 Welcome to Top Of The TV, it's the instant match reaction to Balmer 3, Edderton 1, another disappointing away day, 3 away wins in 2019. It tells its own story, we are abysmal away from home, we simply do not have the ability to overcome obstacles and a lot of that is mentally and also tactically as well. The mental side of it is something that has just been ingrained in Everton for years it seems, we just don't have the players who can fight or we certainly don't seem to buy the players who can fight, we've got the ability to overcome difficult situations, not that Balmer the way is a difficult situation, they'll ship at least 4 or 5 goals 3 or 4 or 5 times this season, they are so open it's unbelievable yet we couldn't find a way past them apart from Dominic Arvindlou's and when the time is to roll your sleeves up and we've seen this in Ville and we've seen this back in the last season when the time is to roll up your sleeves and just dig in and just get through the game we do not have to possess the players to do it so it's great when you're going out and you're buying this player and that player and you know you feel the club might be going somewhere, you only have to watch what's going on in the pitch to suddenly start feeling deflated about the whole thing, I honestly and I said this in pre-season I don't think we'll finish in the top 6 because I just don't think to finish in the top 6 you need first of all you need to get 65 points, we won't get 65 points I just don't see it getting 65 points as it stands because I just watched the way we play and I watch the players and we just don't have any fighting as there's no fighting as what so ever and watch that today and I'm thinking right go out there roll up your sleeves and just dig in and you'll beat these because you're better than them and we don't we just the football is just it's just too slow for a start we're trying to play like Man City when we can't so everything's dead dead slow instead of playing in a way that means we can score goals we get we play through the we play out the back and then the first thing we do when we get forward is play it wide and look for crosses and yes we score three goals in the last two Premier League games from crosses you know once a team adapts to that then what you do then why aren't we going through the middle of the path why aren't we taking more opportunities which I listen it's one first after it's the bar then the second time heavy time we get to both centre he wants to move it wide and you just for me you're limiting your options and make you do that so tactically I don't think we're good enough and going back to that mentality factor I think that's a huge thing I think today for a start players just didn't look on it at all Dykes and Michael Keane looked he didn't look on it at all and you know for the third goal he he's not completely a fault because Zuma is standing for some reason standing five yards ahead of the guy who scores when technically that ball had been thrown over his head he's on side isn't he but Keane is standing Keane is keeping Wilson on is standing a couple yards to the right and keeping him on side he can see that or he can tell Zuma to drop it's Zuma floating slip tell me that's a drop back but he doesn't Keane was rubbish all day absolutely rubbish and I don't know whether to hang over from the England game but that's the problem roll up your sleeves that you play Premier League football for four or five seasons now you should be able to get through games like that without you know and this is what I don't see in the team enough leaders that can get you through games like that and you know it just bemuses me usually we can see the stupid goal to set piece I'm not gonna go on about I'll have a go about zone of marketing because I think the last time we conceded a goal through zone of marketing was in February so it's not as a big an issue as they like to make it look or people saying people on TV time make it look and second goal is just again we let a player run 30 40 yards and then boot on the outside of the box and then you know it gets sliced in again it's pure luck and the third goal is just awful defending but it's always going forward forget all day goals it's always going forward we don't take the game to teams away from home we just don't do it well it's one one hour at 60 minutes they manage you know the managers they make some changes say I this is not good enough we've had one shot all the second half of 15 minutes that's not acceptable I'm gonna make changes I'm gonna be keen on I'm gonna whatever bring Domino Cavallu leave Domino Cavallu and go 4-4-2 be positive be brave have a go at them they were there for the taking absolutely there for the taking and we don't seem to have that switch that that just we conflict to just have a go at teams and you've seen I get you've seen Delph getting wound up he ends up getting booked for it because he's wound up he wants to get in stuck into people you there's a video online Malvin you know this is this is you know you see what he says it's like there's not enough plays you just want to roll up the sleeves and get stuck in it doesn't look like it doesn't look like a hate on them and whatever that's fine I mean it's not fine but point being is we never gonna get anywhere and you sort of have to sit there and go what as a fan I look at it and just think well the players just don't look that wounded by it they're not prepared to run through brick walls but they're not also not prepared to just get stuck into a team and go away winning to this role I thought the best teams do and I know listen you need the best players for that but not always you can you can do all I just by just going let's roll up our sleeves today and let's just have a go with these and and if we have a golden and we match them then we'll win the game boom I've done nothing to win the game there they've done nothing one thing they have done more than this is they've actually created more chances because again we created very very little again very very little and so I don't listen we're our waste on enemies with a change I doubt it so what what does that mean I don't know I honestly don't know I just don't think it's gonna change I think we're just gonna we're gonna win more than we lose a home and away from home we're gonna win very very few and that means we're gonna finish between 7th and 10th and I can't there's nothing I can say there's no point getting you know going absolutely mental about it that's just they're the facts we have a set of players that just don't it doesn't seem to hit home when when a game needs to be stepped up you can play all the fancy passion you want you can create lovely movements and and and get yourselves into nice areas but if you're not clinical in front of goal or you keep on going wide every time you get the ball and if you're not prepared to do the hard work when a team breaks on you then this is the way it's gonna be and I don't know whether it's worth getting upset about because I don't see players getting upset about it but a couple on the pitch I really don't and I see the same things come out the manager's mouth and you know it is what it is and I honestly honestly just don't see is going forward unless we we we get in a few more players and that can happen now till next summer a few more players who who have got that kind of fight in them I just don't see it I just don't see it and yeah so I'm a bit flat but I'm a bit realistic but I think this is just gonna be the way it is and as I said I just don't see getting top six because I just don't think we can roll up our sleeves and go to places like born and win games of football and they're the games that they're the three points that you know we can't get back to back wins because we can't go away and win anyway so you need to get like you need to get momentum where you get a home win and away with another home win and then maybe on a way draw and then maybe and then a home win we don't we can't do that now this time last year I think I still went on a run or something like 19 games so I'm beating and at the time me personally I was quite I was like I look at the teams they played yeah I look at the teams you played and probably look at them and go we couldn't do that because we just can't we can't string you know run together because every time we go away from home we get beat because we just we haven't got a backbone it's as simple as that so let me know your thoughts in the comments I'm trying not to get upset by it because what's the point I'll be upset about it every other week I'm just gonna I don't know I don't know what I'm gonna have to do I might need a lobotomy I don't know maybe I've had a lobotomy and that's but this is everything football club does anything change now very very rarely so there you go let me know let me know your thoughts in the comments thanks for watching toffee TV I'll see you later