but that's the way I look at it he's 40 long years of age he's a young manager he's already won stuff he's proven he can win trophies he's proven he can build a team he's done it with Braga what's your Braga? Olympiacos brilliant no Estrill he is a different kettle of fish it's difficult there's a lot of games don't get a minute there's a lot of pressure but everything fans some everything fans and I understand why because we've got we're literally beaten down from so long so we need it now and it's magnified it's in that room in there it's magnified by that it is bad because at the end of the day they didn't exist they would be great there would be no pressure on to do anything everything fans would just be like whatever you know what I mean alright we'd have some other rival but there would be no pressure but with them and the way they're going 50% of what happened last year was because they were going into the champions league everything just gets heightened and heightened because it's that fear you have people might disagree with me I'm adamant on this if they weren't doing so well everything fans would be like this is alright there's no pressure but it's that added pressure knowing that you've got let's be honest they're going to win the bleeding thing it's that thing of though it's that added heightened pressure of because they're doing well it makes everything what we do it amplifies what magnified because it allows them to sit on their high horse they're amazing use of shit when we were finishing 7th and they were finishing 8th every time we were going this is the worst thing ever in the world we were finishing above yet and everyone was made up but we were still finishing like 7th is that acceptable for everyone no do you know what I mean it's just that everything gets heightened instead of going we're all just fine no but it's that of course it's that because it's the old technicians things but it's also the fact that we haven't won anything for a while so every year that pressure gets I don't even think some of our fans care about that I really don't pass that's the sad part don't what I do and every year that goes by we seem to be writing seasons off for Christmas now and going alright but next year but it's not like we've had the same management scene for years and it's fallen down at the same hurdle every year we've got to go we've got to have the breed and go watch the big and plan it look at going look at his first season for them he took over Diwerth he finished the season Diwerth he got to see how fans he lost a pair of them essentially in the Premier League he didn't improve them but he did because he got to the summer and he's like we need a better one of him a better one of him the next season he would still get criticism phone radio things get rid of him he hasn't got a clue this is what happens with fans and he still hasn't won anything he still hasn't won anything I still hear Spears fans the other week when he lost a couple of games go and get rid of him and you're like are you fucking insane but there'll be a point when it gets to him where if he doesn't win something you would go well and don't get me like listen that's bad about not having to come out of this game now going to the Cup game on Saturday he's got to turn up on Saturday Spears and then they have to turn it around it's as simple as that they've got to get a default set into winning games and the manager has to start also going to the second half of the season the manager now has to say this is what I'm looking for all the time and I think he's got to be a little bit more refreshed with his with how he approaches for me the 17 games left I expect us to win out of them that's what I'm expecting at this moment and that's only going to give us 51 points which is shit but I'm expecting at least half wins and a couple of draws and then maybe the other games are flipping for coin them and we played the big sides but we've got to start winning football matches we've got home games against Bournemouth we've got teams like this we've got another couple of ones which you'd say are winnable but I'm saying it like that because I would have said these last three three, the last four haven't we had money so when you're looking at Bournemouth and Wolff's your own to meet their winnable football matches and then it's can you go can you beat Arsenal can you beat Liverpool can you go away then to some other places Bournemouth, Wolff's and Burnley are all I've got to be wins must wins for me and then can we go away to some of these mid-table clubs who are around us in a bit lower can we go to Newcastle and beat them can we go to West Ham and get a result of big game can we go to Fulham and turn them over and other swilding it and beat them and if we can then we will finish seventh and then we can go right okay wasn't a great season we've had a good transfer window the man has just got that under his belt now he'll come and kick on it's going to take a bit of time but we've also got to we've got to be able to recognise some improvement there's always going to be an element of criticism because that's the way it is we're always going to criticise football fans we want us to be top of the league we want us to be winners of these so the element of criticism will be there and we've got to get better together and us as a fan base have got to get better we have, we've got to make go to some park horrible to come to yeah it is horrible to come to because that's for us I mean for a waiting but we need something back as well and as long as the manager of Marcel Brands know where to go and stick to it us as fans it's our job to go let's get behind them and see people losing their heads go and do them on them anyway new dish adaptable, you knew what we're doing but we're still, we'd have been 70 if we'd have won yesterday if we'd have been brightening on Saturday we'd have been seventh by a few points so if we'd have won brightening Leicester we'd have been well seventh and everyone would have been going that's ours now what we've got to do now is we've got to get ourselves back in the run like we were before before the derby we've got to get ourselves in a bit of a run if, there I say it are all winnable before we have Manchester City at home I'm not saying we're going to win I'm just saying they are winnable games so to speak but the games you've got to turn off can we go away and grind a win out can we go and win 3-1 from it shall Danton's open and go yeah we can, can we come away hopefully we'll see what happens anyway very disappointing performance to start 2,000 oh shit, shit Christmas was great but wasn't good, again it's the life of an evertonian mate it is mad isn't it you're added and encapsulated within 3 days box and data well now a wee, tro tan am barely brilliant, brightened and unless it's just gone there's the cherry on the top there's the stone you put on over Christmas right there alright let us know your thoughts in the comments have you pressed the panic button yet or are you just like it'll be alright, we're laying it and shall we bring anyone in in January? yes discussion for another day let us know, we'll see you later