 Welcome to Toffy TV. This is the first match review of the season. Everton vs Southampton. Good as some park. We're back. Full house. How good is that going to be, Baz? It's going to be excellent. Looking forward to it. It's been a long time. We both got through a game last season with 2,000 in you and 6,000 when I went, but it's going to be great to be back there when there's a full house there and it's looking forward to it. New era of course under Rafa Benitez. We're just going to have to get on with it aren't we? The people who don't want it are just going to have to get on with it because that's the way it is isn't it? That is the way it is. He's now the Everton manager and we move on from the Carlo Ancelotti era to the Rafa Benitez era and hopefully it brings good things. Ancelotti's gone. He's the manager and it's on stage. You've got to just remember that you're not a manager fan if that makes sense. I'm not telling people who don't like Rafa Benitez that they should like him. But you know it's up to the players now and it's up to him to deliver something on to that players and whether that is get the best. Well it is get the best out of those players. It's about time you have the manager who got the best out of the players and I don't care whether people think this squad's good enough or it isn't good enough. You know, half back to David Moyes day he got everything out of that squad. Some players he made better, other players he made sure he played at the maximum. Now you might look at Everton squad and some people do and go he's not good enough, he's not good enough, he's not good enough. But even if you don't think they're good enough, let's have a manager that gets the most out of those players. Even if it's to the top level of the potential. We see other clubs do it. We look at other clubs and go I wouldn't have him and I wouldn't have him and I wouldn't have him. But if you've said to Evertonians, go and pick, would you have eight or nine West Ham players? A lot of people I think have gone. No, not really. No, not really, but West Ham players. Moyes got most out of them. Other teams. Leeds, individually you might take all the Leeds players but collectively you were excellent and it's about time we were able to say every one of our players gives everything and I think that's what's been missing because when you do give everything the quality shines through then everything do have some quality. What we're lacking is real team ethic and I think people just leaving it all on the pitch and I think if we see that as a fan base at least we'll know they're giving everything, we can get behind that. Even if you don't want to get behind a fella in the dugout, you can get behind a lad on the pitch. And also I think look past the manager and look at the team like you've just said there and look at the issues. If you've got a manager, you don't have to like the manager but the manager demanding everything out of the players and the players not delivering it, then it's about time people then start looking at those players and saying you're all the people who are letting us down, not the manager. The manager's not going to be bothered one bit about what people say about him, he's a professional who just wants to get the job done and will turn over every stone I think and I think that's where the people, don't get me wrong, people think he's not a good enough manager and not even worried about his past and that's fair enough, I've got no problem with that. Maybe the last 10 years has been working in a different sort of area to what he was before that, but I think it is about the players now and like you saying getting every drop of whatever, if you see a player on the pitch and you think you're not fancy them, but if they're working hard then you can't ask anything more than that. And I think Saturday is, you know, you're playing a team that last season we saw, saying in the first half of the season you saw that from a team that wasn't full of mega stars but it got loads out of them and obviously by the time second half of the season come that dried up a little bit because it was a small squad. It's going to be dead interesting Saturday, I think because it's going to be just weird being back in the ground, being surrounded by everybody, that novelty of being there and everything, those as fans have to use that and the team has to use that because yes we are in a little bit of a strange situation at the moment, there's not a lot of positivity around because of the circumstances of maybe not getting players in, but I'm sure there'll be players out there Saturday that are, you know, want to impress the new manager and want to work hard for the manager and want to feel part of, you know, something going forward. There's a lot of opportunities I think, you know, certainly with, you know, the new players like Townsend and Grey to change up this side. Gabamen coming back into the squad, there's a lot of opportunities. You know, I'm hoping that we can use that to our advantage. To tell you about a new game we have got, we have joined up with Ultima Fan and it's a cross between fantasy football and a little bit of, like, Ultima team. Be fair, Ultima packs then, you know, foot champions and all that. That is what it's like, it's a little bit of a cross between that. So it's going to be interesting, we're going to be playing each week opening packs, looking at the players, we've got them, putting them in the team and trying to accumulate enough points to do well in the fantasy. Football leader, we want you to get involved. There is free to play, there's three different levels. Free to play, you can play that every week. If you are just playing the free game, a pack drops every Tuesday with three new free players. There is a subscription pack. There's two subscription options if you want to do even better than that. 299 is the silver pack. You get exclusive football content and you get three silver cards each Tuesday. So 299 a month for that one. And if you want the gold pack, the gold subscription, it's 499 a month. You get exclusive football content. You get two gold cards and one silver every Tuesday. You also get a Creator BF52 throughout the month of August and you get a £10 gift card as well. That is for the gold subscription. But let me just stress, you can just play the free game and you do get players each week on a Tuesday. 15 grand prize pot and you can take your share of that if you do well enough. So what are you waiting for? Download the app and play. I'm going to do now. I'm going to open my first pack. Okay, the first player I've got is TJ Hart from Aston Villa. Second player, Trezzagate from Aston Villa. All right. Third person, Ryan Fraser. This isn't a bad pack, Ryan Fraser. Fourth player, R Henry from Brentford. S. Perichet from Wafford. Aaron Connolly from Brighton. Love to go down in the box, Aaron Connolly. Veidil van Dijk. I know people will be ffumin, but he's a gold card. I'm happy that I've got a gold card in the pack. Veidil van Dijk. I know he's the enemy, but he's still a good defender, so he's gone after beat in my side. Nicholas Pepe. I've got a hell of a side here. Leads are the team, I've got. So there you go. You get a team in with these packs as well. I've got Leads, so I'm assuming the points Leads get, I will get. And the final one is Upall Knife of Shane Duffy. And here we go, now I've got to build my line up. Is there, I've put Leads in. Defender, obviously Veidil van Dijk. I'm going to go with Henry from Brentford, as much as Shane Duffy. In midfield, I'm going to have obviously Pepe. No, he's not because he's a forward. He's going to be my forward rather. Trezzagate of Aston Villa. I'm going to have Ryan Fraser of Newcastle. I'm with Duffy, I've gone awfully negative there, but there you go. Veidil van Dijk, Shane Duffy, and Henry from Brentford. Trezzagate, Nicholas Pepe, Ryan Fraser. Each week, me and Peid are going to be playing off against each other, seeing who's got the best team, who scores the most as well. You get 10 points for every player who scores a goal, four for an assist, two for a shot on target. Tackles one, you get a point. For a clean sheet just for defenders only, you get three points. And for teams, if your team wins, I've got leads, so if leads win, you get five points. You get a point for every goal scored. You get a minus point for every goal you can see. Three points for a clean sheet and saves. You get a point for the saves as well. So yeah, that is my team and we will update on how well I did next week. So there you go. That is Ultimate Fan. Download it. It's free to download. Get in the App Store. Get it downloaded at the Play Store as well. And you can join in the Ultimate Fan Fantasy Football League with us. There you go. I think one of the things I noticed being at the Walls game at 6,000, 6,000, 8,000, there was the players then that extra yard because the fans were demanding it. And I think when you've got, it'll be what, 38,000 there that's only in there because obviously Southampton haven't brought the full 3,000 or 3,900. We'll be on the backs to make sure they do the run. And I think that gives the players that extra bit of energy. And I think when that demand is there, and it'll be some adjustment for them, it'll be some adjustment for Southampton. So we can take advantage of that. It is an opportunity for some players to stake a claim. It's an opportunity for them to get off to a good start. We saw that we got off to a really good start last season. So like we've said, the manager issue is sad. But there's not much we can do about it now. He's the manager right now. He's not getting sacked any time soon. He's the right manager. Whether you think he's right, wrong, whatever. He's the manager who's in charge of the team right now. So what we've got to do, what's right to do is get behind the team because we all want the same thing, don't we? We want everything to be as high as they can in the league and to really have a good season. If Rafa Benitez is the man to do it, so be it. So, you know, we get behind them and hopefully we'll be able to shout them on to a victory. First game of the season can always be a bit of an anomaly, can it? Because I think people go into the match thinking everything is fully figured out by the first game of the season. You know, we often say it's not until, certainly when the window isn't shut, it's not until you come back from that international duty that everything starts to settle down. So I think the first few weeks can throw up some strange results or give you a false sense of positivity like we had last season. We're playing the same way or whatever. I think for me, Satie is all about everything getting out there. Waking out, winning individual battles and that little bit of, hopefully that little bit of class taking over. Hopefully Dom and the Cavalrymen will be involved, hopefully the Charleston will be involved. They're both training. And just working that little bit harder and getting the most out of Goodersham Park. Southampton have just lost Danny Ings, he was obviously their chief goal scorer. They've bought a couple of plays in this week, but obviously it may or may not be their first games. So they'll find it a little bit tough without Danny Ings. He was feathery to score the goals for them. We've still got that. Wherever we haven't got it, we've still got the fellas we've allowed on last season to score the goals playing for us. And hopefully that will give us the edge because I just think it's so important to get, well it is. It's massively important just to get off to a good start and just settle everything down a little bit. Because everything in the last few weeks has just felt so up in the air trying to bring players in. Not having money, FFP, it's just felt, we just need it for Satie to just kick her off with a win. Everyone go home happy and then every week you're just building a little bit more. The victory is hugely important. We saw last season, what it does is it's set you up for the rest of the season. We had a great start last season and it kept us in the top half of the division, even when we were struggling. Get off to a win Saturday, you do, you come home, everything feels a little bit better. We've still got three weeks to go on a transfer window. I'm sure Evan will be working right up until the last minute to get people out and get people in. We had this last season, don't forget, the season kicked off and we bought Ben Goffrey the day before the window shift. So it was the same last season in terms of trying to get people out, trying to get people in. The year before was the one where the windows shut before the season. We have experienced this and we need to just make sure that we do the right things on Saturday. Everyone, I'm sure, even the people who have said I'm going to boo over it, I'm sure once they're in, they'll be back in Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock. It's the first one since October, last year at 3 o'clock. I'm sure we'll all be back in the ground. And we can let that ride over us and get back to players and let's enjoy being able to take part in the game because for 18 months we've watched the Netflix show. That's basically what it felt like. We've sat and just watched the game of Fulton and Telly with no input and had to suffer. All the time being there is better than watching on the telly because you do shout and scream or you can feel how the game is. When you remove from it at home, everything's a bit rubbish. And I think the players feel that as well. I was listening at the radio on this morning, Theo Wolcott was talking. He was saying a similar thing if it takes a couple of weeks to get into it. But he said it's the weirdest thing playing football with no crowd. He said because we've all been brought up playing with fans, so when you're playing without it, it's such a strange environment to play with and it's just not the same. So hopefully we can, and we saw that at goodness and didn't, we saw two home wins from Christmas. You know, our home form is atrocious last season. So this season, let's make it a photo, so again, let's make it what it's normally like, which is hostile, difficult to play there. And let's make sure that we're ready to go because these will work hard. You know what hostile thoughts try to like. These will want to get off to a decent start as well. They'll be looking at us and going, we haven't really changed that much. We might be able to, you know, they might be looking and going, you've got beneath us and if we can get ahead of crowd might turn and all. Well, let's make sure that it's the other way. Let's get two goals up early on against these and make them feel sorry for themselves. They play a 4-4-2 in general. Got, you know, they brought in Adam Armstrong from Blackburn, who was very quick. But it's obviously his first game in the Premier League, so he can go either way. He can have a rude awakening himself and think, this is a bit quicker than him. Darwin, have you played against him in pre-season? Well, yeah, yeah, Blackburn. So let's make sure that Ben got free mark on him because he's got the pace to match. They brought in Borgi from Chelsea, who's a big lad, but he's only young. I know he did well on loan of Vitesse. You've got Chay Adams, who we know all about. So they've got a couple of other players. Walcott, who we know all about. So they've got a, they're still dangerous, like most Premier League teams are. Well, they'll be looking at us and thinking, well Calvin, that's a threat. Vestergaard, who had a good season for them, looks like he could be going to Leicester. So if they keep back going, he won't be used on Saturday. James Warpras is doubtful for Saturday. So, you know, the same with us, we've got to get our players back. And get on, get the win. And if you start with a win, everything looks a bit brighter on Saturday night. You come home, you've been the game, everything of one. You're top of the league, even though it doesn't matter. Well, you know, you're there and then you start thinking. Tell you what, we've got two weeks to go on the transfer window. If you can get those players. For me, it's about first game of the season. It's generally about not making mistakes. We saw last week's game against Manchester United just rusting us mistakes on the pitch. You know, whether it be, you know, Jordan Pickford or whoever. You've got to make sure you don't have those mistakes. And if you do, you're at the end of the pitch. It's about getting through certain situations as well. You know, the set pieces and things like that would have changed our style on set pieces. So it's making sure we don't do anything stupid off them as well. You know, if it's gone to zone on mark and that we're spot on, that we know what we're doing. They're the little things, I think, in the first few games of the season. Because they are, they can be. It can be so marginal and it can be those little differences of how you've prepared and pre-season. It's nothing to do with how you play because we will have not settled into a system yet. We will have not settled in. The only difference is this manager probably will know what he wants rather than changing it up. Or he'll know what he wants, I think, and that might be the difference in the last couple of managers. And what he wants, he'll actually go in with. So if he wants to start the season and not have Amazon's Regas, for me, he's the kind of manager going, I don't want this fella. I don't need to bow down to you as a player and I don't need to bow down to you as a crowd. This is what I want because this is how I see it. So it is all about just getting through the game. We're not sat here saying we don't need more quality in the squad because we do. We need a right back. No-one could sit here. I can't sit here and go, our business has been great this season. Because people have called me, people have been going, has it? What I would say is we've done smart business for the squad. The Maori great could be a great time and at 1.4 million. And just times there might be a great squad player at nothing. Do I want more? 100% I want more. I want a right back. I want another winger. I'd love a centre of my field player who could carry the ball. I wouldn't sit here and try to insult anyone's intelligence or sit here and try to convince people that everything's great. What I would say is I've said that before. Overall, the squad's probably more balanced than it was last year. We still need more quality last year. We still need more quality now. But we've still got a couple of weeks to try to address that. Right now, right now, as of now, when we're recording this video, we've got enough to win the first game of the season. Dominic Calvert-Lewin being back, Rich Charleson being back. We were unsure whether he was going to be here. We only found out Monday was available. Then the news come out on Tuesday or whatever that he might be available. So that's great news for us because we were sat here on Monday going, Monday dinner time, we're open now and Rich Charleson was back going, I hope Dom's fit because if Dom isn't fit, he might be his king. Looks like he's out, you know, no Rich Charleson. All of a sudden you're thinking, is there a false night? You know, we're going after play and now we're going, I think I'm going to have a two lad to put the ball in the back of the net. Okay, one hasn't had the rest but he's in the habit of scoring goals. The other one has had a little bit of a rest but he's coming back with no. But if we can create chances at least you go into that game going, give them an opportunity, we can get a goalie. Then it's exactly what you said, don't make mistakes at the back. In this first game, if it's not on, put it down the pitch and just do the right things to get over the line because you can build momentum into a season, don't give anything to you. Yeah, yeah, that's it. Just start solid and build off the back of it and then fans will do the rest. If you put the shift in, the fans will do the rest. If the fans go anything in a positive frame of mind, which I think they will, I think people are a bit like now at the moment, a bit negative, a few different reasons. Do you think maybe what we should try to do as a fan base, just right now, is just take every game as a cut, you know what I mean? Because I think too often we all do it, I do it, we all do it. You look forward and you try to project the season, the whole season. When we've seen so many times, you can't, things happen and you go, we're amazing. Last year we were amazing, then we were terrible, oh everything's rubbish. Then we were amazing again and we got ourselves back into the top four, then we were rubbish. Maybe we just need to think like just this game, let's get through this game and then we go to Leeds and it can't we get something out of that. Then we go to Black Count and maybe just do it like that until we know what we're playing with because everything is a little bit up to me. To me I've got no expectations of this season and it will play out. I've got to let it play out, I think, because again, sitting here right now with the win or not shut, the couple of players come in that you go and two weeks you go, they make a massive difference, they make a massive difference and it would only take two. It would only take two if we could recycle the squad. It would only take a couple to go, I feel excited now and we'll see what happens. But for this game, this is the first game and nothing else matters. We should be excited that for the people who can go. That would go on back the match and that there's going to be a further attack. And we could have a very positive influence on the game as well. Oh God, without a shadow, without a shadow. So let's just make sure that happens. Let's make sure that happens. Let's make sure we get in there slightly and we're positive and you know, whatever. Just enjoy being back at the match. Seeing your mates and enjoying it and seeing the team in front of your eyes rather and having to listen to Steve McManaman and Martin Keown and Michael Owen and all them. Get there and enjoy the sounds and everything else you've been across. It'll feel a lot better. Whatever happens, feeling like you've taken part in it. The one other thing I'd say as well is the camp dance on now for Godderson. Three years left that's it. Less than three years now. Baratran is dating me fin. So I think we all need to remember that and go and enjoy drinking every bit of it because in three years it's gone. 57 family games. Something like that, that's it. Let's enjoy it. Cos it is a camp dance now. So after Shrattie we're on 56. So traction. Enjoy. Make it a photo. That's all we can do. 57 games on the run around. Let's try to do it. Keep the negatives out and push the positive. There you go. Let us know your thoughts on this one. We are back first game in Manchester United in March 2020. 2020. 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