Happy Face

Nor has it ever happened that a team 5 points clear of the relegation places with 3 games left has gone down.

This is exactly why I'm not worrried tbh They've got 2 points from the last 4 games. You have to go back to November to find a game where they beat anyone not still involved the relegation battle...and 3 of their 4 remaining games are against top half opponents.

Only us and Villa with 2 away games left.

why aye. With home games against Stoke and Southampton though...they'd REALLY have to blow it.

BBC "as it stands" table says not.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22343121

Are we still above Villa on goals scored?

Funny old game.

RTG providing good entertainment tonight.

Can't see them getting 3 points clear of us by the last day of the season like.

I'm very slow

Can't help but be delighted. Paulo's Party over and done with.

Kevin and Fop

Aye, and the second part of it....."I just dont really want to dwell on it" Proof positive you were walking round in a blinkered Pardew wonderland forgiving a multitude of sins while loads of us were worried about some awful perrformances, and saying as much, no matter where we finished.

Apparently that's normal for a Monday though. Lighter session for recovery.

Best bit of that last one was your response CT.... Probably exactly what Pardew says on the training field.

http://www.toontasti...ost__p__1009725 http://www.toontastic.net/board/topic/32838-everton-vs-newcastle-united-sun-13-may-2012-300pm/page__st__460#entry1079235

Deal was to the end of the season right? Has he been recalled?

“Do you think I am going to say they [tactics] were right when we were 3-0 down? “I felt what we tried to do in the game we did not achieve. “I felt moving Yohan Cabaye on a place would work for us. “It was where he played last time we played Liverpool. “We could not get a grip, though, and we lacked threat down the flanks. “There were a lot of things wrong. My selection of the team is open to criticism – of course it is.”

West Brom did it to Southampton this weekend.......and last week everyone was complaining that we didn't steam-roller them as if they are shit. Chelsea did it to Fulham the week before. Liverpool walked over Wigan 4 nowt at their place a few weeks back, and 3 nowt at QPR before that. It hurt more, being Sunderland, but compared to Saturday that performance was full of vim

3 nowt isn't freak, happens week in week out to one team or another.

Our players have busted guts until the final minute of several games in recent months. Something might have happened in the dressing room that has broken any support for Pardew in the past fortnight, but I think the performance against West Brom suggests there is a desire to play for him. The likes of Ferguson and Wenger, have been on the end of 6, 7 and 8 goal thrashings. Pardew doesn't have one ounce of the good will they do, but neither of them had necessarily lost their dressing rooms, just one of those freak days where your whole team let's you down.

Plenty of us were. CT called us all "Team Negative"