Mae'r ydych chi'n tyfnwyr dominant, mae'r ddenchysau. Mae'n bwysig i'r ddweud rydyn ni. Fydd yw'r ddweud yn ôl a'n ddigon nhw. Mae'n byw ddweud oherwydd rydyn ni'n ddweud. Mae'n ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud. Felly mae'n fyddo. Mae'r ddweud yn eich ddenchysau? Felly mae'n gwybod ei ddweud o ddweud o'r gwybod. Felly yn ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud. Evernon's 8th home defeat of the season and going into this camp again it was a must-win game at home and again Evernon failed to win. Yes, sick of saying it now really isn't it? It feels like every time we get to two points behind a certain team or three points behind a certain team we then just completely fall over. You said that at home record this season has been nothing short of embarrassing and if you look at actually the games that we've lost that you would not expect to lose but to the good teams, if you like the good teams you're Chelsea City, Man United. They've only lost three or four games this season to teams that you're not too disheartened about every other game has been decided that you'd expect to win going into it and this was another fine example of that. I mean just defensively woeful, how played, how fought, how battled and you know there wasn't much quality going forward either. I mean every shot we had from outside the box I think landed in my back garden to be honest with you. Everyone just went high and wide so it's frustrating again, it's disappointing and it leaves me certainly I don't know if anybody else feels like this but it leaves me just in a position where I'm just like I don't care anymore. I don't care in Europe, yes and we don't, yes and because that's what these defeats do, that's what these constant home performances where we just can't seem to turn up and put a decent performance in it. I don't understand it, I really really don't but it's not like we shouldn't be used to it now is it, it's happened all season. Yeah it's so frustrating again, I've seen the dreaded, John Friday morning before we done the blackout thing but I've seen the dreaded, we'd be feeling saty and I'd be above Liverpool on Sunday in my back and I was just like there it goes and there's the defeat but people should be able to say that we're confident shouldn't they and I guess this is where the frustration lies is that eight home defeat is embarrassing and we can dress it up and go well it's a weird season, there's no fans, if we'd have had fans we'd have won ten home games, well would we have won ten away games if everyone else would have had fans. It is what it is and Everton after that West Brom game in Europe we won, Everton were in a great position for European football, absolutely boxed and we've won one game in eight games since isn't it. That's where the issue lies, I mean the start in eleven, obviously the manager went with the news that James Rodriguez had pulled up in the warm-up is never good, it's never good whoever it is getting to when your team sets out and you know that him not being in the team straight away, your head goes down a bit cos you think creativity is kinda out of the door then. Were you surprised that the manager went with the defence he went with and playing a four or do you understand why he left it as it was because obviously he'd won an Arsenal? Well it's that age old saying isn't it, you've never changed a winning team and if we were absolutely excellent against the Arsenal and it was a brilliant performance and we outplayed them all game you'd say you know what fair enough but the reality of the situation was the Arsenal game was a shocking game, it was a 0-0 added into the 1-0 and you know we barely got through that game. So I wasn't surprised I was more frustrated that he didn't change it after 20-25 minutes when you could clearly see it wasn't working. Obviously listen Mason and Ben had that you know Ben Goffy played well against Arsenal, they weren't necessarily put under a lot of pressure cos Arsenal didn't have any and they didn't have the two strikers on the field and they weren't really coming forward with any pace. I mean the week before obviously Mason Allgate and Michael Keane had a little bit of a shocker against Tottenham so I wasn't particularly surprised but I did think right yet he mean they'll have had an extra week now to train. He should be straight in there and you know again he went with an unchanged 11 obviously Hammers had to come out through that injury which was disappointing and like you said it doesn't help because the team set out, the style set out, the way in which we play might have been set out and then obviously it all had to change and you know let's be honest when you're taking somebody like a Hammers or Dregers out we haven't got a player that can come in and replace that class. We haven't even got a player that comes in and can almost do the job Hammers is it's Hammers and then it's whoever's coming in to replace him down here. So your head does sort of drop and you do sort of think you know it's going to be a long night now because our creator the player that you know could be the game winner is pulled up and won't be involved but again I still think I don't know. We say it every week don't we this team should be more than good enough to win these games this team should be more than good enough to turn up and perform well maybe this team isn't more than good enough to turn up and perform and win these types of games because it's shown time and time again that they can't do it. Yeah I mean no I mean that's a very good point I think I think me maybe it's one of two things that either not as good as we think they are or that they've got an attitude problem it's one or the other. I'm leaning more towards the second I think this team has better quality than what it shows at home. I'm not saying it's amazing but it's better than what we've seen. And you know when you're losing a home to Leeds and Newcastle and Westam and Burnley and you know Villa the good side but even so they had at Newcastle they had David in the situation with the 1-1 game in eight coming into Saturday. They can admit that you know they're in the top ten. They've had the decent season they're probably just a little bit too far away from Europe to get it. Dean Smith's done a good job but so we're at those plays a little bit like Palace when we play them you're away coming to it with really not that much to play for other than just keep momentum. Everything should have enough quality and enough there should have been enough of a reward day to really put everything into it and I feel like we just didn't. I know that Perth talked about this in particularly for home games at the minute just playing the three centre backs and playing wing backs so we actually get up the pitch when the owners is on us and yet at the weekend we just kept the flat back for him I think. James Coleman's performed much better as a wing back when he can push on. I mean it's asking a lot when he's right back to do it to go up and down and normally what we see as a result of that is we just don't attack with any kind of system. Villa were just, they were too quick for us all over the pitch weren't they? Certainly in that first 45 minutes. Yeah, they were much the better team and I think the issue that Evan and I have is when we play a flat back four we haven't got the wide players because let's be honest we haven't got wingers. Rashalson sees himself as a centre forward and we literally have not got any other wide players so you spot on it, it's too much work for Sheamus and even Lucadine on that left hand side there's an example that we might talk about in a bit where I think we tried to counter attack and Lucadine made a bust and run down the left hand side but they intercepted the counter and Lucadine's almost looking over his shoulder and I think Tyorey gets played in it's that chance where Pickford makes the double save and he does it. It's hard to chip him and Lucadine's nowhere to be seen because he's made that run and no one's slotted in but then I think with the five at the back although it helps the wider players I just don't think the centre halfs can play a five at the back. I don't think Michael Keane looks comfortable in there, I think Mason struggles. Yeah he mean it yeah and Ben got free yeah but I just again I just don't think especially Keane and sorry yeah Keane and Holgate I just don't think they look comfortable in it but the reality is is we haven't got wide players so maybe at the moment we have to go with that. It is a case at the moment that we've said this a few times that the answers to evidence issues and in the building it's as simple as that. Regardless of everyone yes the corey would make us better we know that we've won one game in autumn since he got injured. If dare I say it again John Philippe Cabaman was could stay fit then he would change it again because he's got the physicality and the mobility but we've not seen anything to say there's nothing I can say that can back that up other than what I've seen of him at Mines. So yeah again like I said the answers aren't in the building and the answers are only going to come into the building in the summer if they do what everybody can see which is actually going to get players who are mobile going to get players with a little bit of pace. I think you know the game started the game started a bit missed you know they were they look busy yeah evident would kind of causing themselves their own issues and we saw that with Mason Holgate very early on five six seven minutes. Tries to turn and almost get caught with the ball under his feet get away with it and so you're looking and thinking right please don't do that again you've got you're up against Ali Watkins who's bright he's mobile got a good turn of pace of arm don't do it again and low and be old he does it again and it leads to the first goal and we just have a look. And it's going to put the clip on for us the first goal near it is here this is Ben Godfrey's played the ball to Holgate and as we can see here the simple passes on to Andre Gomez give that into Gomez and if you want make an angle for Gomez then because Watkins will Watkins is closing down but he'll follow the ball. He's not going into Gomez I've done a line behind it on the rectangle for where I think Gomez should then go with the ball. His position is not great because he should be on the half turn really Gomez so he can get it out of his feet but even if he plays a wall pass back to Holgate and then gets it back we can see Ben Godfrey's on okay Alan's on but that'll be a pass that'll be in and back but really what we should be expecting here is Holgate to roll that off to Gomez Gomez to turn and then Everton are off on the field Everton are up the field and what I'm going to do is I'm going to roll that off to Gomez. For whatever reason he doesn't give him that ball and Watkins knows and Villa will have done their homework on Holgate because this is something he does six or seven times a game. He turns back towards his goal and knocks it back to Pickford and on this occasion he tries to do that thing where he runs his foot over the top of the ball and it gets stuck under his feet and Watkins is in and this is actually something that we saw in pre-season which led to his injury.  Does this again this time Watkins is too strong for him and luckily for Everton really has a pull on him and if Watkins goes down he's off and we'd be down to ten then after ten minutes and I mean Watkins runs on the slot here on the keeper ball. Could you believe what you were seeing and again we're not very good at home and we've got to get on top and stay on the front foot. We make an error like that. It's just frustrating isn't it? That's it and my biggest issue with it is players make mistakes, defenders make mistakes, my fielders make mistakes, goalkeepers make mistakes. My biggest issue with it is like you said the carbon copy the same thing happened three, four minutes before when he got away with it. He tried to dilly-dally on the ball, he didn't find a pass, he turned, he got it to Godfrey and Watkins gave him a little bit of a nudge. Mason should have thought in his head then right I haven't got time on the ball here because he's going to track me down, he's going to get at me and he's not going to give me a minute space. Two, three minutes later he makes the exact same mistake, he's dilly-dallying on the ball, he's seeing there, Gomez is on, I think Dean's on off Anglard as well. He's got Tiore going on to him but Dean's on for a pass and I've seen some people on social media this morning saying oh yeah but he passed the Gomez then Gomez probably wouldn't have done anything with it. But why is he on the pitch then? If you're looking at that freeze frame and saying yeah we wouldn't pass the Gomez because he probably wouldn't do anything with it then he shouldn't be in the team, he shouldn't be on the pitch, he shouldn't be at the club. He could have took it, he could have turned, he could have given it back, he could just get it out your feet but he doesn't and I think we're seeing an issue with composure in this 17-3 perfectly honest with your mate. And I think we see it at the other end of the pitch as well with Dom and Calvert-Lewin, there was a chance in the second half I don't know where they will touch on it where Dom gets into a good area, he runs past about two or three villa players, he gets to the edge of the box and he doesn't look up because if he looks up he probably cares it round and takes a shot at goal, he just hits it. It's almost like he just thinks I need to get this out of my feet. Now I'm here on the edge of the box, let me just hit it and it makes sense, very similar.   I mean I know L Gardsies was a good finish but Coleman's standing off him 10 or 15 or 5 or 10 yards, every single one has been avoidable. It's not like we've conceded goals where teams have passed it round us constantly, it's been two defensive mistakes in the game against Spades and that one was gifted to them and it's even more frustrating that don't do that to other teams, we'd never force other teams into doing that. If Keane just marks bats, why? There's no danger so. That's the frustration is that we all don't like losing so when you sit here and go I don't mind if we can see the goal but if it's a good goal or they've worked the ball well you kind of go what could we have done better? This is just rank bad defending again. If you've done that on a Sunday league pitch, you'd have your players there and go why are you messing about with it there? Why aren't you giving it off? Why aren't you playing the easy pass? It's not hard. Hullgate as well. It's surprising because he has been accomplished on the ball and he has looked over the last couple of years like our best defender. He's not playing well at the minute and I read a few things from the press lads who were there saying anti-lots he was screaming, a Hullgate screaming, having to scream at Andre Gomez but that just before we move on, that passing to Gomez. If people are saying yeah but what would he have done with it? Even if he just takes it, puts his foot on it and rolls it back, Hullgate is back in position then. They haven't got the run on us so that's not an argument for them not making the pass that non whatsoever and we should be going the other way but too often we're great at knocking it, knocking it and then turning and passing it back to Joven Pickford. We haven't got no progressive running in that midfield. Watching Westam yesterday I said about Jared Bowen, not that I want to say it, but he picked the ball up for them, he took about four players on, he wanted to fight on the edge of the box and I said what I'd give for an Everton player to do that, picked the ball up, turned round and run forward. Everything's just pick it, give it back, pick it, give it back.  It's like everyone wants to just get it and give it back. The only player that has done that for us this season really is Ben Goffrey, he's picked the ball up and ran 60-70 yards with the ball and I'd rather sit and remember that West Brom, he got on the edge of it and went, leads, he ran past about four and when he does it, it opens the pitch up because someone runs into me and we'll just touch on the midfield there because we're talking obviously Alan and we'll touch on Alan in a minute, we'll come back to him in a minute. Andraic Olmes and Guilfe Sigarton, you know with them three that there's no legs, there's no real mobility. Alan gets around the pitch, don't get me wrong and Alan's a really good player and I thought Alan had the good game, actually forever on Saturday and I think with legs round him I think he could be brilliant forever and I think he's had a really good season, obviously missed a large portion of it but he's been good, good sign but he needs legs round him. Guilfe, as his moments, he's a decent squad player but that shouldn't really be in the team first choice. It's another one now for you for a midfield, that was energetic and you played him as a 10 maybe you'd get away with him cos he can't weigh him in a goal.  He scored one goal for Everton in three seasons, it was a wealthy, don't get me wrong against Wolves but it was the only goal he scored in three seasons. He doesn't create assists. You know, you look at Andraic Olmes at Valencia, he's the midfield at evident need now, six foot can go by players, knocking them over, getting into the box, scoring goals, creating chances, carrying the ball and we just don't see that at all. I've seen someone today saying this morning, he might be right, just saying his first season we might have over egged him because he was different to anything we had probably since Michael Artheta, he was a midfielder, he could put his foot on the ball and switch the play and carry the ball a bit and we probably did over, you know, kind of build him up bigger than what he was. But I also don't get the criticism, I've seen people saying we should never have signed him but I disagree with that as well because we got, I'm not doing that alone finishing and remember West Ham were all over him and Tina, West Ham, Tina and all that.  He also had Ghana and they're putting out every fire that was there so he done the run on it too. So I think, you know, I think people used that against Marcel Brand at times, why have you bought him, that's a mistake. But I think realistically we all wanted him signed with me that summer. Now I think maybe the times moved on, maybe we need something different but we just look at them in the field, what Phil had did really well. They've got three players in there who can move the ball around, Louise, Ross Barclay, John McGinn, but on this one, just look at this, Alan has left his position to go and press Douglas Lewis in midfield. So he's gone, now whether he should go or not is open for debate but if he's a deep line midfield player, Louise and he's picking the ball up, someone has to engage him, Alan's gone and done that. Gomez and Sigarton are standing ten yards away from each other, neither of them can run by the way, but they're both standing. Now let's give Guilfee here the benefit of the doubt and say he's marking, that's McGinn, he's staying by McGinn. But Ross Barclay, who's by the referee, is on the half turn, Louise plays the ball round the corner, takes out four evident midfielders. Andre Gomez is watching. Now if Gomez, if Alan's gone, Andre Gomez should drop in to that centre circle so that he's facing Barclay up, he doesn't and this chance, the ball comes through, Ross Barclay turned, ran with it, popped it off to Wally Watkins and he screwed the shot wide. This came two or three minutes after the same move had allowed Barclay to pick the ball up and go through the midfield and hit the post. And it's that kind of thing for him, Gomez, if Alan's going to go and do that pressing, then Gomez has got to say, right, if you're going, I'll sit in for you. I don't know what's happened with football, but any level you play, if you're playing in midfield and you're in there with two, it's basic, you go, I'll stay or I'll go, you stay. And yet we just seem to just go and part and then Villa, Villa were just basic. Look, Louise, get Ross Barclay on the half turn, you know what Ross can do running that. Yeah, this decision making in great, but he's someone who carries the ball brilliantly and ironically, you watch that game and thought, God, what we could do with Ross Barclay in our midfield. Well, like you said, Ross Barclay's been doing that for years. He's done it since he was at Everton. He's picked the ball up. He's run with it. He takes players on. He's a fast runner with pace. I mentioned the Lucardine situation before. It just doesn't seem to be any organisation. If Lucardine pelts down that left hand side, nothing wrong with that. No issue with it because going forward, he's a great player. He puts balls into the box. It's great, but somebody should be going right. I'm going to fill in there. Now he's gone down that left hand side. I'm going to fill in. Nobody did. So he's running, looking back and Sayore's here on his own because nobody's gone right. I'll move over and fill that space and it's the same situation with the image we've just seen. It doesn't seem to be any real organisation or off the ball. It doesn't seem to be any thought process of right. Where do I need to be now? It's a big issue I've had with the Wobby for a long time. On the ball, his feet are close console. Brilliant. He gets himself out of the city situation, but off the ball, he doesn't think, where do I need to be? Where can I be in space that will give my teammate the opportunity to find me or give me a chance to go on the half-turn? Off the ball, we are so, so bad. So, so bad. What do you put that down to? Do you put that down to the coaching or do you put that down to? See, cos I can't believe that, and I don't want to believe this, that the coaching staff are evident and can't see this. I don't want to believe that Carlo Ancelotti, three-time Champions League winner, won trophies everywhere he's been, can't look back at a video and go. What's wrong? And then on the train, go on Alex or Andre or whoever. If he goes, we showed the face here with Roberto Martinis. When we finished fifth, we got our biggest points total. We had Gareth Barry and James McCarthy, Ross was in front of them. And every time Seamus Coleman and Leighton Baines went, one of them just dropped in.  Gareth Barry had dropped into the left back position. James McCarthy, if he wasn't joining in, and Coleman had gone and dropped into the right. And we were very, really caught out because they just filled in. And that's what midfields should do. Now, maybe it's the mobility. Now, Gareth Barry was clever. He wasn't mobile, but he was incredibly intelligent and he was brilliant in that role. So we naturally were just dropping. And James McCarthy was very mobile until the man that you thought he knew better than physios in that room at McCarthy's career. He just naturally dropped in. Now, ever at night, I haven't got the intelligence in midfield or they haven't got the mobility or they're just lazy. I think it's a bit of all free to be honest with you. You mentioned there about James McCarthy and Gareth Barry slotting in. It's just second nature. It's the basics of football. You see a player move, you go right hand, move into that position and I'll cover it. McCarthy and Barry used to do it just off their own back, just effortlessly. It was just normal. It is what you should be. It is the basics of football. If somebody goes and you're there, you drop in and fill that space. And just seems like I think it's an intelligence thing. I just don't think the players realise or understand or even just think, right, I'm going to drop in now because he's gone forward. I need to move into this space because I can't be standing too close. I can't be standing too close to Sigarton if I'm Gomez because Barclays there on his own. So I'll go in for that space. I think they're not mobile enough to do it, but I also don't think they have the intelligence enough to think to do it. Let me ask you this then because this is something else. I was reading and I thought at the time watching it and I've given it a few days thought and let everything just simmer and settle. Alan's doing the work of three men, isn't he, in that midfield. So if he's, his process is right, I have to cut this ball off because these two ain't doing it. Now people could criticise him going, well yeah, well he needs to realise that Gomez ain't going to fill in for him now. Well then if Gomez isn't going to fill in for him, Gomez has got to be the one closing the ball, but he's not closing the ball. And Alan sits and Luis carries it and we get done 2v1. Alan gets blamed. So I think that's what I said before, if we had two midfielders and listen one miles better when the core is in there because what the core lacks with a little bit of grace sometimes you make so far with them long legs and his ability to get around a pit. And then if you put another the core on the other side of Alan, I don't believe he's sound to be honest. But Alan is, I think Alan has got the intelligence, I think he knows how to play the game, he's a competitor. But I don't think you're ever going to be able to contain him fully when other players aren't doing that pressure in midfield. He's probably looking around thinking, well hang on, if I just stand there as well, they've just got the whole pitch or do whatever and I think he gets caught. I thought Alan had a good game the other night, let's have a look at his numbers from the game.  I think Alan's the exception when we talk about mobility and stuff like that because like you said on that image we've seen before, he went and he's gone because he's thought nobody else is going to go so I'll go. And maybe as being a bit naive and thought someone will drop in for him in the oven, but Alan obviously come in in the summer alongside Abdelai the Corry and he's probably thought great, I've got this lad here, he'll do all me running, he'll do the legs and I can do the bulldog work if you like in the middle. And he done that for the first 2-3 months of the season, he was absolutely brilliant together and he worked fantastically together. Alan then picked up an injury, he went out and then obviously he's retained and the Corry's picked up an injury so we haven't seen that partnership since. I agree I think Alan has got the intelligence, I think he's got the football and brain to do that, but as you said Alan in the last 2, 3, 4 weeks is doing the role of 3 or 4 players, he's doing the Corry as well for a start and you can see he hasn't got the energy to do that. You've seen a couple of times he's been left for dead with Pace Ciori, left him with a flit the other day and you're sort of almost sitting there feeling a bit sorry for Alan because you're thinking you shouldn't be there doing that running around. I've decided all the time about Gilvie Sigarton, going forward he's got 9 assists this season, again he's got that quality, he's not a sense of midfielder in terms of just a playing number 8, number 6, he can't defend, he absolutely can't defend. The thing is with Gilvie is he's got a useful player, he's got quality, he's got the ability to put a really good crossing or penalties, for example he's very good at penalties or again a goal against Spaces is brilliant. Gomez, I have a big issue with Gomez, I don't see what he brings, I just don't see what he brings to the 17, he doesn't bring assists, he doesn't bring goals, he can't defend, he's not mobile, the movement's non-existent, he doesn't throw tackles in really, he plays the odd decent pass every now and then. That's not enough, whereas like you said Alan I think again maybe he's looking like he's struggling a bit the moment because he's not a player that's going to run and cover every blade of grass throughout the entirety of the game because that's not what he is, that's not his job but he's having to do that job because not only because we haven't got the corey but we haven't got anybody else that can come in and fill in that corey void. That's a massive neglect in the squad that we haven't, we've got Tom Davies who can do a similar role to Alan, not as good but his best performances have been in that six haven't he for us yet but he's another one though, he's another one with no real pace, he'll take the ball, he's brave on the ball, sometimes it goes a bit of a rise passing but he's another one, if you're had two athletes with him he'd look much better. Davies, I don't see what Delph to me I've given, you know he's gone, Gomez now I think I'm over it, it's like I said he's a nice footballer I think but I don't know what he is I think. We've got too many of them though, we've got too many decent footballers, if you give Andre Gomez a ball and study it and watch them you go, he can play football and he's got a good touch, he's good with the ball at his feet, same with Sigarton, same with Delph, we've got too many of them and not enough runners. Decori like you mentioned it's not always pretty, some of his passing is being poor this season, some of his passing forward is being poor but you can guarantee if he gives the ball away he's going and winning it back and if somebody else gives the ball away he's going and winning it back so sometimes you don't necessarily need the prettiest football or the best passing, you just need someone that can go in 90 plus minutes. The best teams and them across the park have won a Champions League and a league by having three athletes in the field as opposed to having great footballers in there and ironically when they've probably got the best football they've got in the field this season and see how it goes, don't know. But you'd have to look at teams that do sit here a little bit different because they buy amazing players but they do still have an athletic midfield, taught them under pot of change, it was about athletes moving, you know so so co who you'd like but he was in it, he's up and down and if everything could have that in midfield on the other side I think it changes the dynamic of everything but it is what it is but anybody moving on we've got level and it was a big moment I think for Dominic Cavill who missed 20th goal of the season. Deep corner from Luca Dean and a great header showing the side of Ross Barclay going to sleep, he just ran off him and headed there in it and from that moment brilliant, first of all Dominic Cavill, people are critical of him but he's got 20 goals for Everton Football Club this season and that's a great retainer isn't it? Yeah absolutely brilliant header, again like you said the back post leaves his man, just get enough power on it to make sure that if it's a defender it's going in either way and they've not got time to clear it. I really really like Dom, I think he's a great player. The most exciting thing about Dom is and I think the thing that we all need to sit back and remember is that he's not the finished article and he's got improvements to make but what we can take from Dom's game is that two or three years ago he wasn't a 20 goal of the season so it's not like this is Dom and this is being Dom for two or three years. And he's not improved, every season statistically he's improved, he's gotten better, he's worked on what he needs to work on, does he need to work on more in the summer? Of course he does, he needs to work on his composure and runs a goal for me for the start, he needs to work on the ability he used to see Lukaku do on occasion. He'd take the ball and he could knock off three or four men and he'd slot it, he needs to work on his one-on-ones goals from different areas. But I've got every confidence that Dom will work on that and will improve on that because if you'd have said to me three or four years ago, Dominic Calvert-Luna would be a 20 goal of season number nine for Evan and I'd have laughed at you and said he won't because he doesn't get in the right areas. His head isn't that great, he doesn't really win his area battles. With his he's improved on all of that and he's become a real dominant striker, does he need to improve? Of course he does. I mean we've seen that in the second half where he has that chance on the edge of the box and he just leases his foot through it instead of being a little bit more composed but I think that's the exciting thing about Dom is that I've got the confidence that he will go away. We've seen it in the lockdown last year, every single day he's videos of him doing sit-ups all on the bike or working out and he just seems like his work rate is there. You've seen Duncan Faggs and other players say he's after training every single day, he's there asking, don't come and kind of work on this, going to do this, going to work on this. That's great to see and the other was brilliant it was. He got off as many really good connections on it, really good power and he put it into an area where it couldn't have been cleared. Even though there was a defender on the line he couldn't do anything about it and that's what you need and do we need more from Dom? Yes, potentially we do but 20 goals in a season for a lad who was written off. Even last season was written off as not good enough as a great return and he'll only improve which is why I've not got a big worry about Stryker. He still gets written off now. I see a lot of Everton and he's still calling on the championship level and he's sitting around but I think he's a good Stryker. I think the problem has been his mate next to him, he's had an absolute shocker of a season. I think if it's Ritialis and that is normal season I think probably will be in Europe now. If Dom, you know what I mean, if Dom would have done what he's done on Ritialis and what he's done in the past couple of years and got 14, 15 goals I think we'd have been up to. When Dom came into the side that felt of Ritialis and he could do what he knew and he doesn't get us some big goals, we get into it and he hasn't. It was a seventh game and on the run he's not scored for he's looking less likely to score every game I think at the minute. That's a real issue. Obviously he was looking at the seventh goal of the season, no defender. He's created as many goals as him and just the same across well now so we know he's got a lovely left foot and he did it there. Everton had another opportunity just after that with a nice ball from Gomez actually, fan Dean, lovely ball across and Dom's there with the dive and everything. It's unlucky because he gets a good connection on it, Martin has looked like he's gone the wrong way and makes a really good save actually. But Philip were always a threat weren't they? Diolch yn Pickford. Diolch yn Pickford was particularly in the first half, has kept Evan in it. I've just talked about Dom there maybe putting Evan 2-1 up but Ville could have quite easily gone in 4-1 up in the first half. Pickford's made 2. The one you spoke about before when Luke of Dean gets caught up the pitch, not his fault we give the ball away and Thierry's in on goal, he makes a good save and he has to claw the ball back in away. He then makes an absolutely brilliant save from Ollie Watkins and then El Ghazi at the bar. I just think he's been really good with Pickford as he's come back into the side and he's got his F focus, think of the derby, he made a great save from Henderson and he's been a bright spot really and certainly in the last few weeks he's made a great save on Arsenal last week to give us the victory. What have you made of his performances? I think he's matured an awful lot and I think you mentioned the derby there, I think it's quite ironic that Jordan Pickford was one player of the year and young player of the year in his first season at Evan and then he had that Maysley side derby that we won't touch on with that last minute mistake and then it all sort of went downhill and then it's all come full circle a little bit where he turned up in the latest Maysley side derby, he had everyone across the world wishing that he'd fail and this and the others, he had the Van Dyke story and all of that and he turned up and he made 3-4-5 excellent saves and he was great. Absolutely exceptional and since then, the game after the derby, the Southampton game, he makes a save in the last second from Vestergaard, he's winning us points now, he won us the game against Arsenal with that saving the last minute from Matt and Ellie, he won us that game of football and yet you can say Lennon won us it with Throney but Jordan Pickford won us that game, the West Brom game which he's told that was the only win, he makes a unbelievable save from the header so he's performed really really well recently and he does seem to have got his head down a little bit, he seems to have matured a bit, he seems to just be focussed on it.  He's stepping up now in big games Jordan and we used to talk about how he's costing us points and how if it wasn't for Jordan Pickford we'd have won that game, now we're saying if it wasn't for Jordan Pickford we'd have lost that game, I know we lost this game but to him the Arsenal game, the West Brom game, the Southampton game, we're saying if it wasn't for Jordan we wouldn't have won those games. He's been absolutely excellent of recent, obviously he's had his injury as well, he was out for a couple of weeks, he's come back from that, couldn't have done anything for the two Tottenham goals the week before and I don't think he could have done anything for either of the goals on Saturday night either. That's the most frustrating thing, if I'm Jordan Pickford just touching on the Al-Ghazi goal for the second, if I'm Jordan Pickford I'm going into that session, we're in my full time and he's messing, I've literally pulled off 3, 4, 5 excellent saves and you leave a player who's got a decent knife foot, all that space to carry on in and I can't do anything about it. Let's have a look at the still for the goal because we'll go back to the second half in a minute because I thought ironically I thought it wasn't much better than the second half but it's the goal, I mean they've waked the ball, we give the ball away, I can't surprise and they have the ball and they play a nice little triangle actually to get them into this position, triori rolls it off to Al-Ghazi and you look on Evan I've got six defenders and Willard I've got four attackers there. Ross Barclay is trying to make the overlap and Alan is tracking him and Ben Godfrey actually goes where he thinks Barclay is going to run but we said this a few times before, why doesn't Sheamus Coleman step out another yard so that Al-Ghazi hasn't got the shot on and people could say well he's holding them up but he's not holding them up because he's not tight enough and yet I'd expect Sheamus at his age just to face up and just say right you're going to have to beat me one by one then but if he goes almost so tight to Al-Ghazi there, if Al-Ghazi does a little trick Evan have already got bodies behind the ball but standing off you're almost making his mind up for him, we've seen this a few times this season, it's like they do that thing of like I've done my job I'm goal side here, what are you going to do? I'm delighted and all those Al-Ghazi does is that thing and you love it, you love it playing footy, if someone gives you the angle and goes going and bend it round me you've got the big goals there just get it on target, you've scored, if he steps forward another foot that shot isn't on for Al-Ghazi and then he's either got to beat him with a trick which gives you players a chance to get goalside or he's got a way for Barclay to make the overlap, if he pops it off then it's Ben Godfrey or Alan coming in, Sheamus has done his job but he doesn't, he stands back and allows him to bend the ring. You see Pickford's reaction when he goes in he's fuming that we haven't got right and you're right Jordan Pickford will have gone in that session him at the end and gone, I've made saves that has kept us in this game and we've gone and threw another one in, it's a love, don't get me wrong Al-Ghazi put in the top corner brilliantly but it's avoidable because if you leave Premier League football you could probably leave a few of ours but if you in general give people three shots of the goal, the gunner at least test the goalkeeper, if you don't put it in at the end. Well he practically stands there and goes, go on, put it there, there's where it is, put it there and like you said it's not even, I can't understand why he doesn't just step up, it's not like you're saying oh well if he stepped up then he could get beat on that side or the overlap, there's no general explanation as to why he doesn't just take that step forward, if he takes that step forward and Al-Ghazi still manages to get the shot he can lift his leg up and get a connection on it, in fact if he takes the step forward Al-Ghazi doesn't take the shot because he probably thinks right I'm going to have to beat him now, he stands five yards behind him and practically goes, go on there's that corner there, you know you can, I'm planning to add a goalkeeper for a start because he's planning to add Jordan Pickford, put it there and that's exactly what he does and like you said if I'm Jordan I'm absolutely furious and the experience, the shame is coming you'd think that he'd just think you know I'm going to take a step forward there and get closer to him but he doesn't, you mentioned about not having those players, why don't we have players that do that, we never score goals like that, we never have players that stand on the edge of the box. I think King had the chance when he came on and again I'm not going to sit here and blame Josh King because he gets about 50 seconds every game and it's frustrating but he had the chance where the villar back line stepped off him and he has the ball on the edge of the box and he drags it wide and you're sort of thinking why don't we, I had a comment on one of our videos the other day I spoke about Al-Ghazi and said he's got the quality to do that and I had a villar fan saying I wouldn't even class him in the top 10 best Aston Villa players and I'm sitting here thinking if it looked a good Aston Villa side fair enough but let's be honest the mid table Aston Villa side. You've got a player who they don't even class him in the top 10, you can do that, why don't we have a player in our first team, you can do that with the exception of Hammers which is all well and good when he's on the pitch and he's doing it, it's boss but when he's injured we haven't got anybody else that stands on the edge of the box and can do that, we never score goals like that, we never score goals where it kills in. There's only really Guilfee Shigarton who you would say, but he doesn't shoot them out of the box. No, but I'm saying if you're looking through that team because I'm just trying to think of life and watch the comparison, there really probably is only Guilfee Shigarton, you know Gomez, no, can't do it. A Wobby can't do it, I mean we might touch on a Wobby in a minute what he actually does but he can't do that, we brought Bernard on, he ain't going to do it. King, Josh King, he's like you said, the kids coming on rusty and it's played about three minutes in seven weeks or something. So there's nobody there, there's no one in evidence team and you're right, why? Why is there nobody in evidence team? Because the balance of the squad is horrific, it's absolutely woeful and that's why again this summer all eyes are on Marcel Brans and Carlo Ancelotti, they're not putting their all on brands, it's on the manager, it's on the coaching staff to sit down with the director of football and go, you know, why have we not got these players? Why have we not got a runner? You know Bert and Thaori is something some of Marcel Brans wanted their evidence two seasons ago and last summer, he went for £50 million, why isn't he playing for evidence? I'm saying he's amazing, don't get me wrong because he's not but he's quick, he's quite quick, he weighs in with the odd goal, he's got a nice left foot, he's a left foot of right winger, he tore evidence apart when we played Leon a few seasons ago but we haven't got anyone comparable. Evidence wingers, if you class them as wingers? A slaw, they always want to check back whether it be Bernard or a Wobie, they always want to come back on themselves. So, you know, this is a fundamental issue with the squad and we feel we touched on before, we feel like mobile, so it gets lagged every week, then as well as that you've got, okay, you've got dom on the tialus and they were quite quick but we don't really use an out, certainly not for dom, we never try to get dom in behind, we never thread dom through and say go on, open your legs. We know, we're seeing when he got the penalty and I'm feeling the speed of him, when he puts the back bearings on, off he goes, he's quick but do we ever play that, do we ever draw teams, out and slide them in and say go on, get him behind, no. So, I don't, when I think about everything and I think about how we're set up and how we're trying to create chances, what is the plan? Because we don't, Seamus Coleman can't do doggies, he's 33 this year, he can't run up and down for 90 minutes. Leucadine's 27, he can't run up and down, it's unfair to expect your fullbacks to make 80 yard dashes up and down every all day when the players in front of them aren't either covering them or aren't getting you up the pitch. Alex will be coming the weekend for Hammers, the drop off's huge of course Seamus. But what did he do? What did he do? He had one where we had a good little move in the second half and he gets it out of his feet and there's a little round the corner to get dom in and he pulls it to his right and it's a shot that isn't even on, he's not even set and it goes there, the goal's here and it goes straight and it's like, you've just hit that to get it out of your feet because you didn't want it. Dom in a culvert looming, brilliance gets it changed, big and strong, eddw, steps over it, goes bomb one, goes beyond two.  We know he hasn't got that in his game though, we know that he's not, he's not Harry Kane, he can't shift it and whip it back beyond the keeper.  He's hitting it as he's on the run here and if you look at his foot, his foot goes like that straight up the ball, he's never going to be able to loop.  There's too much of this, Josh King, you know, with probably our best, well no, we'll talk about two opportunities in a minute at one, one, but Josh King at two, one, goes past one, does well, goes back, they back off. There's another five yards for him to run into and pop it back where he does. And he doesn't just get a shot away. All right, it goes, it skims wide, but if he takes another step forward, he's then creating the angle to go back across my partners and the Villa goal and you're just looking and going, they've got a lad who you've just said, the Villa fan said he's not even in the top 10 players, has got the composure to put his head up and just bend it into the top corner and we're presented with opportunities. Am I snatching at everything? That's it, that's it. It's so frustrating because Evanton did that period in that game where we were consoling the ball, we were having opportunities, we were the better team. And I remember the commentator saying, Aston Villa seemed like they ran out of ideas a little bit here, but this is the same story with Evanton and it's the same week in week out. We have these spells of 10, 15, 20 minutes and we don't do anything with it and then the opposition team goes, actually, these are a bit crappy, so we'll just, we'll take control now and we'll don't score the winner or we'll get the equaliser as Palace did or like Brighton did, we'll take control of it in the last 10 minutes. We just don't seem to ever have that composure or that ability to finish a game off. We have the period in the game where we have 10, 15, 20 minutes here and there, but we have chances, half chances and we never do anything with them. You mentioned Alex will be there. Again, I think it comes into his intelligence. He's good on the ball, he's good with the ball, his feet he gets himself out of situations but as soon as he gives that ball away, he gives that ball out. He doesn't think I'm going to move into that space where I'm going to come around here or I'll drop in here because Luca Deane's gone that way. He just sort of stands and almost goes, right, what do I do now then? I've given the ball, I've given the ball out, that's my job done. I don't have to do anything there and like you said before, I don't know whether it is attitude or whether they just simply don't understand their roles or the basic roles of football but composure is definitely an issue. I think there's defensively and offensively, I think there's a lot of plays in this evident team that get to the crunch moment and just completely and utterly flappy. For as good as Dom has been this season, there's been a number of times when he's got to that, he's on the edge of the box where he's scored in a good position and he's just thought, let me, and this is an issue we had with Dom years back. I remember me and you telling me years back about just sort of focusing on it in the target rather than actually scoring a goal and look, he's improved drastically this season and he hasn't scored 20 goals. He's been brilliant but I still think you see that, I don't know whether it's a mentality but you see that creeping in every now and then where he just sort of thinks, let me just hit this at goal and hope it goes on target rather than taking a look up and going, I can bend this with the corner and he's going to go that way on target. Like you said, Al-Ghazi is a good player, he's not special, he's not, you know, if you would have said it last summer, right now they're going to sign Al-Ghazi, would you be happy with it? Would they all probably go, he's all right, but not really who we need or who we want, he's not the profile we want, but yet he's got the ability to look up and go right, I'm going to wrap my foot around that, he's got the composure to do it. Other than Hamers, it's great when he's on the pitch and has done it against Leicester and against Man United etc, but when he's not on the pitch we don't have anybody else. He mentioned Sigarton there, he doesn't shoot out of the box and I don't know why, because he's got the ability to do that. He had one shot I think the other night, he's done it against Southampton and has left foot and it just went over. I've got no issue with that, do that more. Do it six, seven, eight times a game. If we're looking at the way in which we're playing and the way in which the opposition are defending us and we go right dons not having as usual game here because they've marked them out of the game, they're marking crosses out. It should be, right Guilfee, every time you get that ball in the edge of the box it put your foot through, put your laces through it. It didn't get to Man United a few years ago, we took a shot and it went in from 25-30 yards, but it's almost like our plan is the ball has to be put on Dominic Calvert-Lewin from six, seven yards out and that's the only way we can score. Like I said, Guilfee has got that ability so every time he gets it he should be shooting, but I just don't think there's enough composure or intelligence to know how to do it. We showed that, we had two opportunities at one one, both fell to the challenge and both the same ball, actually diagonal ball, he'd used his body brilliantly. The first one he drags across the face of goal, when I watched it again, touches really good, thinking if he just squares that, Sigarton runs in or marked, if you look at it again, Sigarton is unmarked, Dominic marked, but if he went to Sigarton, he'd come pass and he'd got a tap in and he's had a shot and you go okay, you've had a shot, second one then, let's make sure we do the right thing and on the second one again he hits the target with the second one but it's just not convincing. And it's those moments in there, I think when Richard Jarlison's on form, he scores one of them and we're back in front, Tottenham he was in the similar position, whacked it across the reach and we were back in front. He just has been for whatever reason he's been below par this season and for me is the reason why we're not in Europe because other people have done the job, namely Dominic Cavill. But even without Richard Jarlison, there's just no goals in this team, is there? Bar Dom, where it would be lying on Dom, Gilfee's got four, a couple of them are penalties, but really we're relying on Dominic Cavill and that would be for good. Five has got Gilfee, sorry. How long have we said that for? I remember two seasons ago, we think Yeri Mina was our third highest goal scorer behind Richard Jarlison and Cavill, and it's probably a similar situation this season behind Hammers and Gilfee. We've said the same thing for years and years and years. We don't have goals in this team. Ideally, at the start of this season, you'd have said, D'Corey, I'll get you six, Alan might get you three, five, I'll get you maybe six, seven, you'll have Bernard chipping in with a couple. Hammers will get maybe ten, you've got Richard Jarlison on 15, 20, Dom on 20, and we're sort of manifesting these players that are going to score these amount of goals and Alan, none, which I'm not particularly blaming them for because he's not that type of player, but again, none. D'Corey, he's got a couple, three, I will be one, Bernard in the Premier League, I don't know, none. Richard Jarlison and Dom, obviously discounting them because they had the goal scorer. Gilfee two, sorry, three from open play with two penalties, Tom, David, none. Exactly, Yeri Mina and the Michael Dean have got more, yeah, Dean, none. So, other than your centre forwards, your centre arcs, that are scoring the goals, and that's not good enough, you simply can't have that. And you're right, Rich, he's had a bad season, he struggled, and I think with those two chances the other day, it's typical of Richard Jarlison, isn't it? He's always going to shoot. And sometimes, like we mentioned, the space game, he gets them on target, he didn't. And I think after he had the first one, he should have scored it and sick it in, he's in absolute yard of space, but you're sort of new, if he gets that chance again, he's shooting again because that's the type of player he is, he wants to score. He's not really looking at who's across me, what's the better option, he's just thinking, if I hit this on the volley here, it's going to look dead good, and I'm going to be in the light, I'll do the pigeon and it'll be boss. And on another season, he might have scored those chances, he's not had as great as the seasons, but like you said, I saw to look at Rich Jarlison and think he's been very good for two out of three seasons. And by very good, I mean he saved us really, his goals in the last couple of years, especially in the seasons where Dom hasn't particularly had his greatest the seasons, he saved us from being an absolute disaster class, he's being excellent. So I saw sympathas a little bit with Richard Jarlison and thinking, when he doesn't have a great season, and OK, Dom's had a great season, but when he doesn't have a great season, he's not sort of thinking, yeah, but it'll be all right because I hope he'll come in and chip in with a few bennadle, chip in with a few rhan. But that's the reality though, isn't it? We haven't, we've had one player score off the coming on, a sub though, the season one, and it was Guilfee Shriggins in penalty at Anfield, the only sub in the Premier League that has come on and scored a goal for us this season, and we play 33 league games. That to me is just embarrassing, it's absolutely embarrassing. We've seen other subs come on and score against us, we've seen teams come on and get goals all the time for other clubs, we haven't got anything. Josh King has been, the manager said the other days he had a little bit of a back problem, but he's not seen him in any games, for me he should have started a couple. Wobie's just done nothing, done absolutely nothing, bennadle had a kidney stone problem, but before and after it he's done very little. It's just not good enough, it's not good enough. We have to redress the balance of the squad in the summer and you don't want to keep having to say, oh we need to bring five or six in every summer because you get no continuity if you keep having to bring six players in every summer. I don't think at this moment everything can afford to bring anywhere near that amount anyway, and a lot will be decided by who we shall as well as summer because of the rules, but something has to change, we've got to get athletes in this team, we need a right back who's an athlete, we need a midfield player who's an athlete, we need a winger. A winger who can beat players? Who's awakened can score goals, then we need another sense of forward, who can put pressure on them, or not even always put pressure on them, just give them a rest and have someone to fresher up so there is way to be done. The issue I think just to touch on before we go is, evidently I've got no wingers, cos let's be honest with Charleston's he's himself as a cyclist, so I've got no wingers with any pace who can beat a man. Now if you look at a successful footballing team and you say right this footballing team has got no wingers with any pace, you're probably then thinking right well he must have a really mobile midfield to make up for that. To make up for it? And we've got no mobile midfield, so we've got no pacey wingers who can beat a man and take the ball past players and we've got no mobile midfield.  Of 130. Once nearly 33, and the other ones, it's just it's not good enough, it's not good enough. And Ville, you know, I suppose you can say full value. I mean when you look at the stats, we just look at the stats before we do this. Everton's 16 attempts at goal, Ville 13, 3 on target for Everton 5 for Aston Ville, two big chances for the Blues, four for Ville, 53% 47 for Everton, 421 passes. For Everton 4, 6, 9 for Ville, so I've seen a lot of people saying Ville thoroughly deserved it. I think on the first half they deserved it, they're 100%. I think Everton were much better second half. But you know fair play to Ville, they come and they've got the win and they've been a good side. And they haven't done it without the best player. And Jack Reales, he's absolutely brilliant, so you know I think they've done excellent. Dean Smith's done it and I really like Dean Smith and I made off for him, I really do like him. He's had a great season. I'm not made up, he beat us, but I'm happy for him because he's thinking, you know a lot of people are talking about sacking him in the summer and getting a new sexy man into them. I think he's really good for them and he's a Ville fan. So why wouldn't you want a Ville fan into your team, you know? But for us, work could be done most definitely and it's another home game. We've blown, like I said before, eight defeats. We've got two home games left Sheffield United and Wolves, neither with anything to play for. In a normal season, you'd say six points for them. But we know there'll be fans at the Wolves game, there won't be any at the Sheffield United again. But evidently, quite simply, haven't we got a win? They've got to win those next two games at Gouldersnavenny to finish. We've had eight home defeats this season, so we need to finish with two wins. Absolutely, and the Wolves game will have fans back, so hopefully it'll be a little bit different. We've seen what happened with Chelsea in the Arsenal game early in the season. So, you know, I am a little bit more optimistic about that than the fact that it's, you know, the penultimate game of the season and it means the season's over. It's always nice. The Sheffield United game, I'm not going to lie, I'm not confident whatsoever. We saw it with Bournemouth last day or last season. We saw it with Fulham the season before. When teams are relegated and they've got no sort of pressure on them, they sort of play a little bit more fluently. They play without, like I said, pressure. There's no fear, there's no worries, and typically, Evanton don't deal with that very well. Bournemouth last game of the season comes to Gouldersnavenny Park and they've absolutely wiped the floor with us. Not that we have much to play for at that point anyway, but they've already been relegated. I remember Fulham two years before, it was even worse, because we had the order to play for, and we were on a good run and turned up a Fulham and they just wiped the floor with us and they'd been relegated at that point. So, it's two must-win games, but we've said that about Newcastle twice, Burnley, Fulham, Villa the other day, Leeds. We've said that about, what, ten games this season in which we haven't won. So, look, I'm not confident for either of them because they're at home. I'm a little bit more confident for the Wolves game, because there'll be fans in there, and I think it'll be a little bit, I think there'll be more of a demand, and I think the players might feel a little bit more like, right, we can't slack here, we can't make the mistakes, you know, because there's fans there, but the Chef United game, I'm really not confident on it. I'm sure that'd be absolutely because we should beat Chef United, because they're being relegated, they're being shocking this season, and we are in a fight for Europe theoretically, but it screams out the game, I was going to say the game we'd sipped up in, but we've sipped up in every home game this season, so it's just, it's evident in it, mate. It's grim. It beat the chasers back on, so it's awesome. Yeah, watch that, watch that. There you go, somehow we've managed to get about 50 minutes out of a depression, another depression home defeat. 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The Mysterious Traveller, written, produced and directed by Robert A. Arthur and David Colvin. And starring two of Radio's foremost personalities, Bryna Rayburn and Lyle Sugeau in Stranger in the House. This is The Mysterious Traveller inviting you to join me on another journey into the realm of the strange and the terrifying. I hope you will enjoy the trip and it will thrill you a little and chill you a little. So settle back, get a good whip on your nerves and be comfortable, if you can, as we follow the nerve-wracking adventures of a young couple in search of a home. It's the story I call Stranger in the House. The scene, the small village of Woodford in Vermont. It's nine o'clock in the evening and the main street of the village is deserted. A car comes speeding through the village and with a squeal of its brakes comes to a stop before the home of Dr. Samuel Stewart. A young woman, obviously distraught, gets out from behind the wheel of the car and hurries up the walk to the doctor's home. Yes, yes, won't you come in? Thank you. You've got to help me. Of course I'll help you. Here, let me have your coat. All right. Now, what appears to be wrong? I don't know how to tell you about it. You'll think I'm insane, but I'm not. I'm not. I'm sure you're not. Now, why not start from the beginning and tell me what's troubling you? Well, I suppose it all began the day my husband and I left this village to look at a house in the country that was for sale. Yes, I can recall how happy we were as we drove through the countryside. Oh, Roger, darling, I do hope this will be the house we're searching for. Oh, look, we're coming to the old colonial graveyard the agent told us about it. He said the house was a quarter of a mile beyond. Yeah, that's right. At the end of this curve, there should be a small bridge over stream. Small bridge over stream? Mm-hmm. Look, there it is. Now, the house should be just a little beyond. Roger, I don't recall the agent having mentioned the bridge. Why must have, darling? How else would I have known it was there? Now, look, there's the house. Oh, oh, Roger, isn't it beautiful? Oh, what a view it came in. Now, look, Jane, you mustn't get too excited about the place. It's probably all fallen to ruins inside. Oh, not, darling. You can see it's one of those early colonial houses built to endure for centuries. Oh, it's just what we've been dreaming of. Yes. The place certainly looks wild and desolate, doesn't it? Well, naturally. The agent said it's been empty for years. But come on. What do I do with that key now? Roger, look at this old engraved place set in the wall. Hmm? You can barely make it out. Woodford Manor. Oh, that's a lovely name. Yeah, here we are. Here's the key. Woodford Manor. I know I'm going to love this place. There you are. After you, Mrs. Barton. Yes, yes, but look at that staircase, that beautiful staircase and those ceiling beams. Jane, honey, you were right. This place was built to endure. This house is in wonderful condition. Yes, so it seems. And it's just the size house we need with four rooms upstairs. Four rooms upstairs? Well, how do you know, Roger, that the agent hasn't mentioned how many rooms the house has? He didn't. Well, there's only one way to find out then. Let's go upstairs and look. Come on, Janey. These stairs are as sound as the day they were built. This house would require very little in the way of repairs. Yes, but it hasn't any electricity, Roger. Oh, so what? We could use lamps so a line could be run to the house. There. And you see what I tell you? There are four rooms upstairs. Yes, so there are. Then this house before. Well, as a matter of fact, I almost have a feeling I have been. Maybe that's the reason I like it. Tell me, what's the matter? You've been ever so quiet since we entered the house. Don't you care for it? It's lovely, Roger. Only... Only what? I don't know. It's so friendly. Unfriendly? Who ever heard of a house being unfriendly and you were crazy about the place when we drove up to it? Yes, yes, I know, but... That was before we entered. Well, honey, it's even nicer inside than it is outside. Yes, I suppose so.  It's $5,000, Jane. We've looked at houses that cost twice as much and weren't as nice. It... It is a bargain. But you still don't like it, do you? All right. Now we'll keep looking that we find a house we both like. Oh, nonsense, darling. We'll never find anything nicer. Now, now that room with the southern exposure will be our bedroom, and that will... Jane, hey, Jane, you're wonderful. And we will be happy here, honey. I know we will. In the weeks that followed, I was too busy with the repairs and furnishings of the house to give any thought to my misgiving. But they all returned in overwhelming force that first evening in our new home. I left Roger sitting in the study and made my way up the dark, winding staircase to our bedroom. After crossing for what seemed ours, I fell into a fitful sleep. I suddenly awakened to hear the clock in the hall striking the hour. It was four o'clock, and Roger's bed was empty. Quickly slipping on my robe, I left my room and started down the stairs to the study. As I reached the foot of the stairs, I stopped. To my astonishment, I heard Roger's voice in the study. I slowly approached until I was at the door. It's so difficult to miss the scourge of faith. Who are you? Well, why don't you say something? Roger! Roger, unlock the door! It's Jane! It's coming between us. I can hardly see you. Don't go. Come back. Please, come back! Darling, please unlock the door! Please! Roger! Oh, Roger! Well, what is it, Jane? I was so frightened. What were you talking to? Talking to...? Yes. Well, I don't know. I must have been dreaming. Yes, you must have been there. There isn't anyone... How did... There's no perfume in here. Perfume? Well, yes. Isn't it the perfume I gave you for your birthday? No, it isn't my perfume. It was like... no scissors. Yes. Darling, what were you dreaming about? Well, it was... night and... all around me was a mist. A mist so heavy I couldn't see more than a few feet. There was a woman. A woman? Yes, yes. I could barely make out her face and... swirling mists, but it was a beautiful face. Beautiful I've ever seen. How strange. Of course, it was a dream. Yes, of course. We both agreed it was a dream. But in our unspoken thoughts, it was more than a dream. The next day, I entered the study several times to find Roger sitting at his desk, staring into space. The scent of Narcissus was gone. That night, Roger tossed and turned in his bed, unable to fall asleep. Just before dawn, I awoke to find his bed empty. A cold terrace swept over me as I left my room and started down the stairs to the study. And then I... I heard that which I most dreaded the hear. Roger's voice. Who are you? This mist... If only you'd come closer. Ridge the distance between us. I've seen you before, haven't I? And yet... Where? Yes. Yes, I can see much better now. You are beautiful. Who are you? Roger! Roger, please open the door! Why are you leaving? No, no, please don't.  Darling, let me in! Please open the door! Roger, are you all right? Yes, of course I'm all right. Scent of Narcissus. The study is filled with it. Why did you wake me? You saw her again, didn't you? The Narcissus. It's her scent. You only had an awakening. Roger, what are you saying? If only she'd... She'd spoken to me. What are you saying? It is a dream, isn't it? It must be. I don't know. I don't know. When twilight comes, I... I feel a presence in the house in this room. It's your imagination. It must be. Yes, but the scent of Narcissus. Where does that come from? I don't know. I don't know, but it's evil. The house is evil. We must leave it. Leave it? No, no, we can't leave it. I've got to see her again. I've got to find out who she is. Roger, we must leave. I don't understand what's happening to us, but it's evil. No, no, I won't leave. I can't. I thought I told you I wasn't to be disturbed. I must talk to you. Make you realize that... Tonight, Jane, she was closer to me than ever before, so close I could almost touch her. I spoke, and she started to reply, and then you... Roger, what's happening to you? She's from another world of fans, and the evil one... No, no, she isn't evil. She couldn't be. She's too beautiful. Darling, look at me. You can't let her come between us. I'm your wife. I love you. I don't want your love. Roger, listen to me. You must come away from this house. You must leave at once. No. I insist... Will you get out of here? And don't come back. I'll never leave her. I'll leave from the house, doctor. I could still hear him shouting. I'll never leave her. You must help me, doctor. You must... I'll do what I can, Mrs. Barton. You... You don't think I'm losing my sanity, do you? No. That which you fear may well be. Look, there's a history to Wickford Manor, though few people are familiar with it. A history? Yes. The house was built in 1811 by Martin Wickford for his bride, Marie Duval. It was considered one of the finest houses in New England. A year later, Marie's sister Isabel came to live with the Wickfords. From some of the old records, letters, I gather she was a remarkably beautiful woman. So beautiful that Martin Wickford fell in love with her. And she with him. Then what happened? One day, while Martin was hunting in the mountains, he was killed in a fall. When his companions brought his body back to Wickford Manor, they found Marie, his wife, dead. She'd been poisoned. Poisoned? Yes. At the sight of Martin's body, Isabel went to pieces and confessed to the poisoning of her sister. But before she could be arrested, she did away with herself. In the study. Yes. There's a quotation in the Bible to the effect that a murderer shall find no peace in the hereafter. Isabel Duval was a murderer. Then you do believe her spirit is in the house? In the years that followed the tragedy, Wickford Manor had a succession of tenants, all of whom left after a brief residence. You mean, they saw her too? Well, the tenants made no claims of seeing anyone. But their fear of an unknown element in the house led to their leaving. If the other tenants never saw her, why should Roger see her? Mrs. Barton, have you ever visited someplace for the first time had the feeling you'd seen the place before? Oh, yes, but that was imagination. Can one be sure it is imagination? Perhaps you had seen that place in the long ago as another person. As another person? Yes. You mean, Roger? As another person had once known Wickford Manor? How else do you account for his remembrances of things he'd never seen in this life? I don't know. Doctor, you're trying to tell me something. What is it? All I know is we must return to the Manor at once. The spirit that's abroad in that house is one to be feared more than death itself. But please, please come closer. There's nothing to be afraid of. She's gone. Oh, please, there are only the two of us now. You're beautiful. You're so beautiful. We have met before, haven't we? Yes. We have met before. You spoke? I've waited so long for you, Martin. What? Why do you call me Martin? My name is Roger. It was Martin. Ben. Ben? What do you mean? Look at me, Martin. Look into my eyes. Don't you remember? Yes. Yes, but where? Where? Think, Martin. Think. Time is the barrier between us. But we shall overcome it. Think back into the dim past when you lived in this house and we loved each other. What? Isabel. Isabel! Yes, Martin. Isabel. Do you remember now? Yes, yes, yes. I remember everything up to the... Up to the day I... I went hunting in the mountains. And I fell. What happened to me, Isabel? What happened to us? To our love? Don't think about a cursed day, darling. Think of the future. Our happiness together. Yes. Isabel, our happiness together. Just the two of us. In this house, I have waited so long for you to come back, Martin. But at last, we are together. Yes. It's startling forever. Roger, please!  She's gone back. She's gone back. She's gone back. Don't go. Darling, don't leave me. I must, Martin. Don't go. Don't come back. Come back. Please, come back. Roger! I lost his job! What do you want? Who's he? Oh, this is Dr. Stuart, Roger. Dr....this is my husband.  Roger, please. I thought perhaps he could help us. What do you mean, help us? I don't need anyone's help. Your wife has told me everything. My wife has quite an imagination, doctor. Roger. Lately, she's taking to imagining all sorts of things. I'm beginning to believe she's become unbalanced. I'm not. How can you say such a thing? I wish you'd trust me, Mr. Barton. Allow me to try to help you. I must warn you. The spirit of the woman you see in this study is an evil one. One that will lead you to disaster. I told you I don't need help from you or anyone. I'll get out of both of you. Roger! Come along, Mrs. Barton. All I ask is to be left alone. Oh, Roger. Roger. Please, please, don't cry, Mrs. Barton. You saw him. It's as though he were possessed. Yes, I know. We must do something. We shall, but not tonight. I must have time to think about it. But you'd better return to the village with me. No. No, I don't want to leave him in the house alone. Something might happen to him. Are you sure you want to stay? Yes. Very well. I'll return late tomorrow afternoon. When I do, we will take action. In her bed, asleep, so defenseless. If you want me, you must get rid of her. Her immortality is almost dawn and I must leave. There's no time to waste. Yes, yes, yes. Well, yes. We can't let her come between us. I'll do as you say. Who's there? Roger. For a moment, I was frightened. What time is it? It's just dawn. I have to do it. Jane, I have to... No, Roger, don't! I can't let you come between Isabel and myself. Not now. We've found each other again. Tighter, Martin, tighter. Until she's struggling to stay forever. Isabel. Isabel, don't leave me. Isabel, where are you? Isabel! Roger. Come back, Isabel. Come back. Roger, come to see what she's doing to you. Tonight she'll be back again and she won't let you fail. Isabel, don't leave me. Now please don't leave me, Isabel. Roger, Roger. And then he stopped choking. You ran out of your room and down to the study? Yes. Where is he now? He's still in this study. He's been there all day. I should have known better than to have let you remain in this house last night. She knows that if he murders you, he'll join her cursed spirit forever. Oh, look, it's growing dark out. Soon she'll appear before him again. Doctor, we must do something. Last night you said you'd help me. And I will. This woman, Isabel, has been denied the piece of the grave because her sister's blood is on her hands. She belongs neither to the living or the dead, only to this house. If we could get your husband to leave, it might break the spell she's cast over. Yes, but he absolutely refuses to leave. Then we must force him to. Force him to? Yes. I can very quickly give him a hypodermic, render him unconscious. Yes. Then we could carry him away. To make sure he never returns to this house, we must burn it to the ground before we leave. Burn the house? Yes. Yes. Unless, of course, you don't want him. Oh, yes. Yes, we will burn it. And the evil that's in it. Then if you leave the weight of the study. All right, doctor. Have you the hypodermic ready? Yes. And when your husband opens the door, just gain his attention for a moment. Long enough for me to give him a hypodermic. Very well. Shall I knock now? Yes, I'm ready. Roger, open the door. I want to talk to you. What do you want? Why has he come back to this house? Please come to take me away, Roger. Take you away? Well, good. I'm glad to see... What did you stick me with? What's that in your hand, doctor? A hypodermic, Mr. Button. A hypodermic? Well, why? Well, what are you up to? You're trying to take me away from this house. Well, her. Well, I won't go. I won't go. Do you hear? You'll never hear. Doctor, quick, he's falling. I've got him, Mr. Button. Yes. Now, I suggest you take that lamp and smash it on the floor. Yes, let's burn the place to the ground. That's it. Everybody help me carry your husband out of the house, Mr. Button. In a while, this house will be a... a massive flame. He's regaining consciousness now, Mrs. Button. Will he remember what happened? I don't know. Hello, Jamie. Darling. I had a terrible dream. It's all so confused, then. Jamie, darling, you're crying. It's nothing, darling. You've been very ill, but now you're going to be all right. Of course. Well, who are you? He's Dr. Stewart, Roger. He's been looking after you during your illness. Oh. Where am I? You're in my home, Mr. Button. Yes, darling. Our own house burned down last night. It burned down? That's too bad. Why, we only had one night in our new home. One night? Yes, of course, Roger. Well, Mrs. Button, in spite of the loss of your home, I think you were very fortunate. There are things far worse than fire. Yes, doctor. And I can never thank you enough for breaking the bridge between the past and the present. What are you two talking about? Oh, nothing, darling. Nothing at all. Oh, Ross.  Well, I'm just glad to be out of a sick bed and on my way to California. Look, we just crossed the state line into Kentucky. Mm-hmm. Well, we've come almost 600 miles since, darling. Yeah, it's getting dark. What do you think we ought to stop now for the night? Anything you say, darling. Yeah, let's stop at the next motel. All right. I guess I better turn my headlights on. Oh, darling, I've never been so happy. Roger. What? Do you smell something? Yes, it's good country air. No, I don't mean that. Jenny, what's wrong with you?  Smell what? Oh, you mean that perfume? It seems familiar. What is it? Narcissus. Narcissus? Wasn't that the said in the study? That first evening? Yes. She's in the car, isn't she, Roger? She's followed us. Answer me. What? Roger.  She's trying to come between us. Look at me. Why are you going down? There are some ghosts you just said to stay from. Strangely enough, as Roger Barton was being hanged from six months later for his wife's murder, everyone noticed a strange scent of perfume about the gallows. Some people said afterwards it was the scent of Narcissus. I cussed that if you ever see a house for the first time and it looks familiar, you'll have the good sense to turn and flee. Perhaps a ghost out of your past awaits in that house. A ghost has been waiting for you a long time and he's... Oh, you'll have to get off here. I'm sorry. I'm sure we'll meet again. I take this same train every week at this same time. Now you can follow other tense and exciting adventures of the Mysterious Traveler and the current issue of the Mysterious Traveler magazine now available. In our cast were Blayna Raiburn and Lyle Sudo. Maurice Tarplin starred in the title role. Music under the direction of Emerson Buckley composed by Richard U. Page. This program came to you from New York.


As a result of an explosion on the railway in Ninitagil, Sverdlovsk region of Russia, nine tankers full of fuel were damaged. Images from the area of the incident were released on Russian telegram channels. According to information, the railway line was also damaged as a result of the explosion the IT should be noted that the incident took place on January 8. An explosion occurred on the railway line passing near the oil base. Another explosive device was found during the inspection in the area. It is said that there are no casualties. It was assumed that the explosion was caused by Ukrainian saboteurs. They put it here in the bottom, so that it is not visible. See how the explosion exploded. Well, this is generally a masterpiece. This hole. The chausma. Oh, there is even a barrel, it exploded. There they are. In this bottom, it is lying down so that they do not notice the fuel tank. Here it is not exploded. This is how friends, be warm.


The city of Bemidji is preparing to bring 60 acres of land into city limits. Council members voted Monday to bring the site of the new Jean Dillon Elementary School into the city. The Grand Valley Township Board proved the measure tonight and the school property will officially become part of the city in the next few weeks. City staff was originally planning on annexing the four properties on the north side of Division Street along with the school, but that option was put on hold due to concerns from property owners. They didn't like the dollar mounts, they didn't like the storm water fees and everything else, so it was brought up of what can we do or can we go on a five-year plan or what were our options and the city came back with the option of leaving them off and just taking the school. While the city is not annexing the four properties at this time, the city could do so in the future. For those who live and work along County Road 7, some say they are breathing a sigh of relief but are expecting to have to join the city eventually. When we got down to the numbers, it was going to add about $4,000 a year in tax that we would have to make back in sales, obviously, so it is a huge relief. I don't think it's a forever thing, but it definitely, it is nice to have some time to plan. Bemidji City Manager Nate Matthews told Lakeland News that the city could still annex the properties along County Road 7. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.