 Welcome to Toffy TV, these are the player ratings Everton vs Rotherham United, 3-1 victory in the Carribow Cup this evening. Obviously it was a mixed team, much changed side from the weekend. Martin Stechlenberg, I've given him a 7, didn't do too much wrong, come and claimed everything in the air. His kicking was quite decent tonight, he had a couple of hairling moments where maybe he should have come for the ball though there was a bit of a lack of communication with the defenders. But overall he did okay, he wasn't the drama, sometimes you expect of Martin Stechlenberg, so yeah he did okay. John Jo Kenny playing his first game of the season, he got a 7 from me, I thought he was really good going forward, I thought he was always available on the right, always available on the overlap. Sometimes his crosses were disappointing sometimes and sometimes they were good, it was a mixed bag tonight but he's a young player and that's what's going to happen. But I thought the fact that it was his first start, I think he played on Saturday for the under-23s, he's a good son and it's great that he can switch between them. Last season he was exclusively in the first team but I think if he's not playing and there's a chance to play for the under-23s, it'll do him no harm to move back down and I think that's something that we haven't seen enough of of ever and recently there were times last season when some players, not just young players but some players, maybe like the legs of Sandra, like the legs of Davie Klasson last season, could have gone into the under-23s and played so I think it was good that he played in the under-23s and maybe the idea behind that was that he would always be playing in this game tonight. So I thought he played well, I thought he did himself no harm, I thought defensively he was quite good as well, didn't get bullied, he's always someone who will fight for the ball and is laying in the game more and more. And I know that's difficult because he's not playing a hell of a lot of games and that'll change his comments back but I thought he was always an outlet tonight so it was a difficult game for him as well, different kind of competition a lot along the balls but I thought on the whole he did quite well. Mason Hallgate, I thought he had a quite solid game as well, starting with Kate Zuma for the first time, he's gone from starting the first game of the season on the bench to being the, I don't know if you'd call him the senior man but obviously the man who's been longest at Everton playing at the back, centre back. So I thought he did okay tonight, I've given him a seven as I said and I think he coped quite well with the physical presence of Rotherham team who really were looking for long balls down the field, trying to back in, trying to be physical, trying to win a lot of free kicks. And coming out with the ball as well, the composure that he has on the ball, I think it's a very underrated thing about Hallgate as his use of the ball, I think he's quite good on the ball, he likes to bring it out, he likes to use it, he likes to keep it. And I think he did that quite well tonight and starting attacks on the back, trying to get it into the fullback, trying to get it past the fullbacks, I thought he did quite well, so he gets a seven for me. Kate Zuma, I've given him an eight because I thought obviously for his first half forever and I thought he did really, really well. And the physical side of the game that I've just talked about, that Rotherham show tonight, I thought he did really well, I thought he was really strong, I thought he was braver times. He went down in the second half, taking a whack, which really again, the referee should be stopping the game, but it went on. And I thought he dealt really, really well with what Rotherham threw at us. I think there are defensive frailties, but I think it's the whole of the defence and it's how they set up for set pieces that have let us down so far this season. And if you are playing zone on mark, and it's hard to say, oh, he did something wrong, or he did something wrong, not knowing what zones that they are playing in. But I thought in terms of winning his battles tonight, I thought he did it really, really comfortable. And he's another one actually, he wants to bring the ball out, he wants to use it well. He doesn't just want to smash it down pitch, but when he needs to, he will just smash the ball down the pitch. So I thought he was really assured tonight. And, you know, going forward, he can certainly keep that straight. There's no real competition at the moment, it looks like Jack Elco might be out injured. Obviously Harry Miners injured, obviously Michael Keane's injured, so it's good that he came in tonight and got back game under his belt. And as I said, I thought he looked really comfortable, really assured and give us that little bit of pace and a little bit of physicalness that we needed tonight. On the left back, Luca Dean, again, I thought he was really composed tonight. What I like about this lad is that he seems really laid back and he doesn't seem like he gets done to bite too much, and he always seems like he's got time on the ball and going forward, I think going forward. He's one of them that when he gets to the barline, he looks for someone and he tries to pick them out and he put some grey crosses in tonight that were right to the feet of our players. He doesn't just hit it and hope, he does really want to throw a crossing and aim for a player. And at the other end of the thing, you know, he's got that kind of composure that he's good in the air, he has a really good leap on him. And he doesn't just look to just smash it, he looks to be a little bit composed. That's the Barcelona side of things, you know, in him, I think, so to just not smash the ball, keep all of it, keep possession. So I thought, again, first start in an evident shape, playing against lower opposition is not always easy, especially when they're trying to play a lot of diagonals and a lot of the physical side of stuff. Not saying he's not going to be, he's not being used to that. He's played in the French League, he's played in Italy and obviously there's teams like that in Spain as well. So teams, when you play for Barcelona, everyone, no one's going to sign out of football here, they're going to try different ways. So I thought he was good tonight, I thought he was really composed and, you know, it was a good start for him in an evident shape. Tom Davies, captain for the side tonight, I thought he did okay, I thought it was a different game for him tonight because he was sitting in front of that back four and he was really at the only protection, you know, everyone else in front of him was an attacking player. Yes, he helped out, but he was the one who had to really anchor and I thought he did quite well as well tonight. You know, he kept the ball, he was a lot more mature tonight, he was a lot more disciplined, he just sat in front of that back four, got the ball and gave the ball. At times he was trying to play clever passes and a lot of them did get through, it was a mature performance, it was like, you know, tonight he was the captain, he knew that, you know, there was a lot of responsibility on him because he was just that sitter tonight and I thought he played really well and we've seen that different side of him tonight, he wasn't the presser and the harry and the chase, he was the person who could sit and he looked, you know, he looked a lot better than the rather than players and I think, I don't know what will be the final Tom Davies, I don't know what he will become, I don't know whether he'll become good enough to play in a 17 week in and week out, but I think when you're playing in a game like this and you see that level of maturity, it really helps and helps settle fans down, I think he's a bit of a ratach, I think, I just don't think anyone's sort of figured them out, yeah then I think that's up to the manager now to figure out what he is and where he fits in this team, but I thought tonight he played really well. Kieran Dahl was obviously in there as well and I thought it was quite funny that Kieran Dahl and Tom Davies, you know, started the knowledge game a couple of years ago after Roberto Martin has got sacked and David Unsworth took charge of the game and you've got one tonight leading the team out, captain and in Kieran Dahl you've got someone who hasn't played an ever in game since then, I've go to St Park, so it's an interesting concept, obviously he's been out on loan, they've decided not to send them on loan, it looks like this season. I thought he took a little bit of time to grow into the game and I don't think he played necessarily his natural game, I've given him a six and a half, I think there was good opportunities tonight to just get it out of his feet and smash one with his left foot, something that he's been renowned for doing for the under 23s and something he did at Norton Forest and I think everyone was just waiting for him to do that, but he tried to keep it simple and I think when he kept it simple it took something away from his game. I think later on in the game he started to show a bit more of who Kieran Dahl is, nice little one touch passes, nice little flicks around the corner, backheels, that kind of thing, but I think at times the physicality of the game was a little bit too much for him, so he's got to improve on that and I just think that if you get a chance as a youngster just playing your natural game, just get it out of your feet and just do what you do best, which is smash one in, he had one late on almost to make it four one, he just put it slightly wide, I think Lucas Dean first one in, so he put it slightly wide, but it was a difficult one for him because there was a lot of forward players for this tonight and I think he just got lost a little bit in there, but promising signs going forward. Guilfee Six and I gave a seven, he obviously got the goal in the first half, nice and composed performance, maturity on the ball, kept the ball well, probably cut the score a little bit higher, but he didn't really, he just kept things ticking over tonight, he didn't do it after doing anything dramatic but as I say he got the goal, his rubbish free kick led us to get the second goal, but he was nice and composed without doing anything amazing, but he was a nice controlled head on the pitch. Sandro, weird that he started the game considering all the rumours, apparently after the game Michael Silver said he wants him to stay, but would understand that if he wanted to leave because of the lack of first team football. I've given him a six, I think it wasn't Natalie's position playing out there tonight on the left hand side, sitting in the second half, and at times he showed nice touches, but then other times, all you want him to do is just hold on to the ball and keep it for you, especially when you're on the break, and it gives it away too sloppy, some of his pattern was nice, some of his crossfield pattern was nice, but again you're waiting for him to do something, you're waiting for him to just do something that we haven't seen from him yet as an effort player, and he just doesn't quite have that, I think the game has just played at a pace, just a little bit alien to him, so it'd be interesting to see what happens now over the next 24, 48 hours, and that if he does leave the club, but the manager wants him to stay and we'll wait and see what happens. Don't want to give an eight because again, I love Don, anyone who watches this channel knows, I think he's got such a good maturity and such a good head on his shoulders, and he's laying out to play that centre forward position really well for the lad of his age, and tonight he added the goals, you know, the header, second half and we just needed that killer goal, that second goal, it was a lovely cross, and as soon as I seen the cross to be honest, I knew it would be a goal, and the third one was fantastic, they had scored and you were just like oh no, they'd got loads of long throws and set pieces and thinking like he's going to get a goal here, and he just gets it and he bends into the top corner and you're thinking, if only you'd done that in the Masyside Abbey, mate, you'd be a hero for life of this club, but he just bends it in and when he plays teams like that, you can see that he's a level above, a class above those kind of players, and it's just about getting those rough edges off him now, he really reminds me of Graeme Shah, without seeing a lot of Graeme Shah when he was younger, obviously I'd seen Graeme Shah when he was becoming more of a well-rounded player, but listening to people Dave's said, he reminds him of a young Graeme Shah, a player with all the ability and can hold on to the ball and use it well, maybe needs to add the goals, but he's got something in his game that I really like, he just knows how to play football, simple as that, he knows how to win files, he knows how to hold it up, and it's just about getting that other side now, can you score more goals, can you produce more goals, but I thought it was a really good performance from him to anything scored to really good centre forward goals, so yeah, he gets an eighth on me. Miss Stripefather tonight, you might as well, he gets a four, he was rubbish wasn't he, everything just seemed to bounce off him every time he had a chance, he bloomed it over, he had a diving header in the second half, that looked harder to miss than to score, he was just rubbish, it was just one of those nights for him, maybe he'd scored early on, took one of those chances early on, maybe he would have settled down, but everything just bounced off him all night, and maybe that's because it's a lack of game time, I don't know, but I remember last year it was in the third round wasn't it, that was when we first played, he got that goal against Sunday and that set him up for the game against Bournemouth on the Saturday, and that's when his everything changed for him at heaven, well tonight he just couldn't trap a bag of sand, and it just was one of those nights for him, and that's why he's got a four, cos he just was rubbish, and I'm not having a go on him, he was just rubbish, it's as simple as that, he'll know that, the manager knows that, and we know that as fans, yeah, so four for him, the subs woke up tossing and snarling, six, they were alright, did okay, whatever, and yeah, the fans, nine, 31, nearly 32,000 for the second round of the Carabao Cup, fantastic, fantastic turnout tonight by the fans, brilliant, so yeah, nine out of ten for the fans, there you have it, they have been my player ratings, the mad thing is, most of the players have gone quite high, we still didn't play quite well, but people individually played okay, but as a team I don't think we played too well, and that's just because it's an alien team I think, but I think most players did their jobs, it wasn't a fluid coquise of team tonight, because it was nine starters, new starters from the weekend, so I think it was only Hallgating, Guilffy, that started tonight, that started on Saturday, did you have it, let me know your thoughts in the comments, check out my instant match reaction from the Gladiage Street, and look forward to Badger's video as well, I'll see you later.