 Welcome to Toffy TV, it is my three things from Everton One, Brighton One, a Godderson Park today. It kind of feels like two points dropped, but I kind of sit here and say Everton fully deserve to win. No, not really. It feels like two points dropped because of the way in which Brighton got their equaliser and how long left it wasn't. We just haven't had any good results against Brighton in the last few seasons after we had Godderson, so it's not surprised they've ended with a Spawn equaliser today, but that's the way it is. That is the way it is. Yeah, it's football. It's football and it's a good point in the end because they are a good side, but I am a little bit disappointed we didn't hang on for the three, which would have took us 12 or something at the time, so we move on. We move on. First thing I want to talk about is that, is the gain in points even in games where the opposition are going to have more of the ball now? I thought Everton did that well. I think the manager has got them drilled enough into a structure, drilled enough into sticking with the plan. I'm going to talk about the plan in part two, sorry, in point two, part two, but I think he's got that right now. It is a case for Everton that we just keep adding points on the board. We keep just knocking the games off and we're adding to it. I think it's dead easy to sit here and be moan, the fact that it's took a fluke of an equaliser really from Brighton to stop us winning the game, but we've taken four points out of the last six since the day I've been defeated. If you'd have offered me and I know, you say people say this all the time, if you'd have offered me four points before West Ham game last week, out of those two games Brighton, West Ham away Brighton at home, I would have said, yeah, obviously you always won six, but four points would have been a good return and that's what we've got. So we can't rewrite it from there. I think it's seven, is it seven points out of 12, something like that, that we've taken, yeah, seven points out of the last 12. If we do that for the rest of the season, we'd be absolutely fine. So we have to look at it in the context. We didn't play well today. We battled well. Everybody worked the socks off, no problem with the team at all there, but we didn't play well. The decision making was poor and we just didn't create good opportunities today, but we've gained four points in the last six and that is a model that we have to move forward with and we'll see where we go with that. Hopefully we can do that. We go to Palace next week, it'd be brilliant to go there and get a good result, a win. Let's go there and win. It'll be tough day for the good win today at Burnley and then we've obviously the international break and then United at home. I watched a lot of Manchester United today. They're not great. They're easily beatable at Goddison. So, you know, that's what we have to look at now. We have to be a team, we have to be as a fan base confident. We can get results and then see where we go with that. Point two is the style of play, I thought. I get it. I get it at times. I don't like it. I think particularly in games like this. I don't think it is noticeable against kind of most teams in the league, even teams who will be up there battling with Brighton and maybe even ahead of Brighton. Like, I don't think our style of play was noticeable at West Ham last week and West Ham will be battling or have been battling with Brighton. I think when we play the likes of Villa at Goddison, I don't think that style of play will be as noticeable. It really stands out when it's teams who dominate the ball, it stands out because we just can't wait to give the ball away and that's what we did today. We'd win it back and then just smash it forward to nobody or hoping Dom, and I don't know what we want Dom to do. We knock it to him and he flicks it on and no one runs in behind him or no one anticipates the knockdowns. They don't do it off the free kicks either with Tarkovs, who knocks most out. No one runs into them areas. I can't believe they don't practice them. I can't believe the manager or it'll probably be Ian Wong or Steve Stone doesn't in the technical stuff and the analysis stuff in the week don't talk about players gambling on flickers. I can't believe they don't do that, but the amount we win in the air and knock it down into space, no one runs into them space, that to me is poor. We've got to get more comfortable having the football. We play football. These are all players playing in the elite level. I don't believe that a possession-based manager wouldn't come in here and have this team playing football knocking it down. So that makes me think that it's more a case of what they're being told or if it isn't that then it's the confidence that they've got to build up then themselves because it was always going to be, we scored in the seventh minute I think, it was always going to be a huge ask against a team who dominates the ball like Brighton do. Now Brighton have ended up with 80% possession which is shocking for a team at home to have 20% of the ball. It's really poor. There's been games against City when we've had more of the ball and that City are better than Brighton comfortably. So that's poor for me. I think there's got to be a mixture of the two. There's got to be a way to play where we're nice and compact but we'd get off the teams because the second half day one of our chances come from Dwight McNeill firing it against the defender to get a corner and the other come on the other side where they've got a blocking and it's gone on for a corner. Neither of those were chances we fashioned. You can't play it. You can't play in a team and not be able to create opportunities. We've got two wingers and we've got a fella playing off a striker. You've got to be able to create opportunities and that's the next thing for sure on Dwight Ian Rowan and Steve Stone to come up with because we will have more of those days and I don't really want to sit there while the team has 80% possession and we're trying to hang on because invariably we'll end up however as today with us missing opportunities. We have to be better than that. Other people might disagree they might be comfortable and happy with what they're watching but I just think for everything to move forward we have to come up with a slightly different way. Like when we went down to Brighton in May we were clinical in what we did. We broke down, we broke quickly with the ball and and yet today we didn't and I've said it loads of times away from home there's no issue with it go away in board the opposition fans shitless if you want no problem with it but at home we have to be a bit more inventive. I don't know it might just be me but sitting there and just watching the opposition knock the ball about and alls you're doing is whacking it clear that's not really what I'm going to see from my team and the final point I'm going to talk about is a midfield and I do on and on was out today obviously a slight half strain he looked like he was limping a little bit the other night at the end of the burning game to be honest and that was a bloat illusion today because he's been playing brilliantly I don't know whether it would have affected the game any different I thought I'd just have a game in and had a really good game today. I just imagine that we might have been a little bit more solid with Onane but we don't have any options if one of those miss out so we go to you know in January the afcon is there and we could lose the corey and gay out of that which means you left with James Garner and I'ma do Onane andre Gomez I don't know whether he'll be considered I'm not sure deli the evidence trying to sort something out with spares to make him you know to be able to play him basically I know he can play him for another six games and and not after pay a payment seven games triggers a payment but evidently need more than that the gunner need more like today the players were knackered and we had no viable option on the right hand side to come on for say Jack Harrison and we had no viable option in the midfield to replace Garner the drish of Garner gay you looked knackered or the corey he was running on mt at the end we had no viable option and you were going where the corey was but he wouldn't have gone through the wake and he doesn't drop in the way the corey does so that's something I think ever and I've got to trying not correct isn't the right way but got to try and add something in January a player who can maybe do a couple of jobs in that midfield I don't know where maybe somewhere in Europe someone with a little bit of technical ability wants to get on the ball as well but it's a hard work I mean they're not easy to find and especially not in January but we do have to have a slightly different option in there we have to have someone who can take the ball in there pass the ball works hard for the team as well and then gives the manager options because we took one injury today to amod yw omnana and we just looked so light in that midfield it's just legs it's legs really because what could we have done put Ben Goffrey in there no not really who else? Dobbin Danjum he could have gone on the left and McNeill could have gone in there but he was looking knackered so you play him you show on and plays into different positions but it's something I think we need to we need to be looking at but we're stuck with what we've got we need anti Gomez available and we need deli available certainly for December because there's a lot of games that we played in December but we still do have two left this month and obviously one is Palace next week and hopefully omnana will be recovered in time for that the trip to Palace next week before the break it'd be good to have him back and then see what we go where we go from there so but all in all listen it's a point and they took it took a fluke to get them a point out of it not saying he didn't deserve something out of it not saying that at all but we were on the look with kind of six minutes left and that's the way to look at it we've had that an extra point and we move on I'm a bit disappointed I'm not going to lie you want to win your home games but there's a lot of the ball and we've been resilient so let's see where we go from there make sure you give the video a thumbs up subscribe if you haven't and watch all of the other match reaction stuff peds match reaction and his play ratings and all of that good stuff and I'll see you later take it easy