Rob Edwards - the prodigal son returns

[Del Woppio]

These pricks aren't even the main man at their own Sunday dinners imo

 

[prawnking]

"We've got to be living like a winner" - Wolves boss sends clear message to struggling side

Rob Edwards has urged his players to improve on and off the pitch and live every day 'like a winner' if they want to survive this season.

www.expressandstar.com

What a load of cheesy bollocks

 

[Lupo]

What a load of cheesy bollocks

Live like a winner - new Sudu tagline for 2026!

Reminds me of the shaving ads that Christian Vieri stars in in Italy, his catchphrase is 'Shave like a BOM-BERRR'!

 

[Derby Wolf]

How it started 2013

"If you have no personal pride you don't care how you play on a Saturday - you will stop and have a cheeseburger and chips when you feel like one but if you have pride that you won't play well if you eat it, you don't eat it. And you won't stop by the pub and drink 3 pints if you're worried about how you'll play in 4 days, you'll go home"

How it's going 2025

Live like a winner

 

[Mel Evo]

What a load of cheesy bollocks

Has he been on a bro retreat? FFS

 

[basher]

Don't forget that we paid £3-4 million to get him from 'Boro for this David Brent bollocks!

 

[Aikiwolf]

Next week's tagline " we've got to train like footballers"

 

[prawnking]

He can possibly improve their fitness and attitude (both sorely needed), but the fact that most of them aren't good enough ability-wise to play in this league is harder to solve

 

[sycophantia]

He can possibly improve their fitness and attitude (both sorely needed), but the fact that most of them aren't good enough ability-wise to play in this league is harder to solve

Id agree with that but they were decent Sunday and then an abysmal attitude last night which is extremely worrying.

 

[prawnking]

Wonder how the 'dream job' is going for him?

 

[Mel Evo]

I don’t share the sentiment of ‘I feel sorry for him’ that suggests he has no agency. Or that suggests he’d be a good manager given the right tools. Or this weird notion that he’s a returning great who simply can’t escape his destiny to manage us. I just think he sounds like a massive downgrade to another mediocre British manager. And his halftime interventions were something observant Boro fans were questioning before any link to Wolves / benefit of hindsight stuff.

But I do feel a bit sorry for him on a human level. He looked pretty rough when interviewed after the game. The main question remains though - can he or anyone really oversee this for 6 months and stay in role? Impossible to see it getting better.

 

[sycophantia]

I don’t share the sentiment of ‘I feel sorry for him’ that suggests he has no agency. Or that suggests he’d be a good manager given the right tools. Or this weird notion that he’s a returning great who simply can’t escape his destiny to manage us. I just think he sounds like a massive downgrade to another mediocre British manager. And his halftime interventions were something observant Boro fans were questioning before any link to Wolves / benefit of hindsight stuff.

But I do feel a bit sorry for him on a human level. He looked pretty rough when interviewed after the game. The main question remains though - can he or anyone really oversee this for 6 months and stay in role? Impossible to see it getting better.

Yeah as I said last night, I like the guy but he was the wrong appointment. He's a fool for leaving Boro and coming here at this stage of his carreer.

 

[prawnking]

He's a limited manager working at a level he's out of his depth at, same goes for our players, same goes for our technical director.

Shi would be out of his depth duty managing a garden centre

 

[Langers]

I still maintain that NO coach could keep this squad in the Premier League. This squad is absolutely rotten from top to bottom.

However, a respectable coach should at least be able to get them playing with a bit of pride and professionalism. That's obviously not going to be enough to win games, but where on earth is the pride in the shirt? Earn your wages FFS - there is nothing there at all, they don't want to be there and they know that they won't be there much longer.

I was never going to expect miracles from Edwards and I still think it's too early to make a proper judgement when things are so catastrophically wrong across all levels of the club, but why do we still set up the same way and invite teams onto us, whilst showing no idea or intention of trying to attack? It doesn't work, and as soon as it inevitably goes tits up, these players just sulk and hide.

Is he doing a good job? No. I'd have expected at least some sort of improvement in attitude by now. But by god he's got an incredibly difficult job on his hands here. You wouldn't expect a master craftsman to produce a work of art if all the wood he had to work with was infested with woodworm.

No point in sacking him because no-one else would be stupid enough to come here. The club is an absolute basket case.

 

[sycophantia]

I still maintain that NO coach could keep this squad in the Premier League. This squad is absolutely rotten from top to bottom.

However, a respectable coach should at least be able to get them playing with a bit of pride and professionalism. That's obviously not going to be enough to win games, but where on earth is the pride in the shirt? Earn your wages FFS - there is nothing there at all, they don't want to be there and they know that they won't be there much longer.

I was never going to expect miracles from Edwards and I still think it's too early to make a proper judgement when things are so catastrophically wrong across all levels of the club, but why do we still set up the same way and invite teams onto us, whilst showing no idea or intention of trying to attack? It doesn't work, and as soon as it inevitably goes tits up, these players just sulk and hide.

Is he doing a good job? No. I'd have expected at least some sort of improvement in attitude by now. But by god he's got an incredibly difficult job on his hands here. You wouldn't expect a master craftsman to produce a work of art if all the wood he had to work with was infested with woodworm.

No point in sacking him because no-one else would be stupid enough to come here. The club is an absolute basket case.

I think there were a couple of passages last night where we looked like we were giving 100% and fighting for the shirt but it never lasted and just petered out after the 3rd goal.

 

[Loki]

At least he seemed to work out Hwang and Munetsi weren`t fit for first team football pretty quickly. Now he`s worked out that we have no one much better to replace them. Perhaps he`ll work out that five at the back isn`t the answer. I`ll grant him a bit of leeway.

 

[Langers]

I think there were a couple of passages last night where we looked like we were giving 100% and fighting for the shirt but it never lasted and just petered out after the 3rd goal.

This is what we've become - the highlight of a new coach's era being 'a couple of passages'.

Showing desire and working hard for Wolves is the absolute base minimum requirement. I don't accept any of these dull soundbites from any of the players (or Edwards actually) that they're trying. Because they're not.

 

[Wolfe]

Leave now Rob, beyond a joke now.

 

[prawnking]

What any manager would need to do with this rabble is to work out a way of making them competitive, i.e. be able to pick up points in at least some scenarios.

Edwards has failed to look remotely like doing this so far, we're playing a defensive formation with three CHs and two DMs, no pace on the counter and still no offensive plan apart from Vitor's 'cross to the mutants' at every opportunity. It's the worst of both worlds.

It's only points that count, the football is crap whatever we do.

 

[Del Woppio]

Agreed. And given the lack of pace, skill and creativity, the only way is a mutant 442, long ball shitfest.

GK
Yerson - Agba - Kercji - Toti
........<.Joao - Andre >
...........Arias - Munetsi
...........JSL - Tolu