There is no way to gloss over this, it was probably our worst performance at home since that awful defeat at home to Leicester City and without the heroics of Arron Ramsdale, the result could have been just as bad as it was on that dark day.
It is hard to find a good thing to say about this game, once again we started the game with 2 full backs in our central back three, a midfield that was lightweight in terms of the power and strength that Brighton had in that area and 3 men up front.
It was an attacking line up, but if you do that you have to have some strong and fast defenders with a couple of good holding midfielders and we didn't have that.
The loss of Jan Bednarek after only 12 minutes was a blow and Ivan Juric had only two options to replace him, the first Jack Stephens who has managed just 12 minutes in the last 3 months due to injury and the second Armel Bella-Kotchap who aside from 26 minutes at Cardiff in the Carabao cup back in August has not played a game all season, indeed this cameo in Cardiff aside he has not played a first team game of any sort in over a year and that in itself was a 1 minute appearance off the bench, his last meaningful appearance was his 19 months ago at the start of his loan at PSV Eindhoven.
So this was never going to be the ideal situation for him to make an appearance.
The blunt truth is the manager appears to have lost the plot, Brighton are a big strong powerful side who move the ball around quickly and run at you, his answer was a weak back line with no real cover in front of it.
We are never going to outscore sides, so we have to adapt our tactics to suit, a strong back four with two sitting midfielders in front, stop the opposition from overpowering us and then we can try and impose ourselves.
Time and time again Brighton just ran through the midfield and then found themselves through on goal with our 3 defenders unable to organise themselves to deal with them, 4-0 flattered us, without Arron Ramsdale it could have been double figures.
But did Juric make any changes tactically ? No.
We were lucky to get into the break only 1-0 down, which at least gave us some hope, Sugawara coming on for Welington at half time was never going to shore things up and that proved to be the case and when Brighton got a second on 56 minutes you knew the game was up.
There was one glimmer of hope, but Archer was ruled offside after a decent finish.
When Brighton got a 3rd there was no doubting that we were now a shambles, a good manager would make tactical changes, accept the game was done and dusted and concentrate on keeping the score down, but not Juric.
Will Smallbone came on for Big Les Ugochukwu, he should of come on alongside him. another who should have been brought on was Flynn Downes, get a solid cnetral midfield to protect the back three.
What was the point of keeping 3 attacking players on, Cameron Archer went off and was replaced by Tall Paul, he never got a kick, he is only effective if you can get the ball to him in the Penalty area and even then most Premier League defenders can deal with him easily.
So where do we go next, we have a new Director of Football in Johann Spors, he must have seen what we have all seen, this season is now only about one thing and that is getting 3 points that will not make us the worst Premier League team of all time.
Russell Martin had to go, but he was a good organiser and at times we were hard to beat, the problem was that Martin demanded the possession football game and it was costing us more points than it should have.
But Ivan Juric does not appear to have any organisational or tactical talents, he promised Death Metal football and we are getting that, but Death Metal is not subtle it is music with a sledgehammer with little subtlety, it does not change tempo and have slow numbers or a bit of a string section or horns, not even keyboards, as Lawrie McMenemy once said a good team has to have a balance of violinists and hod carriers, Juric has fashioned a team of hod carriers.
There is absolutely no point in continuing to employ Ivan Juric now, he surely isn't going to be here next season, his style is not only not succeeding in terms of results, it is also counter productive with many players in our squad who could have been vital to the cause next season already alienated by the manager.
We would be better served by sacking him and replacing him with a caretaker manager, perhaps Simon Rusk with Adam Lallana. That would make sense as Lallana did something similar a couple of years ago for Brighton when Graham Potter left.
Another saying in life is that if you keep doing the same things you get the same results, Russell Martin found that out and we now Ivan Juric may be employing different tactics, they are not working.
It needs new man Spors to show he has his finger on the pulse, get rid of Juric and you change the attitude within and around the club and then we can prepare properly for next season as unlike the other two clubs who will join us in relegation, we can start our plans now knowing exactly where we are going to be.
Also show the Southampton supporters who have had little to cheer about this season, that the club now has someone at the helm taking charge and we are not just drifting as we appear to have done since Jason Wilcox left a year ago.