At Christmas, Rob Edwards is hoping Morgan Gibbs-White will be Wolves’ pantomime villain.
England international Gibbs-White returns to Molineux with Nottingham Forest on Wednesday.
Gibbs-White has received abuse from Wolves fans since his 2022 move to the City Ground but responded to score in Forest’s 3-0 win at Molineux last season.
Edwards is looking for any edge and, if Wolves fans turn on Gibbs-White again, Edwards hopes it would galvanise Molineux as they look for a first Premier League win of the season.
“I get it. We’ll take it, we’ll take anything we can,” he smiled, having given Gibbs-White his Under-18s debut at Wolves while a youth coach.
“But we need to do our job. If we do our job well, then the crowd will be with us and that’s the bit we can try and concentrate on.
“If we we can build on what we saw on Sunday then I’m pretty sure the crowd will be with us.”
Wolves are nine points from the safety line as they search for their first top flight win since April.
Edwards has overseen improved performances in his two games, despite defeats to Crystal Palace and Aston Villa, but they remain winless in their 13 top flight games.
“We owe it to ourselves and to everyone connected to the football club to leave it all out there and give everything every day, no matter what situation we’re in,” he said.
“That is always my message from minute one to 98 or whatever it is. We leave it all out there whether we’re 2-0 up or 2-0 down. We have to keep fighting right until the end. We’ve shown that so far in the two games and we’ve just got to continue to do that.
“We’ve got to keep that belief.”
