Dave Edwards: Wolves out for revenge with league record as the prize

But Dave Edwards insists that's Wolves' motivating force as they bid to become the best third-tier team in history at a carnival-like Molineux tomorrow.

Carlisle, along with Coventry, are the only teams Kenny Jackett's League One champions haven't beaten this season.

Way back on Bonfire Night, the Cumbrians produced a stirring second-half comeback at Brunton Park to claim a 2-2 draw after Wolves threatened to blow them away in the first half-hour.

But the eventual outcome was more to do with an alarming tail-off in the performance of the visitors than anything else as Wolves had led 2-0 and threatened several more goals, sparking a reaction as close to anger as we have seen from the mild-mannered Jackett afterwards.

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Things have changed massively since, with Wolves gaining juggernaut-like momentum since January and reeling off 16 wins and three draws in their last 20 games to take the title and a string of club records and Graham Kavanagh's side falling away to be left needing snookers to stay up tomorrow.

But that feeling of not achieving what they should have on that freezing night up the M6 still rankles with the players.

"We said before the Coventry game that we'd beaten every team in the division apart from them and Carlisle," said Edwards, who was an unused substitute that night in Carlisle.

"Unfortunately we didn't beat Coventry but we feel like we owe Carlisle one.

"That will be our main aim – to get the win so we've broken another record.

"That would be great to go into the summer with and to look forward to next season.

"We want to give the fans something to be optimistic about going into next season and to do it in style with the style of football we've been playing.

"There will be a full house and hopefully we can defend a bit better and still score some goals."

The trophy is waiting to be lifted after the game and another 30,000 crowd is expected, with home areas sold out for several days and Carlisle fans snapping up around 1,200 of their 1,700 allocation in the Stan Cullis Stand quadrant.

With that going on, it might be easy to become distracted and the game become a sideshow.

Not so, insists Edwards, who is carrying Jackett's mantra that they need to match the occasion with an appropriate performance as they seek the victory which would smash Charlton's League One points record of 101.

"I really don't think it will be hard to focus – I think the boys will really be on it," said the Wales international.

"Personally I'll be preparing right for it and hopefully I get the chance to play because it will be a great occasion to play in.

"We need to give it our all because we're desperate to get the points record."

Carlisle's fate is out of their hands as they need to win at Molineux and require Preston to win at Crewe and Tranmere to be beaten at home by Bradford to stay up.

But Edwards believes that faint hope they retain means there will be a competitive edge to the game.

"They're scrapping down there for their lives so hopefully that will make a match of it," said the nine-goal midfielder.

"Hopefully that plays into our hands a little bit."