Wolves supply meets Dave Edwards' demands

Edwards scored his sixth in his last nine games in Saturday's 1-1 draw away to Coventry, while his best-ever tally has come from just 21 starts in an injury-interrupted season.

The Wales international bundled home substitute Bakary Sako's superb cross after a trademark late run into the box.

And the 28-year-old midfielder is grateful for his colleagues for the opportunities they are creating.

"I just thank the players around me because they make it easy to play with," said Edwards.

"Having those players around me helps so much – Sako spotted my run and put it in a great cross.

"I was lucky enough to get on the end of it but it's been like that since I came back into the team in March time.

"It was one of those games where I was on the outskirts all the way through and wasn't really getting into it so it was nice to get that one chance and put it away."

Edwards also thanked the fans after a best-ever away campaign that has seen Wolves win 14, draw six and lose just three times on their travels, where they have been backed by sell-out followings at virtually every ground.

Wolves supporters numbered almost half the attendance at Saturday's game at Sixfields – 2,170 in a gate of 4,585 - where Coventry have played their home games this season after being forced to leave the Ricoh Arena.

"Thanks to all the fans who travelled – they've been brilliant all season," said Edwards.

"We really wanted the three points for them because they cheer us on and deserve it.

"With Coventry not having many fans it was great to see so many of ours and sell out again and create an atmosphere, otherwise it might have been hard to get going."

But it was a poor game to watch, not helped by a bobbly pitch and a strong wind which led to a change of tactics from Wolves.

"I'm not trying to make excuses but it was a really difficult game because of the wind and the pitch and we weren't able to play our usual game of getting the ball down and playing it out from the back," admitted Edwards.

"If we'd tried to do that it would have been suicidal and we'd have been caught in midfield so we had to play the conditions and we tried to get the ball out wide.

"I don't think we got the crosses in the box in the first half which is a shame because we were never going to be able to play through them on that pitch.

"So at half-time the manager asked us to get it wide and get balls in the box.

"I thought we did that in the second half and we got our rewards for it.

Edwards added: "We knew how they played and we've seen them enough.

"The manager is the sort who wants them to press the opposition and I thought they did that quite well.

"At times we were trying to play a little bit too much but we knew they were going to press us.

"We knew if we strung a couple of passes together we'd get out of trouble but we couldn't quite do it so we needed that change of gameplan."