It was easy to get behind the compelling script of the fans meeting the bus and the fireworks outside the hotel and the blue flares and the dog being carried around, etc.
Now this is the hard part, the unglamorous part. The incremental improvement, the dropped points, the step back for every two or three steps forward, the awkwardness of bedding in new players and trying unfamiliar formations, the losing streaks.
This is when FL most needs backing, from ownership, board, players, fans. It doesn't put FL beyond criticism but it means that he gets a lot of leeway. He earned it when we stayed up, and stability is critical, we can't afford to turn it over yet again.
I think most Everton fans get that.