Gary O'Neil is in greater danger than at any time in his Wolves reign and Saturday’s clash with Southampton looks pivotal for his long-term future at Molineux.
The Wolves board have remained supportive of O’Neil, who signed a new four-year deal in the summer.
Yet they are bottom of the table having failed to win any of their opening 10 games and have won only one of their last 20. Not many managers survive such a dreadful sequence of form, when the cost of relegation is so great.
Fans started to turn on O’Neil during the second half when he made a triple substitution, soon after Trevoh Chalobah had put a depleted Crystal Palace side in front, with the South Bank chanting ‘You don’t know what you’re doing’.