Always Wolves
Always Wolves
Check out our thoughts for BBC Sport this week on incoming manager Rob Edwards
History is brutal here. It has been about 75 years since a team survived in the top flight with just two points after 11 games. That said, there are still 27 games and 81 points to play for. Survival is not gone, many are already writing Wolves off but miracles can happen.
The truth is the owners and club leadership put us in this mess. Year after year, we sold our best players and failed to replace them properly. The club is in managed decline and Jeff Shi has spun the roulette wheel too many times.
There has been no honest acknowledgement from the top that a series of catastrophic decisions has left us staring at the Championship after only 11 games. Fans deserve better.
Rob Edwards should not shoulder that blame if he eventually falls short. He is one of our own, a Shropshire lad who played 111 times for Wolves and coached in our academy. He wants this job more than anyone who has come and gone in recent years.
The squad is depleted, the fans feel alienated, and managers have not been properly backed. He will inherit chaos.
If we limp on like this, we could threaten Derby’s lowest points record and even the fewest goals scored in a Premier League season, which stands at 20. That is how stark it is.
But there is still a path: restore belief and intensity, pick a settled core, get Joao Gomes central to everything, give Matheus Mane and Tolu Arokodare real minutes, and add two or three quality starters in January. The owners must prove they still care and that they have real ambition.
Edwards deserves and will get our full backing to the end. He did not create the crisis, but he will face it head on.
If belief returns in the stands and identity returns on the pitch, there is still time to make this fight real.
If not, the failure will belong to the boardroom, not the dugout.
Survival is not gone, many are already writing Wolves off but miracles can happen.