 Welcome to Toffy TV, it's the final word and it was the final pre-season game of the pre-season. Evan played its typical Iberian rivals at Gouldersen Park, which normally always leads to defeat. And guess what? It did! 3-2 to Valencia at Gouldersen Park. What are your initial thoughts on what happened on Saturday? I thought the first half was a good game, that was what I thought. I thought I had a good going forward, awful at the back. And then the second half, there's a game kind of petered out after the bar on our end. There's a lot of subs and then we make a mistake and they'll add it to ball in the middle of the goal and our keepers on the penalty spot for some reason. And that was it. We lost the game. That was my initial thoughts. Yeah, pretty much second what Baz has said there. First off, some positives going forward. We do look a lot better. We actually look like we've got some pace and a bit of a threat about the side now. But at the back, that was highlighted within the first few minutes of the game, wasn't it? When we went behind, then fortunately I think it showed exactly why we had to sign a new left back as well. Because Banes, as much as I love Banes, he's kind of shown up for the first two goals. But yeah, we've been saying, haven't we, for weeks now, until we get those players in, we know what we're going to get. We knew it was going to be a poor display at the back and that's what we got. So frustrating with that. But until these players come in, we've only got what we've got to work with, haven't we? Yeah, I feel like we're repeating ourselves over and over and over again. And I just hope that we're not repeating ourselves when the season starts. Because I think the issues are glaring. I mean, the team that started, I would imagine, what, eight would start next weekend? I mean, we'll see. We'll see. But it was a pretty strong side. But I don't know, they just seem like there's big issues there. That obviously will take time. But for me, you mentioned defence there. If the defence just making basic errors, they shouldn't be making any... Experienced players should know better to be making basic errors that you would think doesn't matter what level you're at, you shouldn't be... I mean, the first goal is just a cross into the box, which Banes doesn't do it. The goal he comes off his line and walks around a little bit. And the lad's got to tap him with an open goal, and you're the second one. A ball into the box, and you can, you know, you can track the run of the lad who heads it. He just pulls into a little bit of space and guides it in. And there's no one else around them, like even challenging for that ball. And you think those things shouldn't happen. And you just worry that if these players, you know, start the season, that we're going to be allowing a lot of chances for the opposition. And the other thing I didn't like as well is what you've started seeing is everyone at the back was appalling, to be honest, for that game. And, you know, as soon as a goal's going in, I could see, like, Jags and Keen, like, you know, even Coleman sort of arguing, throwing their arms up. And you're thinking, take a bit of responsibility. So I saw Coleman was at fault for a goal as well, and he's given it all this. And I'm thinking, take some responsibility here, lad. You know, this is the worrying thing. There just doesn't seem to be that rapport or, you know, we don't look like a team. We're not a team at the moment, are we? And that's a big concern. I just want to see some of these players, as you said, they're defenders. Basic, basic stuff. Defend? You know, I know it's a friendly put. I mean, this is stuff that's just should be easy to them. It shouldn't have even been, you know, a chance. And you just think, it needs sorting. It really needs sorting. As you said, we feel like we're repeating ourselves, but it's because it still needs sorting. Yeah, it's a collective responsibility as well. But you can't, you know, looking to blame someone else. You've got a, the second goal in particular, that, you know, goes on the outside of the bench. Now, when that crosses pullback, one of your sense packs should be looking to where Rod Rigo is. The danger man must have just left them. You know, someone, if you're following the flight of the ball, the minute he crosses it, you know where that is. No one even went to him. And then he acts as blame in the midfield. The runners, they're all, you know, you've got to make sure you do your job first and foremost. And then if you're getting blocks in and other people are free, then you know, you'd highlight that issue, but it was a free edit. The second goal was a free edit. The first one, Bains, has to deal with it. The keeper doesn't need to. If he's coming, coming get it. Yeah. Otherwise, stay on your line. Bains doesn't deal with it. And obviously, we should go. So that's the worry defensively. I think it's the pocket of four. For me, it's the four central characters in our team. You know, Keane, Jack Elger, and Snidlin and Ghana. I don't think Snidlin and Ghana can play together. We've said it for a number of months, if not, you know, the last year at least. And Keane and Jack Elger are, for whatever reason, jealous. Keane struggling still. Jack's looks like it might be one. I don't know, but maybe he's just leggy because the pre-season's been difficult, and maybe when it settles down... I just don't believe that. I just don't think... I look at Jax and Keane, and I just think there's two players there who are looking for some way to hide. And there's no way to hide, because neither of them are strong enough to get the other one through it. And I think that's a big problem. I think Jax... Not in his legs, I've gone, because I've said it about 18 times in the last two years. But both goals, I think the old Phil Jack Elger, Phil Jack Elger and his plan were the dealt with those. I mean, the balls in the air. I think he would have dealt with both of them. But the fact that both of them have got to dangerous areas, and, you know, I just don't think Keane sees the danger. I don't think he ever reacts quick enough to be danger. I think, you know, we need the centre back who sees that area, who can deal with it, even if he doesn't deal with it first time. Possibly he has the pace to get away with it second time. And you're absolutely right about Garner. Garner's performance, I think, gets dragged down when he has to play with somebody else. And Snadlin is... There was one on Saturday, and I think it highlighted it for me. You know, I said it to you at the time. One of the players at the ball in the middle of the park, and Sigarton went over and done what exactly he does for Aitlin, he went over and got round the player. But not to tackle him, just to press. Yeah. And Sigarton, Snadlin was on the other side of him. Right? And Sigarton had pressed enough for the ball to become loose. And it needed Snadlin to come over and Snadlin just stood there five yards away and just watched. And by the time he got there, he committed a foul because by the time the lad had moved at the ball, Snadlin needed one option, it was to wait him. What if he'd been there two seconds earlier, like he should have been? Then he would have nicked the ball away and waited to be in the possession. That's what pressing is all about. Pressing is basically has become a new thing or seems to become a new thing. I know it's not really a new thing, but it's become a new thing because it's a way of winning the ball without actually having to tackle. Yeah. It's forcing the opposition to give you the ball back. That's why people look. That's why it's become such a big thing in football. You don't have to tackle anyone. But it relies on individuals collectively hassling players. And that's what I'm saying. Snadlin just hasn't got. He's just not quick enough on his feet. Yeah. Whereas I think Garner is, but then Garner's just... I don't know. He's not the same player he was the first six months he came to the club. And what happened six months after he came into the club, he went to the African Nations and suddenly found Snadlin. This is exactly it. What we need in there, for me, is a proper... I mean, you can call it number six, you can call it number eight, but someone actually... Rooney actually showed what we need in there. Yeah. Right? He did. We need a player in the middle of the park who can actually get the ball and use it, spread it. Find the pass, yeah. Look at all the top players. They don't have a hold them in field there. And another hold them in field there. They have a chaser, a harrier, like Chelsea with a cantey, but then they have someone with a class in there next to them. Yeah. They can actually pick up the ball and use it. And that's where I just don't think those two gel. One's a hurrier and, you know, a hurrier chaser, whatever. And then you've got Snadlin, who's just like, I don't really know what he does for us anymore. Yeah. So I think we need class in there. I think... Class is not easy to buy now, but... He's too slow going both ways. Yeah. He's too slow to react offensively, so he's exposing two centre-arves who aren't exactly... They can't be exposed. Yeah. And he's not quick enough to get us going the other way, so he's not helping. So he's in the middle and he's a problem. How many times do I say to you, Saddy, look at him, when he's getting past them on them, he doesn't know where he is, because they just go bum, bum, bum, and they're a bit away from him. He's constantly like this, isn't he? He's like this, isn't he? Looking around. Every touch as well goes back towards his own goal every single time. Yeah. He takes it, he's free. He wants to play that way. He uses the ball so often, as well. He's too slow to recover flying. With simple passes as well, what should be simple passes Garna, I think, particularly first half. He was fantastic. You know, he was all over the place and that's what he does so well. He will not stop running. He will fight. He will win the ball back. He's a little, he's fantastic. You know, I can't speak more highly of Garna, but we're not seeing the best of him. Look at Cante, as you said, the lads want everything because he's always had that player alongside him, where he can do all the tidying up and winning the ball and what have you. But then you need someone who's going to carry the ball forward or find the pass or do something creative with it. And at the moment, you've got Garna doing all this. And then as you said, Schneidlin is taking his time too much. It's like he doesn't want to get stuck in. He doesn't want to get involved. And I don't know whether it's, you know, because I always put it down to, to me, it looks like he's just not trying hard enough. But I don't know whether now that he's not trying hard enough or is it that he's not quick enough and he's just not cut out. And as you said, there's no forward play at all, side to side to side to back to, back to the goal leader. And it's like, we've got such an issue in midfield now as well. And I think priority has to be centre-arves, but we do need someone to come in and play, as you said, that kind of number six role as well, because the moment on midfield is just, I suppose it's our advantage you are because really it should be number eight role in a way because I think the common sort of denominator, maybe in the issues with Schneidlin and the issues with Garna, they both had Ross Barkley when they first come to the club. They had a player and whatever you think of Ross, he could pick the ball up in those areas and move it out of those danger areas and get you 10 yards up the pitch. Then genuinely that's when his issues came into play when he got up 10 yards further the pitch. But he would take you 10 yards up the pitch and then his big problem was obviously the final ball was not always good enough. But he would get you up the pitch, get you out of those danger areas and at the moment we don't seem to be able to get out of those areas quick enough. The one way we can get out of those areas quick enough is Theo Wolcott. I think he's a massive bonus to us. Do you get a bit of a shock then from the screen? You know, look at that. He's a player. Theo Wolcott's a player actually who can get you up the pitch. He's why he's so important because I think we've seen that in fact, people come onto that. But I think we need someone in the middle of the park and I think this is where the top clubs, this is where they look at our neighbours. They've gone and bought kites because he seems to be that player, that player who can pick the ball up. Well he can, and that's what modern plays have to do now. You don't have to look at Kante. But he can pick that ball up and move a 10 yards up the pitch and then hand it off. And then you're away. That's something that Garner misses in his game. That's the one thing he misses in his game is if Garner could pick the ball up and run with it and get you 10 yards up the pitch and then hand it off. Because this is another thing, Garner wins the ball most of the time but then he hands it off in the same area he is. And if he's handing it off to Snarlin and Snarlin's not a great passer, so where have you gone? You've gone nowhere. That's why he should be in before Snarlin. That's his position. When he came into our side when we first bought him, we were all like that. Oh my, he was a nine. Unbelievable. Every week he was a nine out of 10. Every week. I remember doing the ratings at the time. He was man of the match. Constantly. Every week. Because he just sort of, the whole midfield himself. He was unbelievable. And then it was other people that we didn't have in the right area. We weren't doing as well as we should have done. So that's why for me, the problem, the only issue you've really got with Garner is that sometimes you go press initiation where he doesn't need to and they just go bump, bump, bump, drag him out and he's gone. But I think if you say to him you're holding the field player because he can't take the ball. But if he's got a partner who's better, he'll win it, give it off to him. And that fella next to him has to be able to take that ball, but he has to be able to do both. It can't be Schneidling. I think we've seen enough of it now, as you said, all last season practically. They just don't play well together and I kind of hope that that would be something that was going to be addressed and now it's starting to look like Schneidling is going to be fancy to start. We've not, we've not replaced. There isn't. But this is why we need to start thinking, you know, hopefully Silva will have identified this as a position that needs sorting. We've barely got any time left now, but going on to what you said, Ped, Barclay as much as, you know, there was issues in his game as well. We haven't replaced him. We just haven't replaced him. And even Cooman, I think, to the end of Cooman's tenure, the only reason, and I think we look back on that as better than what it was actually. But the only reason we kind of picked up points at the end and finished seventh was because, you know, we did have like, Ross was massively influential in terms of that. He wasn't talking about Ron, but Ross was a big factor in that. We had to adjust our game last season. I think the disappointing thing, I know we're getting away from this game is, but one player I think we all had high hopes of doing, that was Tom Davies. I think when he broke into the team, you don't have to look at his goal against Man City. He would pick the ball up and he would go through the lines with it. And last season he just completely stopped doing that and almost like getting the ball and giving it away straight away. Whereas someone needs to go back. And I think, you know, Tom, this is a big season for him. It doesn't happen from this season. I don't think it'll happen at all. One of the big things when he came into the team was he would pick the ball up and move it. And that's why I think a lot of people got excited. That's exactly what excited us about him was, we looked at him and gone, you know what? He can do the things that maybe Ross doesn't do. Or, you know, maybe he's got a good head on his shoulders, but last season he completely stopped doing that. He just played the simple ball. When he did play the simple ball, he normally left it too short. And that's something he needs to address in his game. But now those four, I think that's going to be a big thing over time. But you know what? Going forward, I thought we looked a lot sharper. I think not having to walk out all pre-season has been a real disappointment. And I've mentioned it a few times. I was really happy with back on Saturday and straight. He's obviously been doing training. It's not like getting involved in the matches and stuff because his level was fantastic. But he's bright and he's energetic and he makes good runs. And as long as he stays on side, he's always going to test the opposition. And I thought, you know, everything he did was bright and you could see where he hadn't played games because he made a little bit of extra touch. But you showed on the goal, you know, Towson's goal, the way he walks through those players and then found, you know, to get his head up and play a good ball on for Towson. And that just showed you there's a connection between those two players. Sometimes that happens when players come in together at the same time and they settle down together and it's all like, well, I don't know anyone else here and you don't know anyone else here. Let's be busy. And sometimes you get that connection straight away and I think they've got that connection. And he was a real positive for me. You know, and what's good is I think we've got with Charleston on one side and Wolcott's on the other side. We've actually got two different kinds of players. You know, Wolcott's sort of all running with the ball and almost looking to create chances for some other people. But with Charleston's got that little bit of individual and it's about him that separates him. So I think we showed on Saturday and we've been worrying about our lack of goals in pre-season. But I think on Saturday we showed that going forward. I think we can be a handful and we want to get men forward as well. Yeah, I mean, again, we were looking at it tactically with how many men we were putting forward and for the majority of the time we had six, if not seven. That's again how that feeds back into it. If you haven't got a pacey centre, we feel that in a pacey centre back and you give the ball away, you're exposed. That's what we've seen all pre-season. So you can see what Marco Silva's blueprint is and how he wants to play and how that will excite us as fans going that way. It's about to sort the other end of it. But I thought, well, it was brilliant. You know, without playing a game, he hasn't played a game, it was his first game. You know, when he'd done 60, 60 minutes, 65 minutes. Yeah, he's tired in the second half a little bit. But he was a threat. It's runs, it's runs are brilliant and if you can get someone who can pass a ball, that run he does from right into the centre behind. He'll be in every time. Yeah. I think the other side with Bratialis, he just looks unplayed with the... You know what it is? It's everything with Bratialis and it's his strength. He's good in here, likes a tackle. Yes. But he's the ability to go by players like they're not there. Not balling for him at the outside of his foot, which we should just go from. So cheeky, wasn't it? Just brilliant. This is it. And I think in terms of Saturday's game, going back at Goodison and seeing that kind of front four, that's something that we have to be positive about because as you said, Warcock coming back in, can't understate how much we missed him towards the end of last season as well and then this pre-season he's coming in. It just makes us terms of going forward. He is that thing we've been missing that just helps with the fluidity. And for the goal, he's just unbelievable. The strength he shows as well to win that ball and the way he gets round players. And he should have had the goal as well, shouldn't he? Probably. You know, the one where he goes for it. Yeah, and he should dive and try and get his head on it. But he was a real bright spark for the game and saw like looking through the photos after the game and stuff and there was a picture and it was Cenk, Warcock, Richarlison and Sigurdson. And I looked at that and I thought, God, we've got some real class in this side. In terms of going forward, I thought them four there could terrify teams. It's just about, at the moment, this kind of midfield situation. It's so disjointed and kind of non-existent in a lot of ways. You know, we're relying upon getting the ball to those boys whether it's Warcock down the right or Richarlison on the left and making things happen. And then if we lose that though, straight through the midfield then that back four is non-existent. Well, you're right. If you look at the team there and you've got your dad pick for the goal that clears a lot of stuff up here because he's always switched on, he's looking at things. You've got your two full backs, you know. I know you're going to talk about doing that in a minute but you've got him up there, whatever. You've got them trying to get forward, James. You've got those four. You don't feel feel better. He's getting better and better. But he's done well Saturday. It wasn't amazing, but he's done well. So we can just get. So you can go from a team and you look and go, oh, we are wide open. We can just get to play. Even if it was just even if it was two starters before Thursday and defend it and I'm sent to mid, you know, you'd look and go, actually, we're all right here. We actually got a good side now. We can keep the majority of this team fit and, you know, and build. Then by the time the process is fully, you know, everyone's into it and everyone knows the job and you can start looking at January then and go, well, we can get one more in in January then that's something to build from then for now. You know, because that's that's what it's all about. So it is, it will be crucial in a few days, but if you're looking at the positive for the weekend was certainly the attack. I'll go forward. And I think what will come of Charleston and give you that straight away is they say to the opposition, you know, you can't come too high against those. You've got to, you know, certainly a home. You're going to have to sit on the edge of your box because we've got pace that can come over the top and that gives us a little bit of room in the middle of the park then, but it's what we do with it. As I say, it's away from home. Away from home. It's going to be. I mean, it was funny because I think I said to you at halftime or, you know, it's 2-2. I was like, we're going to be in this position a few times this season. I think there's going to be goals, you know, in our games. Yeah. Because there's got a lot of goals. Because you know, look like we've got goals in us, but we look like, you know, we're going to, we're going to ship with you. Yeah. Unless the, and pick for the make a difference though, you know, if you listen to the hologramming goal, that is stechenberg. What a gram he is. She will. He's been, he's been pretty, pretty badly. I mean, it was interesting that the new kid, Virginia was on the bench. She was the third choice goalkeeper. I thought that was that obviously the sweetness they've given him. And I can imagine by the end of the season, it'll be second choice. I hope so. I really hope so. I really think he'll get faster. I think they'll, I think they've obviously seen something in the centre. You know, you'll be, you'll be our second choice and, you know, you'll see you as something, as someone for the future. You know, so that's really interesting. But yeah, pick for will make a massive difference. I think he saves. I think he sails the state. I think he saves. I think he doesn't come off his line for the first. And I think. I don't think you could. I mean, I've criticized stechenberg some of the goal. I don't think he could do anything about the second goal. He's good at writing the corner. I think pick for the, there being struggle with the, what Jordan probably does better than stechenberg is he screams. Yeah, yeah. Balls of defenders and the acting now, where we don't forget, we haven't had them all pre-seasoners play the game. We haven't had wall cuts. This will sound stupid, but I think defenders come to a lie on goalkeepers and saying situations. And if they think that the goal you're becoming for something, or if you've got a goalie telling you to be somewhere and that goalie doesn't tell you, then you're going to think, we're all right where we are. We know people will be screaming, there's a man in the middle on mark, someone there with it, stechenberg doesn't, the next minute in the back of the net. That's footballers. Football is a fast game. There's so many things going on. Sometimes you're only going to have that one person who's standing still. There's only responsibilities to look out. Everyone else has got a job to do. So if you've got a goalie who's very active and he's like, man on mark there, you know, drags drop off, you've got two there, or whatever. You know, just two of his mark on one man, because I didn't get a goal side, you know what I mean? Whatever it takes. Sometimes that's where a goalie brings and you don't know that unless you're playing it in that. Yeah, well that's a bang on point that because I think, just got to think back to the kind of last few seasons with Howard, where he shouldn't have been. He shouldn't have been starting for us. And there was just arguments amongst the side because he's screaming at him as if to go, you should have left that, I'd have had it. And you can tell they just didn't trust him to be doing his job. And so they're making rash decisions because they don't know what he's going to be doing. But with Jordan in there, you know, we all know how vocal he is. You can hear him from the top balcony and he's telling everyone exactly what they should be doing. So you're in the top balcony? Is that good? That's it. Me, if I'm in the top balcony, I should say, and you know, you can hear him, you can see, and you can see that he's 24 years of age, but none of that matters. He's the leader out there. It's what I can see, he's the leader of our team, even though he's the keeper. Your goalkeeper needs that though because he's the ace. Yeah. You're playing the game, you can see the whole pitch. Yeah, that's right. So if your goalie's quiet, then you are dealing with stuff what you can see. You might not see a runner behind or if he's screaming, run out, whatever they shout, blah, blah, blah. That's what you need. And you know, I think, I think he needs that because Keane almost needs to be moved into position and stand there. Jags. I can't be... I don't want to write them off because we've written them off a couple of times. They've been great, but at this moment, his legs look heavy at the minute, so his mobility is not great. Seamus has been exposed massively. He's been poor the past few, hasn't he? Going forward, going forward, great. But defensively, he's all over the place. Baines, he was exposed horribly at the weekend. First two games, you've got to look at Baines there. You look and go, right, okay. But if Pickford's there, you don't know if their games go up a little bit because of the organisation. It's not perfect. We need luck. We probably need and Keane trying to get into the side rather than starting in the team. Right? But let's be honest, right? It's looking that we're not going to get to. Yeah. This week. That's how it looks. So therefore, Keane's going to be one of our centre backs. That's a horrible thought. No, because he could be all right with someone else. That horrible thought is them two together and no one coming in. That's the horrible thought for me, because the whole gate injured. So that's the horrible thought. One comes in, might make the other one better. You don't know it. It fumbles about partnerships and stuff. But Pickford, for me, will make a huge difference. The same as Walcott has. Yeah. You know, that big, a centre mid will make a huge difference if we can get on. Look when I mean, look when Walcott went off and Sanzo came on and he ends up costing us a goal. Yeah. Because he's not, his first touch is heavy. He's not, he's not, you know, him and Coleman are not for some reason. You know, maybe he's thinking, well, if I put my foot through this and I kick Sanzo. See, I looked, right. I was looking at that again, like I've looked at it, a few times. And then they just come to me with Coleman and it's happened a few times in pre-season. I think he's, I think he's nervous about that. I don't think he's worried about the fact that the leg, but I think he's, he wants to start the season so much that he's almost not putting the tackles in. But at Walls the week later, Sanzo's in the back of the stand. Yeah. Without the shadow. And you know what? I've got no problem with that. Yeah. Someone going, the season starts next week. And we've seen the challenge on Bains on how Coleman went off his head in that black bin with that thrown the tackle in the last minute. Yeah, it's shocking. And so I think he must ask me, I think I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt and go. I can kind of understand why he's not throwing silly tackles because he's trying to make sure he's ready for next week. And you know, watch the point of throwing it. And he got in, he did one of these games a few seasons ago and then missed the first few games. And I've got with him, I've got, you know, no problem with you, you'll get better. Yeah. And that's what I'm saying. Pickford will make that better, but another centre back. And a centre midfield, you know, because I can't stress enough for me, from my perspective, how important that position is. It's like last year when we highlighted when Martina was in the side and we were going, he's doing a job. Snyderland is doing a job. But it's taken away from the team. So Martina, you couldn't, we didn't have a left side. No, not at all. So we were playing for two days of a pitch, really. And now, we're kind of playing with 10 then, almost. And it becomes nine when the defences, the two centre backs aren't playing well. So we've almost with a man down because he can't do the job that we need him to do in that midfield. Midfield is mobility. It's all about being able to get about the pitch. Now against Cardiff City, he might be fine, but against Manchester City, we would get torn to absolute. Listen, we could have a great, we could get a really good midfielder in this week in Manchester City, they should do, they've got better players. But you need to be able to get around that pitch and compete. And at the moment, I don't feel like we can. I don't think we've got enough quality in midfield. It's as simple as that isn't it? Just as simple as that. It's just not enough quality in there. It's not between whether it's the make-up or the personnel. It's just not enough quality. Both ways, you know what I mean? The make-up of it's really very sort of... There's a lot to be desired. Oh, God. This is where, you know, you start looking now, as we said, about sorting that left-hand side out. You know, it's fantastic. We've got recharging now. We've got dinyeing as well. And that front four all looks very exciting. But the midfield is the heart of the side. Like you said, you're protecting that back four, which are very, very, that very much need protecting. My heart needs protecting when I go and watch them because it's just, I'm that scared. But, yeah, the midfield is the heart of the side. And we don't really have one, you know? I'd love nothing more than for Tom Davis to come. I'd love it for the lad. But so far, it's not happened. Certainly not last season and what we've seen so far. Schneidling, Garnet. There's no magic, man. There's no one where you go, it's all right. We've got, you know, a Ross Barkley or, you know, I'd like to have seen as something happen, materialize with this Ruben Lofter's cheek or even Dembele. Because, like you said, we're all focusing on defense because we're so exposed and we're so weak and vulnerable at the back. But, yeah, like you said, you know, it's all very well and good bringing in even two brand new centre backs that are going to go straight in and they're solid. But if you haven't got that bit in between, then, you know, it limits us so much and they're just going to be dealing with stuff. But it's about how we go forward then. Look at it when we had, when we finished fourth and we had Alan Sturgeon and William and that. They were getting on. They were the greatest defenders. They were decent, don't get me wrong, but a big part of why we were good there and Yobo went, Yobo was there. It was Lee Carsley because he done that job in front of the back four. Now, Lee Carsley in isolation wasn't a great footballer for me. He backed off too much at times. That was a perfect three. It was him doing that job, Graveson doing the ball way and Kyle being the number ten or whatever you want to say. That was a perfect through line. This me feels, it's just, what does he do? Sigurdsson's the number ten. I want him to do more for me. I still want him to, I like them as a footballer. I still think there's so much more and he's got to offer everything. So much more. But then I look at the other two and I go, what are your jobs? Why does one of yous need to do this job and one of yous need to do, why isn't, I can't do both. Why can't I just sit in front of the back four and make sure the ball doesn't get through? Yeah. Why do we need two in there? You're looking and go, you need to sit, look at, Snyden has replaced Gareth Barry, right? That's who he's replacing the side. He can't do all the things Gareth Barry could do. Gareth Barry could sit. And okay, he sat too deep a lot of the time, but he sat. And when he got the ball, dead classy, always finding a really good pass. Without it being sort of hard work or it was just classy. How many times did he just step in front of people, intercept the ball? That's it. And you'd go, clever. Whereas you watch Snyden, and everything just seems a task. Yeah. Like dead hard, like you find yourself on the wrong side or in the wrong place. Or you just give a freak if Gareth Barry, they give cheap to kick you away. Everything just seems like hard work. I'm not saying, I don't believe he's not trying. People go, he's just not even at it. I don't believe that. I don't, honestly. I don't. I think he wants, I think he probably wants to play well. But it's not acting for him. And it's not acting. If it's not acting, and whether he's lost confidence and the fans don't believe in him. And there's a disconnect there now. I don't know, but he can't do the job we need him to do. Yeah. Or take Gareth out and maybe someone's going alongside him. Maybe the game just moved on. And they feel there's now, you need to, you've got to have those legs. So, we got to see Dinje, second half. He was alright, wasn't he? You know, he was a couple of little naïve moments, but not naïve as any luck naïve. He just chose the wrong option a couple of times. But in terms of like getting on the ball and wanting the ball and getting just that natural zip I thought he had, he looked alright. Go play. Go play, couldn't he, for a size for an absolutely worthy of a crossing and a 2-2, which we should have scored for him. Looks like he wants to get forward all the time. Not quite quick, didn't he? Easy quick, yeah. And had a good engine when up and down. So, as far as, a cameo Dave, you kind of performance goes. I thought he'd done well. I think, you know, he was his first time on the pitch and stuff, I thought he'd done quite well. Yeah, he comes across as a very confident young man as well. You know, he's played in various different countries. What we've seen in his interviews and not just that funny comment about the tattoo, but he just comes across really well. It seems like he genuinely wanted to be at this club and he came on and he did, he looked really mobile, which I think, again, it highlighted how much Banes has dropped off in the last year or two, you know, with his pace. He is quick. Yeah, as Ped said there, there was a couple of moments where he's a bit nervy and his decision-making, he got wrong. There's one moment where you think, he's just got to knock that back to the keeper and he's too hesitant and we end up giving the ball away and he's having to try and throw in a challenge and stuff, but I think that'll all come down to, he's coming in kind of fresh, isn't he? You know, it's his first game. He's not played with his side before, but yeah, I'm excited about him. I think we've addressed now something that we were so desperate for. We've got a left-back who looks like he's going to be. It's hard to read too much into it, but from what we've seen at his previous clubs and stuff, his quality footballer, what we've seen in that cameo the other day, he looks like he's going to do a job for us. So I'm dead happy with him as a sign and it's just what we've got around him. But yeah, I think he's going to do well for us. Yeah, I thought he was alright. As I said, there was a bit of miscommunication and it led to, but... That was keen, not keen, so there's a bit of a fuss. No, no, there are the things about which... You get rid of them pre-season and, you know, you can always get hands up. You're not going to throw yourself around. To be honest, if Leighton Bains is our sub for left-back, then that tells you that in that area we've gone up a quality, haven't we? Because it was Kuka Matina and it was nobody. You know, Mason Holgate played there against Sunderland last year and stuff, so it shows you that the level has gone up, which is all you can hope for. Now you've had to follow that through in other positions. What you're going to do is to address the positions you want to strengthen in. And whatever happens, happens. You know, if you can get... I know people will think, well, why didn't we try and get a centre midfielder or a centre... Oh, I'm sure we've been sign all summer and the prospect of signing a left-back angle, which we need, we've set for two seasons, we needed a left... Well, four or five, to be honest. We needed a new left-back and we got one and, as I say, he'll adapt, he'll understand. I think it's little things like knowing what to file in a same country as well. Yeah, of course. Little things like that, what to file, they're things like... I think that's what Sander has struggled with, like knowing what to file. And then he can get a bit more stuck in sometimes. Well, not that. Knowing what to file on you. Oh, okay. You know what I mean? So that if someone comes through the back, you don't just fall over and throw your hands up in the air and you actually respond in the right way. And, you know, if you know that someone, if someone does that here and touches you and falls over, you're going to get a file. You're going to... That's your levels of almost going into challenges. But if, you know, a 50-50s or 50-50, then it's different, you know what I mean? So it's little things like that. Okay, you know, we feel like we're used to the pace and all those things. But, you know, whether he's got the quality, we'll have to wait and see. It's two brilliant editors. Two great one-in-a-box and one on the edge of the airbox. Daddy, one of them didn't think he had any right to win either of them because the latter bigger. And he comes so nice and brave, not hesitant. He seems like he knows how to defend. He does. Which is always a good thing for a defender I've found. Oh, yeah. Well, hopefully he can see the other three then. This is what I thought of him coming in was that he was going to be one of those players that is better defensively than going forward, which what we've seen from our, you know, Seamus and Layton Baines for the past few years is that their strengths really have been more going forward. So I thought that's, you know, and he's demonstrated in what little we've seen that, like you said, winning headers and stuff in the air because he's a little bit taller than what I thought he was going to be as well, actually. But he's still, you know, he's still doing well to win him. I think going forward, that crosses out. I think every time he got the ball or someone inside of him got the ball, he was gone. He was on the outside straight away. He was always going. He wasn't waiting for anyone else to tell him. He was going and he was putting himself in positions and the midfield had to go with him. And that's a big thing. Baines doesn't do that and hasn't done that for a while. And you understand why. And all that does is just say to the opposition, well, I'm staying here all day. And I'm only going when I get the ball. And that's something which again makes it easy for you to, for opposition plays to defend against you. Because if I'm playing against Baines and I'm the right wing, I'm just staying here all day. I'm pushing him up because he's not going anywhere. And if he does go anywhere and the ball comes over the top, he's done. He's done, exactly. Whereas when you suddenly you find you've got a little bit of it. Despite the team is coming, the opposition are terrified of him and because they just look at him and go, well, we can't leave you alone. You've got that on both sides. Suddenly you've got your options. Suddenly you can narrow your, you know, the charlots and so they then can, can Nick inside, pick the ball up and start one of my plays and it's all these little shifts in the way you play. Look at Ross Barkley when he is, he, arguably before he left, he was some of the, some of his best play was when he was playing on that right-hand side. And when James got injured, suddenly that was gone because he played off the right and he could come inside and run with the ball and he knew he had James Coleman as an overlap. Make me, suddenly we didn't get it. And with charlotson, with charlotson could be that run in my field if it works out because he knows, well, I can come inside because I know I've got the nail on the outside and the opposition are having to look at him and you and it's, it's, what you're trying to do is you're trying to move defences around. That's what you're trying to do whereas we've been, we've gone from having, you know, to start a last season our right-hand side was John Joe Kenny. You know, we had like Calver Lou in there one bit. Oh my gosh, yeah. Wayne Rooney played out there one game. You know, we were trying to put bits and pieces together and Davey clashing. It wasn't working. 12 months later we're starting the season with James Coleman, Theo Welcott on one side, Dean Yee, we've got the charlotson on the other side, Adam Ola Loughman's on the bench. Yeah. You know, you need to smile. You've got options, you've got options going that way. And that's why he keeps coming back to, to that floor. I think what's actually promising is that the weak points, as weak as they are, they're quite evident now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So they are quite evident. So it's like, so maybe that's, so in terms of the rest of this week, you think, right, can we bring bodies in? And if we don't, so we don't bring enough bodies in, then you have to start working to make those positions better or players to be better. And ultimately that's the job of the coach. Yeah. And that's what I think managers or coaches don't get challenged on enough. You know what I mean? Like for years it's been like, oh, well, he hasn't bought this player or that player. And the true mark of a top manager, and this is where Pep Guardiola's the king at the moment, isn't he, is, does he make players better? Moise was believing that. Because that's what his key was. Get me a player that I can work with and I will make them better. He made them all better. Say what you like about David Moise, style, negativity, whatever, made all the players better. He bought young, hungry players who wanted to be in there and get better. And he made them better because he was an excellent coach. So that'll be the true test of Marco Silva. If he's got certain players to work with, can he make them better? Can he do something to them? And that's what you can hope. That takes time, but that's something that certainly doesn't happen overnight. So we'll have to wait and see. And you know, I'm still worried and worried about things, some things, but we won't talk about them now. We'll talk about when we do our season preview. There's certainly issues that I think we need to address, but it was a little bit brighter. I didn't learn any more about the defence. It's still crap. Well, this is it, isn't it? Like you said, we kind of know until we bring in these reinforcements, I wasn't going there thinking, oh, Keenan Jags are going to play a blinder today. It's going to be an exceptional defensive display. We kind of knew exactly what we were going to get. So, and that's exactly what we did get. But positives going forward, things are starting to feel better, aren't they? You can start to see visibly the kind of changes that Silver's looking to, you know, impress on the team. And it's working, as you said, having Coleman, Walcott, Dinier, Richarlison and those that can switch around. All of a sudden, our teams have got to go, shit, you can actually do something, you know? And so, things are going in the right direction now. It's just a matter of sign some players, sign some defenders. Central mid would be nice. There's loads of, loads of five go-throughs this season. Yeah. It's going to happen. It's going to be on the right side of that newly signed. The right side, I don't know if anyone loves us. Yeah. Well, yeah, it would be the Darlans of, of Skye and everything else. Well, not the Darlans, maybe just like, they'll accept us. One day. Step child. Yeah, yeah. Step child. Ginger step child. Yeah. Well, yeah, there you go. I mean, you could put that on a poster, couldn't you? Step child. Of Skye Sports. Of Skye Sports. Of the meeting. Yeah. It writes itself, of course. Anyway, let us know your thoughts in the comments. 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