It feels like one step forward then two steps back again with Everton this season.
In one moment, there's fantastic wins on the road and talk of Europe. In the next home game, Everton manage to capitulate within eight minutes.
With only three wins since the opener in August at Hill Dickinson stadium, home form - to put it plainly - is a real issue. Worryingly, it feels like a psychological block is developing among both players and fans.
Realistically, what's happening to Everton is exactly what they're doing to other teams on the road.
Fulham should have been at least three goals up at half-time. Though deserved, taking a point in the 97th minute at Brighton involves a lot of luck.
Everton have been punished at home - brutally and quickly.
As soon as the other team score, there's a real feel of trepidation across the fans and the players.
Scoring first is becoming critical. Once the other side beds in, Everton really struggle to turn things around.
The pitch is five metres longer than Goodison Park, and David Moyes has persisted with James Tarkowski and Michael Keane at centre-half this season.
They don't have the pace Jarrad Branthwaite and Jake O'Brien do, and statistics prove Everton perform better when either is not being shoehorned in at left or right-back.
The stadium has also been made deliberately steep to create an intimidating atmosphere, but it seems to be providing the advantage to the away fans once they get their noses in front.
The place is beginning to feel fragile.
Though home form at Goodison Park was not up to much in the past few years, it doesn't feel like it ever earned that label because of the history and success of the years behind it.
Until it starts to feel really like Goodison once did - intense, hostile and unmistakably ours - progression will lack real consistency.