I'd like to call to order the second meeting of the 2016-2017 Common Council. Would the clerk please read the quote for the day. Thank you, Mayor. Today we close the door to the past, open the door to the future, take a breath, step through and start a new chapter. Thank you. Please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the fight of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, God, and God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Next item on the agenda is the approval of minutes from our last meeting. Alderman Donahue. Thank you, Mayor. I move to approve the minutes of the last meeting. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes. Next we'll move on to Mayor's announcements. On behalf of the City of Sheboygan, it's my privilege to welcome introduce Daryl Hofflin as our new Sheboygan City Administrator. Daryl started his new position today. Mr. Hofflin is the name of Askar, Iowa. Daryl holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Psychology from the University of Iowa and a Master of Public Administration in Finance and Program Analysis from American University in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the City, Daryl was the Village Administrator for the Village of Grafton for 25 years, and prior to that, the Village of Littlechute for four years. During his tenure in Grafton, Daryl achieved several notable awards as a Village Administrator. He received a Certificate of Award for Performance Analytics from 2011 through 2015 from the ICMA and was one of two municipalities who received that award. He also received the Popular Annual Financial Report Award from 2007 through 2015 for the Government Finance Officers Association and was the first Wisconsin municipality to receive this award. And he also received the Distinguished Budget Presentation Award from the Government Finance Officers Association from 1993 through 2015, the most consecutive awards by any Wisconsin municipality for 24 consecutive years. Please welcome Administrator Daryl Hofflin to the City of Sheboygan. Daryl, I'd like to offer the opportunity to say a few words to the Council and the community. Well, it was about seven weeks ago tonight. I think that we were all here when you had a few questions of me and evidently I didn't disappoint and I appreciate your unanimous appointment of me seven weeks ago tonight. As you can imagine, starting a new job after 25, 26 years, it was just a little bit of energy that I had this past weekend in anticipation of starting here this morning. My wife actually asked me if I had laid out my clothes, sort of like kindergarten, but I didn't. Again, I appreciate the cooperation between the management team that you have. Again, they've reached out to me. They've already been showing their ways of their support and I look forward tomorrow to actually having my first management team. So again, I look forward to working with you as Alders. I look forward to attending some of your meetings, most of your meetings at least initially, and look forward to getting to know you more. So again, thank you very much. Thank you very much, Darrell. Next we'll move on to confirmation of the Mayor's appointments to standing committees and appointments to special committees, boards and commissions. Pursuant to section 277 and municipal codes, standing committee assignments are made by the Mayor on April 19th and subject to confirmation by the full council on April 25th. The code further states that it's Mayor's responsibility to make assignments that will serve the best interests of the city of Sheboygan. And to assist me in that process, I asked all of our council members to rank their committee preferences. I've made every effort to take these preferences into consideration in the standing committee appointments that I've prepared tonight and present for your consideration and approval. Under municipal code, each older person shall be appointed to at least one committee, but not more than two standing committee appointments. In addition to the list of appointments for the standing committees, I've shared the committee preferences spreadsheet with the rankings of all the older persons. I'm happy to report that 15 of the 16 older persons received their first choice in the committee appointment, and one of the 16 older persons has received the third choice in that appointment. There were also nine older persons who have been asked to serve on a second committee, and eight of those older persons have been appointed to a committee that was their second choice and one received the third choice. I trust that you as common council members agree that these committee appointments and the election of the city council leadership that was held last Tuesday will position the city of Sheboygan for a successful 2016-2017 council year. With that, Alderman Donahue. Thank you, Mayor. I would move to confirm your appointments to standing committees, special committees, boards, and commissions. Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, will the clerk please call the roll. What are we going to do with the old-fashioned way tonight? Bellinger? Aye. Ditters? Aye. Born? Aye. Donahue? Aye. Heidemann? Aye. Jose? Aye. Lassard? Aye. Lewandowski? No. Rob? Aye. Schneider? Aye. Thiel? Aye. Truster? Aye. And Wolfe? Aye. Thank you. I move to adjourn. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. All those in favor of adjournment, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? We stand adjourned. Thank you very much for your time tonight.


Welcome to Toffy TV. It is New Year's Eve and we were sitting here thinking about the year 2021.  It's been just for Everton or just in general? Well in general, but Everton have followed the path they have. They haven't really, you know... Everton haven't taken to Cobra ferry well have they? No. Everton have taken to Cobra ferry well have they? Highs and lows. Yeah, mostly lows. Mostly lows. Mostly lows. A year of... I want to say transition, but I don't think it's transition from one thing to another thing. Yeah, stagnation is a really good word. Obviously two managers. One, one beloved. One not so beloved, but very, very similar in the end. No, very, very similar guys. Just one is warm Italian and has never managed Liverpool. And one is Spanish cold and house. So, you know, I'm full. One's got a fast tag. Knows the city. Where there's one just new Crosby. And that was there. The year started as it went on really. One they'll defeat by West Ham on the year's day whenever in fine form had been unbeaten in December. And I suppose that should have been the marker for the whole thing.  We were second on Boxing Day. Obviously there was no game against Manchester City. That stopped us really. That stopped momentum. And, you know, we started, we started with on a bit of a low getting beat. We were actually the catalyst for West Ham having a great 2021. Sliding doors. Some mixed results back end of, well, 2021. Obviously we had some defeats. We had, you know, three wins on a row, beating Liverpool in the Mayside Derby, but then defeats are the likes of Fulham, who had never been beaten by a home. Defeats by the likes of Sheffield United with a young striker who probably never, ever scored again in the Premier League. I don't know if he's all right. Obviously a lot of old players, I don't know if he's all right. Obviously all the games were behind closed doors until I think it was the Wolves game, wasn't it, that you went to, that we won. We won away at Arsenal. We got a 3-3 draw at Manchester United. We obviously, as we said, we won at Amfield. So we did break some who-dos that had been hanging over us for a while, but we went from being second in the league to finishing 10th. You know, 59 points, terrible, terrible running. You know, back end of the season, you know, those last, what was it, about 10 games? We were, or maybe more, we were really, really poor. We were, new year after the West Ham game, we were third, we were joint third, 10 points was less than we were in third. We did go second, obviously, on Boxing Day, when we beat Sheffield United, but we were joint third on New Year's Day. That defeat really was very frustrating, it was a rubbish game and they nicked it. And then we did have those, we did have those moments, you know, good-win at Leeds and good-win at Amfield, the draw at United, the three away game, won at Wolves, as well in that time, and got ourselves into a position where, you know, after we beat, I think it was West Brom away, at Charlotte and Zedda, we went fourth, you know, and it looked, it looked almost like it was impossible for us not to get into your, you know, we were in the top four with, we make the impossible possible. Well, we do, but we were in the top four with less than three months of the season to go, and we were on a good run, the games, and I think, you know, we beat Southampton after that, but we, the big, the big moments again, Southampton before that, the big moments in that, of course, was losing after that, or with that injury, and we went on a terrible run. West Brom was... March the fourth or something, wasn't it? Yeah, and we ended up winning three more games after that, Arsenal, West Ham and Wolves, so, you know... I mean, what's mad about that is we won at Arsenal and West Ham, we were both, you know, but West Ham were absolutely flying, we stopped beating. And when you look at the teams we played in that time as well, Burnley, a home, got beat. Palace we drew one-one late on, Brighton away, 0-0. Played Aston Villa twice, a drawing of the feet. Sheffield is the night of the home. We played some very, very average sides. It was there for us, you know, it was there for us. Two wins out of all of those, we were in your... You know, we played Chelsea away, we played Tottenham at home, we should have beat Arsenal away when we did beat, and Man City last game of the season, and, you know, that running. You look at the running and where we were, the position we got ourselves into going into that running should have seen Europe in football, because the sum which would have been, it wouldn't have been enough to keep Carlo in the end, and we know we'll talk about that in a minute, but it would have been an extra 10 or 12 million pound, which was what we needed, we needed for the FFP. You know, you can use Europe for players and for improving things. So, it would have been a bit, and obviously, you get kick-ons for your sponsors and all that. It would have cost, it probably cost everything. Yes, we gained 12 and 18 million in overall, really, and that's a lot of money. Because it was a disastrous year on and off the pitch, obviously not having any fans there. It was huge in terms of those defeats as well, but also, obviously financial, which we didn't really find out until, you know, the summer, how in a mess we were financially, obviously juggling the situation with the new stadium as well, but it only really come to light when we started being linked with players, and then it was a bit like, oh, no, we don't actually have the money for them, or, you know, the interest there, they want to come, but you haven't got the money.  I don't want to go last few games, you've got Burnley at home, but with all due respect, he was struggling, Burnley, Sheffield United were relegated, Ville, we ain't great. You know, we've been fighting to win, aren't we? You've got them, you know, those three on games, you think, well, if we got seven points out of them, which you'd expect, you know, and we end up with no points out of them. I suppose the most disappointing thing from that, from the season was, we had a half decent run in the FA Cup, we beat obviously Sparser next to time, and a five-four thriller, then obviously going out to Manchester City, a Jals-Virgin, you played in that game, then because we'd obviously gone through the golews. But when you look at it from that West Brom game, because that was the third win, you know, in a row, you know, Mesa, Derby, Southampton and West Brom, and you're thinking, right, this is the time now to put it together, little run, and we did lose the call, that was a big thing, but it was like, can you sustainly, can you pick up what? An average of what? One and a half to two points again, that kind of thing. And we didn't, and I think Dominic Arvillun struggled towards the end of the season. We had Josh King there, who the manager refused to use, and you know, you've seen him this year with Watford, he's been a really good Premier League striker, scoring goals and doing his job. And I think the manager struggled with the limitations of the squad, but that, you know, world-class manager, that's up to you to get the best out of that squad. That's what you're there for, to look around and see how you can improve it, and pick up these wins, and yes, I know, it's behind closed doors, and a lot of the wins he had picked up, especially the away wins, were built on this counterattack on football, and maybe the court, it was a big part of that, but the win started dying up, and we ended up just sinking like a stone, and obviously, final day. Well, I mean, Sheffield, I think Sheffield's united, you know, three points there could have been a big catalyst, and obviously finishing last day of the season in Manchester City. And even that, we still had an opportunity to get into Europe on that day, and to go out on such a whimper, you know, was just pathetic, and obviously things like Hamas Rodriguez going away to South America on the same day and all these little things, it just left a bad taste in the mountain, and we couldn't wait to get out of the season into the next season thinking, well, there might be a few positives going in. We can, there's things to build on, but obviously that all come crumbling down quite quickly. Yeah, I mean, it was a terrible way to finish the season, given the way we'd started it, and we'd got ourselves into that great position, and that's all you're hoping for. You know, you're going in the middle of maths, and you're in the Champions League places, or, you know, there or there about, and you're thinking, can we just sustain it and guarantee Europe and create that extra whimfall and that buzz about the season, and then you finish the way you did, and losing the home games was just pathetic, really, the way we did.  I think we lost six home games at the back end of last season. Just six home games. Fullham, fullham had never won a game, it was only come and beat us.  It's the reason why we aren't playing in Europe this season. We did it. We got to the end of the season, and it was a case of, it was hugely missed off the tune that it was. We should have easily been able to post 66, 67 points easily to give it a position we got ourselves. We got 59, and we blew those home games. But you get to the summary, you think, well, we're linked with this player, and this player, and this player, and it was like you said before, I guess we just didn't realise the impact, you know, Covid. The reckon cost £15 million just through the gate. So you had that on to between £12 million and £18 million. We were talking about what Europe, and we were finishing, you know, every place is £2 million. We dropped down from fourth in March to 10th. You know, there's £12 million gone like that. You had that together. It's a big thing. And then obviously you'd have... Well, we spoke the back end of the season. We spoke quite a lot about just the club needing stability. We were... Obviously this was before, you know, the stadium. We were still waiting on the stadium. A few bits, obviously, we had a couple of things hanging over our heads. We had got, you know, we were waiting on the full plan of permission and the whole UNESCO thing and all that. So there was a few things hanging over the head, but it was about stability, and I think that's what we kept on saying, stability. We wanted to see some more of stability.  And obviously the Real Madrid job came available and Carlo jumped at it. But where do you think that would have ended anyway? Because there's been rumblin' since that maybe Carlo's job was on the line anyway because of the poor performances and the way we finished. But where do you... Do you think, you know, that was for him the opportunity because he could see the writing on the wall, that maybe, because there'd been a lot of talk that he wanted to display on that player and there was, you know, there was a large amount of money involved, which never obviously happened anyway. So do you think if he'd stayed, they would have somehow magically backed him? Because that's like the weird one, isn't it? That's the weird thing for me. And I just wonder whether the Real Madrid go to Real Madrid was like the perfect get-out for him. Like, he... Either he knew he was not going to get something or if he did get something, it was going to cost him something later down there. I don't know. It's a very strange situation when you look back at it now. Well, yeah. Because obviously we have had the rumblin', you know, the way in happy with his performance. You know, if you did certain things, you'll find out stuff that his job was under threat. Because he was paid, you know, paid a million pound a month. You've got to perform everywhere performing. And maybe you'll also find out that...  I mean, we probably could have pushed another, pushed the envelope a little bit more maybe, but when I say a little bit more, I'm talking maybe another 10 million pound, maybe, in the summer. But that wouldn't have got anti-Lotty what he wanted. You know, he wanted a lot more than that investor. So it did interesting to think, how could they have done the things he was on about? Because if you remember, you know, he was quite bullish the week of the Man City game. He was saying things like, as if Premier League are going to do us for FFP when the Super League teams have done this and done that, there's no chance they need to look elsewhere.  As I've spoken to him, I'm like, where should I spend the money mate? You're our manager, we're backing you. But there is the other side, that he felt like his job was under pressure. So maybe Real Madrid was just a perfect thing. So we got to look at Real Madrid and the biggest football clubs in the world. Probably one of them and United are probably the biggest three football clubs in the world. They come knocking. You like this time at Madrid and he's looking at everything going.  Is this going to end four months down the line of what Napoli did, where his stock's low or he's either one walking out back to Real Madrid, you know what I mean. And that probably was the reason why he went. Yeah, obviously for him it was a great move on all fronts wasn't it? And he's doing very well there. So obviously he spent the next month trying to get a manager. It went down to a lot of minutes in the end after a lot of names had been put forward but no name ever really cemented itself with the fan base. Maybe one of the reasons why Rema did went for Carlo Ancelotti was the lack of availability of the top talent out there not that we'd be chasing over but it did feel like one of summer's where there wasn't a lot going on and you had the euros and stuff. We brought him Rafa Benitez obviously. Do you think the club maybe when deciding to take Rafa Benitez the ground was already sorted? Do you think they may have looked at it just from what we've been talking about and gone we have to face FFP now and with this manager with what he's presenting to us we can get through this period by observing FFP trying to sort it out for the next couple of years by not going big after players maybe having a rejig of the squad because this is the kind of manager where another kind of manager might have come in and gone I want him, him, him, him, him and because you've just brought them in you've made promise and gone well we're going to have to and it's going to push FFP any more Do you think by bringing him in that's when they decided these two things will work together not having that real money because he can work under those circumstances? Yeah, I mean I think it's difficult to know exactly how they went about this process of identifying the manager but actually Marcel Brans was the director of FFP at the time and you know a lot of people saying just let him pick the manager or whatever and we know that great importer was someone he liked but whether Miserie trusted the decision making who knows and haven't stayed away from that and maybe it was the case that someone got older Miserie and some of them were like we can't continue to gamble here because the Premier League take us to task over it it'll result in point deductions and you know that's never good because we've seen it with Derby what they're going through so whether on or ever they just decided to go he's a manager that's worked under financial restrictions and done alright with it this is a chance for us to turn about the other way kind of thing turn the tanker the other way the only thing that goes against that slightly is Miserie's interview that he did with Kelsa Brars with Talksbot when he spoke about Benitez and said he's had no money at Newcastle and he's got money here it'll be totally different we'll back him where he did and that's the only thing if he wouldn't have said that had fully subscribed to that going like they've decided he's the manager would you ever think though that he's got the full not that he's got the full sense of the picture but he's just a king bullshitter like he just tries to present everything football come to the outside world using Jim White he's not put this way if he's doing an interview he's never ever gone on anything saying it's hard financially we've got to be careful with FFP I think for me he's always left that to Marcel Branson to come out and say little things like that now it's Benitez who says that whereas I don't really think Farhad Meshiri wants not that he doesn't want to accept it he just doesn't want to put that out there because it's failure doesn't he so I think he's always coming out presenting this way of things to people but that's not really the true reflection and it's a politician's answer yeah we're fine because when you're not buying people you don't have to say it because we haven't got any money you just go because we couldn't make terms or he wanted to go somewhere else or we didn't like him or whatever we've had seen this on day one with the whole James McCarty he's part of the family don't want to sell him and all that kind of thing so I know what you're saying I just don't think he's even though he's the owner he's not the CEO he wasn't the director of football he's not the manager he doesn't have to live in the same world as them because he can just go everything's fine but I suppose from it there will be that and I guess from his perspective he sees the pot of money that could be available you know what I mean there's even a big pile of money going we can spend that it might be totally different to the actual reality isn't it but it does quite clap Mike Hapley will put another 300 million in for players because we want to get today maybe someone at the football club for once has actually gone we can't mate that's great let's keep that down the line because right now we can't let's start turning it back and you know what if Everton have done that then I've actually praised them for that because it would show signs that actually someone's going we've got to get older I always thought him bringing in Brincis was a clear sign of that though I always said Brincis is like a placeholder for me for three years he's the fella who you just go just keep us competitive for three years don't want to spend loads of money rejig the squad which needs rejigging anyway and you're the fella who comes in to do that that's fine though but why not be grown up a bar because he can't be grown up a bar but someone else can the fella who wanted to be grown up a bar I don't think it's at the club anymore but but there's no one have the ability to come out and speak that truth to me bringing in Raffa Benediff was always that sign that you were doing it in a certain way but you didn't have to you could still do that and present it in a positive light couldn't you because what you could still do is you could say we've got Raffa Benediff he's coming he said some of the stuff he interviewed the best he's got experience he's done this he's done that and what we're trying to do is we're trying to retain the football club this fella's got the experience to carry us through we need a period of stability to move forward the person who he allows to do that is the manager himself on the manager was like we have got money but there are rules and we will try and work on those rules and I think people may have thought because Michelle he was slightly contradicting that the idea was well there's rules now but by the end of the summer there won't be rules whereas I think he was more thinking no no this is going to take a year to get certain players out of the squad you know whoever they were obviously the four that are set to leave at the end of the season would be the first ones because you know they're nailed on but then we'll look within the squad and people will probably start saying he might have looked at certain people and wanted to turn them against who knows as we move into January as people come in and out we'll know more about that but I think the manager started to basically start mentioning FFP and he was going after but what I would say is at no point did anybody ever say to my knowledge we can't afford that person it was always there's a rule blocking us at the moment there was never ever we can't afford that or we can't go after that this is whatever and really clever I have always found whether clever might be the right word when things can be like links can be through the roof or someone could be 99% getting a job Everton just never speak a barri and I know most clubs don't but we've seen that some clubs do Everton just keep the part in case it goes tittle and when it does they've got plausible deniability and that's not a bad strategy it's not a bad strategy for a club like Everton because when you are linked with people or something some managers will get involved and go oh yeah we'd love him at the club but Everton just don't because they never can tell your man we were never in for him we were just never in for him so that's how it started obviously you go into the summer pre-season we went over to America which was really positive for the club as a whole going to America it was tough because it was a tournament that started off with four clubs and ended up with one which was interesting obviously again Covid big factor we brought in Sanzend Damari Gai quite quickly we brought in Begavitch quite quickly so the manager did bring in players and then you were just waiting them for the next one and the next one didn't really come and obviously we got Lornaugan in as another goal and we got Ronddon in on Deadline Day and that right back never came in which was a major frustration and still is a frustration that we hope to get sort in 2022 but we didn't I think for a lot of us we didn't really know how it was really exciting coming back as a fan missing a season obviously going back for the Southampton game and it was really positive and obviously we went 1-0 down and came back and won 3-1 and it was really positive went away to Leeds, got through against Huddersfield and the Cup was a positive start but obviously only bringing in that one player in Ronddon going into the international break Dominic Cavallun getting injured it just started to unraveled in it a little bit this strength of the squad as players got injured it's just been a really tough star for the manager in terms of the players available to him and building just building what he wants to build whatever that is building what he wants to do that we didn't even we didn't have a full compliment to players on day 1 Ben Goffrey this mission Covid and Moise Keane and all of these players who at the time were in that look to be fully in the pity we'd had 5 out day 1 in Southampton and they carried on Brighton we lost people at Jeri Mina I think Mr Brighton game after playing really well against Leeds the week before so we haven't had we haven't had what most Evertonians would go that's our best team we've not had it all season and we're into the new year so there's mitigate situations and we'll talk more about that at the end of the video where we are we had 10 points in the opening 12 we beat Burnley we went 1-0 against Burnley at home and came back and beat them 3-1 and that was with no dom and Tarkovsky trying to put the Charlie's in into 2022 early and then did that put him out for 4 or 5 games so we won that very positive result against Burnley and then we went to Villa a few days later on doing well and but even at Villa game we had no pick fit no Calvert losing, no the Charlie's they're just off the top I think no shame is Coleman as well when we went there so we went there depleted and that was without the other players that we'd had coming back as well so injuries hit us very early and that disrupted any kind of rhythm we've only picked up since the 2nd of October we picked up 5 points drawing into Tottenham drawing into Chelsea and beating Arsenal it's the first time ever in our history that we've only won one game between October and December and this one we've had obviously the back end of this month we've obviously had games that were winnable and they've all been off so obviously they've got to take that into consideration but it's been a horrendous run squad wise just on its bare bones big players missing from the Calvert losing obviously has been played since the back end of August hopefully we'll be back for the start of 2022 Michalisyn missing Jeri Neenyn missing the Coray missing everyone's been missing at some point I think there's only Michael Keane he's the only ever player who is not considered who's not missed the game through injury with everyone else even lad through a third membership a third placed down on a squad so we were the only Premier League squad last season to have every single outfield player injured for more than three games and we've done it again this season it's horrendous and we've seen obviously a change in the medical staff as well with Donahue leaving and the injuries have just been horrendous we also saw Hamas Rodriguez Hamas Rodriguez went obviously I was going to talk about that in a minute the squad was always a major factor it was always a major worry for me the squad first 11, 5 push for a European place but after that we were very very light and that comes down to again the cutting and cutting of the squad which you'd have to do but obviously there's been other things as well we tried, we got Moise Keane out we got Hamas Rodriguez out to try and help with wages but obviously loosen up some to time being players in which didn't happen the big miss over the summer was days wasn't it that deal was very close to being done and I guess if Hamas would have gone to Porto in part of it that's when it looked like it was going to get done he would have been someone who would have I think he would have really I think other Traunions would have absolutely loved him he'd have broke holes and stuff but I say we've had we've had off the field stuff we can't really talk about you know the fans December fans starting to obviously starting to get a little bit ugly Marcel Brans ends up losing his job there's going to be a review we don't know whether the director of football role is going to be continued got to start with all the different Bransons left as well and Dampere did there was a change at the academy you know there's been a lot of change looks like Rafa Benitez I mean ironically five points since the beginning of October is now going to get full power he's going to bring in players hopefully in January there's a lot of there's a lot going on the stadium thankfully is you know it's on its way it's nearly ready to be the land's nearly ready to start being built on so that's a positive but 2021 is just being such a year of turmoil at the football club um and I just hope that all settles down in 2022 and because I was thinking about this on the way in and I was thinking just like how much ever in this season of just this year sorry it's just just being you know two managers and you know taking over a players and it's just always in flux the board room now as well it's just ever it's just like we are continually in transition it's not a very good transition and all we can hope for and this is what we hoped for last year was just going into a summer with a bit of positivity and I know this will go against what a lot of people want when you get a summer where you're trying to build and you're not being cut down by the manager leaving and then oh another set of players or because the squad going into this summer with lots of players going out of the club on free time phase and stuff it just feels like this is an opportunity to start building or from this January you start replacing some of those older players whether you like your owner and start replacing them with younger players you can grow into the team and that's all you can hope for so as I say 2021 just seems to be just one disaster to the next forever it is mad when you think back to all the stuff that's gone on and we did see the positivity of the dock being filled in on the summer onwards and that's gone relatively smoothly in fact ahead of schedule the sand is all in and we've had the face concrete structure coming out the ground and stuff like that so already it's above ground so that's really positive the way that's gone but when you think back we've had two board members leave in the last couple of months Savarish Milov won't go on about two months and we've had obviously Marcel Brans gone as well so a small board which is what it was anyway a five is now down to three one of them is Bill Kennight he's the chairman obviously he's one of the grand singles who has to come and sit on the board and the other one is Denise Barrabach so we've got three board members at the moment so that obviously has to be increased for me by 50% at least more than what we've got now we've seen players leave the club the manager everything everything is in turmoil everything won't move forward there's a football club till things settle down you can't continue to go through members of staff the way we do whether any footballers manages board members whatever we've got to get a strategy in place and stick to it and that strategy has to come starting in January and obviously we have to decide what we want to be and where we want to go and how we're going to do it and these things don't seem to have been major considerations in the last few years we put a structure in place but the structure was it was pointless because people were grabbing at different jobs and stuff or taking different responsibilities whether people like Rafferbynnesys or they don't like Rafferbynnesys I think he's in charge and I don't know whether people won't like that but in some way I take half of the fact that if he's in charge he's in charge and I don't see other people getting involved then and that might be the writing for a lot of people but at least it's a strategy what I want to see is I've never been linked with it already anyway and obviously the bringing in rightfully Michael Enco who's 22 years of age okay we're going to lose Luke or Dean it looks like but that's the way it is it's football players moving in the country but he's 22 that's good linked very heavily with Nathan Patterson it looks like they're trying to do that deal to get him in as well then that's 20 and 22 they're the right type of age for players can we now go home then and pick up another couple of that age group once you do that and you're getting rid of the likes of Nathan Patterson we'll all walk out the door John Joe Kenny John Joe Kenny is 25 but the other three are all 28, 29, 30 whatever out the door big wages and you're turning that if Luke or Dean does go he's 29 in the summer Yeri Mina we still got time left but it is that if you start to turn those ages round you've got to bring in equality as well but that would be a strategy you think well if we develop well then we can sell them again and reinvent because let's be honest everything like a lot of football clubs probably like most football clubs not all of them but most you've got to be able to make yourself sustainable and that sustainability comes from having to sell players every now and to regenerate them funds because that's the sensible way to do it it's business any normal business you don't keep going to them and then there's more that's not how you develop a strategy and a winning strategy so if it is Rafa Benitez and if people have gone the club will let's try this way we've tried this directly the football way it hasn't worked let's tweak it if he's the fella then I guess we have to try to back him he's got to be better let's be honest I'm not giving him a free ride he's made some huge mistakes we've won one game the end of September and that's on him because none of us picked the teams it's on him yes he's been decimated with injuries yet fair enough there is that that kind of caveat throughout poor we've been but he's got to do better but if he is by properly, by young build got to have the right quality try to get these lads who we've seen over the last few weeks within our own academy now Ellis Sims, Lewis Dobbin Tyler O'n Yng Nghymru make these parts of the squad if he does that and we see a little bit of a turn and he had to couple in his own with the experience then at least Everton will get a base level of the squad who are at a good age competitive we know with this league if you're organised and you're quite competitive you can get into Europe it's not difficult it's hard to go to Champions League it's hard to win stuff but to get where you want to be let's have a look at the numbers for the year so obviously games play 40 wins 13 draws 10 losses 17 which is just horrendous squad 42 conceded a 58 points 49 points per game 1.23 which you look at that 49 points from 40 games that to me tells me how bad a year it was you know well it's by Carlo Ancelotti won 8 games in 23 he played 23 games from the turn of the year Everton won 8 of them Rafa Benitez has had 17 games in charge of Everton and he's won 5 of them so he's 6 games shy of Ancelotti's record Everton won 50% of those games and they've got some winnable ones he'd have the same kind of that tells you that they probably stack up similar as managers but what it really tells you is that's the quality of the player and the one thing I would say in Benitez's favour over Ancelotti is Ancelotti had his two strikers for the 23 games you know he had mainly his without the corey he had mainly his best players but he had his two strikers where his Rafa Benitez hasn't had his strikers with the Arlesons 6 games I think in the Premier League 7 games Don's missed 15 which is a hell of a lot for your main striker so Benitez may have got more results but overall it tells you that the quality of players the players haven't done enough they're not good enough the squad's not good enough like I've said before Everton have got 12 or 13 players I think that if you kept them all fit would challenge for your own the managers to maybe getting two or three players in January so if Everton can do that then we'll move on hopefully and we'll play his back as well so there you go 2021 comes to an end thankfully it's been at end this online I just think every front this was supposed to be the year it got better 2022 that's the big one that's the big one for those back 2022 so let us know your thoughts in the comments on this numbers wise 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So it turns out that Nintendo might have leaked a key feature for the Nintendo Switch 2. Now, this is something that has been widely speculated and talked about, but getting anything directly from Nintendo is always noteworthy since we're talking about a platform in Nintendo Switch 2 that Nintendo has yet to comment on, yet to confirm outside of the light hearted, hey we're always working on new hardware or hey we're planning to bring our account system forward to whatever the next system is. That's about as far as Nintendo has actually acknowledged publicly this, but it does turn out that Nintendo has updated something today that has now led me to believe that the original thoughts on this were correct and Nintendo has indeed leaked a key feature themselves for the next generation Switch. That being said, before we dive into this, I would love it if you guys would go ahead and drop likes and subscribe to the channel. We're trying to get to 150,000 subscribers this year. Oh, but we're not stopping there because I want you to go ahead and ding that bell so we can be notified or I guess you can be notified of all future uploads. So what are we talking about? Well, Nintendo of America regularly post a bunch of their jobs on Twitter and other places and they are always hiring for different positions and DocTray81, a fellow YouTuber deserves some credit here and we actually need to reference him for a specific reason because Nintendo updated one of their job postings and here's the thing, he posted a job posting on his channel a couple days ago that says for a contract data engineer machine learning. Now I decided not to cover this myself a couple days ago because I don't like the language being used. He was inferring that Nintendo was hiring somebody for deep learning super sampling or to apply deep learning super sampling internally into their tool base and into Nintendo. And that's because in the job listing, it has a lot of things that say like you'll be working at the intersection of machine learning in fear inference engines and embedded systems facing challenges that stem from processing the memory constraints and a power budget task include but are not limited to porting of machine learning frameworks to embedded platforms evaluation of benchmarking and machine learning hardware solutions section and optimization of machine learning models to fit power memory and CPU budget so it definitely could suggest deep learning super sampling and it also could have suggested I don't know a million other things. So I didn't really feel like this was any sort of confirmation of deep learning super sampling. Now we're going to get into deep learning super sampling in a bit and why this matters but the reason we're talking about this now today when I wasn't willing to do it before is there have been some headlines since doc tray 81 put this information out there that Nintendo has confirmed dls s like they like it's out there and there's headlines for comic book dot com other youtubers and the strange thing is once those headlines came out Nintendo has now updated the listing now the listing still has the exact same information inside of it but the title of the job has changed it now says contract data engineer and embedded systems now why did they get rid of the machine learning part of the title well if this did indeed leak that Nintendo is working on deep learning super sampling and this is the confirmation of that they wanted to make sure that people don't find that job listing and people don't look for it it's just a clever way to sort of hide something that whoops we accidentally put machine learning in the title for the job which led people to discover this is deep learning super sampling they're probably not going to find it now if we do data engineer embedded systems but you can even look at the job number on his post and on this post it's literally the same with 23 at the end and six z sorry 23 at the beginning and six z at the end this is the same job posting they just updated the title of it because they don't want people digging into it and discovering this deep learning super sampling stuff it's obviously too late at this point once things at the internet it is what it is so because of the job listing title update it makes me go you know what doctrine 81 credit to him was on to something this may indeed be confirmation of deep learning super sampling remember you have to design and develop and maintain a formal framework for validating and benchmarking machine learning solutions hey benchmarks for dlss on the platform makes a lot of sense perform evaluations of machine learning hardware research evaluate and analyze and optimize machine learning models so again all of this could definitely be deep learning super sampling now we've talked about dlss a lot over the last year and really even dating back to the nintendo search pro rumor days but i can't emphasize how important deep learning super sampling is we're going to show you some examples now from some other content creators on youtube that are showing you what deep learning super sampling can do whether it's taking 240p images and making them better or taking other it's just just to show you the power of deep learning super sampling because the thing is it is like magic there'll be people that tell you that's not the case and they'll down talk and no dlss is massive and we know according to the reports coming out of gamescom that they were likely using dlss 3.5 for actual demos being shown off which is important because dlss 3.5 has ray tracing upscaling which is awesome absolutely awesome if the nintendo switch to the next generation switch whatever we want to call this thing actually exists and is capable of using ray tracing to this level that has been described from gamescom so deep learning super sampling has a bunch of different facets to it but the key things that we obviously worry about are obviously the resolution upscaling and then the upscaling of ray tracing and what this is going to allow the system to do is target nato resolutions that are smaller than what the screen is being displayed so let's say for an example that it is using a 1080p 8 inch lcd panel none of the games on nintendo switch would need to actually target 1080p they could target 540p and use deep learning super sampling to make them almost identical like very hard to tell the difference between a native 1080p and a you know upscaled 1080p and in doing that because it's running at such a lower resolution the frame rates would massively increase and next thing you know you're running at 60 frames a second on something like call of duty now when you dock the system which would naturally boost all the clock speeds let's say that you want to play in 4k you could actually have a native 1080p at 60 fps and you could use dlss to upscale that to 4k and have it look stupidly close to what it looks like on playstation 5 so the point isn't that dlss solves every problem that happens by having lower end hardware but what dlss does do is really make up some of the performance problems that some games have because you're able to lower the the base resolution of your game which often gives you a hell of a lot more performance headroom for things like frame rate and then with dlss which is ai technology being able to naturally upscale this in very smart ways with dedicated hardware it ends up being a beautiful solution to a lot of problems and again so many dlss examples out there for those who don't know you can really go down the rabbit hole looking at what dlss can do with the games it hasn't enabled and all the testing that's been done dlss deep learning super sampling is actually that fundamentally good so while obviously the system's not announced at this point and all of that i think it's pretty safe to say that while yes we've heard about dlss being used behind the scenes it is interesting that this job posting in particular basically confirms that dlss is coming as nintendo is working on more and more testing solutions for it doesn't mean there's not currently some things to invidia but nintendo probably wants some of their own internal stuff so anyways you guys gotta let me know you think well this down in the comments below because obviously this is in my opinion obviously we want to know the specs of this system and we have a pretty good guess at the specs but we don't know exactly we don't know clock speeds but one thing that's really curious here is this is actually the defining feature of the nintendo switch choose generation deep learning super sampling well it's not going to be something we talk about all the time because in reality it's just going to be applied to pretty much every game on the platform and we're just going to play the games and we're just going to be impressed but this is going to be that defining feature that makes this system seem way more capable than it realistically should be and man oh man oh man am i excited to see a platform where everything coming to it actually takes advantage of this modern ai tech it's going to be crazy and it obviously goes to show that hey not all ai stuff is scary guys this is actually a good use of artificial intelligence anyways guys let me know you think about this down in the comments below do you think this job posting uh is confirming what it appears to be confirming especially with nintendo updating the title after some headlines got out there because they're like oh whoops we people people weren't supposed to find out about this like they're reading our job postings a little a little more closely than we realized all right guys thanks so much for tuning in and i'll catch you in the next video