Mike Taylor
BBC Radio WM reporter
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Who would take a job like this? Outside Wolves and their supporters, at least, it seems most people have written the Molineux side's chances of survival off already.
A few of the Wolves fans calling BBC Radio WM over the past couple of weeks have railed against this sense of defeatism, and that is the spirit Rob Edwards will need to have with him to ensure that, within the club at least, heads stay up.
There will be some goodwill towards him from supporters as he is a former Wolves player, and more positive energy from within the club from his early coaching career there, even if only Matt Doherty among the players will remember him.
Those good vibes will help.
Elsewhere, much of the discussion around Edwards this week has mused on why he would have left a good job at a club that might go up to take this one. Family and personal connections may well explain that.
The idea is also in circulation that Edwards has been recruited as a good candidate to lead Wolves to a rebound promotion next season if they do drop, therefore making the next few months a kind of 'free hit' for him.
That does sound logical.
You can imagine the club thinking this way and meaning it, even though it would not be reasonable to expect them to say so, for fear of sounding like they had given up on this season.
But not all relegations are the same.
If Edwards makes Wolves competitive, addresses some of the clear problems, and they still go down with, say, 33 points, that plan sounds fine.
And if not? No doubt, Wolves will have appointed Edwards with the intention of him being their coach for the long term - just as they envisaged for both Gary O'Neil and Vitor Pereira.
Sacking and replacing a manager is a traumatic process for a club, and often an expensive one, best avoided unless absolutely necessary.
Still, with so much of the season left, it should not be taken for granted that any new coach would be judged to have clean hands if Wolves are relegated in a heap, even if many of the causes of failure predate his arrival.
It might not be fair or sensible if it comes to it, but when emotions are high and a scapegoat is deemed necessary, as we have seen, it is invariably the same one.
Being a Premier League head coach is never a free hit.
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