 Welcome to Toffy TV, it's the match preview at Wigan Athletic vs Everton at whatever that's the... Is this still called a DW? Will be. It's not going to give that legacy up, is it? I have no idea. It's at the... at that stadium, Wigan's Ground. Wigan's Ground, yeah. I think it is the DJB. The DJB's thing, just called classic stadium. Anyway, that's where it is. I think we're expecting a bit of a step up in this game aren't we, in terms of the intensity of Everton's first and only pre-season game in the UK. Obviously we're not playing at home. There's 8600 tickets have been sold for Evertonians alone and I'm sure there'll be more dotted around. Let's just say at least 9000 Evertonians are going to be there. Easily. So they're all going to be... they're all going to be expect... Well not expect that, they've just gone for a bit of a laugh aren't we? But I do think, and I think we've mentioned this before, that's going to mean levels are going to go up a little bit in terms of intensity. Wigan will be right at it because obviously a Premier League team coming to their ground, a chance to have a goal like they always do in pre-season. And a chance for us to react to that and step up a little bit after obviously a couple of games last week in Switzerland and the game in Kenya. Yeah, the intensity will be there. The quality won't be the same as what we've faced. But I see Marco Silva talking about the opponents in pre-season and how he likes to have different tests for the players to see how they react to different things. More technical or physical aspect. This one will be probably a bit more physical. You write these up on a scalp, we know that. You've got the little, the Anthony Robinson Derby. Now you've got Anthony Robinson, obviously you'll be keen to impress. You know, I've moved last week. But it's up to Everton to step it up again. You know, we've seen an increase in performances with each game. Again it'll... It's difficult because the final third again will still be... Calvert Loom's not going to be involved because we've had two, three days training. Jerry Meany, you wouldn't have thought, will be involved in this one. I think both of them will play some part of the weekend in Mainz. But so it's basically going to be the same, the same four of the players that we had over in Switzerland. So we'd expect a bit more from Walcott. Bernard, obviously, keep his fitness up. It'll be nice and I should have mentioned Broadhead. So they've got to get a little bit sharper in that final third. Couldn't, like, just something from my technical point of view, can Walcott just play a front in a couple of these games? Just if Broadhead's available, play him on the right. Play Bernard on the left. And then put Thale through the middle. Just have a look at him. Just have a little look. Or just something different just to see what happens. And also so that he gets game time as well. It's something I'd do. For the simple reason that it's unlikely anyone's going to come in for Walcott. I don't think. So you'd expect him to be with the squad this season. Ni ast won't be here. I don't think. You say that, but... I still think a couple of takeers love to take my mum, to be honest. I was hoping to do. Maybe I've had that... Listen for all we know. There might have been interest in that. I might have said, listen, we're not letting him go at this point. Because we haven't got anyone else to play these games. Like Sancho last season. He played all the pre-season games and then he went at the end of it. I expect Ni ast to go out. But that's another reason why I would try Walcott. Because you might need that kind of solution in a game this season. And he'll be in the squad. So see what he's like. You like giving him more time. You know, give, and like you say, play Broadhead off the right. And you know, give him that go. Because I'm not going to learn anything playing Ni ast. No. Because unless he comes out and says Ni ast is part of our squad for this season, then other than doing that, we're not really learning. Do you think it is? And what would we be learning anyway? Because at the moment, this game, it's purely fitness, isn't it? We haven't got a team that is, you know, it's not like we've got the start and the level of what we're going to play. And it never works like that anyway. Players know what they're doing in terms of, you know, they've got, they're a whole season of training to know what to get laying out to do. So from that point of view, it's sharpness, isn't it? And obviously you wanted to, the last couple of games, you want to start seeing that sharpness where they're getting paid off on the pitch. So I don't think, for me, I don't think the laying would lay in too much anyway. But that would be another reason for me to say play Theo, walk off down the middle. Let's see if we can take a couple of the chances and just, because even though it means nothing, you still want to win the game, you still want to have that little bit of confidence, you still want to see things pay off, you want to have the game going on. Well, if we just, can I just say, well, we just had a strike, we were the one that game. So let's put Theo down the middle and just say, well, go ahead, you have a run down the middle. Something different, isn't it? It's something that, when you go to these games, you want to go with the game, because everyone's missing the football on that, but you want to also see things where you can go, something interesting there. That's like a new plan. Obviously, I think, like I said, we said, on the final wave, Monaco, Fabian Delph will probably play some part in this one as well. So that'll be good for everyone, fans, just to get a first look at him. And it's interesting just to see how they do the minutes sharing. Do you know what I mean? Because we played the game Friday and we've seen, look at the minute, 90 minutes, and we've seen Michael Keane at 90 minutes and people like that. So what will happen in this one? Will it be Andre Gomez for 90 minutes? Will it be Morgan Snadlin for 90 minutes? Or will it be Sheaimers got 90 the other day, didn't he? So it's going to be interesting to see what players, because you still want the ones who are going to be starting a palace to get those 90 minutes. I suppose the interesting thing is some, you've got players like Michael Keane and Sheaimers Coleman. Did they get, you know, are you looking at them all when you know what actually to replace those players? Again, that's what we talked on the final wave after about the monocled game. It's those positions, you do look at them and go, you have a little bit thin in those positions, aren't we? You know, I know how they could play right back. And it'd be interesting to see him play right back, because the little he has played in this pre-season, he hasn't been sent to back. You do look at it and think, well, they're the positions that need to be... See, this for me will be the perfect opportunity to start making it right back. Ni Sheaimers on the bench, because you've got two games up the weekend and he's just played 90. And have a look what Mason can do about it right back. Is he more, he played it for West Brom, is he a little bit more comfortable, and last time he's seen him there, can he bomb on? What's his final ball like, and his decision making in a final third? That, I think, the manager might learn a little bit more than throwing him centre back, or we can't do now. And they are the kind of things that, you know, as we said, they've seen your players and you're going to learn anything from the senior players, you know what you're going to get. But from players like him, they're the little things that you think, hmm, could he woke up to the front? Hmm, could he... They're just the little things that, for me, I think in each game, there's nothing to lose by, and you're getting players fit at the same time and you're giving players you may need the rest. Would you play Davis alongside Gomez and see what they like with it? Because obviously... Well, it'd be Delf, wouldn't it? Well, play the three is a profit three. So it could, yeah. I suppose, yeah. I mean, like you say, it's only a fitness thing, but you're just trying to think of little... Cos there, I think, there more, in these games, there more, the answers you're looking for, those kind of things, like, like, can Joe Williams do his job in the centre of the park, can Tom Davis play alongside another number six, what are they like together? Well, you're going to get... There might be less quality in a game like this, but there's going to be more intensity and you're going to lay him from the... Someone like Joe Williams, can he cope with the intensity? Rather than... You take the quality out of it, but you're now in the Premier League. Now in tackles, but someone's... If you haven't got a good first touch, someone's on you, and it'll be the same in this game. Paul Koch, he's out here, he'll send his team out to say, go on, show what you can do here around me in front of a big crowd. Show them what you've got to miss and what they're missing out on. That, for our players, is a challenge to say, like, these are going to be on you straight away. That first touch has got to be right. Let's show your class, because it's going to be the intensity. Show your class. You get that good first touch, you get out your feet and let's get the ball moving. You hang on it for too long. Both of these are going to be straight on to you. So let's... So if someone like Joe Williams, someone like Mason Hallgate, I think that's really important places, but... It's a friendly. A load of blues get to see him play. What do you think he'll do with the goalkeepers? Do you think him and Pickford and Leisle are the 45ers? There's a weird one that he played on Fagons on Friday. For the whole 19th round. It was like, you've got Leisle and you've got Pickard. I put Leisle in there, mate, and he might just leave Pickford for now. What do you think? He's got three games now, and in the next four days or three days, they're all going to get a start, and I'll be sure it depends on whether Leisle... One of them will play Wednesday, one of them will play one of the games Saturday, and the other one will play the other on Saturday. Man, he's just keeping the competition, isn't he? He's keeping the competition, isn't he? At the end of the day, that's what the manager's got to do. He's got to keep them all fresh. He's got to keep them games now, haven't you? No-one's said that Leisle's the second choice. No-one's said... So he's saying to... You know, he's saying to Stechlenberg, well, the doors... The doors still open for you to be the second choice goalkeeper. They slide, they slide here to fight as well. So, you don't know what it's going to be, or, you know... But I'd like to see Leisle again. That's the point, though, isn't it? It's given people the opportunities. Can they take the opportunities? It's just, I suppose, interesting to us. Who's getting the opportunities and who's not getting the opportunities? Is anyone... You surprised, hasn't done more in terms of who you've been giving an opportunity? No, because I don't think we're at the stage yet to be surprised. Are you surprised that Morales has had so much time on the pitch? No, because I go back to last season, I go to Sandro, and that last season we were all like... And then it was like, no, no, you were just there to... You were there to fill space. What do you do with Morales? You don't... He knows you doesn't want him at the club. He's probably keeping, by keeping them fit and giving them opportunities, has a better chance of getting rid of him when someone goes, well, he's ready. It's box fresh. You've got some play for your legs though. I don't get... I'm not worried about that. Listen, if it's a game of football and you need everyone to be up to a certain level to play that game of football, there might be a kid there who might have a longer future than Morales does. But at the same time, if he drags everybody down because he's not on it and not up to it, then you're not going to play him in this game. If he's not ready, you're not going to... Whereas Morales, you know what you're going to get. Morales is going to be professional. He's going to play the game and whatever it is. The same with, I suppose, when he asks people, oh, what's the point? There is no actual point apart from... He plays the game, you know he's going to give... He's going to make runs that allow them in fielders to get the ball through. What he does from then on is, we know what he does, but he's still doing that, isn't he? He still does the job to allow other people to... And it's getting him fit so that he's club... No, that he's ready, he's involved. You know, you look on Twitter and all the rest of it, you hear people say, well, what's the point? You've got no future with the club. What's the point? What's the point? What's the point? Well, the point is, if there isn't somebody ready to come through, if Holmby's not ready and not ready to get into that position up front, the midfielders are going to have the ball and go, well, where's the options? Where's my runner? If you're not... The ask will run all day at least and get the team up to higher up the pitch that allows that who's to play the way we like to play for that helps the fitness. If those players aren't there, then what are you going to do? Do you know what I mean? That's why it's interesting that Broadhead and Gibson are still involved and it'll be interesting to see how involved they are in this game where the manager feels, well, actually, they are up to that level that I'm willing to say, well, you're part of the team. You're part of playing in this friendly. Listen, they might be in our next week or so, they might be part, but it's almost like, it's almost like the X-Factor, they've got up to the... they've got past the judges' houses and they've got up to this level now. So the managers, like, from everyone that we've had, from all those players from the 223s, he thinks these two players, listen, and it might just be by the virtue of the position they play in. Of course it will be, with Charleson's, not there, Mina's not there, and Zoom is obviously back with Chelsea. So maybe by that virtue, but that's interesting on its own, that he's played in them and so we'll wait and see after this game, see where we all are, stand to get a true reflection now, and it'll be a good game, I think, it'll be a good game, turning up the road, loads of blues there, making a decent little atmosphere, and... a nice win, I think. Might even get to see the Awakens. Well, it's either that or we'll make Awakens. Skins! Either that or we'll make Skins, like the old days. Make them here. Make them here to the Awakens. Let us know your thoughts in the comments. Are you going or are you one of the 9000 blues? Going to Wigan on Wednesday night. Let us know your thoughts on this game. Who should be involved? Who shouldn't be involved? Let us know. If you haven't already subscribed on YouTube, please do. The links in the comments, the links in the description, I'm still tired. 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