Rob Edwards on his Wolves start and developing style of play
Rob Edwards believes he found a club that had 'forgotten' how to compete when he took the Wolves job.
The head coach replaced Vitor Pereira and found Wolves bottom of the Premier League table on just two points from 11 games.
Edwards lost his first seven in charge and Wolves are likely to be relegated, despite some improvement in recent months.
When quizzed on not finding a new manager bounce when he arrived, Edwards said: "Unfortunately, it didn't (happen). With hindsight, looking back at where we were at, it wasn't going to be.
"We all wanted it. I wanted to be able to come in and just straight away pick up and get results.
"But the bottom line is, as a club, we had forgotten how to do that.
"People had forgotten how hard it is and how hard you've got to work to win a point in the Premier League, never mind three.
"We'd maybe come away from a few things and it was probably understandable, natural, because of a lack of confidence and momentum had gone completely the other way.
"Then there's a change and we had to try and implement some change ourselves as well. It took a while."
Edwards has found a way to get more results of late, but has tinkered with his system and personnel to find the right formula.
He openly admits Wolves are not playing in his preferred style, but are instead playing pragmatically to get results, although they are showing the 'fighting spirit' he likes.
"In terms of the characteristics that we're showing, it's more my team," Edwards added.
"I'm not necessarily playing the way that I want to be able to play, but when you're fighting at the bottom of the league, it's very difficult to play exactly the way that you want to be able to do it all the time.
"But we're certainly showing a fighting spirit. We're showing a lot of the characteristics that I want my teams to show. Right to the end, we're still going, we always want to try and get the last goal in the game.
"We're 3-0 down in the cup, but we still get the last goal. It's important to try and keep fighting and keep going to the very end.
"We're certainly working a hell of a lot harder, we're in more games, we're competing more, we're showing more fight.
"Off the back of that, then you get better quality.
"Those things are there, but we've got to realise why they're there and keep our levels and our standards every day, which the lads are doing."
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