Pienaar strikes first
Well now I actually wonder if they did know? You see the performance today was weak to say the least, which was unexpected when you consider what could have been on offer.
As it stands a win for us wouldn’t have mattered anyway, and fifth is still a mighty fine effort from the lads after 38 games, but to give such a disappointing performance in the first half is difficult to take. Everton shouldn’t have anything taken away from them as they were excellent in that first period and gave us no room to do anything in.
Goals from Steven Pienaar and Nikica Jelavic were enough to give Everton a deserved 2-0 lead at half-time although I still maintain we made it easy for Everton to press the game by failing to play our own.
The second half arrived and Newcastle were much improved. Sylvain Marveaux and Ryan Taylor replaced Davide Santon and James Perch and almost immediately you could see that the changes worked in our favour, although in fairness it wasn’t hard to improve from what was a dire first half performance.
Papiss Cisse missed pretty much an open goal, Hatem Ben Arfa scuffed a shot wide and Demba Ba shot straight at Tim Howard as the visitors pressed and probed for a way back into the game.
However it was Everton who scored the next, and decisive, goal when John Heitinga made the most of a static Mike Williamson and Fabricio Coloccini and easily headed home from six yards out.
Brief hope was restored shortly after as the visitors pulled one back courtesy of a Tony Hibbert own goal, but no comeback was on the cards this time and the game petered out.
Everton were impressive today and the result made it nine games without defeat for David Moyes’ side. They were confident and that showed, and in truth there was only going to be one winner in this contest.
Which makes you wonder why Tim Cahill had to act like a knob right at the end and earn himself a red card AFTER the final whistle. He lost his head but then the same must be said for Yohan Cabaye who was on the egde of losing it all game and actually did when a ballboy failed to do his job properly and give Cabaye the ball back.
A fine season has ended on a sour note for us, but we’ll be back, especially if players like Sylvain Marveaux can stay fit. Considering today was his first appearance in six months he done rather well and showed some great skill and vision. Unfortunately it came to nothing in the end but it was promising all the same.
In summary, what a season!
Everton: Tim Howard, Tony Hibbert, John Heitinga, Phila Jagielka, Leighton Baines, Darron Gibson, Phil Neville, Leon Osman, Steven Pienaar, Maraouane Fellaini, Nikica Jelavic
Subs: Jan Mucha, Denis Stracqualursi, Tim Cahill, Magaye Gueye, Seamus Coleman, Ross Barkley, Sylvain Distin
Newcastle: Tim Krul; James Perch, Mike Williamson, Fabricio Coloccini, Davide Santon, Hatem Ben Arfa, Yohan Cabaye, Cheik Tiote, Jonas Gutierrez, Demba Ba, Papiss Cisse
Subs: Rob Elliot, Shane Ferguson, Ryan Taylor, Dan Gosling, Sylvain Marveaux, Gabriel Obertan, Shola Ameobi
P.S – Troy Stavers, you are now banned from attending away games!
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Bottom line, we were shit
, now lets wait three and a half months for the new season yay 
Just watched the video ’100 cheesiest movie quotes’, the best has to be from some old crime film(black ‘n white one) “It was a murder and I think someone’s responsible.”
Let’s hope our play off opponent isn’t a strong club.
Anyway,what a conclusion to 20yrs of EPL.
Gary Hooper helped himself to five goals as he and Scottish Premier League champions Celtic ended their season in style with a 5-0 thrashing of Hearts at Parkhead.
Congrats to Fraser Forster.
It’s all in the plan folks. After the last two defeats everyone will write us off again for next season and we can fly in under the radar and have the league sewn up by Christmas.
Poor last game, looked better 2nd half but ultimately made no difference anyway with Arse and Spuds winning
Just watched the Barton sending off, that bloke is an idiot and totally lost it
Why no one takes a chance on hooper I’ll never know.
Bloody ell there’s a fire in one of the garages at the Spanish grand prix.
Barton just saved his Arse there with QPR still staying,but surely a huge fine and legthy match ban ahead for him.
Marveaux looked tidy on the ball though didn’t he considering he had been out for such a long time, fancy him to get quite a bit of pitch time next season, be like a new singing. I’m afraid that chance Jonas had in the first half summed him up for me, did all the hard work but at the end of the day, pump. Just can’t get away with him.
Everton always finish the season well, but we didn’t perform well today. It’s something that pardew needs to work on. We’re still a little too but too much like jekyll and hyde. Some games we’re unplayable, other games we just aren’t at it. Granted there was a hint of fortune about Everton’s first two goals (Big deflection on the first and the ball rebounding straight to jelavic for the second) but it’s games like this which will define our season if we kick on next year. It’s all well and good writing off the games against top 6/7 sides when your only aiming for top 10, as those results won’t impact where you finish as long as you beat the sides below you. If we want to improve next year Everton are the kind of side we should be taking at least 4 points off. No disrespect to them but with one or two exceptions (such as pienaar) there’s no players in their starting XI that i would want in ours.
I always feel Marveaux is another potential star player for us,well for next season then.
if the F.A. have any balls, Barton should be out of football for a long time.
i was one of the few, who kept wanting to give him “another chance”, but now, i couldnt give a shit , what happens with him!!
today’s first half was as bad as it has been all season, improved in the second, but these players need to relise, the league didn’t finish once 5th was secured, it finished at the final whistle today!!
am not having a go at them, i cant, not after the season we’ve just had, but if we were in man city’s shoe’s, a preformance like today, would of been suicidal
just need Munich to win the CL, and i’ll be well happy
The lads never got off the bus till half time as usual. Gog help em if we ever start a game from the off. Having said that, their first was down to Williamson turning his back on the shot, as usual, a cardinal sin, and the second should have been a hand ball and a free kick to us.
However, we were not up for it till we got a bollocking from the gaffer at half time, but all to no avail.
Ba looked like he was playing somewhere else and Chiek just didnt look interested. Cabaye kind of slept through the first period and actually drove me towards watching Shittieh concede to QPR, but then Joey did a Joey and handed the title to the Moss-side Mob. A strange afternoon. Really looking forward to next season and the promise it brings. Have we heard that somewhere B4. ?????? HWTL.
To avoid a massive disappointment, I would not allow myself a scintilla of hope. Knowing that NUFC always let you down, I decided to watch other clubs’ enduring an afternoon of torture instead. What an enjoyable afternoon I had. Mancini was cracking up. Phil Jones’ face was a picture.
CL money will mean more to spuds than chelsea, so I hope Chelsea win it now and spuds can cry about the ‘orrible rules.
Mwhahahaha
Toonsoldier9 – I agree a bout Barton – kicking Aguero after he’d already been sent off was ridiculous. Although I didn’t know punching Tevez was an offence – I thought it was what anyone should be doing!
Joey Barton have to be Protected! Tevez Hit Him First and he didn’t have anything!
Not convinced we can keep both Ba and Cisse. They just dont work together imo. Not only for us but also for Senegal.
If DB goes to PSG, I wont cry. I think he is replaceable.
In saying that, we seem to play much better in a 4-3-3 formation, which atleast allows our forwards to attack more.
AP had players in all kinds of wrong positions today. I like him, but he sometimes confuses the fuck out of me with his line-ups.
Ha Ha but what do I know
Still 5th is proppa beltas like.
Toonsy agree with preety much everything except “Yohan Cabaye who was on the egde of losing it all game and actually did when a ballboy failed to do his job properly and give Cabaye the ball back.”
It sounds as if your making an excuse for Cabaye ? I have seen ballboys muck about before but I have never seen or heard off a grown man pushing a kid because he wasn’t quick enough to give him the ball.
I just hope Cabaye is really proud of himself because he was a total fuking muppet for that and should hang his head in shame ..
I noticed he wasn’t to quick to get back in to Cahill, Cabaye has went down in my eyes after today.
IMO the whole team put in another shit performance today where it just looked like they couldn’t be bothered, we need to have Saylor back for next year because he is the only player we have that has the balls to shout and rally the troops when you need a bit of a never say die gung ho attitude.
BB yeah mate 5th is a well deserved reward and a taste of what could be to come, As for the formations etc yeah they do look a bit strange at times but surely the players practise things in training and tbh I don’t think the tactics are to blame for some of the games like today when multi millionaire players can’t even get the basics right.
If we played all season like we played today we would of been fighting relegation for sure. I hope they realise how poor they were because any more of that next season too many times and we will be in big trouble.
Today i’m happy as we are back in Europe and deserve it on balance of play but i know I will still be nervous next season untill we reach the 38/40 point mark such is our unpredictability .
Spurs ‘stars’ will not stay if they don’t get CL football, not a chance, bale will leave, modric will leave, aswell as VDV sandro will leave and possibly parker. Just a shame Arsenal couldn’t miss out on it as there’d be no way that Van Persie would stay with them, then we’d see next season how well they’ll cope without him
Swap Sandro with Walker on my list, Sandro isn’t even a ‘star’ at spurs, hes shit.
We cant handle strong, powerful teams with fight in them. Too many players went missing today, however, a great season and thanks to all involved. Look forward to June when hopefully good class players will come in and strengthen the squad.
Andymag
Van Persie contract runs out June 2013.
Think he might ‘hang fire’ on extending his contract leaving Arsenal with the dilemma of selling him now or risk losing him for nothing next year.
Haha – Dave you fckin hypocrite. Slagging the fcuk out of Cabaye after standing by Joey all them years.
Typical negger behaviour. Relishing one of the “regime’s” signings having a bad day.
It would’ve been so easy to be tottenham manager this season, just pick the same team in a 433 formation, how the hell they’re only 4th I’ll never know
) then they should sell Lennon, Asseo Ekotto and Defoe which will make them 25-30m richer and then buy Baines(8m tops), Hoilett(3m compensation), Luuk De Jong(10-12m) and Vertonghen(7-10m). They’d then have a team capable of top 3 fighting it out with city and united.
——————————-Friedel———————————-
-Walker—-Gallas—–King(if injured Kaboul)—-Ass-kot-
——————————Parker———————————–
——————-Modric———–Van Der Vaart—————
—Lennon—————Adebeyor———————–Bale—
If they can retain their players(
TC what da fuk are you on about
I take it you have fuk all against Cabaye pushing a ball boy 
TC @ 29 same old same old change the fuking record will ye
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will be funny to watch it unravel, like fabregas and nasri
“HE’S NOT GOING!”
two weeks later
“shit”
He pushed him FFS. Nothing to be proud of for sure but its not as if he dragged him outside a McDonald’s and beat him to within an inch of his life like your hero did.
Big Dave= Joey Barton
TC = Tevez, Carlos
Fight begin
andymag
May 13, 2012 at 19:37
Big Dave= Joey Barton
Nail on head
Andymag
I don’t think Spurs would have got fourth without Adebayer and it’s going to cost them a huge amount in transfer fees and wages to keep him.
TC I think you will find that the one Joey smacked outside Mcds wasn’t a school kid but don’t let that get in the way, try getting your facts right it’ll save you looking silly.
Must say TC didn’t expect to see you on here so soon after a loss it’s normally only when we win
or when your trying to stir shit 
but then I suppose thats what your trying to do 
we have to remember that this is the first season that the majority of the Lads have been together. It can take a couple of seasons to fully get an understanding of each others strengths and weaknesses.
Hopefully if we can keep the nucleus of the team together, we can improve from where we have come to this season.
Our target for next season has got to be top 6. And we need to see more effort and commitment from more of the players.
Chris – you wouldn;t have Jelavic? Jagielka? Heitinga? you must be insane. You lot have done well this year and deserve your fifth place finish. But to suggest Everton were lucky today is just stupid. You were out fought and out classed for long periods of a game you had no desire to win(despite having more at stake). Seriously, try watching the game next time.
Now, now, play nicely gentleman.
Cabaye was out of order but these Galic types have it in them.
As for the game, we just didn’t turn up but that’s life, Everton are a good side.
Although finishing fifth is great lets not let that blind us to the fact that we had probably the best chance of getting in the top four than any time recently and next year will be harder. Arsenal, Chelsea, Spurs and Liverpool will improve their squads and we need to push on and do the same. We’ll also have the extra games which may be a hindrance.
I gotta feelin some of our frenchy’s had not getting injured on their minds today aswell, what with the euro’s up and coming.
I hope they have the same attitude to not getting injured when they are playing for their country too.
As for Cabaye – next time he wants to act the prick I hope someone knocks him out!! So you call Cahill names but then don’t criticise Cabaye for picking on a ball boy. Maybe that’s all part of being a ‘Geordie hard man’ is it? Picking on ball boys? I hope th eFA throw th ebook at the c*nt. Next time he can try picking on any of the grown men in the stands – I’ll bet he doesn’t.
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That was part of my thinking aswell, if he leaves though aswell as ledley king, bassong, saha and gallas(think hes out of contract aswell) then that’s 250k/pw of the salary, thats £13m pounds a year, wityh youngsters coming through for them, they’d just need to buy another striker(aswell as De Jong) and possibly another CB and I reckon they could do it
Congratulations to my beloved “Toon” for finishing 5th in an incredible season. Forget about today and savour our achievement.
MB
Try “I hope the FA/Everton ban that ball boy”, he was interfering with the game. And out of the players you mentioned I’d only have Jelavic and he’d be back-up to Cisse and Ba.
Mersey Blue – we had our chances today, just didn’t take them.
Agree yous out fought us and wanted the win more.
yous have some fine players at everton, but none that would make our fantasy team thanks all the same.
Congrats on finishing above your racist neighbours for a change.
i dont think DAVE ever said barton was a “good” bloke what he was at times good for the toon shakeing up players ect,talk about takeing things out of context,apart from that me and dave often joked about barton when he had a good game,please dont try to be-little people for haveing a view, have a go at players by all means but nee need for bloggers to try and say i know better than you bull-shit
I think you’ll find in our ‘game on thread’ that Cabaye was well criticised.
Nay excuse for what he did, quite pathetic.
Much like Cahill needlessly losing his head and getting a straight red.
What a prick. 2 match ban to start the season.
BB
). So thats 6 of our 11 1st teamers that haven’t played a whole PL season prior to this one(with a couple not even a whole season this season with injuries and ACON).
Was thinking that myself, the majority of our 1st team hadn’t played a full-PL season prior to this season. Krul came in as back-up towards the end of last season, Santon hadn’t played in the PL before and only played a few for Inter, Cabaye had only played french footbal at one club and so was getting used to a big new club in a much tougher league, Ben Arfa was largely injured last season and still has only played a fraction of our games this season, Ba played at West Ham but only for 4months and Cisse’s had 14 games in a new league not knowing the language and has still managed 13 goals(only a couple of them were tap-ins aswell
Andymag – ban the ball boy for what? I was sitting right where it happened. He did nothing wrong, didn’t delay the game. Your guy is a prick but hey if you want to condone such behaviour I hope you don’t have kids. I like the Toon, and the fans are always a good craic,but you seriously need to watch that incident again. He’s bang out of order and he should have been dealt with. Sitting by several Newcastle fans today who all said he was out of order. Also did you not notice your captain make him go over at half-time to the ball boy to apologise? Why would he do that if your player wasn’t in the wrong? Like I said to Chris earlier – try watching the game next time. It helps when forming opinion if you watch the game rather than just reply. Good luck in the Europa League next season, hope you guy sget further than the Redshite.
MB you’s deserved your win today mate and you’s have done well this season, you never know maybe Moyes will get a bit of money to spend for next season
BB
Isn’t a straight red a 3 match ban? What did Cahill do? I didn’t actually se it.
@ Big Dave 20,
Spot on regarding both topics.
TC, who gives a fck what Dave thought about Barton, has nothing to do with his opinions on Cabaye, which are correct, it was bang out of order and he should make a public apology immediately.
Dave, fully agree on Saylor as well, without him we don’t appear to have that determined drive and crumble way to easily. Our defence has one of the best clean sheet records yet our goals conceded record is decidedly average. We need driven leader on the pitch, maybe the longer he is at the club the more Tiote will grow into the role, but atm we have noone except Saylor that is a vocal and determined enough.
@Andy
You wouldn’t have Baines? Fellaini? Pienaar? Rodwell?
Ban the ball boy? You’re making a mug of yourself and you should stop talking now, digging yourself a hole mate.
MB – To be fair most people over the past couple of threads have said Everton are strong finishers and outplayed us today., just like most said Cabaye is a twat for picking on a kid. Don’t get so defensive mate – it has been a pretty good season for both our clubs, however only 1 of them is in Europe next term!
MB
Of course Cabaye was in the wrong and should have dealt with the incident better, I just felt that saying the FA should take action against him was harsh, I myself haven’t yet seen the incident but from match reports that I’ve seen they say that he was preventing the game from quickly restarting and being very biased, he may just be young but he should know better than to disrupt it in that manner. I will watch the incident to confirm what I’ve read, if you are correct and he wasn’t disrupting the flow of the game then I apologise. Btw I don’t have kids(still one myself kind of) but do not suggest that I weould ever condone assault to my children.
Credit to the Toon fans at Goodison today, joining in the round of applause for the Madeline McCann film that was shon at half time. Class fans, good luck in Europa next season.
I’m sorry but Tiote is a liabilty, not a leader.
He is constantly picking up early yellows, and could quite easily have picked up a 2nd once again today.
Its nay use to the team, when he is getting booked so early in the 1st half and having to take it easy for the remainder of the match.
Get him sorted Pardew or get rid.
ST
Not for the 1st team no I wouldn’t have them. And I don’t believe that I was ‘digging myself a hole’ if the boy was in the wrong, granted ‘banning him’ was to harsh but I felt that suggesting that Cabaye should have action taken against him was ridiculous. Colocinni and Pardew should talk to him about it and maybe he should send a personal apology to the boy, thats my view any way.
ST @55 you know what TC is like just trying to score a cheap shot even when he is wrong, I just know if that was my wee Lad I would have risked a lifetime ban to pay the dirt bag back, I just can’t understand how anyone can excuse that to me hitting kids is the same as hitting women, its normally done by guys that don’t have the balls to stand up to another man, as I said he wasn’t to quick at pushing Cahill.
Andymag – Cahill deserved his red. Game over and Cabaye says something which Cahill took exception to. No excuses, he should not react. All he had to do was point to the scoreboard. Ref had no choice but to send him off.
If you can keep that squad together you have the makings of a good side. Collocini, Ba, Cisse, Tiote and even Cabaye (who despite his behaviour was class when he got on with his game) point to a great future. Solid goalkeeper as well and a decent manager.
We are doomed to remain where we are as long as we have no money at all.
BB
Bloody hell thats a bit strong, yes that can be an issue with him but he’s vastly improved this season with his tackles, and we need a srong figure like him in the middle of the park, he has broken down countless attacks this season preventing us from conceding, so if he picks up bookings as a result for a couple of mistimed tackles (has been unfairly booked on many occasions) then so be it.
DAVE sorry but had to have my say@49
oh and another thng. That was Alan Pardews first full season as our manager. How many yrs has Moyes had at Everton.
Overall I am well happy with how things have panned out. Its just still a little rough around the edges.
MB
Apreciate that, I like everton and do hope they progress over time, Moyes has done a brilliant job with what he’s got, sell one of your players for a top price and I think you’ll be challenging up at the top-end(4-6) with us
Cabaye was out of order pushing the lad ,and he must of felt sick when he got pushed like. I never like to see stuff like that its to Colos credit he made Cabs go over and apologise to the lad . We bottled it again today ,simple as, but there have been some amazing games played by the lads to soften the blow.
Nah I’m sick of the excuses being made for him. I agree he has improved from last season, slightly, but he now has a rep as dirty tackler and the refs are looking for any excuse to book him. He needs to get smarter too.
Andy, so Baines over Simpson?
Fellaini/Rodwell over Jonas in the midfield 3?
Cabaye pushed a little kid in the boards. If only the boy was more like poncy footballers in the premier league and had rolled around clutching his face.
In my mind Cabaye should get a ban or fine, no excuses, not condoning what the boy supposedly did but the Cabaye’s reaction was disgusting.
Dave I can’t believe anyone thinks otherwise!
Lads IMO we really only need strenghtening at the back whic isn’t a bad thing as we can spend more of our time trying to get it sorted, providing we hold on to our best players.
Has it started sinking in to anybody else that we have to do without Footie now for yonks with the added pleasure of all the transfer sh1t that wer’re going to hear
Fortunately Cabaye was dealt with by the ref at the time of the incident. (he got off lightly like
) so no further action can be taken by the FA.
But the club should fine him the maximum allowable imo.
It really is totally unacceptable behaviour from a player who is also a father.
How would he like it if it was his kid on the receiving end? Idiot.
DAVE you saying we only need shoreing up at the back?what about a striker?we were lucky we had the players back a bit early because they knocked out,who is going to cover ba,cisse,in this anc,shola best,i dont think so,we need a good striker in imo
Pardews interview:
http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11678/7754458/Pardew-looking-forward
Best team won today, maybe they’re goals had an element of luck but that’s football, we’ve had some “luck” too, but Everton’s win was nowt to do with luck, they won because they were the better team on the day.
As I said on the match thread, Cabaye was well out of order and he really can’t complain if the FA do take further action…. and they should!
nowt said about the young kid
http://www.nufc.co.uk/articles/20120513/cabaye-issues-apology_2281670_2771256
Like Pardew says, we have something to build on now.
In Carr we trust.
ST
Alright I’ll give you Baines, swap Santon to RB and have Baines at LB, but Rodwell is often injured and Jonas is such a hard worker and good at supporting the defence aswell as having that incredible ability of running into 2/3 opposition players and either coming out the other side with the ball or getting a free-kick afteer drawing a foul.
Ice yeah but I don’t think we need a 1st 11 striker just a backup one that can score more than Best and Shola
I meant 1st teamers really. 
Oh and I think Cabaye missed a chance there for not saying sorry for that but then maybe thats to stop other focusing on it.
I would take Jellyman any day for our team ,cracking striker imo ,but I wouldn’t swap him for Cisse though.
The only toon player to get in the everton team is cisse . Coz u had a lucky season doesn’t mean your better than us we finish top 7 every year u will prob end up in bottom half of the league next season . We over achieve every season that’s all I ever hear but with 8 top 7 finishes in the last 10 seasons I would say u carnt overachieve for that long
Dave ,it would be nice if he could buy the lad a kit and boots to make amends . He may well do that in private like . I think it was a moment of madness as he doesn’t strike me as a bad sort really .
DAVE ime sorry i dont agree you say get defence sorted pardew said hes bringing in a c/h,that means 4/c/h,imo we need a good striker in not as back up but someone whos going to push ba and cisse and fill in while they are away at anc which could be up to two months before there ready to get to speed in p.l.we cannot go that long without a good front man
yup have to go with Ice on that one.
Ferkin ACon is a pain in the ass. But we must have a contingency plan this yr.
Ice @85 Spot on there.
@83 are you a Mackem in disguise ? sound like a bitter Mackem to me. Most evertonians got more class than that what you have written there.
Very disappointing finish but I guess we’re getting used to that. There also seems to be the matter of a lack of fighting spirit…I’m not sure what it is. We’ve salvaged the odd draw here and then, but still never come from a goal down to win under Pardew….Its a testament that we see so many games out once taking the lead for sure, but we still seem to lack that belief that we can turn a game around, we usually end up playing worse as the game goes on.
Luckily today we had a real game changer-Marveux, who I thought was superb after being out of action for so long, fair play to him. Couple more changes and a bit of teamwork and maybe we can become as jammy as Manure and nick wins in half our matches when we don’t deserve it
TOON – The league does not lie mate. Newcastle are better than Everton. Fact. If you want to go on past seasons, we can perhaps compare how many times each side has competed in the Champion’s League or European football over the last 15 years? Pointless talking about the past. It’s irrelevant and has no bearing on how good a team currently is.
That said, Everton in my mind are a very good side thanks to David Moyes. If he had a bit of cash your boys would be u there with us pushing the top 4. Cash in on Rodwell and a couple of astute signings will see Everton on the up… Similar to us with Carroll…
BB/KIMTOON of coarse your right its a no brainer,just sometimes dave nods off
out of the team that beat us today I’d only take Jelavic, the rest we have better or will buy better. Everton don’t look like scoring without Jelavic..
Aye Ice, we defo need a decent striker as backup, rightback and a decent centerhalf + keep the big players
Toon @ 83 your right about people saying you’s overachieved but you made a muppet of yourself when you said Cisse is the only player to get into your team
and they say Geordies are deluded 
Ice I think the chances of us bringing in a striker to challenge the BA’s is as much as Batty giving you £100 a week payrise, it just won’t happen, if we can allow Willo to cover as a main CB for several months then we will allow Shola and Best to cover for the Acon. we will need a RB aswell as a CB
WHOA,Real Madrid does an outstanding Large-Scale Celebration.
If you look at Everton befor Jelavic they couldn’t really buy a goal , now he’s come in and started bagging a few the confidence has spread through the team and they all fancy their chances scoring !. you can have all the top players in the world but confidence is a very precious commodity ,without it you are sunk.
DAVE we will have to agree to dis-agree,by the way best is leaveing its all left to good old shola
KIMTOON you got it in one
Dave @92-Though I agree with ice that we need a decent forward I also feel you are right in that they won’t blow the budget on anyone . If we lose Best and obviously Peter plus Smith off the wage bill you would hope for someone pretty decent to come in up front though.
Ice @ 95 well we have to be grateful for small mercies because if Best goes they will have to replace him, so we have a chance of getting a striker that can score
Kim and Ice if we keep the Ba’s there is more chance of Colo getting a baldy than us getting a striker that would compete with them 2, IMO it just wont happen the sameway Batty wouldn’t give Ice a payrise
@Mark – so did I imagine us hitting the post today? Was that not Osman?
Once again try watching the game, or see past your own team before judging the opposition. ‘No one looks like scoring’ yet we won 3-1 (1 goal by Jelavic) makes your statement look patantly ridiculous.
Dave do you not think Ba will go then . I reckon he’s a gonner and probs Tiote too ,just got a horrid feeling Mike will cash in now we aint got CL spot.
Kim – when has mashley ever cashed in on player sales?
Think you’ll find he still hasn’t taken a penny out of the club yet.
If stupid over the top offers come in, then surely he would be doing the club a disservice not to atleast consider the positives of such a deal.
maybe.
KIMTOON i agree they wil both go even if we had C.L, they would have gone imo,jabba will cash in somewhere to bring players in,and we get nowt from ba so!
MB
Think he’s suggesting that Jelavic has inspired confidence in the team, and he’s usually involved with the goals scored.
Kim I have believed we would lose Ba from the interview he done stating his desire to play for PSG, but I was making the point that if we did keep him
Anyhoo, just been looking at the Fantasy football thing that Toonsy started up. Dont recognise 90% of them peeps like.
Not bad for my first attempt, but not as bad as Liam southern Toon @190 and Toonsy @186 
How did yous do ?
I finished 45th
Better luck next season.
Ice
Don’t worry, when Ba goes Carr has a junior Messi that nobody’s noticed yet lined up for Xisco and a packet of crisps
@106
can’t even remember if I did that
Completely agree that we need somebody to kick the lads up the arse when we are down, really frustrating to watch a team that aren’t trying (wigan 1st half most notably) but all in all great season. And cabaye did make a right knob of himself today
I think Demba Ba is the most likely to leave, but not sure who would come in for Tiote. Surely he would only go to a CL team, so maybe manure
Haha
had colo and baines in defence 
had cabaye, tiote and valencia in midfield 
But I was also playing G.Johnson and T.Bramble 
, maxi rodriguez 
and Suarez and Sturridge 
I also had Bale, Paddy Kenny, Luiz and Odemwingie in the subs 
I finished 161st, Some of my pre-season choices were brilliant some not-so…
Had hart in goal
We will not cash in on Ba or Tiote.
Ba is on contract until 2014 but has a buy out clause . Nufc trying to come to financial agreement with Ba to remove that clause.
Tiote is on contract until 2017.
If either player leaves this Summer it will be with the player demanding a transfer and not Nufc cashing in .
BB
They probably need him the most, as their CM is pretty shit, but with the Chelsea clear-out in the summer they’ll probaby make a 20-25m bid to replace obi mikel and essien(both are realllllly shit).
I take it you just forgot about it after a while then?
sidekick
wouldn’t put it past demba to ask to leave
BB ,the point I was trying to make is we were more likely to hang on to said players if we could offer CL football .Now its clear we can’t if a silly offer for Tiote lands on mikes desk he aint gonna say no to it . Did I say he’d taken money out the club ?. If we get silly money then we can hopefully get 3 or 4 in to replace 1 or 2 we sell , that’s cashing in ,in my book much like we did with Carroll .
well thats fair nuff then. If a player wants away so much that he submits a transfer request, then good luck to him. But ashley cant sell players unless they want to go too.
If ashley gonna cash in it will be for a lot. He did turn down 30m for carroll at first
Liverpool offered Carroll £80k per week and Nufc refused to match it.
Carroll put in a transfer request cos he had a lot more loyalty to the money than Nufc.
New season starts 18th Aug. I’m guessing pre season about a month or so before that. Transfer window opens 1st July, so only 6 and a bit weeks to get through.
Anyone for cricket
thats what i keep saying its all down to money,club want the money,or player wants more money,way of the world sad but true
BB I would rather watch paint dry
I have to agree with Dave and MB, Cabayes actions today were a disgrace. It’s not the first time we’ve seen his hot headedness this season, but theres a huge difference between kicking out at an opponent and pushing a kid!!
The ref did take action so FA couldn’t punish him but could reprimand him, but the club could take action. However, I would much sooner see Cabaye take his own action, by contacting the childs family to apologies properly.
I don’t believe Cabaye is a bad man who goes round beating kids up for fun, but he should be given the chance to do the right thing.
As for the game, we were very poor and Spurs and Arsenal handled the pressure better for me.
But we have had a brilliant season overall, just pray we keep hold of the spine of our team and build on.
Just done an article for 1st time in ages. Look out for it lads and lasses! Toonsy has beena bloody workhorse of late. Good on him, especially with the new arrival. I got a new little’un too and a new house to boot so time is a precious commodity these days.
Proud of the Toon this season. Bit rough around the edges, but not half bad for relegation fodder eh?!
not too fussed about losing ba, he doesnt quite work on the left i think marvaux would be a better shout there, with regards to tiote if we get 20 million for him i will be well pleased as long as we get marvin martin and corgnet, definatly need a centre half as well, i have respect for williamson but he just isnt goof enough if we are to finish in the top 5 next year.
Shamrock -congrats on the new arrival and nice to see you back on .
Beardsleys Boots.. We do have the euros to look forward to..
Big Dave you got Cabeye spot on! I was situated right behind the ball boy when Yohan pushed him which Stunned me, it was bang out of order. He did on the half time whistle come over and shake the lads hand and hug him.
As for the game we played really well and rode are luck at times with lady luck on are side. I thought you Magpies done really well this season exceeding expectations with fine play at times. Oh and best of all we are above the red shite.
Good luck next season NUFC.
Blueshoe
May 13, 2012 at 22:26
”Oh and best of all we are above the red shite.”
Haha and long may it continue mate!
Kimtoon cheers, been keeping an eye on things with the occasional comment. It’s a nice bunch we have on this site and good to be back in the saddle, albeit not as regularly as before…
Sorry, nut if anyone saw Cabaye again you would see he just snatched the ball and didn’t push the lad at all.
Now it’s still obviously not the dine thing, but it aint as bad as some are making out and he was straight over at half time to make up to the lad.
Mersey Blue & Blueshoe you’re both being very magnanimous in regards Cabaye’s over-reaction to the young kid’s apparent cheeky delay in returning the ball. I suspect Cabaye feels pretty sh*t about it now but unfortunately what’s done is done, I only hope the usual suspects in the press & TV don’t blow this all out of proportion as I think Cabaye is a really good player and a decent bloke and hasn’t shown any of the usual chav characteristics normally seen in the likes of Barton, Rooney, Terry etc and more of the Cabaye types of players are welcome in the game in my opinion!
Toonsy, is the new avatar some sort of political statement by any chance? Or is because you are working on the Continent at the mo?
I think its a celebration that the Toon is back in Europe
Haha, I’m a dumbass! Cheers BB
Shamrock – Both. Work and NUFC
Mind you, it’s hard work. Odd hours. Went to bed at 17:30, up again now
So is it just me that still sees Blakey as Toonsy’s avatar?
Hmm. Bet you feel like you are in the twilight zone. Hate shift work wih a passion, but at least I usually get 10 hours between each duty. Plus driving can be monotonous, which can make it even harder…
All well with the little one mate?
No Richie. I’m convinced that’s what Toonsy looks like!
Shamrock….congrats on the young un.
Shamrock….but I still have Toonsy’s avatar as Blakey, it ain’t changed!
Cheers mate. She’s a little cracker. I’m a lucky bloke. Her brother is well impressed!
Oh that’s weird. Can’t explain that mate. Its the EU flag now…. Normally gravatar will update his avatar a few minutes after he changes it, so not sure whay it would appear any different to you? It’s a mystery…
Rich – Clear your cache and cookies. You don’t usually have a problem doing that like
Shamrock – The boy is fine mate. Not great working away like but it has to be done I guess. Just so much that I’m missing out on
I seen someone the other day commenting on the change of avatar, but I just thought they were taking the piss wi some sort of warped humour, still Blakey for me, anyone out there got any ideas?
Me last post before bed! Some scousers do have jobs to get up for.
Just to say thanks to all the NUFC fans at goodison today for their support for the little evertonian Maddie who was taken whilst on holiday
Missed, but not forgotten.
Haha. Internet is a man’s best friend eh Toonsy, especially in the weeks after your missus has given birth?!
Toonsy….I’ll try it again but did it the other day when your avatar change was mentioned…..cookies mmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Rich – Stop dribbling over the keyboard
Strange case that Maddie. Fear we will never know the truth. Really sad… But bluenose, knicking drain covers at 4am does not count as having a job! Hehe.
Toonsy, putting food on your boy’s table and keeping a roof over his head is ensuring his future mate. He’ll tell you how much he apprecates it one day and it will all be worth it
Toonsy…no didn’t work, wor lass will it sort it tomorrow…..fecking technology.
Shamrock – It’s doing more than that mate
I’m on 39k a year now for doing this so it’s paying for holidays and all sorts of other stuff 
The main reason though is so the Mrs can go part time rather than put the kid in nursery all the time.
Yeah we tried nursery with our boy and gave it up. He used to cry once he realised where he was going. Bloody horrible and we put a stop to it pretty sharpish.
I think it makes for a far happier family unit when the nippers have a parent at hand most days. Wehave certainly not looked back since the wife went part time and the shift work actually facilitates that…
Is Rodzilla still posting these days? Quite miss his late night rants on night shifts!
Sham – Aye all the time. He’s still on it
Good stuff. Back to work soon so shall be tuning in to the Rodzilla show! Right I’ll say goodnight. Good work recently by the way Toonsy. A few of us novice writers have been absent but the stories still come flying out!
Cheers Shamrock.You, a novice? Hardly…
Have a goodun mate
Hope the shift is not too hard on you buddy. Take it easy
Luckily the spotlight was well and trully off us and thank god for that! We needed Cisse to score with that chance at the end of the first half to stand ANY chance and he missed. Can’t help but feel we only had that 4 minutes of pressure because they completely took their foot off the gas and thought half time was secure, yet we couldn’t punish them. Before that we looked totally like a poor away side with them controling the play and the chances in probably the second worst 45minutes we have seen all season (after Wigan). In the second half we mixed it up and played better but it was all too late. It needed to be an effort like that from the start. Hay ho, this season has had countless positives but by got there are areas for improvement in terms of set plays and away performances. Sometimes away from home it is neccessary to just keep the ball and stop the opposition for 5 minutes until their heads drop a bit; rather than rushing it up and giving it straight back. I don’t think Pardew and Carver realise this.
Hats are in next year.
In fact, I’ve just bought a container off a dodgy Scania fleet. 20 thoosind seer storkaz. Proppa Borbry like.
…10 pund a pop.
See ye doon the markit
*deea storkaz
…sorry, me and my non-footballing comments
I reckon Matthew Etherington could play Lead Timpani in Star Wars.
Great Season!
Finished 5th, Manager of the Season, Goal of the Season and Colo in team of the Season!
See Barton has been taking to Twitter to give a foul mouth rant about Shearer.
That tw*t has no dignity!
…porsnli a like Joey Barton, never met him like, very possibly a cunt, but the lad wears his heart on his sleeve. May well be a twat, but aal take a gamble on him not being. He’s a Ronnie. Barker.
European Football is fucking great anyway.
Apparently the inspiration for the logo was Marge Simpson’s arse in a Baywatch swimming costume in The Simpsons, Episode 3, Series7.
aye, reet, one more anyaroot
…..am fukinapi enyway
5TH
Ladies and Gentlemen, please enjoy your stay, we are now floating in space
Bless this chap:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOi_wxypeGc
oodeman
probli bollocks osumik
nee wurries
fucking dickheads
COME ON THEN
…YE WANT YE GO!? 
AL FKN AV YEE LIKE
God is love
parintli
..porsnli a reckon a could deck God like
nee sweat
Av chinned God before man.
Bring it on.
Fagoddit
Shamrock fair play lad think am talkin about the past coz of the red shite that’s all they talk about about !! But the past does matter coz we won 9 leagues 5 fa cups europeon cup winners cup wat have u won???? or do we just forget about that coz it’s in the past ! Small club big ground !
…may you never lay bed down in the cold
if it wasn’t for the om riff-raff
sorry, I’m dead, step over me.
wankers anyway
Steve Hillage
____OR_______
Keith Chegwin
(you decide
)
bollocks then
Great season like. A few things to be pointed out in the game though. Demba costed us a few good opportunities where he opted to shoot from distance rather than pass the ball to a player in a better position. This shows how desperate he is to score, and this is only gonna cost us with this over-selfish play. I still remember how Demba Ba was great in the first half of the season and probably is one of the main reasons we’re in the top 5, but we can’t really afford to put Ba’s personal agenda in front of the welfare of the team. Secondly, our defence was horrible again and its the main reason why we can’t finish in the top four. Williamson is a good player, but never top four material. Santon and Perch had an off-day too, which contributed to our demise. Lastly, our set-plays are horrible, and I hope Pards will do something about it next season. P/s: Marveaux showed really good touches and movement with the ball. His whipping crosses will be an asset to us next season. Can’t wait to see him regularly!
Rodz @ 185 Steve hillage anyday. Om namah shivya
As to the season this time last year we were pleased, however I was bemoaning our inconsistancy. I wanted a dozen more points on that basis alone. We made mistakes this year and yet still we are nearly 20pts better off. Next year we will be better and hopefully have learnt from mistakes. However I expect more competiotion from Chelsea and the Merseyside clubs so I’m again celebrating, this time looking forward to the window, and hoping to do even better next year.
Have to say can’t believe we’ve appealed Cahill’s card!!! WTF??? He deserved it for reacting and being a prick.
Bizzare decision by EFC.
Provocation or not, if you place your hands on another player it’s a red card.
The Toon are back in the top half of the table, something their fans deserve. Good luck in Europe – get the Redshite in the final and tw*t them 5-0 please.
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