[Getty Images]Nick Mashiter - Football reporterThu, November 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM UTC·1 min readFormer Wolves midfielder Dave Edwards expects new head coach Rob Edwards to "galvanise" the stricken side.
Winless after 12 games in the Premier League, Wolves are propping up the table, eight points adrift of 19th-placed Burnley.
AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAfter losing his first game in charge against Crystal Palace last Saturday, Edwards takes his side to Aston Villa this weekend before hosting Nottingham Forest on Wednesday, 3 December.
Dave Edwards made 307 appearances for Wolves, including playing under the new manager - the club's fifth in four years - when he took caretaker charge of two games in 2016, and believes he will make an impact.
"He'll be able to galvanise the football club from within," he said. Once you start to do that, and then get the players on board as well, that will naturally then feed outside of the building at Compton and Molineux and towards the fanbase.
"One of his first jobs is to lift the confidence because, with the start they've had, it'll be on the floor.
AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement"He ticks so many boxes for what the fans want and need."
New boss Edwards left Middlesbrough second in the Championship to take over a relegation battle at Molineux that already looks lost, and there is concern about the lack of Premier League know-how within their squad.
"A lot of the players they've brought in haven't got that," Dave Edwards said.
"In the past, it's worked. We brought players in with a reputation in Europe or South America and they came in and did well - but they came into a team which already had that Premier League experience, whereas it has been wholesale changes this year."
