Liam Manning

But he also hasn't neglected what Tommy's saying.

I think that Corbyn... sort of trait of being incredibly disciplined without the ball you know hard to beat solid you know defensive shapes absolutely fantastic as well so he just seems to have struck a really nice balance there at that football club and we all know the size of it the expectation when it is in in league one and that can be a difficult thing to deal with I think him coming in at the end of last season in difficult circumstances obviously Liam Manning you know going away from the football club I think, gave him a real opportunity to just have a little look around at what he probably felt he liked and maybe some things he didn't like.

He's obviously been given the job and the options to really figure out what he wants to do with that squad.

So what an incredible start to the season.

Yeah, it's really hard to put a finger on because there was a lot of optimism this summer off the back of what happened last season.

The transformation from Liam Manning's football that saw us, well, second bottom of the championship, but ultimately rock bottom if you account for Sheffield Wednesday's point deduction.

That was the most dire football I think I've seen throughout my Norwich City lifetime supporting the football club.

Philippe Clement comes in and it was a little bit of a slow burner.

We don't really kind of get the same view as what the baseball do.

We've not heard our owner now for almost a year.

He came over when Liam Manning was under fire and maybe spoke a little bit about that.

But since then, I heard absolutely nothing, which for Norwich fans who... as you've mentioned at the top, a family club and had that tight-knit bond with Dealer and Michael, it does feel very different at the moment.

But we know that Northampton are a very good defensive team.

And watching this game, it did kind of remind me a little bit of watching... a good Liam Manning team in the way that Northampton set up you know Hogg obviously Manning's assistant just in terms of being really solid defensively not giving much away and having their best moments by creating good chances with high turnovers and that's what they're all about they don't want the ball they generally like to kind of sit in and provide that trigger press which is basically what we saw from the second goal there so yeah Yeah, things going the right way.

I think when a team starts poorly but are posting really good defensive numbers and not conceding many goals, it's a really good foundation to build on because it means that one part of things is kind of sorted.

You then have to find the attacking output to go with it.

So it did feel like a big call, but only he got rewarded because, yeah, as an overall display, it was excellent from... minute one to when he exited the pitch.

And I think that's, again, a player who could have easily have sort of done tools and sulked over the summer, given kind of the expectation and the fee he arrived at this football club and got sold a bit of a vision under Liam Manning that he was going to fit in.

Philippe Clement arrives, completely different system, just didn't feel like he quite fitted it.

And we spoke about that quite a lot over the summer.

They should have given that another summer, another recruitment window, another season.

And they opted not to.

And that then led them, obviously, to the Liam Manning saga, the difficulty that they got into.

But then you contrast that, to go back to Farker again, with that first season, which I think they finished 14th, 15th.

Morgan, it says a lot when there's a chant from the home fans saying, we've had a shot, we've had a shot.

As the Liam Manning negativity crept in a little bit,

What, in terms of the fan base? Yeah.

I think I had this discussion yesterday with a very close friend of mine.

the fans have stayed quite kind of

quite loyal I think actually that's starting to be tested severely now and no wonder like as you say lost five in a row eight of eleven league games in all it's been it's been a disaster and like clearly like Clement replaced Liam Manning in November last year, so we're getting on to the year anniversary since that.

And it wasn't an immediate turnaround, but it was a remarkable turnaround.

And that's the reason why the momentum they finished with last season was extraordinary.