Brighton 2 Wolves 0 - Match analysis and pictures

Whether it's time up too for any of Steve Morgan, Jez Moxey and Dean Saunders at Wolves, no one knows yet.

Yet surely never has a Molineux chairman been so poorly advised, never has a chief executive been so frustrated and never has a manager's thinking appeared so muddled.

Right now there are thousands of loyal punters who would pay to drive them all away from the club, so deep is the pain.

Wolves are in a terrible mess from the very top downwards, with no easy solution in sight to this dizzying decline.

Morgan's decisions have been so bad that there can be no guarantee the end of this sad spiral is in sight while he remains in office. And they appear so flawed they have severely compromised the faith, trust and belief in him from the supporters who now hold him up to ridicule.

Then there are the players.

For a pain-free and healthier environment in which Wolves can flourish, surely the club has to cut the ties with so many of those under-achieving 'stars' that have lost their way in a sea of defeats. That is the only way in which the club can begin its rehabilitation and start on a path of recovery.

Because never has a Wolves team been so out of touch with its fanbase.

While some of the lavishly indulged players were already planning their sun-drenched break on Saturday evening – most of them having performed their first dummy all afternoon by slinking out of a side door to dodge the media – the people who pay their wages were in tears and drowning their sorrows, many still in disbelief at the 'double-dip' relegation.

And just to add salt to the wound, there was no grandstand finish or battling finale to answer their manager's call to go out with pride.

No, this crushing blow came with a whimper of a performance by the terribly sick patient that is Wolverhampton Wanderers.

A week after going with a direct style against Burnley, Saunders tried to get them to out-football Brighton – arguably the best passing team at this level. It was shades of the same muddled thinking that saw him pull Bjorn Sigurdarson to the wing when they were in the ascendancy at Barnsley back in February after which they dropped into the relegation zone for the first time.

And although Bakary Sako grazed the outside of the post with a trademark left-foot thunderbolt after three minutes, there was never any threat of deviating from script once Kazenga Lua Lua rifled the Seagulls in front two minutes later.

Wolves have defended catastrophically for several years so there was a certain inevitability about Brighton's second goal when Lua Lua lashed home left-footed having left Matt Doherty for dead.

Stephen Hunt's half-time arrival for the unfit Sako at least ensured a rise in tempo from the opposition. And his presence saw shots blocked from Kevin Doyle and Tongo Doumbia, while he had an effort charged down himself.

But sadly, on one of the blackest days in Wolves' history, there was no dignified exit for this deeply disturbed club. There are no two more toxic figures associated with the decline than Jamie O'Hara and Roger Johnson.

And once Wolves fans were convinced O'Hara had given up the ghost after they thought he had taken too long ambling back into position and he responded by appearing to sarcastically put his thumb up, an atmosphere which was a strange mix of carnival and funereal turned angry.

The £5m midfielder was booed every time he touched the ball, and even Brighton supporters joined in, singing 'You stupid b******s, you've let your fans down'.

The home support even turned on Johnson after he lumped a cross hopelessly out of play. When the final whistle sounded, O'Hara, his head clearly 'gone', turned his back on the fans and was first off the pitch.

Johnson stayed on to applaud the supporters, but even then hinted at being out of touch with the mood of the moment after looking bemused when no one wanted his shirt as a souvenir.

George Elokobi, making his comeback after seven months out, appeared to at least meet with the mood by leaving the field in tears.

But there can be no more scenes like this. It has to be the end.

Tim Nash