Dave Edwards: Rob Edwards must improve confidence levels in Wolves squad

You might be able to change one or two between games, depending on who you're playing, if you're away from home or if you're at home, but not wholesale changes every game, not changing systems every game, which is what it became under Vitor Pereira.

Edwards is going to have to find a system which suits the players he's got at his disposal, at least until January and he can recruit again, and then find your key players in that system and try to get to a position where there's not so many changes week in, week out.

That in turn will help another area which he needs to improve and that's the confidence of the players. If your position is not in jeopardy every single week and you know that you're going to have a potential run in the team, I think confidence will improve. 

But there's no doubt with the form that this Wolves team have been in, the players' confidence will be at an all-time low.

Edwards has to bring some energy, some happiness and some enthusiasm into that group to try and improve the confidence. I always say that as a football player, your ability doesn't change in a week, but the only thing which changes you from being a nine out of 10 to a three out of 10 is what's going on in between your ears. 

That's how you see the game and ultimately it's the confidence which allows you to play a little bit more instinctively, not overthink every single pass, not be worried about making mistakes.

That's what Rob Edwards is going to have to try and instil in these players as quickly as possible. 

He needs to find a way to really connect this team with the fan base. I don't think it's completely fractured at all because I do think the players are very committed in that dressing room, but Edwards has to set up in a way to compete and get the fans completely on board.

It's the manner in which they do that. Even if they're losing games, if they're doing it with full effort, lots of heart, then it will still be exciting for the fans.

They haven't really had that this year so Rob's got to try and find a way to galvanise the players and the fans together.

It's a lot easier to do that if you're scoring goals and that's a big issue. I know we need to keep more clean sheets and be more defensively solid, but we need to look like we can score more goals as well. 

Whether it's using the strikers' physicality, like he did at Luton with Carlton Morris and Elijah Adebayo, or if he can get some creativity, ingenuity and star quality into the team, which has been completely absent since Matheus Cunha and Rayan Ait-Nouri left the football club.

Will it be Jhon Arias that comes to the fore? Or Fer Lopez coming into the team and adding a little bit of guile? It'll be interesting to see which direction Rob goes in. Is it using that width and the crossing ability of Hugo Bueno and the pace we have with Jackson Tchatchoua down the right-hand side, or combinations of all the wing-backs we have to get more crosses into the box and flood the box with players? It'll be interesting to see. 

I also think he needs to see leaders come out of the group.

It's not necessarily who's going to be the captain on matchday, but he's going to need a team of leaders. When Pereira came to the club, there was a lot going on, on and off the pitch with the leadership group and fighting after games, but he changed things quite quickly.

A captain doesn't necessarily have to change, but Edwards is going to have to find some leaders in that group to set the example of what it means to play for Wolves, to represent the city and to play in the Premier League, because that's what all players aspire to be. 

Wolves are in a perilous position of losing that and it's about making the players understand that the Premier League is the place you want to be at this football club.

There's no given right that you're going to move on from Wolves. So to give it your absolute best shot in the remaining 27 games they have to stay in this league.