 Welcome to Toffy TV, it is the match preview. Queen's Park Rangers faces Everton in the Carabaugh Cup. Very, very tricky tie this one, certainly with Everton's injury. Situation at the moment and just big loftyth road always. Horrible. Little matchbox ground. It's boss but for us it's horrible. Little matchbox ground that we've never really done well at. Even when we played full-on, there we got beat. I went there we played full-on once. We got beat 2-0 with two-one goals. Steve, Richard Wright I think might have actually got both of them. Alan Stubbs and Richard Wright got beat 2-0. Although I think that's... And we were flying. I think the last time we played there we did win 2-1. Sheamus, Coleman and Arlen. Arlen, beat them 2-1. Coleman's side but it's off the post, lovely goal. It is a tricky game. Just in terms of it's going to be very interesting to see who we pick for this game with the amount of injuries. Just a couple of days off the back of playing Aston Villa and playing knowledge of the weekend. It's going to be interesting. It's a tough one isn't it because you look at it and it'll be a tough game anyway. They're a decent little sciacup. Will they go full strength themselves? They're looking at trying to get promoted this season so you wonder. They played a lot of games. They played literally every Saturday, midweek. When they played last Tuesday to Bournemouth, lost 2-1, they were beaten at home on Saturday by Bristol City 2-1, late winner. From Nachey Welsh you should play for them. Will they go full strength or will they mix it as well? But for Everton, it's a definite banana skin. No question about it given the position we're in. Because ideally in this game, Rondon will start a dish one and people like that. But now you're looking and thinking we can't afford Rondon to play really. We need to give them a blow off the Saturday because we've got knowledge on this Saturday and we know that Dom and Richard are both out of the weekend so we need to keep Rondon. The manager's going to have to be a bit creative I think. But I think when you look at what the team you've put out, you can still play like, you know, big of it. You could have a back four of like John Joe Kenny, Mason Holgate, and I'll play Michael Keane, just in case. I had a brand three who played left back. Really left footed who played there. And then midfield, Gomez and Davies, both in the games. They could play. I hope he could play. It's tricky then, but I imagine Anthony Gordon could play on one flank and then maybe he'd do like 60 minutes for Townsend and then 30 for Gray or something. And you'd have I personally would, even though he's only just come back, I think I would play Ellis Sims up front and then have Lewis Dobbin on the bench and maybe take Sims off after an hour and put Dobbin on. And now I'm not saying they're ready for the first team, but I think it is about protecting the players that we're going to need for Saturday. Definitely in, you know, Rondon will be key at the weekend. The Corae and Allen will be key at the weekend. I think Mina and Goffrey are key at the weekend. So I will protect them and you're looking at me a bit like that. No, these games, I'm just thinking about these games. These games always seem to come the wrong time. They've always seemed to come in the wrong time for us. I don't know why, but these like third and fourth round games. I think last year that was fine. No, I know, but last year it worked because they didn't have injuries. They were all the first few weeks and it worked really well. They didn't have any injuries. And the games actually got tougher as the stage went. It was weird, but just in this year it's just a very tricky one. It's just so tricky for them to get, not only the recovery of the players, but because we're short in so many positions. And then you're looking at thinking, well, there's some positions where we're not going to get back straight away, right back forward. So midfield, we should have enough in there, have enough cover. And maybe it is, maybe it is about time that we start a bed and players in these, but people look at this competition as a competition we should be doing better in. I mean, the irony is Man City win it every year. So it doesn't matter. It should do better. This is a real transplant of Man City win it every year anyway. And maybe we've got to the quarters in the last two seasons, lost on penalties to Leicester, and we were beaten by United last season. So we have to suck it. No, no, no. People go, oh, we need to take this club seriously. I think we have to. I think we do it. I think it sucks sometimes. I think it's just a real banana. What would you do with Ella Sims? He's only just come back himself, right? Obviously he's been training to get back with the first team. He's trained with the first team. He's on the bench at the weekend. But for me, it makes no sense not to play him. I'm not saying he's ready. And I'm not saying he's going to be amazing, right? But he's a big lad for a start. He's a goal scorer. He's got 10 goals in half a season in League One. And I know it's not the same level, right? But championships won up. But I think Rondon, we can't afford to play him. No, no. I think the irony is, I think Ella Sims would be playing championship football this season if he'd stayed fit. Yeah, had he not got injured. So there is that. I think he would be playing championship football for backpool this season on loan. So we haven't, you know, you can say with that. But I think it's just because he's only just come back. Of course he was on the bench and you've got to try. You've got to try things and see what happens. I think there's enough in the midfield to get away with a will and runner up front. And hopefully he takes his chances. You've seen other people take their chances in this competition when they bring young players in. Anthony Gordon played in the championship last season, albeit not loads, but he played for Preston. Jarrah Brandt played in the championship for Blackburns. I think sometimes you've just got to take a chance. And if it's for the best of the team and players. Because I mean, people probably check me and go, will you play London? But I don't know whether London's had enough time to recover from playing an hour. That'll be a big shock to them system playing an hour. And I don't know whether his recovery, powers of recovery are going to be enough. But this is the thing as you get older. It's not always how you play in the game. It's how you recover from a game, whether you're going to be ready for the next one. I imagine he's stiffer today than he was yesterday. And then tomorrow he'll start to recover again. Exactly. And you're asking him to do that and play. I just don't. I think I was saying, now just play him an hour a bit, or if for an hour but the more I think about it. I think maybe have him on the bench if you need it for 20 minutes on the end or something. And this is ideally, you've got to look at Saturday. And this is the problem. This is why it would have been taken off at an hour on Saturday. So that he didn't get an injury that would mean that he'd be missing next Saturday. That's the problem with having a smaller squad. When they get tired, that's when you have to start protecting them when they get to the red line. But I do think we've got enough defenders and I do think we've got enough good midfielders that we can put a team out. And yeah, it's just that play. It's just that up front. But I do think, like you were saying then, with a mixture of how you use some of the subs by having a grey on the bench, bringing them on for like the last maybe 20 minutes if you need them. It's a difficult, it is a real banana. And like you said as well, would new QPR think these are going to put out a really weakened team if we put our best team out? We could beat these whether they go, they don't want. They put a weakened team out. We might as well put a weakened team out and just see what happens. Because actually, they know they're not going to win it. But now, you know, wherever, they could get injuries they don't need when they're doing alright. It's difficult to see what they'll do, but like when we played Huddersfield in the last round, they didn't play their full team. They had a couple of lads who'd come on who were in their first team when they thought they could win it. And I don't know, that actually was the moment I had it and sucked the game away from them. But for this one, we just got to worry about ourselves. If you're looking at it, if you're in that evidence squad and you're Tom Davies and you're Mason Holgate, you're John Joe Kenny, you're Anthony Gordon, and you're Ella Sims. You're going to the manatee. Give me a go. Let me have a go. They've all had games. They've all had games. Sims hasn't, but the others have. You're going, well, give me a go. I'm going to prove to you that I deserve a place in this. I'm up against championship players. So they're Premier League footballers and if they really are genuinely Premier League footballers, they'll shine because they'll battle. They'll have to battle and scrap. But QBR, you know, we'll just have a look at what they normally line up with. Three at the back. They're never going to have tried the three at the back. And I just wonder in this one, if he would go, we'd be starter with three against Huddersfield in the last land and it didn't really work. It's a big worry. It's the worry for the game anyway. It's who plays left back or left wing. No, left wing back isn't it? But to me, for this one, I would have to have a brand weight at left back. Of course, go with a high pass. Even though they play the three and the two strikers up front, high pass and he would just go with a flat back four. Just because I feel like when you have a flat back four, everyone kind of knows where they're supposed to be playing. You know what I mean? It doesn't come over complicated. Be solid then. Be nice and solid. And then hopefully you rely on maybe Anthony Gordon doing something or a good little bit of movement. Alex will be creating something or whatever. And I actually think where he'll assume what he's done is he's put the ball in the net regularly at the levels he's played at. And that's all he can be judged. I'm not saying he's going to be a premier league centre for over because I really don't know. But what I'm saying is he was scored loads of goals at under 18 level, tons. We said can he do it in the 23s? He went into the 23s, scored loads of goals in the 23s and he went to Blackpool on loan from January and it was like he's in league football now can he do it? He got double figures from January to... and he only really started games in February, March. And he would have played in the play-off final when he got into the day before. And he's beaten and he's only just come back. So all of that... Every level I've played that I've scored goals. So why not just give me a go in a like you said before in a league either probably being playing... If they're being fit either probably being playing in the championship anyway. Give him a little go. If he's playing with better quality than what he's been. It's like a wobby can create a little chance for him and he takes it. What you're doing then is you're allowing Rondon that time to recover. And then by having a Lewis Dobbin on the bench who again is another young kid and again it's a big ass for him. By having him on the bench if Sim starts looking knackered after an hour 65 minutes you say to Dobbin right go on just making you some see yourself. Because then what you're doing to them is you're giving them that little thing of look there's your progression path. You're playing that first team. Adol so by the way I've take like Emilio Lawrence with him who's like 15-16 just bring him on in the 93th minute so he's the youngest player ever to play for our football club so that it takes someone else who's got off record of a front and that level of pettiness that I can get behind if Rafa does that. But now that I think you have to do it I honestly I think you have to do it. I think it's not something you probably would want to do and I understand some fans would be like no man I'll play your full strength your full strength team but I just don't think we could we've got no retards and no dom until after the international and I'm like that's for sure and we can add rondon to that as well so we've got to keep that momentum going for Saturday by having him fresh it's going to be hard anyway for him because he isn't up to speed and you'll only get up to speed by playing games so for me it has to be a mix and it has to be lad 2 you've got something to prove and if those lads have got something to prove then we'll give QPR a right to go and we can win that game of course we can. Yeah I think it's what would you do with that what's left of that squad? Probably just play pretty much the team I played against Holdersfield and then maybe Sims up front because we haven't got any option I'd probably have rondon on the bench but I think pretty much the team that played against Holdersfield is now a a devol player game of football this season I think that helps as well if you think about what that team was you could get away with that team we have Moise Keynes so you're swapping him that's what I'll assume but other than that there are times when playing maybe you're swapping for it so I can have me going you're bamming I had a slight strain at the weekend I don't know whether he's going to be back this would have been perfect for interplaying this game hopefully he's back but I'm not convinced yeah hopefully I mean hopefully it would have been nice if the club would give us an update on these players but you know they haven't so we can't really think but no just I think he's out against against the Holdersfield you know whether I think do you know what I don't think it would be a terrible thing for Ben Godfrey to start this game I don't think it would be I think he needs games I think he does need games maybe them two and Branthwaith as a three maybe or just those two and Branthwaith I just think he needs to start playing games so it wouldn't be a terrible thing for him to start this game I don't think he's going to be mad at leave me in and leave keen out and that's not a terrible it's not a terrible start is it John Joe as I said it's like the Tom Davis on the Gomes a Wobie it's not a terrible is it and then you're banking on then and if you've got a lot of shims then you might need one more you're on the right side it could be turns end or you never know the wild card could be back oh stop it he is not ready to play games either oh hello Shanky maybe he's on the bench I don't think he's ready at the moment but it has got to be a bit of a mix we can win the game definitely be it a tough game big ask I suppose giving how many plays we've got after losing that first game it's just been nice to win it it's just been nice to win it and then go well we lost that we're back at it and now it's knowledge you don't want to go into the knowledge game being like oh they've lost the last two because you know what you don't want that fingers crossed back to winning ways hopefully let us know your thoughts in the comments anyway on this one and your company who would you play, who would you risk who would you not risk let us know your thoughts in the comments I hope you've got more great videos live videos daily join us over on Patreon the link is in the description and it's on the screen right now see you later