Can't say as I'll be protesting myself, but I don't agree it's 'small time'; and if others want to express their frustrations through protest, more power to them.
But I find your take on where we're at right now extraordinarily relaxed and I'm not sure if it's deliberately that way as a counterbalance to what you see as an overreaction by others, or whether you genuinely are that calm. If it's the latter, I struggle to see what you're seeing that I'm missing.
I'm not sure, for example, that we really have 'improved in a couple of areas', at least, not in net terms. Yes, we've added Kudus and he looks like he's going to shine for us. But it's a bit like repairing garden fences during a storm; we can repair one and claim a 'win', meanwhile others are being uprooted and we have fewer fence panels than ever before.
The Europa Cup win has, I think, muddied our thinking about where we're really at. It's too easy to see our 17th place in the league as an aberration having won the EC, but the truth is, our league form has, for a season and a half been woeful, and the 'saving ourselves for the cup' argument really doesn't wash. The teams we have been competing against at the top end of the table for the past decade have all pushed on and it's hard to make any sort of argument that we have done anything to close that gap.
We have a relatively poor record when it comes to conducting business in the transfer window. Yes, we spend (some might argue not enough, but we do spend), but we do not make consistently good decisions, and our guiding principles seem to be opportunism over need. Whilst I do take your point that we can only really judge the situation once the window has ended and we've seen how the team performs in competition, it feels like a recycled promise of 'jam tomorrow' that is destined to be repeated in January and again next summer.
Jam tomorrow can work as a message if you're recent performances can be framed in the context of a glitch; when it's a pattern, it rings hollow.
