 Welcome to Toffy TV, it is a match preview for Eviton vs FC Sion over in Switzerland. O'r tîm, o'r tîm. Yeah, obviously we've already played in Kenya, but this feels like the real thing, the real thing. O'r fawr, you're acknowledging this? I'm acknowledging this. O'r fawr, you're acknowledging this? You're acknowledging this? No, that was an exhibition game. O'r fawr, o'r fawr. That was for the fans, the 65. That's alright. That's for the fans, obviously huge event for fans over in Kenya. Now this is obviously the start of a week in Switzerland, which she's finished the week off in playing against Monaco in Switzerland. So, FC Sion played last week I believe against PSV, was it? Yeah, 0-0. 2-0-0. This season starts quite soon in a couple of weeks I believe. They've got two or three friendlies in a very short space of time. So, it's an interest on this because it feels like it's been the first week of training for a lot of the internationals. It feels like a jump-up in terms of fitness straight away for a lot of them. I know they'll have all of that a week in, but it feels like they may have to physically take a huge step for this game. Well, I imagine they'll play 45 minutes, the majority won't they? They should be able to do 45 minutes. Nowadays players come back within a couple of pounds after they fight and wait. We've seen Luke at the end who's back this week doing sprinting up roads after buses and stuff. Tremendous stuff. While he's being off and things like that. You know, obviously the England lads Pickford and Jordan Pickford, you know, the nice timing has all of these. But he played for England into mid-games, so did Michael Keynes training with England. Keynes being doing training as well. They'll go on holiday and do training. Well, it's a play to them. The jump when they come back is not as bad then is it? You're just trying to maintain it. If you're listening to Osmond's talk on the other day on the Carrier Banky Shark game, you're saying plays are coming back. When he first was doing pre-season, overweight and it'd be like you'd get fined and blah, blah, blah. He said, no, in the end it got to that stage where they'd come back and it could have been as close to the weight that they left as possible because that's how they had to change. So players do that and they're given a programme which we know when they go away. So it will be a jump up because they'll be going straight into it. But half again you should be able to manage half again. These are going to be much fitter because obviously the season starts, the day we play Monaco actually. And they played the day before as well. Yeah, they played New Shatter. New Shatter will ram out whatever you say it. So it'll probably be a mix of the team. So it might even up that way. To be honest, I mean obviously it's a friendly. Who cares, rarely. Me, I want someone. I suppose from what the manager want to avoid is what happened last week, Lachman getting injured. You don't want any more injuries. And I suppose one of the ways that injuries can occur is if you push players too hard. Of players are playing against. See that's why I found slightly weird is when I looked at the fixes is that you normally match up against teams through pre-season. The step-up is by every game. I'm not saying see on any great shakes or anything but in terms of fitness wise. You don't want to push players harder than they've been pushed. It's got to be a gradual process to get them fitter for every game. And every game goes up in quality as well. That's what you like to hope. So from that point of view, maybe see on or play, I don't know, a second team or something or whatever. Just to balance it out a little bit because it's an exercise in getting players fit for both sides. They're playing a team on a Saturday using their league. So you wouldn't imagine, even though it's a friendly psychologically, they're not going to want to lose to that team. They're going to probably play as strong a team as they can on a Saturday. And then maybe some of those lads on a Saturday are playing an hour. So against Everton, they'll play half an hour. And then that's the 90 minutes over the two days or something. Everton have had lads who played in Kenya last week. Andrew Gomes played a half. Mason Holgate played 70 minutes. Lewis Gibson played almost 90 minutes, didn't he? Tom Davis had 45 minutes. Morgan Snidel and Theo Wall. So we've got a bunch of lads who only had two or three days training and played in half of a game in tough conditions. So you'd imagine they had started again. We don't know exactly the travelling squad that's going to Switzerland. But I imagine a few of those youngsters, like Joe Williams, who done very well in the second half, will be in that travelling party. So you'd probably see him starting maybe. I suppose as well, the other thing they'll be using this for is, obviously nowadays they know the ins and outs of everything that a player does. They'll have all the divests on and all that. So I suppose from a point of view, you play a game at the beginning of the week and you see what their levels are. When you play that second game against Monaco at the end of the week, you can see where, and you might have to tailor stuff for some players or you can see who's putting it in, who isn't putting it in, or whatever their levels are, you can look at. So from that point of view, it's a good exercise as well to see whether, almost like see whether the week, not where if while obviously, but see what you're getting out of the week. I just wonder how many they'll take. So say they take 22. I suppose it can be two teams. I suppose it's a training base, isn't it? So I suppose they can take as many as they want. Oh yeah, but I mean in terms of the matches and stuff you're going to have a team for the half. And what he might say to someone like Andre Gomez and someone like Tom Davis and Schneider and you're playing an hour today against Seeyon because you've had the 45 minutes and then there he plays with Guilfee for maybe half an hour to get it, Bernard, who hasn't been involved yet. Or a couple of those lads might need to beat you because it's the first week we don't know. They might be you're playing against Monaco on Friday. So it'll be interesting to see just how he balances it. I mean, when you're just thinking about it before they've gone he'll just play a team in the first half and a team in the second half because then everyone's getting 45 minutes in that first game then they do the week of hard training and then there's the second game to look forward to. And then he's going to, he said didn't he? While they're in Switzerland he's going to make some decisions on people again. So I imagine that'll probably be a couple of the young lads that they're going to then be involved when we go to Mainz the week later and stuff like that. A month now haven't we till the Premier League season? He's going to have to make those decisions quickly and these players are going to have to get up to speed very quickly as well. Yeah, it's going to be interesting. You imagine there'll be about 25 going, I'd say, with the keepers and that you want the back-up players. Don't forget these have got a couple of players we already know. Alex Ong plays for these, ex Arsenal West Ham, Kasami, he was at Fulham as well. In the midfield he's the captain. Stefan Hontjo, he's the manager. Love the handball didn't he? Love the handball. So you know they've got some decent players and like you say they will be fitted on us. It depends of course what we do. They're playing at the time of filming this tonight and they're also playing on Saturday so they've got another two games where they play everything. So you imagine it'll balance out and obviously the week before they're playing their first game or six days before they play their first game they're going to be more likely to... They're going to be fit but they're also not going to want to pick up many knocks out. It'll be a step up to what we saw in Africa obviously in Kenya. But what I mean in these games with it being the first what are you looking for? What are you just not really bothered to say? I love watching us in pre-season. I'm not really bothered. I'm trying to... What was that second game we played last year? We played... It was Barry when we... It was the second game but that was quite competitive. It was competitive. Obviously we played Barry and we do one-one. There was a mix of a lot of players that night. I'm sure against Barry obviously we didn't have a lot of the players who played in the World Cup had we so because they'd come back later and obviously so. But he kind of done it better if you remember rightly if Barry it was almost two teams for the halves. Yeah it was. Cos Anthony Robinson come on for Barry and things like that so it was almost two teams. No I think we've mentioned before for the handful of those under 23 players this will be the one chance this week. I expect under 23s are already in La Manga at the moment. With David Unsworth and his coaching staff. They're back this weekend I think. So it'll be an interesting one there cos obviously you'll want to take some that played on Sunday. For a lot of those players and I think we've mentioned this a few times they shouldn't be going back into the under 23s. Rarely are they any. They should be going back into the under 23s. YouTube thinking we've got no idea cos nothing's been separate. Out of the lad who went last Sunday and were involved I don't think you'll take all of them. No but I actually think he's more like he needs to take someone like homey than he needs to take Nias. Because Nias hasn't got a future at the club. So what's the point? But it's our responsibility to keep him fit. Well then can he go on training with the under 23s and be kept fit with the under 23s? Have we got more of a responsibility to have a look at. And almost just have a look at to decide what his future's going to be whether he goes on loan. And I would say that for a majority of the players I don't know where Mo Bessage is. I couldn't tell you. Mo Bessage would be better keeping fit with the under 23s waiting for an opportunity to come cos he's leaving the club. Then to stop someone like Joe Williams going. Cos you've got to have a look at those players and assist them and then it's like last season where we assessed everybody. The likes of Meralas, all those players. Now it's an assessment for the under 23s cos personally I don't think any of those players you went to Kenya should be back in the under 23s. He's made his mind up on Bessage, didn't he last summer? Exactly. We had them up for Bessage. So if you're filming keeping them fit you keep them fit by putting them in the under 23s. I'd do that. Out of that who went, who do you think will go? I'd take all of them. I'd take all the under 23s. They're not the under 23s anymore. You've got to start making decisions and we've gone over this before. I apologise if he's repeating ourselves. But I would take all of those kids. See, I wouldn't. You've got players missing as well. From our squad. You need more. But we're only missing now. We've only got me in it. Let me ask you a question then. Who wouldn't you take? Ashley. Okay. Fair enough because he's actually quite young. So he could go back in the under 23s. I don't get anything out of it. I wouldn't say Robinson. Because he could go back in the squad. I just wouldn't say him that. He didn't for me then do enough for the weekend to warrant going. But his future has got to be elsewhere then. Because he can't be in under 23s play. He's been on loan twice. So his future needs to be decided. And if he doesn't go with the first team, then he's got to go. I mean listen, maybe. I mean he went to Kenya because it's 20. Something like that. And then adding to that, we've had this week, we've got Guilfee Bach. We've got Llewyddi, Michael Keane, James Coleman, Bernard, Jordan Pickford. I wouldn't say it's that. Oh my God, by the way. But he will go. So this six coming back into the squad, I don't know whether they'll take 20, 60 might do. And then that means that they might take all of those lads you're saying. Well no, you take, you take. It makes sense. Ashley out. Take me ass out. There's two gone. So that's 24. Right. You had two goalies go over. So it was just being extra goalie. Right. I think Ashley is only young. He only came out of the under 18s in the 223s. So he's gone another two years in the 223s. The ass has got no future with the club. Yeah, yeah. And then everyone else had. So that's when he, that'd be 24 then. Everyone else had to take because I think, I think he's got to run the rule over these kids. And of course we don't know how fit Adam Ola Luchman is to be. So he might not go because of the ankle. I don't know if not we've not had any more. He could be out of this next week because of the ankle. And he might have to remain at home for treatment. I just think he's got to run the rule over those kids. This is their opportunity. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's not their opportunity to say whether you're going to be in the 13 squad. It's to run the rule over to go. What the future? Where are you going? Are you going to, are we going to put you on loan? Here, there or whatever. You know, are we going to put you on a championship team lower down because you'll need two years in the championship? Or are we going to put you in a team higher up because you might only need one year like Hallgate did. You know what I mean? So I think there's, I think there's decisions that need to be made. Call him Connolly. Yeah, he's, I mean, he's, he's... I really think he's got it where he wants because he's got a future. I don't know. And I suppose you look at, if you're looking at, I think the really interesting one is Joe Williams because he's got a year left on a contract. We know that there's offers in for him, there's people in for him and some Bundesliga clubs. There's a decision there that needs making with him. And I think that this week is where those decisions need to make. He will go anyway. Because I think Michael Silver wanted them there last year and obviously in Switzerland he wanted to take them. Austria and he was injured, wasn't he? But I think for them what you want to see in these kind of games is you want to see a little bit of football getting, you want to see the imprint of last season are we finished? So are we pressed? We want to see a bit of that. And you want to see a little bit better attack and play. We were sloppy like, I know, I know you keep trying in this next edition game, the Gerri, a Gerri, but I still want to see a progression. So I want to see us play on Sunday with a little bit of inventiveness in that final third. Yeah. It's thingy back. It's done back, yeah. No, it's still in L. So, see that's annoying because he's someone who I think really would benefit from being playing in these games. Because if he's not going to, I don't know how long, he might have been given the next week or he might be back till next week and then if he doesn't come back till next week, he's missed that. He's only got those two tournaments and the game in mind and the game against Wigan. He's got three games. If I was him, I'd have been like, I'll be back on Thursday, let me come to Switzerland on the Friday and so on. He's not though, he's living the team, he might have something in the life of me. For me that's frustrating because he's someone... Yeah, but you need a holiday though, don't you? You have mental burnout as much as physical burnout. So I do think you need a break. So I don't really have a problem with that. He's been at a tournament for the under 21s and, you know, you could say the same about Richie Arlison, we'd want him here now, but he's not going to be back for two, three weeks, is he? So, but then he's laying to a lot playing in that tournament. But then the 21s finished a couple of weeks ago. Richie Arlison finished a couple of days ago. He might be back for the end of the week. He might be back when they get back from Austria. I don't know, but we're waiting to see. Anyway, let us know your thoughts in the comments about the young players again. I know we spoke about this before, but who would you be taking over there? And there's not really else much to say. You're looking forward to the game, you're looking forward to seeing. Cos, like Ped said, last week was a bit more of an exhibition. You feel, but this is probably the very first pre-season game. So what are you looking to see out of it all? Are you really not bothered about what happens? You just want to watch everything playing for you? It's nice to see a win now, won't it? It would, but it's a friendly. We don't win friendly. Let us know your thoughts. I mean, if there's a penalty, she was off. No chance. Let us know your thoughts in the comments. Give this video a like if you like it, cos it helps the channel. It really does, honestly. If you don't just say it for a laugh, it helps the channel. Subscribe if you haven't already. If you want more videos, like all the live videos we're doing over on Patreon, it's amazing. 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