They called it a "must win" situation at the Stadium Of Shite on Saturday against relegation strugglers Crystal Palace ... and guess what?
They didn't win.
On the face of it, the Mackems passed up a glorious opportunity to ease their Barclays Premier League relegation fears but they squandered a series of chances to claim three precious points.
Elsewhere, Newcastle didn't help their cause by going down at Fulham.
What a bugger!
Gus Poyet: "That's the way, and now we need to make this point be a good one by going and winning three at Norwich or winning three at Liverpool or wherever it is because, if not, it's going to be like two points dropped.
"I remember at the end of December everybody was saying, 'If you can nick something from Everton and beat Cardiff...'.
"And then it was the other way around and the four points were there somehow, suffering one way and coming back encouraged the other way, because it's like that.
"It's going to be tight, it's going to be a goal, and we need to make sure we don't give that goal away, we don't give any mistakes, any presents to anyone, and we tried our best to do that.
"The future will tell if we are good enough to stay up or not."
So what about "the future"?
We asked Gypsy Rose Lee (from the Town Moor Hoppings) to predict the outcome.
For a fiver, a bag of crisps and a Mars Bar, she gave us the answer: "They are f***ed!"