Liam Keen comment: It is time to restore some pride in Wolverhampton Wanderers!

This great club - one of the most historic in English football - is in dire straits and they have turned to Rob Edwards as Vitor Pereira's successor.

There is a general acceptance outside of the club that Wolves will be relegated this season, having amassed just two points from 11 matches and you would have to go back to the end of April for their last Premier League win.

Edwards will be arriving believing he can turn it around. The club will also be hoping for that same impact while also appreciating the reality of their current plight.

The new boss has two real priorities to focus on - the first of which is restoring pride in this great club.

The lack of structure and leadership from the top has been criticised and analysed a lot of late, but putting that to one side for the moment, Edwards must appeal to the hearts and minds of the Wolves fans.

As a former player, academy coach and interim head coach, the 42-year-old knows Wolves inside-out. This is his club and he is now the manager of it.

He is aware of the importance of the fans, understands the size of the club and the anger from the terraces. As a Telford-born man himself, he knows what clubs like Wolves mean to the local area.

Edwards has to harness that. The supporters are powerful and when working with you, they are a real force.

There is seemingly no chance of the fans and hierarchy patching things up, but if Edwards can connect them with the players again then he will be moving in the right direction.

From a footballing perspective there are lots of reasons why Edwards should not have swapped Middlesbrough for Wolves - and also plenty of reasons why he should have done. Listening to the heart, however, and it is a no brainer for him.

There has been a lot of pearl clutching in the national media regarding Edwards' decision to leave Boro so soon after arriving, but the head coach and Wolves will hardly care if he can make a success of it.

But what will a success look like? That leads us on to Edwards' other priority.

To restore some of that pride, he must make sure that fans arrive at matches with excited anticipation rather than dread and that will largely be driven by performances and results.

No-one is expecting Edwards to come in and win his first five games in charge, but we all must see green shoots of recovery sooner rather than later.

To put it simply, Wolves need to be competitive again at the very least. If the basics are improved, mistakes are stamped out and Wolves show some signs of a dangerous attack, then they do have some talented players in that group.

That should lead to performances improving and some points on the board. Ensuring that Wolves fight and make a fist of it for the rest of the season ensures Edwards will maintain support from the majority of the fans, and likely the board, if the worst does happen and the club is relegated.

If he is unable to improve the team and they wilt against every future opponent, it will probably end in an ugly manner as it has for his predecessors.

Although it would be unprecedented for Wolves to stay up now - no club has done it with two points from 11 games in the Premier League - it is not impossible.

We are still in November and Edwards and his players must approach it as a realistic target.

The reality is that it would take a miracle to survive now, but stranger things have happened. Edwards would certainly be a hero in Wolverhampton if he achieves it.

If he does not achieve it, but the team give it a good go and restore some pride, he is also best placed to help Wolves bounce back at the first attempt.

Edwards is now back home, but it is now down to him to make it a long-term project and not a terrible mistake.