 Welcome to Toffy TV, it is the match preview, AS Monaco versus Everton. It's the big one, it's the big one, cos where are you going? On a coach, on a coach, on a coach for 14 hours. Four million hours on a coach, what can you do? Absolutely petrified I am. You know, I love you the longest game of ice-fi ever. Oh my god, ever, ever. Longest game of hide and seek. Have you got any top thumbs? I have a lot, I might have some on the ring. Monaco, obviously playing, we played see on at the weekend and it wasn't great, but you know, drew nil nil, but we'd expect to see a step up by Friday because obviously the way the great has gone up, the players who played for 45 minutes or so last week have had another week training and obviously a chance to see Fabian Delfa as well. So a little bit more interesting this game for you. Yeah, a little bit more. I mean, the fact he's going, the fact I'm going, it makes it... No, listen, they've had a good week, I would imagine. A lot of sessions, the way they're training looks fantastic, looks warm, looks like there's altitude, probably a couple of sessions a day, looks like they're getting stuck in. You're not seeing too much of actually what they're doing on obviously, which is good again, you know, that kind of thing is, it just seems like they're getting down to business, because this is exactly what you need right now, because this is, like we said, loads of time, this is where they get the core of their fitness for the season. So it's great that obviously, like Simon and Jay Gomez is involved, they were, it wasn't last year, I'm sure, like a few woke up, they didn't get involved, even though we didn't play on Sunday, I'm sure he's involved. Good that he has a pre-season, he's staying with us, which obviously looks like he is, and it's good that he's getting a pre-season under his belt, because I do honestly think that affected them last season, no matter what anyone says about his performances, I do think not having a pre-season affected them when we really needed them. Bernard as well. Bernard, obviously, and it's good that Fabian Delphys joined in, so listen, it's still pre-season, it's still only a game for fitness, the game could easily be played by enclosed doors on a training pitch, it's really good, and essentially that's what it is. It's just that, because pre-seasons are the way they are now, we all have the curiosity and we all want to make sure we see it, so I think all we can hope for is, or all we ask, is that you see a level, that level of fitness goes up, and with the level of fitness go up, you see a little bit more football, and for me, certainly in this part of training now, in pre-season, it is all about the fitness, maybe in the last couple of games when we go to Germany, then you'll be looking for that, starting to see maybe things happening with the ball, but a lot of that happens on the training pitch anyway, so these games are that little reward for the end of the week, most players only get 45 minutes, at still at the moment, I think, again, like I said, once they get home, and then they separate that squad up, and the people in the under 23s will go, and back to the under 23s or on loan will go, some players will come in like with Charleston, Dominic Arfalun, Jeri Mina, will be added to the squad, and then obviously you see a little bit more true definition of what the squad is. Yeah, definitely, I mean, you know, I'm looking for a little bit more joined up play in the final third than what we saw last week, and I'd expect that to come with fitness as well, would have liked another couple of plays and better now what hasn't happened yet. Monaco, they've played three games so far, they've bruised four-one, then they lost five-nil to Lockeryn, but it's the next day, so probably didn't see, and then they were beaten by Lysant two-one at the weekend, so, you know, they'll be a step up from Seon in terms of quality, they're playing Everton on Friday, and they're playing Valentier on Saturday, so they'll have a, again, they'll have split day team, so you know, we'll see what's what, but I expect them to be better than Seon, Everton dominated the game against Seon the other day, but I've been able to get, just didn't have enough shots, you know, second half was better, the first half was two pedestrians, that's what I'm looking for, but it is really difficult to judge anything at the moment, because in the final third, where I think we were really lacking the other day, we've got Oomar Nias, who's not going to be with us, we've got Fraser Holmby, who isn't going to be with us, you know, we're looking like a loan for him, we've got Nathan Broadhead, who's done OK, yes, he's been lively, but he's not going to be with us, so it's that final third, we're looking for sharpness, you've only really got Bernard, who will operate in them areas, and Walcott's, hopefully, this week. I think Guilfee as well, I think we've seen signs in the last game Guilfee in the barn in the post, not saying he's massively fit, but just that little bit of exit quality, but again, it's difficult, isn't it? It's always, in pre-season, because that's never the same, it's always difficult to judge, so last year we had the week in Austria, and then we played the game at the end of the weekend, so I think you obviously were just a local team, that we absolutely destroyed, and then you come back to England, and you played the likes of, you played the likes of Berry, and you play Blackburn, and people like that, and this is different, because it does feel like for all these teams we were over in Austria, and you see, this is not just, obviously, Everton and Seon and Monaco, there's a few teams over in the surrounding areas, playing in this Alps tournament thing, which obviously is not a tournament. For both. Yeah, so there's a lot of teams out there doing the same thing, all just playing, all just training in a lovely place to train, and then they go for it, test the fitness in a game. Where as before, and over the years, you start to go to like championship, or especially league one teams, who, it feels a bit more of a game, because they want to win, the fans want to win, they start a week early than us, so the fitness is always a little bit, and it feels like you're pushed a little bit extra in those games, whereas in this game, sitting with the surroundings from what we've seen on Sundays, it can almost become quite allegedly paced, because there's no pressure on the plays, it does feel like a training ground game, it looked like that on Sunday, I can't see Friday being any different, they look like training games with a few spectators knocking around, and I think that actually is better for the teams involved, because it's almost like they can control the tempo, win them games, especially those local games pre-season, it feels like the crowd sometimes can carry that tempo away, and players start getting involved in things that they shouldn't really be getting involved in, whereas I feel like Friday will still feel very much like a training game, players will take it easy, and then Wednesday when we go to Wigan, and there'll be loads of other tonings there, because obviously it's our only fixture in the UK, in England, it'll go up another level, because Wigan will be, oh, we want to have a go at these, we want to get stuck into these, show them what we're all about, and there'll be loads of other tonings there, and that'll drive us on, so Friday I think it'll still be quite leisurely, and then the step up to Wednesday will be, I think it'll be quite big actually, it'll be more intense. To me it feels like a proper pre-season this year though, it feels like an old-fashioned pre-season doesn't it? It feels like an old-fashioned pre-season doesn't it? Yeah, but more other clubs do, when I look at other clubs, and now they've got those disornments, and these teams go out and play these, you know, in America and there's a big thing, but a lot of good clubs, even bigger clubs, have played these kind of things before, and I think with Everton, a lot of it's been localised too much with that, and I think you're right to think going over here, playing a couple of these games before a paying off position, then the wig and game will be a big step up, because they will be snapping into people like Anthony Robinson, who will be playing immediately against Everton, wanting to show us what we've missed out on, we'll carry it as well. That's what I was saying off the other teams involved in it, the other teams are trying to take out exactly the same thing as we are trying to take out of it. No-one's there to prove anything go, to get a one-up on anything go. You know, don't get me wrong, I would love to be involved in one of these tournaments abroad somewhere, you know. But then you see games, I mean it doesn't always work out, some of them are poor, but then you see games like Leeds, I've played Man United, and you think well that can't be, there's going to be no sort of gentlemen's agreement, some of me fall out in front of loads of people, you know. They still want it. There's teams over in Asia at the moment playing games from the Premier League, it's quite early, and that'll have a serious feel about it. Oh well, I was a little bit late, I was a little bit later though wasn't that, I'm saying it felt that felt a little bit later. Where as in this, I just feel like it is that old-fashioned pre-season where you go up one by one by one, and it's up to the teams involved to say, well we know what we both want out of this, and it's fitness, it's nothing else. And you're right, previous years we've gone, we've stayed local, or stayed in the UK, and then suddenly there's that, I don't know, it's just, but you know, listen, you're always going to get, you're always, I've played, when I was playing, we played, when I played at club, we played like a non-league team or whatever, and then I've been on the other side of it, where I play for a non-league team, and I remember playing Bolton, I remember playing for St. Alan's against Bolton, they had like Tony Fuller's gig playing and people like that, and we beat them, we beat them 2-1, and we went and into them. But that's insane. With David just, David, because it was a game, it was early on, it was a pre-season. But that's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying about Wednesday. I think it's been done on purpose, to say, well, this is a leisurely week, but not leisurely into it. The training is hard, and the games will be leisurely, and then Wednesday is wigging away, and I think that's a purpose thing to say, well, you know what, there needs to be a step up in terms of your fitness, because this game's going to be tougher, so I'm going to see that reaction. And that's what I'm saying about pre-season, you're right what you're saying, the pre-season, forget out the opposition in terms of where we play or we're not in all these tournaments, in terms of how you step up. For me, it's been done, that wigging has been done there on purpose to say, well, that's a game where you're going to have to go up another little level, and you hope that. Because I remember going to see, I went to Black Bay in last season, and we were miles off, and they were right on it, and the beat is 3-0, and to be fair, they batted us that night. But you know when you look at it and go, That was the thing, they left a couple of naughty ones, but you know when you think, well, does the manager want that step up? Because as a fan, you're sitting there going, this is not looking great, but the manager's thinking, well, I know the levels of the place fitness, and I know their levels, because I probably get to know what their levels are, and actually this is the perfect thing for them, because they're getting stretched, they're having to work that little bit harder. And if that comes at the right time in fitness, then that's fine, but what you don't want, is to have a long week of training where people are tired, because it's the first couple of weeks back, and then suddenly they're getting stretched. That's when you get injuries, and if you get a couple of injuries, that's probably why Walcott missed the entire last pre-season, getting pushed too hard at times. So I think the balance hopefully is right. I mean, obviously, we won't know for a while really. But it looks like a good pre-season to me, the way they've got to get it. I mean, for Monaco, they've got obviously foul-cow plays for them, but they won't be playing the thing. But they've got people like Alexander Gollaf and Sess Fabric, so obviously plays for them. Chadd Lee, he was at Tottenham, they've got Gels and Martens, he was a very good player. Camel Glick, Siddi B, Jovertich, Nonni López, Naldau, they've got, you know, there's a lot of good players there. So, you know, we'll be gadas at the team, but we've got a lot of quality, so it'll be interesting. I do find it interesting that they're playing back-to-back games, and they have been playing back-to-back games. I mean, that shows a different way. Well, the Lucian game was a game on its own, and they lost two-one, but the other two games they played either side of that game, of back-to-back games, so, I mean, I don't know what they do. Does one team get an hour, one day, an hour and a half on the next or whatever, it'll be interesting. I suppose, as well, depending on what day squad it is, they might have brought, like, everybody with them, all A23s, where we've completely separated. Well, again, it'd be five-nil by locker, and we probably have brought enough quality, not to lose that. But I think it will be an interesting game for us, because I do expect us to have stepped up a little bit from last week. Obviously, all eyes will be on Fabian Delf, because there always is. New players are always interested, aren't they? So it'll be interesting, it'll be in the middle of my field, obviously. And I wonder if we'll start with Gomez, and it's the first bit of trying to get them a relationship together on the pitch. See how they were, because we know that PSG have more or less basically. Well, do you want them? We all know, do you want them? They're probably going to get gone at this time, I feel. I think you'll come on in the second half. I think Snaddle will start the game with Gomez. Yeah, I think Gomez will start with Snaddle, and then Delf will come in the second half. Because there are no pointers that we're supposed to be throwing everyone in together. Snaddle... I mean, that could be exactly how they did. It could be Delf McCarthy, but I just think they'd be an interesting thing if they played Gomez and Delf to start. Because he's only got to play half a game, although he has been training in the city anyway, so he's done his pre-season. But it'll be interesting to see. Like I say, it's the only little bit of disappointment I've got is that final third. It's where we're looking. Oh, we haven't reached into fours, have we? But we've got, next Monday, Gerri Mina returns to training. It's not going to call the looming to train with Charles until the end of the week. Don't forget, whether you like them or not, we've got three to fours at our club. Well, we've got near about and none of them are available. Yeah, yeah. 10,000. 10,000 down a bit of them. There's 10,000 being involved. 10,000 with Charleston and Donna Carverlune are not available. And they're all three centre forwards. Whether you think they're three acceptable centre forwards, that's a completely different chat, but they're all three centre forwards and they're not available. So we are relying on... No, but that's what I'm saying. That's the only little bit of a disappointing thing about the game. And that is that. We haven't got players who you'd like to see. And that, for me, the most important bit of the pitch was at the top end of the pitch, because it's the goals bit. But, you know, like you say, it's another chance for Nathan Broeddhead. It'll be another chance for Fraser Hormby to put himself about a little bit more, get on the end of things. And then we see where we go. And hopefully, Walcott will be available because he played no part. I know. But it's like you say, we want him to have a pre-season, but he needs to play games as well. The last pre-season, it was the first game. He was involved in the Valencia game and that was the week before the season. So we want him to be playing games for his own sake. And to try and play himself into a little bit of form and a bit of confidence when we start the season. He's not going to be in the team, but he'll be on... Well, he might not be in the team. And therefore, you want him coming off the bench and flying, don't you? But we'll have to see. Like you say, it'll be, you know, we've got these on Friday, but back to England on Saturday, I think. And then it's Wigan, isn't it? And then they go off to Germany next weekend for the Opel Cup, which is, again, it'll be a different test to 60-minute games on the same day. But again, it's good because then you can push players for an hour. For an hour. And then push another team for an hour and get everything out of them. Yeah. And that'll be a good one. I'll be... I'm just finally, before we finish, and it's a different video because obviously it'll preview next week. But just quickly looking at it now, do you think that... How do you think he'll take that squab for that Opel Cup because obviously he's going off to have two teams. So are you thinking a lot of these youngsters who are there now will be there as well in Germany? Because that'll be the last one. Someone might be one. I would imagine. I think Lewis Gibson probably will be one. And it depends who we can get rid of as well. Yeah. Who we can get rid of. It goes in that time. He'll still want players to make up the numbers only if I imagine. But you've got to, especially, like you're saying, if you've got to push them for 60 minutes if you want the time. Some of those players might go back and start training with the 223s. And then on that for that weekend, they might go up the numbers, mightn't you? Interesting. Interesting. Let us know what you think when you're looking forward to this Monaco game and you're not bothered. But you're looking forward to this. I am. I'm looking forward to the Sarandans when we get there. I'll be honest a bit to him from it. Well, sleep on the way home. I just hope I can sleep on the way there at some point. Otherwise, Friday's going to be a very long day. You'll have to. You'll have to be... You might find me just like some ways of fast asleep. I thought I found you at your factor 30 and I was going to be 25 degrees in the sun. It is. I thought I was 50. I thought I was 50. I thought I was something hot. Interesting. There you go. Let us know what you think when you're looking forward to it. Are you bothered? Is it just purely a fitness exercise? And yeah. Are you going to win? Hopefully. Score some goals. Yeah, score some goals at least. I think we're going to win. We're going to win three more. I'm going to ask for Nias in eight minutes. But enough. I mean, I'm asking if Nias is boss and Monaco will be like he needs somebody to run the channels like him with hair like that. I can only hope. Yeah, I can only hope. Listen, Sam Jones whacked the flea kick in front of 25 yards. He did do that. Means that you might can score a bicycle kick to the box. See you later.