 Welcome to ToffeeTV it is the match preview Wofford versus Edderton or as some morons have called it the Silver Derby. Have they? Yeah, apparently. The Silver Derby. Yeah, probably. Probably Paul Mason or someone like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Definitely. The Silver Derby. Interesting. Very interesting. This video is sponsored by One Football. One Football's app. It makes it easier to find scores, stats and all the latest news in one place. If you want to download the One Football app, click the link in the description. So Wofford away, I mean it's so many different stands of this one, isn't it? Obviously Silver going back to his old club, Evan just lost a couple of games in a row and it's also Evan's last game for two and a half weeks. So there's all these different little bits and pieces but you know, forget about all that. I mean, it's a difficult place to go, isn't it, Wofford now? They're having a decent season, I mean they're having a good season and there are only a couple of places above us, a couple of points above us but they've made themselves a very durable side. Yeah, they are. They're a tough side to beat. They've got some good players, done well with their manager, you know, they come up and come up with Kiko Flores in charge, or they had Kiko Flores in charge, didn't they? And they were okay, they changed the manager regularly, don't they? And obviously they had Walter Pazini, he was mad and then we had Marko Silver and he went up the door and he had had a few grassy's since last January, haven't they? They're tough, they've got good plays, they've got, you know, Decoray, and do a little Decoray, you know, you know, we all would love in our team, I suppose. You've got, like I said, Gerard Dellafeu, who on his day can be a match winner as we well know. You've got Troy, big Troy, who's always a handful. So, and also the keeper, Ben Foster, I think by stats, he's the best goalkeeper in the Premier League this season. He'll be wasting time in 3-0-1, of course he always does, he's an excellent keeper. So they've got a good side, the manager's done well, they're very, very competitive, obviously they've got Tom Cleveley as well there. So it will be a really tough game. We've lost the last couple of seasons there, haven't we? And it's just she and I think Wofford have never, have won their last two times Premier League games against them, and they've never won 3 in the row against an opponent in the Premier League of Bichlid's Road. So I'm sticking, I'm hoping that that can sing you. But it will be a tough game. What do you make of, obviously, Silver going back there, there'll be a lot of focus on that, there'll be, you know, I've heard scenes about Wofford telling their fans, you know, get over that, don't be, you know, no need for booing and all that. And then Troy Dean, he was asked about it as well, and he was, he just said, you know, we're just going to kick it off the park. What do you make about, on his comments? If the problem is he said that, are a fans form and naively. Do you think? Oh, no, not him, not he's not, well, he is, because of, because of the age, the day in age we live in, but it's out there. But I don't think he. So once it's out there, no, what I'm saying is, if Everton are clever, if Michael Silver is clever, he will bring that to the attention of the referee straight off the bat. But as a player talking to a fan base saying, don't give Silver too much stick because you just, you're giving them a boost, let us deal with it. That's what I think he was trying to say. We'll deal with their own little pitch. But this is the same fella who said he was going to break the charlots and his leg or something in the Goddison game. And he didn't, he just got on with his game, didn't he? So listen, I quite like him. I quite like him. He's quite honest. He says a lot of things. He's quite straight talker and I don't have any issue with him, really, in terms of the only thing I'm puzzled about with Wofford, with the Silver thing is I can understand them being annoyed. But they did sack him. So it's like us now sacking Marco Silver. All right, you know, someone coming in palace wanting them or someone and us sacking them and them going there and then us having a cobbon that he's gone there will, if he didn't walked out in November, like I know we wanted to, but if he would have done and Wofford would have gone, I don't know, because he doesn't want to be here. I could kind of understand it more. But the fact is they've got a manager who's quite happy with him. Yeah, he's sacked them, so I don't know what to be. If I was them, I think I'd be thinking, you know what? Don't do anything soon. Don't show many, any respect like you bother about them. That's how I'd want it if it was ever. And I just think enough water's gone under the bridge. Why? But I can understand if they're going to heckle him, because why wouldn't you? Yeah, because they don't have the gutters in there. I don't see them. I don't. Well, yeah, they said we were going to be snakes, but there wasn't enough of them being snakes. I wonder whether, you know, what's the point anyway? Because it's not like there's any of you like. Playing, is he? Everybody is not like exactly. If I'm fans of one, I'm not exactly going to be rushing out to sort of back him up. I wouldn't imagine there's no, there's no relationship there as yet with the fans to be like that. So I just don't see the point at the end of the day. You know, you know, I just find it all very baffling because. And that's where I mean, so he's the comments. I don't mind them either. In fact, I'd love to have a player that. Not, not saying necessarily come out and say things like that, but is, but, but as the honesty and shows the honesty on the pitch as well. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, he doesn't. He's not an amazing footballer. But what he's done is he's got, he uses what he's got to his own, you know, to his own for the, for the best. And we've seen him last season, he scored the win in there. And he can be a handful, handful on his day. And you know what you're going to get from him. But if he says something, he'll normally back her up not in a nasty way. He's just got away with words that I suppose. You know, when he says it, it's, it's, it's not being sort of flippant or, or, you know, he means it. But again, I don't mean in a horrible way. He's not going to go out to kick Everton off the park. All he's saying is we will work hard on Saturday. And I think that's refreshing. I never have to be added on Saturday. They have to say, you know, the performance isn't. In terms of hard work, like it was against Man City. What for they've got enough to beat us easily? I think because we don't have that. We haven't shown that backbone and that spine to beat teams. I mean, we were lucky when we played with Gullison to get the equaliser. You know, in the last minute, they played well that night. And I thought that night was the signs where you were like, I'm going, these are, these are like around the same as us. And they're playing well better than us on the night. You know, they were, the girls, he would have scored the pen now to go to two a minute after the course, of course. But they've got what I mean is that they've got, they've got a good way of playing. They've got a good style. Good players. They're players. And again, that's where their managers come in and go, I've got a, I've got a way of playing, but you, you've got a way of playing. Let's meet in the middle. It works for everybody. It's high energy. Players like it. The players have gone on board. Manager is, is all like with Dan and it's all fit and the play. And I think this is the difference with a lot of teams round us. Is that because it might be because it's early days, but the teams round us maybe Lester, maybe the only ones is that they're all quite happy and the fans are all quite happy with the way they play. And they're all in sync. And I think maybe because it is that's what I'm saying. Lester adds, but everyone else seems to be, you know, in sync with with that. And the team, two teams above us, you know, Wofford and Wolves, they're very much like that at the moment. They've got that harmony running through the club. And until we get that harmony, I think these games are always going to be a little bit tough because these players will dig in and our players just don't seem to be able to dig in, apart from against City. But ultimately, you know, we've got to be able to. But they, yeah, it's difficult to disagree with because they are, they do back them. Well, I think Wofford fans back there have backed all of the managers though in recent times, because they have had a lot of change. The Pozos who own them have changed the manager, basically every season, haven't they? Flores, Pazzini, Silver, Gracia, or Gracia was forced because obviously they ended up chasing Marco Silver. So they've bought into it, they've backed them. I don't know whether the fans have driven any of those managers out. I don't think they have, even when they were struggling. I don't think they're that kind of fan base. And that's not being disrespectful to them. I just don't think they're that kind of fan base. I think they're just fans who are happy with their lot. Essentially, don't ask too much of the players apart from working hard and now and again. I think you've got ambition. I think they'll have ambition because every football fan has. You can't, you can't. I don't think every football fan does that. No, I do. I think everyone wants. I think everybody wants to be successful. Everybody wants to do well. No, but I think a lot of teams, a lot of fans of a lot of teams that have maybe had a lot of up and downs are genuinely happy and do have a seal and an understand. I do, honestly, you know, I went there last year and it was, they were all very content. I felt like with what they've got. They're doing all right. Well, that's insane. This is for them, but they were all right. No, I don't think they're right. Sorry, I think they're right. But I don't think they're going to, I don't think there's going to be any ramping and raving or anything about that. In some respects, then, that's, we could do a bit of that. Placing, excuse me. At times, I suppose, as a fan base, because it might help the club settle down a bit, but we're not like that, are we? We want to, we believe that we should be higher or certainly the investment and everything that's giving people a new focus. But because we have been a team that was pushing, knocking on the top four though for so many years, and then, you know, in fifth and sixth, and so we've always in that top eight in general, you know, whatever it is, the last 16, 17 years, it's like three times outside the top eight or something in that time. So we are established over that time in the top eight. This year, it might be different, you know, whichever way we go. But it's a tough game, and it's a game, you're right, we're going to have to match them. We're going to have to, they're going to be physical, you know, and we're going to have to be able to stand up to them and set plays are obviously a real problem. And John just sent me a thing that's Sylvan Distance just said on source board about everything and saying, he thinks the line is too high. As a defender, it is very uncomfortable situation. You want to close the gap between the line and your goalkeeper, but at the same time, you need to be high enough to disturb the attack on players. So he thinks the players are confused in that area. Well, we saw that before with the goalkeeper. A lot of people saying, why doesn't Jordan Piff come out? And he's right, because the gap is so big that it's essentially making your no man's land huge. So he comes for it and our defence don't react. They're putting a header into an empty goal. Yeah. And that's the, I suppose that's the thing, isn't it? So that's what always makes me laugh about. Not laughing, but that's where you look at a coach and you go, why haven't you got that kind of experience around it? Or everything don't seem to have that experience in the team to be able to come up with those solutions. Pretty, we've got two youngish defenders who haven't got that much experience of playing in, South and mean as another young one. That's why Chelsea, for me, kept Terry as long as they did. Of course, yeah, of course. But then shouldn't Jagsby. And it's whether the manager would listen. That's the other thing, I don't know whether they would or not. In a trough flight, Wofford have only lost more home games against Liverpool and Manchester United than they have against Everton. So, I mean, whether it's whether or not. You're buying, you're buying. Dijon in great form, no? They've won one in seven. Means nothing. Nothing. So, does it mean nothing that we've won three in twelve then? Or does that just mean what? Means nothing. No, that's fine. That means nothing. That's okay. When it comes to set pieces. That's fine. When it comes to set pieces. No, well, set pieces, I don't know what I mean. Sarty, we're going to have to be careful, aren't we? Because Del has fed you, who he came back when we played them, being out injured, came back around the time, come off the bench, set a goal up, didn't he? Check both of them off. Yeah, so he's going to be. But he played his part. He's going to be important for them on Sarty because he is the kind of player that we don't like playing against. No. And he will try and buy a lot of files around the box. And again, we spoke about this in humanist times. It's about he is a player who will go down and say it in areas. But the files won't be any worse. They're sorry, any less than what we've seen on Richarlison. But Richarlison goes down in areas of the pitch that has no effect on the game. Whereas I bet your Del will fail you every time he goes down. It will be somewhere where you can affect the game, even if you don't get the file. And they take turn over the ball. It's high enough for the pitch that doesn't matter. And then we've got to be careful there on Saturday because if these whip in anything with a little bit of quality, because for people like him, it doesn't matter whether you think he's crap or whatever or gobbie, stuff like that to him and decorate, that's what they want. They've got the kind of centre back you'll get up and score goals. The cut-thru will get on the end of Sunday. That's the difference in games like this. If you go down on Saturday, you go, you know what? We're evenly matched. We've probably got more talented players, but I bet you they've got more hard-breaking players as it stands. And if it comes down to a set piece, and if it's a difference in us scoring a set piece and them scoring a set piece, I know scoring a set piece, put it that way. Well, what I was going to say was you can pick a thing that'll be dangerous to us, but I can't pick a thing that'll be dangerous to them other than if Everton play well. If Everton play at the level we can with the commitment we showed against City, we'll beat them. We will, we'll beat them. We'll have to probably score two or three because they'll have scored a free kick. But that's what it is, right? But I can look at them and go, if they get free kicks around that, we're in trouble. And that's not good. It's not good to go into games, knowing that straight off the bat, you're vulnerable off a situation. I mean, they played, they played 4-2, well, they played basically 4-4-2, 4-4-1-1 last week at Brighton, they had Delify, who was the split striker, off Tsoydini, Wil Hughes, Seymour, Kapooie and Cleverly. Decorey wasn't in the team, and he wasn't on the bench, so I don't know whether, I haven't seen their team, I don't know whether he's going to be fit. That'll be a big thing if he wasn't fit for the weekend, it'll help us massively, because I think he's fantastic. It'd be interesting to see the way Evan approached the game, because if he uses the same formation as he used against Man City, and the same set of players doing the same thing, I think we can cause them a lot of problems. I think if he goes back to typing, Sigurds and Cums back in, and Retialis and Cums back in, maybe bring Retialis, maybe Retialis and Cums in for Walcott. Yeah, I think we need energy in this game. But we do, because they are. Because you've got to match, you've got to, it's the worst thing, it's like when we were winning games earlier on, and we won like the three in a row, and we like beat Palace at home, the difference was in those games, we matched them for effort, and then our quality just pushed us over. And then once that effort started dropping off, seeping off, we couldn't match the teams, we couldn't match these, you know, our own Newcastle going ahead, going ahead, not having the energy almost to just get yourself back in the game, but not enough to win the game. And I think if we can get our level, so that we're playing at that energy, and it's going to be difficult Saturday again, because we've had the midweek game, and they've had no game. Yeah. You know, and maybe, like, maybe if mean is 50-50, you'll say, well, you know what, I'll leave mean, because we've got two weeks now, and that injury's flayed up again. Or then does he say, well, he's 50-50, he's got two weeks after this, so, do I put him in? But, because I mean, ideally, I want that. I'll play me, I'll play three at the bottom. If he was fit and ready, I'd play three at the back and push Kenny. The change would probably be, I would lose Wolcott top to that. And so Bernard, the play, I'd say to Bernard, play, what De La Faye is playing for these, float around Calvert Lewin, have your midfield three with Tom Pressing almost, play the three, push John Joe on and push Luca Dino. Give these something to think about to go, these don't normally play this, now they're playing three. It gives us something to have a go at, and Dini can, you know, mean it can bully Dini, because that'll get involved with Dini, because he's the more likely one to have a little bit of a go where it's the other two. Do you know what? Had a bit more change. Do you know what though? I don't, I don't mind, you know, whoever the centre-back is, you go up against Dini and so, I don't mind that. I want to see a centre-back bullying our centre forward, because our centre-back, because I want to see the reaction, I want to see if they've got it in them, I know that's, that might be counterproductive, but you play against, our defenders play against some centre-back, some centre-forward, like, you know, Gwerau and the quick and the, I want to see one, trying to bully them, and let's see what the reaction is, because I think, you know, mean it comes across to me, as a nice, happy, jokey lad. I want to see him get angry. Mate, I've seen, I've seen in the World Cup, the people being snagged, but that's what he was. But he probably knew that he was backed up by the rest of his team who were snagged, whereas if he's not getting backed up by other people, they don't really know him or the rest of it, because we are timid. That's one of the things that Wofford will have over us on the weekend, they probably fight for each other and will be straight on the scene, if there's an issue, whereas we don't. We just let players push our players around, no one gets involved. The weird thing about that is, right, especially, we've got, we're almost renowned for having a fan base, that is, like, self loathing, you know, people make jokes about it, and you just think, surely you need to be a character just to play in front of us? Never mind playing in front of away fans, and you're thinking, or do you think that's part of this, that players who don't have the character just wilt and therefore, because of our fan base? Maybe, I don't. You know, it's because of your input, boss. And I don't want to say, they're not performing because of us. No, I don't mean that, what I mean is you need big characters, don't you, just come back to the team, you need big characters to drag, and sometimes you need more, then sometimes, then having the... If you play for Everton, you could guarantee he would've knocked a few of our centre halfs together for some of the goals we've led in, or he'd be in the... Get an interview going, it's crap. We do this all week in training, and they're letting us down when we go off day, we're not doing it. He will be the one training. Do you know what I mean? But I haven't had any Everton play training. We just get the rally call. We'll do it this week, we'll do it, we need to do it now. Whereas he's like, yeah, we'll, you know, we've got to do it, and he points the finger, and it's generally a reaction where there's maybe our characters aren't in the team, and that's what we need, but... We'll not try to replicate what he did against Manchester City, and then have quality in the final third, that was missing against Manchester City, to get anything. Let's do it, let's have a performance, let's have a lease, because I don't know if I can call for two and a half weeks. If Everton won at the weekend, that'd be the first time since 2016, when we've won back-to-back away games, and it's 2019. Three years. Well, it's only two and a half, you've put it to ridiculous though, isn't it? Isn't it? No, it is ridiculous. We're talking about a team, you know, that's had investments in it, not capable of winning two away games on the spin. I put, I don't put that down to footballers, I put that down to mentality. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah. Simple as that. That illustrates more about this football club than anything does. Mentality. Well, that's what's held us back for years, and it's still seemingly holding us back now. You need the occasional yard dog and shit out in your squad. You do? Who will do the things that, do the things you need to do. I know people might not like them, but you do need them. So. Characters, right? That's what they're known as, characters, yeah. D'you go, there is no, you thought in the comments, are you confident of three points on Saturday? Score prediction? They'll score off a free kick, that's my prediction. Okay. Or, you know, as Mr. T said, pain. Bubba Lang. Club of Lang. I know, not Bubba Lang. I was just texting you. I was just texting you. I was just texting you. I was texting you. I was texting you. I was texting you. Okay. Seeing what your movie knowledge was like. There you go. Club of Lang. Four. There you go. What's your prediction? Two one, either. We'll concede off a free kick. Right, there's no, you thought in the comments, if you haven't subscribed, please do click the bell for the latest. And if you want more videos, join us on Patreon. We'll see you later.