 This video is sponsored by One Football. One Football's app makes it easy to keep up to date with transfer news, scores and stats all in the one place. To download the One Football app, click the link in the description. The app is free. One Nail to Watford. Everton once again putting in a subpar and that's being generous performance. Didn't look up for it. Great determination, gone out the window. All the positive things that we had to say about the Manchester City game, which weren't very many, all gone out the window. What are we looking for? We're looking for creativity. We're looking for, not genius, but some good thought going into formation and strategies. We're looking for players to be brave. We're looking for entertainment. We're looking for all this stuff in our football team. Obviously we're not looking for it in the rest of the Everton community because that's bad, but that's a different subject. But once again, all the things that we're looking for didn't happen. Most of the confusion even kicked off before the game. You look at the team line up and I looked at it and I said, hmm, okay, Andre Gomez in, that's good. Ogana Gaze in, that's good. Okay, there's Guilfrey Stigerson. We've got a midfield three and there's Tom Dave. We've got four central midfielders. What are we doing here? What's the formation going to be? And you sit there and look at it and go, okay, you've got four and one and two and one and two. Is that the formation we're playing or is it four, one, three, two? What's going on here? Why has Dominic Calvert-Lewin been dropped? I thought he had a good game the past two games. Why are we doing that? I can understand the rest of the team playing. I thought Dominic Calvert-Lewin, we're going to try and get him to run a game. We're going to bring in the youth. We're going to give him a chance. We're going to experiment for the rest of the season. We're going to try all these different things. But I guess that went out the window. No, I don't want to look one again. Okay, I can see that for the formation, but didn't seem for the whole game, right? So after the confusion of the formation and the players and the strategy, we go in there and we're like, oh look, here go Everton. We're passing, passing, passing. We hold on to the possession. We don't go anywhere, but we've got possession, same as ever. Troy Diney, on the other hand, decides, you know what? I was talking that smack during the week. You know, I was saying this and I was saying that and Marco Silva even came and said, the boys, the boys aren't happy with that. The boys, you know, they're in for. You don't come, you don't talk about our team like that. You don't say that you're going to do what you're going to do to us. That's not going to happen. We're going to show up. We're going to put in a performance. We're going to prove you wrong, Mr. Diney, Mr. Thug, whatever you want to say. And what does Troy Diney do in the first game? He comes out. He starts getting in. He starts getting in. He's tackling, nudging, elbowing, getting confrontational, getting the crowd up for it. He said, hey, this is what I said I was going to do. And this is what I'm expecting from my team today. And that's exactly what he got out of his team. What Marco Silva said and what other players probably said, what they were going to do for this game, we're going to fight back. You know, there was a good stepping stone against City. We're going to put all of our plans. We're going to execute them beautifully. We're not going to get bantered to and talked down to by a team that's around. We're better than Watford. You know, we're better than Wolves. We're better than Bournemouth. We're better than West Ham. We're not going to put up without. We're going to show you today. I'm sure that's what they said for the past couple of weeks. They say, oh, we're just going to give them another Burnley. You know, that's what we do. We get down in the ditch and then the crowd gets on us and the fans get on us and the pundits get on us and all the social media people get on us. We're tired of this. We're going to go out there and put in the performance. We didn't put in the performance against Man City like that. You didn't put one in against Wolves like that. You didn't put one in against Millwall like that. You didn't put one against Newcastle like that. We don't know all the games. It's all the same stuff. It's always the same. It's going to be the same for the rest of the season. I hate to tell you. You know, we've tried pretty much everything, right? Formation-wise, besides the back three, I mean it comes back in, but here we'll just be coming back into the team. You know, so I guess we've got two weeks to work on stuff. If there's about anything you're going to see different, it may be a different formation. But if we can't get our offensive side of the game working, we're not going to go anywhere. You know, you can make the defense the best in the league, but the best that possibly can be not letting in so many goals and not doing them from set pieces and make better decisions when you're tackling in your half and around the box. You can fix all that. That's cool. Okay, so the team scores zero goals. The opposition team scores zero goals. How many goals are we going to score? Probably the way we look most of the time. Like I said, no creativity. It's just pedantic, boring. Pass, pass, pass, pass, pass with no end product. You know, and even when we do get a chance against certain teams. The amount of times that Cenk Tosen was offside today, I mean, I thought he was Lukaku. I thought he was other center forwards that have all this promise and all this, you know, they're a box player. They're, you know, they seem to be born to the game. But if you can't time your runs correctly, you know, that's one thing. Maybe the defense was better. Maybe they just sniffed it out and they said, well, the only way that they're going to score today is if they try and go in behind us, if they try and make a pass through. So, you know, our offensive. Okay, boys. Up. Talk about hard. Hey. Hey. Up. Offside constantly. And then we've got, you know, straight away, schoolboy defending obviously, banter defending if you like, because, um, you know, Troy Dini decides that instead of doing what most players would do, the ball comes in the box. Oh, what am I going to do? Should I head it on goal? I have a chance on goal. Yeah, I'm not going to do that. Should I, uh, you know, try and trap it and lay it off to a player that's coming into the box or outside of the box to get another crossing? I'm not going to do that. You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to stand between three defenders and I'm going to do a subtle chest layoff pass over the top of Eriton's players and play it in to Eti and Kapu, who's onside and should have scored. If it wasn't for him bottling it and Pickford getting his face on it, we would have been 1-0 down within 10 minutes. Imagine that the ball comes into the box and you say, you know what, these guys are so shy. Here we go. Oh, and you just knock it over the top. Absolutely schoolboy. And it's embarrassing. Just that alone. Got a little flush in my face thinking, man, we are so bad that that's what Troy Dini wants to do. His chest is to control one-time pass over the top of our defense. And then, of course, the game got scrappy most of the way through the first half. A lot of stop-start, you know, good game management again from Watford because maybe they came and just said, you know what, we'll take a 1-0 here. They're not going to score. All we have to do is get one chance or maybe two chances and we can score because these guys aren't capable of putting the ball in the back of the net. They don't look like they're up for it and they don't have the players to do that. They don't have the creativity. They don't have any of the guy to do any of that stuff. So we'll just take a 1-0 here. And they didn't even really show much going forward, right? I mean, our defense is always dodgy so they might always give something away. But they didn't look like they were, you know, dangerous. They weren't taking too many chances. So, you know, that was the first half and you go in and just say, oh, well, it's 0-0. It could be worse. It should be 1-0 down or, you know, if they had got more free kicks and more set-pieces, you probably could put them in 4-0 down. But, you know, 0-0, that's acceptable. And we sit there as Evertonians, hopefully, those of us that have a small semblance of a football IQ would go, okay, Silver, you've tried your 4-1, 2-1, 2. Right now it's not working. We need to do something else. Let's make a change. You know, let's just freshen it up. Let's try something else. Let's get the away fans into the game. Let's give the people at home something to cheer for. Let's see some, you know, just something, right? Something. Silver change is nothing. However, have you got... Whatford manager has taken into account all the things that have taken part in the first half. He's looked at his players. He's looked at our formation. He's seen where we're attacking. He's seen where we're not attacking. He's taken into consideration. He's probably held up his coach in staff and said, okay, what do we do, guys? We've got to do something. This isn't working for us. Hey, boss, let's put on Andre Gray. Let's put this guy on. He looks like he can get in behind. He can pick a pass. He can run on to a pass. He might be able to cause them some problems. Let's do that. So, Harry Grazia makes that change. And what do you know? Get to that later. So, comes out Whatford looked great, obviously. They're up for it. We come out just, you know, doing what we usually do. Sluggish. Same thing. Probably didn't even get a talking to a halftime. What did you do? You come in and Marcus goes, that's good, guys. We did not concede a goal. Okay, that's good. Go out there and express yourselves. Okay, thank you. Bye. And that's it. But obviously, Harry Grazia said something. They came out. They attacked. They looked up for it. They were gear above us. You know, they were trying different things. They were trying to go over the top. They were trying to go over the weakness, which really isn't that hard. And then, eventually, they They scored. Right, and it just so happens that Gomez went off and Theo Walcott came on just before the goal. Not blaming Walcott for it. He can't blame Walcott for everything. Can't blame Silver for everything. But what does that say to us as fans, as supporters? We look at the team sheet. Okay, there's the team sheet. Here's our substitutions. Okay, we need to make a change, guys. We need positivity, that word again. We need some pace, some flair. We need a little unpredictability in the play. They bought on a Maori grain. Look what that did. So what are we going to just take a look? Who we got on here? Okay, we got Adam O'Lukman. We don't want to bring him on. Not ready. Not good enough. Can't do it. Can't do what I want. Okay, oh, we got Bernard. Standing tactician might be able to make something happen. Quick, close ball control. He can do something. You know, hey, Theo. You've been playing well all season. You've been putting in a shift. You've been playing well in the past two games. Come on, Theo, get in there. Get in there and do something. Seriously. Okay, and then, of course, they score. And how do they score? You have a little bit of ball play around the outside. One touch pass, and then the no-look, one touch pass that breaks open our defense. A little whoop, a little whoop. And who is that? Who is that creative player that did something? Who had the vision and the ambition and the balls and the guts to make a pass like that? Oh, it was their center back. Their center back is spinning our defense apart. And then, of course, their substitute comes in and back post. He's lurking. There he is, doing his thing. Nobody trekked the rod. Nobody did anything. Nobody got to the ball through, came through. There was nobody there. Nobody made a tackle. Nobody did anything. There was nobody making a challenge when the ball came to the byline. Goes to the back post. There's nobody marking. There's nobody doing anything. There's nobody making any threats. And then, you know what? That was game over, right? We can't score a goal. We didn't try and do anything different than we've done in other games. It was just over. And, of course, we, what, then what? Dignay gets a free kick, and we say, okay, here we go. Nice lofted ball to the back post. Maybe we'll get a header on goal. Maybe we'll get it back across. Maybe we'll get a second chance. Great time for Zuma and Keen to come up. You know, get our big man on the ball. What a undeserved goal. So what do we decide to do? What does Luca Dignay, who I love, by the way, decide to do? Take a shot on target. Do we really need a worldie from that position to bring us back into the game? Is that how bad it's gotten for our team? Instead of doing the simple things and just crossing it in and putting it up there and giving a lot of players a chance to do something, even on the second ball, even when the ball comes back out, we can recycle it. All those things. So many possibilities of kicking that position. So what do we decide to do? Oh, that's the creativity we're talking about. That's the sneakiness in the guile that we're talking about. We're going to take a shot from that one. It hit the bar and it was so close. Garbage. More bad decision making. Garbage. And then DLC, obviously. DCL, sorry. DCL decides that he's just going to hit it wide. You know, it was a good pick out by Zuma, but I'm pretty sure that maybe lack of confidence from not starting, maybe just lack of overall confidence for the team. Probably could have done better, but it went wide. Tosen should have finished his, even though it was offside. Yes, it was offside, but the amount of times that you want a player to finish you know, the part of the play that was going on there. I guess you're offside. You might be mile offside, but we'll just tap it in. Just one thing but hey, if that was an offside, I would have finished that. If I was an offside, I would have made you look like a fool. If I was an offside, we'd be at 1-1, but no, just bottles it and hits it over the bar. So what else is there left to say? We've gone through all the negatives. We've gone through the one positive that looks like we came out for the first five minutes and tried something. Decent effort, if that's what you're looking for, which I guess we are at this point in time, but absolutely poor, dire, mediocre quality. Same old issues, same old Everton, and the most disturbing thing of all. 11 points from 14 games. Banter. Now leave me alone.