There was a post on the Grand Old Team forum earlier this week which sums up the ‘cycle’ Everton fans now follow seemingly every year. The first stage of the cyclical nature of being a Toffees supporter is optimism, to give the board time to make changes and transfers.
After a while, that becomes ‘get behind the players’ while the window is still open, then becomes ‘get the manager out’ after poor results see Everton slump to the bottom of the table. The process continues with ‘back the new manager’ and ‘what good will protesting do?