Familiarity breeds contempt. Wolves have roughly the same bunch of players that they have had for the last two seasons, yet they are performing worse. They are too comfortable. The football club needs a manager to come in and shake things up.

The players were delighted with the appointment of Terry Connor. They came out and said what a great bloke he is and how happy they are that he got the job. They like him as a person, but don’t respect him as a manager. This is what began to happen under Mick McCarthy and has continued even quicker under Connor. The entire team are not scrapping for their places any more, they are far too settled.

Have you ever heard the Arsenal players say what a great bloke Arsene Wenger is? The Manchester United players say what a great bloke Sir Alex Ferguson is? No. They say what a great manager he is and how much they respect him, but not how much they like him.

The last few weeks behind the scenes at Molineux have been similarly as embarrassing as the recent performances on the pitch.

The routine dismissal of Mick McCarthy developed in to somewhat of a managerial carousel, where anyone with any sort of prowess as a football manager was contacted and offered the job – one which they politely refused.

Ironically, it seemed the only man genuinely interested in the vacancy was Steve Bruce. He brought forth his very own dossier, full of his ambitions for Wolverhampton Wanderers. Poor Brucie was the only man not to get offered the job. Even a public approach for Brian McDermott was launched; he wasn’t going to get fooled in to taking it, so he swiftly steered clear by signing a contract extension at Reading.

Keeping business and pleasure separate is a frequently coined phrase and the same meaning can be applied to business and football. It simply isn’t compatible.

While yes, Wolves are one of the few football clubs that run as a successful business – a successful business rarely, if ever, produces a successful football team.

The absence of true football smarts was evident in the departure of Mick McCarthy. The timing was wrong.

For some time, Steve Morgan had made it clear that he was unhappy with the results and he even made the point of bursting in to the team dressing room during one of the games.

On that issue – fair enough Mr Morgan, you pay the wages, so you deserve to have contact with the players – but it simply isn’t right to undermine the manager in that way.

The real time to sack McCarthy passed Morgan by like a ship in the night. A new man needed to be brought in before the transfer window closed, to grant him the opportunity to add his own style of player to a team bereft of quality.

Mick’s firing was a knee-jerk reaction. The 5-1 defeat to West Brom ended his tenure, but in truth, what was the point in sacking him at that moment?

Martin O’Neill sat unemployed for months. There’s little doubt that he’s one of the elite managers around, as he has proved already in his short spell at Sunderland – he can transform football clubs.

Instead, relegation is now not just a live possibility – but Wolves’ most likely destiny.

Terry Connor cannot be faulted for his desire and his effort – but let’s get real. He hasn’t got any experience and it’s fairly obvious that he’s out of his depth. He has been a loyal servant to Wolves for around 13 years as a coach but a coach is probably his ceiling.

Tactically, it doesn’t take the most trained eye to notice that Wolves cannot perform the fundamental skills needed to be competitive.

Defensively, they are a team in tatters. Watch them play and note the number of shots they allow the opposition to fire from outside the box and the number of crosses they let come in. The whole defence back-off and back-off resulting in opposing players not actually having to do anything to go past them.

Would Wolves benefit from being relegated? Well it would provide them with a chance to re-build the squad and to potentially rejuvenate the club with a new manager.

Relegation would be a disaster for the fans; but relegation seems to be what the board have accepted a long way from the end of the season. Currently, an empty, unfinished concrete mountain sits where the top tier is meant to be.

Development has been ceased on the ground and it appears the board seems resigned to the fact that the development of the team has also ceased for the time being.

Roll out your prayer mats and start contacting the power above, because as it is, Wolves need a miracle to stay up this season.