It was good to see the lads getting among the goals against Plymouth in midweek and it’s worth just going through a few of the main characters in the story of the game – including a certain Spaniard.
So, in no particular order…
Ante Crnac
The feeling that you get as a centre forward when you when hear that sound of that ball rippling the back of the net, it's hard to explain. If you could bottle it up and sell it you'd be a multi-billionaire.
For him personally it was great. It was a good finish, good movement, good run and he has made good enough contact. Hopefully he can go on a scoring run now.
I played with Steve Claridge and Steve could go seven, eight, nine games without scoring, but then he'd get one and then he'd go on a spurt of scoring in the next six or seven. He was that type of centre forward. Hopefully, for Crnac, especially with this busy period, this can be sort of a kick-start to him bagging a few more goals.
He’s a young lad who came here for big money and it can be difficult. It was hard for me when I left Huddersfield to go to Leicester. I was 25. It's hard settling in another dressing room even when you're from that country.
When I moved from Leicester to Wolves, it wasn’t easy. When I moved from Wolves to Norwich, I didn't really know anybody in the dressing room. It wasn't easy. It's like going to a new school.
You’ve got to make eye contact with people, you have to make brand new friendships. And there might be people in there you've annoyed in the past playing against, you might have to build bridges with certain players, especially myself.
Crnac's coming into a brand new environment, brand new culture, a young boy who has new things in his life. Where does he live, what part of the city? Does he want to live on the outskirts or close to the city centre? He’ll have needed help sorting so many things.
It isn’t easy for the most experienced player, who has lived his life and played his whole career in the English Football League, let alone a young lad who has got a lot of expectation on his shoulders because of the price tag. So I was delighted to see him score – yes, he has been hit and miss from what I've seen. I saw him at Cardiff and he never really made an impression on me.
I think he's probably been better when he started on the right-hand side, he has made more of an impact coming in from that side. Obviously with Josh being injured, he's been asked to play more of an attacking centre forward role, which at times I think he's struggled with – but delighted for him to get that goal.
Shane Duffy
The defender is also on two goals. I think he's a lucky man. I think he's got a lot to thank the club for after his drink driving incident.
There's a lot of clubs after what happened would have ripped this contract up, and the club would have been well within their rights to do that.
He embarrassed not just himself, but he embarrassed the football club as well and that's not a good place to be, especially when the club are looking to cut their costs. It would have been an easy out for the football club, but he's got his head down and hopefully he’s sorted out his off-the-field problems.
He's probably playing as well now as any time in his career. Probably as importantly, he's scoring goals. The one he scored at Preston was a magnificent goal, the one against Plymouth was perhaps what you would call more of a Shane Duffy goal.
But I look at Plymouth, I look at their goalkeeper - I think it's a bad sign anyway when a goalkeeper wears tights, I really do!
The ball landed three yards from his goal line. When Duffy heads the ball, he's actually over his goal line. But Duffy should have scored in the first half - he had a great chance, probably an easier chance in front of the River End from about two yards out and he ballooned over the bar.
But it's so important that people chip in with goals from all over the pitch, especially now because one of your main men is out.
Kenny McLean
I've said it many times, you don't realise what someone gives you until he's not there and then you see there's a massive hole to fill in that midfield.
I think he probably gets criticised because maybe he makes more mistakes than the other players, but there's a reason for that - he gets more of the ball than any other player.
When you are getting as many touches and when you're as involved as Kenny is, he's not going to complete a pass every time. He is going to make mistakes. But he has got a lovely left foot and a good engine – and he can look after himself.
We talk about players who have not been available - Josh Sargent, Angus… I think in that engine room he is just as important.
Borja Sainz
When the Spaniard got his second, I sent a mate of mine a text saying, ‘he could be gone in January’.
Fourteen goals in 17 starts – he's the Mo Salah of the Championship. When you're talking numbers, he’s producing big time at the minute this season. I know he didn't do it last season, but it was his first season in a different culture, a different football club.
He's putting up the sort of numbers now that Mo Salah has done on a consistent basis for Liverpool from a similar position.
Has he got Premier League quality? I think he has. I've made the comparison so many times with Emi Buendia - I think his best tally was 15 in the second title winning season. Sainz has got great movement and he's got a bit of pace about him.
The third goal against Plymouth was a typical Sainz goal. He drifts inside, the defender is not close enough, he hasn't forced him to go down the line.
He's shown him too much, which a lot of them do, and once he's cut inside, there was no other outcome. There was only one place that ball was going to go – to the left of the goalkeeper.
I think if someone offers stupid money he might go - at the minute I wouldn't accept anything less than £30 million for him. If someone offers £30m, £35m, £40m then I think the club would have to sell.
Let's be realistic, if the club have any chance of going up this year you’ve got to keep him at least until the end of this season. They did it with Emi Buendia – the club said, ‘just give us another 12 months, help us get promoted back to the Premier League and then we’ll sell you’.
Give us to the summer and if we get promoted, we’ll rip your contract up and give you a brand new deal which you'll be happy with. Have a year in the Premier League with us, see how things go - if we get relegated, we'll sell you. These are all private conversations they will have.
What I would say to Norwich fans is: enjoy every second of him while he's here, because I get the feeling he's not going to be here for long.
There's nothing they can do about it, it's the nature of the beast. The fans know that Norwich are a selling club – the majority of the teams in the Championship are selling clubs.
You have got to balance the books now and there are some players on big wages down at Carrow Road. I'm not saying that would be a reason to sell him, but I think Norwich fans, as gutted as they would be to see him move on, especially in January, I think there's an acceptancy now that if they have got a super talent, which he is, then sadly, bigger clubs come knocking on the door.
Point taken
When you go to a team like West Brom, one of the favourites, at least to finish in the top six, who've had a decent start - yes they've come a bit unstuck in recent weeks with the amount of draws they've had - they're a good sign at home.
They’d only conceded one, and that was to Middlesbrough. So for Norwich to go there and be the only team to score two, with all the problems that Johannes Hoff Thorup has got in forward areas, I thought was a really, really good point.
It's just a shame they couldn’t hold on to a lead – they’d have a few more points had they kept what they had from winning positions, especially early doors in the season.
They were in good situations in games and then conceding sloppy goals to lose a couple of points. But to go to The Hawthorns and come back with a point I thought was a job well done.
West Brom was the hardest of a five-game run that could be favourable to Norwich.
It’s Luton this weekend and it will be nice for Tim Krul to be back at Carrow Road – although probably not playing – and Carlton Morris, who is a threat, a real handful.
They're quite physical. Rob Edwards isn't this type of head coach who tries to force a certain style of play on his team. He looks at their strengths, he looks at how he can affect the opposition and he plans for that.
They're quite direct and when you've got Elijah Adebayo and Morris up front, why wouldn’t you be a little bit physical?
Revenge is sweet
The midweek game against Plymouth offered some players the opportunity for a bit of revenge after the drubbing at Home Park last season – and some players do feel that need.
A case in point is the Kevin Muscat incident when he badly injured Craig Bellamy - I knew I would get some sort of chance to get a bit of payback for Craig.
Same with Christian Dailly, when he broke Phil Mulryne’s leg - every time I played against him after that, it might have been six weeks, might have been six months, might have been two years, I would try and get a little bit of payback for Mullers.
It was in my mind – and I would have thought the Plymouth game from last season when they lost 6-2 was in the minds of some of the players on Tuesday. A few of that squad were at Home Park that Saturday afternoon for what was an embarrassing display. The white flag came out and it could have been more than six on the day.
The likes of Angus (Gunn), Kenny McLean in midfield and Shane Duffy played in it the defeat and you don't forget it. Some defeats you can brush aside as a bad day, but when you've conceded six goals it stays.
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