"We want to take momentum into next season," said Rob Edwards at his news conference on Thursday, not for the first time. "Momentum" is a word Edwards uses a lot – four times alone in that exchange with the media, the transcript reveals.
Anyone looking from a distance at a side anchored to the bottom of the Premier League table for six months might think this an odd choice of buzzword. Even after memorable wins in their past two league games, placing a bet on Wolves to stay up still feels akin to buying a lottery ticket.
Moreover, even though they have demonstrated that they can, at the very least, remain organised and harder to beat, the squad that starts next season may well look very different to the current line-up.
Wolves have stated that there is no pressure to sell players at a discount, but the widespread expectation is that some of the main characters in the squad will not be keen to stay for the Championship. What relevance will any momentum in the current team have to the one that starts next term?
Edwards explains that he is talking about momentum within the whole club, not just the playing squad.
"There will be change in the playing squad. As a football club, we need to try to remember again how to win games and try to make the whole place feel a bit lighter and brighter, which I think has been happening more recently.
"We need to try to lift the cloud and find that winning formula again – internally, but also outside as well. There's a lot we can learn from. I've got real experience of that as well. We don't want to take any negativity wherever we're going."
That all sounds fine, but it depends on rather more than just Edwards' determination to think positively. He believes the club now has the ingredients required, the culture and the people, to carry that momentum through.
"It was difficult coming in. But I do feel now that across the board, and outwardly as well with the supporters, there's a different energy around. I feel like there's more people with smiles on faces again, and I can see them really getting behind the team and behind the players, which is the most important thing.
"If the players continue to work as hard as they are, and show that they're going to fight to the end for the football club, then we'll have everyone onside and that's really important."
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