 your own words to put in. What about the performance? I know you always try and measure performance and what you see rather than the results in terms of points, but obviously you're still on this, you're in this long windless run despite picking up some points. Has it ever been difficult to keep that faith that performances will ultimately yield the points you need? Of course you can't, we know that, but that's to be something reliable, a way of operating and measuring what's going on. And with all the challenges and all the noise and all the different things that have gone out of Falklub since I got it and before I got it, the finance and all the likes of things, we want to have a benchmark and a kind of baseline, if you like, of what we judge. And there has to be something in there, it can't just be about winning or losing, there has to be a point where you go right, OK, where are we at with the actual performance levels? And I spoke the other night about it, I don't think we've been as far as everyone thinks, you know, the winning bit does change, it changes the viewpoint, of course it does. You know, we all do it, and an average performance when you win becomes a very, very good performance, a very good performance when you lose becomes an average performance, that's just the way football is, that's the way that people view football. Our job and our professional side of it is to look beyond that, our job is to measure it and the best we can. Stats, facts, analysis and your eyes and your feel, you know, me and my staff have got thousands of games between us. But I can assure you and everyone else, there's no naivety to it, we're not just going, oh well we played well again. Of course not, you take an ugly, horrible win, and sometimes you need that, sometimes we might need that again. You know, but ideally you do it by design, ideally you do it by the team, delivering, playing well, forcing results through their quality of performance, that's the ideal world. But now and again you have to measure it by different things, and if it's three wins on the trot and their ugly hardfought wins, then you take it. But over a season's work and over years of playing in the game, usually when you're doing things right, you're playing well, that's what brings results and that's what you want as a coach, manager, the staff, etc. And the players, of course. You mentioned the control of balls and then also the noise, can I ask you about the noise? Have you had any word yet on the rolling, the latest PSI rolling? Nope, I made it clear the last time it just came when it came, so that's all I know at the moment on that one. It feels like the Premier League wants to wait almost until after this weekend, it's such a huge game. Would you prefer if a decision's been made to know right now ahead of the Burnley game, or is it right that we wait until this potentially huge game in the relegation fight is played out? Well, from the last time, I don't know what their thoughts on that were. We just got it when we got it. Whether they look at it differently, I don't know. So we'll have to wait and see with that, but the focus is beyond that anyway. We've had one knock, we know that, we've got a little bit back. Who knows what comes next, because we weren't expecting the first one, how it transpired. So we'll have to wait and see. You know, we have to keep on the realities and the current realities, where we are on the table. We've got a good point from the second half performance, sorry, against Newcastle. There's a much more positive feel to the group. That'll be our focus going into the next game. Just finish on the next game then. We're in at Burnley. It was your last one in the Premier League. It was a very dominant performance. I just wonder how do you see them right now? They've had their own upturned inform, are they perhaps a slightly more difficult or a different proposition going into this weekend? No, I don't see them as much different in the sense they're giving their all. They've got a usefulness, they've got energy about them, they have some quality. They've spent a lot of money on players to try and build on what they achieved last season in the championship. Obviously it's been a tough season, not just for them. It's been a tough season for us and many others, because the Premier League is tough. Their challenge is what it is. It's nothing to do with me now. I'm completely focused on what we do here. I'd like to think that's obvious. I always respect Burnley if a global wise will do, but the fact is when the whistle blows there'll be no respect then. We've got to look after ourselves and we've got to deliver a performance that can beat them. Hi Sean. There was a clip that's gone viral of an Argentine commentator bursting into song after Dominic scored the penalty. Where would that match with your celebrations on the touch-line internally? Well, I think I just went well done, so I'd say it's considerably different. I didn't know about that. That's maybe for someone else to answer to. I don't do much social media. It's gone very popular amongst the Everton fans. I might be hearing it. I hope you're shouting for that goal. I hope you're shouting a lot more. If you're shouting a lot more, that means we're scoring a lot more goals. You mentioned it a little bit there, but you said you don't mind previously how the goals come about. It's just getting it over the line and having something to build on it. Is that the same feeling after Tuesday? The point was similar. You take goals, you've got to find goals. Everyone wants to score perfect goals and beautiful goals and lovely goals. Of course, but what about ugly goals? We don't set pieces, which we're in pretty strong ones to be fair over the season. How many different ways can you operate to find goals and to force goals? We're forced a lot of chances, but we haven't always forced the finish. We'll take goals however they can come at the moment. You always would. But again, you want to design them if you can, but the other night we got them from Penalty. We should have had Penalty the week before. We didn't get it. We get this one and he puts it away. Whatever the way they come, we've got to make sure that we get them. Speaking about doing it by design, is the design and focus now trying to find a way to find the back of the net through open play? That's always the design, because set pieces don't really be on their valid, but they hopefully support the facts of your general play for obvious reasons. Start some facts and the difference between scoring open play and scoring set piece goals. I think we've created enough to score goals. Finding them final moments has been the question mark all season. It remains so at the minute. Working hard in both boxes, which we certainly did the other night at Newcastle. We've got to continue that thought process. Reminded the players before the game at Newcastle. It was a strange game. It didn't seem two minutes ago and we were winning four on the trot and we were scoring three clean sheets. Then it just as if by magic you're on a tough run and everyone's making a noise about it. That's football. That's life in football. Correcting that is the key. Very strong signs at Newcastle the other night of correcting that. We've got to continue with that thought process and that performance level. Beat burning last time but with less possession, fewer passes, fewer shots. Do you anticipate that they'll be different this time round? The stats suggest they've been going back to front quicker. More of a different kind of twist in the shape as well. We'll see. We'll see. My knowledge is pretty good of the stats and facts of the Premier League and what brings winning football. I'm not corrected it so far in this run but I think I've got a depth of knowledge that suggests when we do things right and we play the way that I think we should be playing. Then we can correct that so that's what we're looking to do. Thanks Alan. We'll go to Michael. Sean, the home form played a massive part in Everton's survival after you took over in January of last season. It was the same the season before. It hasn't happened to the same extent this season. Do you think the players at times are struggling to cope with the added expectation? I would hope not. The fortress that it can become, the feel in the stadium, the noise from the funds is tremendous at times. I think we've had too many get away from us this season rather than given away. Early season I thought we were performing as well as what I've seen us perform in my time here but couldn't win a game because we weren't taking our chances. We've got to keep the performance levels high particularly when we're playing at home because I think the fans help with that. Balancing out Everton Football Club in the bigger picture when I got it it was the waveform everyone was saying it had been terrible for years. We've corrected that and then they said the home form has been terrible. Balancing that up is always a work in progress. That's for sure since I've been at the club. It seems there was a lot of noise one way or the other behind that as well last couple of seasons. Definitely I think everyone would have appreciated away from home our performance changed and we've done pretty well with that. At home we kind of lost our way early season but not because of performance levels I didn't personally feel because we couldn't score the goals that needed to win a game. So I think correcting that but no I think there's an energy about playing at home. There certainly should be. I think there is with the team, there is with the fans. Absolutely always full of admiration for the fans here because they support, they do. They travel in numbers all over the place and they go to the home games in numbers. So it's our job and our responsibility to give them what they want and that's winning football. There was an energy and a purpose to Everton at Newcastle particularly in the second half and particularly after the triple substitution. Can the players use that and coaching staff as a reference point and a blueprint for what's coming in the next few games? Well, I think there's the Lazer midfield and Arnie and them are on use as well on Ramadan as well so we've got to weigh up that and make sure they've got as much energy as they can whilst respecting their faith of course. That often offers the idea of change and freshness. We felt that was necessary three in a week as well and I think we've got some very good players in the squad. I've said that ever since I've been here. Ondrae's getting fitter and sharper. He's only really been a fitness issue with Ondrae. He's been so unlucky with sort of niggly calf injuries that have cost him but he's looking stronger and fitter all the time. Jimmy gets a wrestling knife, came on and delivered a very strong performance as well. You know, new sense of young and he's learning but he came on and worked for the team. You know, these are people that are being effective. Young he played really well. You know, these are all ways that the team can operate. So if we need to make changes we will do. We've still got a very competitive group at the full-back positions now that Shay's fit as well. I mean, Shay played three in a week so we have to be careful with that one. That's obvious. So there's certainly nothing wrong with the competitive nature of the group. We've got injuries back as well. More or less, Arnie's on the grass with us. He's not quite fit yet but he's on the grass with us. Amadou's had a few knocks so he is tomorrow. Dobbo's making good progress now. So, you know, there is a look of the group that it's very competitive. We've got to pick the ones that are competitive on a matchday that win games and that's our job. You spoke about performance before and obviously results are what everybody sort of takes their views from. In terms of trying to give the players self-confidence and to boost those confidence levels, how difficult is that when the results aren't going your way? It's the nature of their careers. You know, at the end of the day, you don't start a career in football just by being naturally mega confident. You build it, you know, and you build it in pre-season. Everyone has a break in pre-season, whatever it may be, six, seven weeks or whatever. You come back in when there's no automatic switch that says, right, you're naturally confident. It comes from confidence in a thing. It comes from resilience. It comes from knowledge. It comes from know-how. It comes from your professionalism. And we don't like any of that. So the group should be confident but it's more the freedom that comes from confidence. You know, when you're confident, you feel like you can make them decisions quicker. You feel like you're flowing. You feel like you're moving into shape quicker. All the nuances of the game, all the anticipation of the game, when you're confident it just seems to come a bit quicker and a bit more at ease. You know, and that's, we're trying to work with the players to get them in that kind of thought process rather than that little bit of tightness that comes, you know. And, you know, the other night was a good example. You know, first of it, because look with it, just that bit of tightness and that little edge. And then second of, look freer and more open and players making more free. I can't really describe it, but more zone thinking as they call it. You know, the psychologist called it, more zone thinking where you just play it. You're just playing freely. You're making good decisions. You're moving around the pitch freely. You're anticipating the game freely. And that's the area. That's the zone you want our players in. And we're working very hard and they are as well to get in that zone and get in that good place. And I thought second of was a very strong sign of that. And look back to previous times when we were winning games. It looked like there was a bit of freedom there. And effective, as you rightly said, plays affecting it who started and plays affecting it coming from the bench, because it is a squad mentality that we've been trying to build here. Yeah, I think. I mean, as recent, you know, recent weeks even, you know, we, it was a soft one at Bournemouth without being particularly poor, but it was soft. I thought we were very good at Monday Night. I thought we were very good against West End. They're very good performances. You score there, then, types of performances. You score a goal and you win them games. And everyone thinks that you're back on blob and everyone's playing terrifically. And they were a good sort of measure of how that works. You've got to go and repeat. You've got to get back to their performance levels and then turn the screw. You've got to score goals. You've got to score, as I was saying, it's basic form. You're scoring that and then stop it in that end. You'll never change. You know, they're the basic principles. So getting back to that is the key. And I think, as we were suggesting in the second half, you'd add that feel is, you know, that's hard to explain for people who, you know, look at these press conferences. The feel of years are being informed. I've been there all my life. You can sense and feel when it's right and all the players were the same. You know, afterwards, some of the key players and the older players, they know on the pitch and they were suggesting after this, that's when we're right. That feeling, that's when we're right. That sense on the pitch. Re-creating and finding consistency in that feeling. Of course, that's the next step of that. You know, you can't rely on a half of football. You've got to take it forwards. And that's what we're looking to do. Thanks, Mike. Any further questions in the open section? George. Excuse me. Yeah, he's a very assured footballer. That's for sure. And his ability and his knowledgeable footballer and a very good pro. And he's been very unfortunate. You know, I made it clear to him because obviously I've been an odd sort of period for him when he wasn't sure whether he's staying or going. I made it clear as long as he's here, every part of what I want to do and what we want to play and how we want to play. Excuse me. Keeping him fit has been a challenge and he's been very frustrated by that. And then once he's been fit, kind of pushing hard enough to get him truly fit, whilst not breaking him, of course, that's been important. And I think he's going now. I spoke to him just last week about wanting to get him more minutes, wanting to get him playing, possibly starting as well. And he feels good about himself. He said, yeah, I feel like I'm in a good place. So that's another player who we think can be very effective because he's a very good player.