Saints felt harshly done by at Carrow Road

George Burley gave a debut to Wayne Thomas amongst several other changes to the team for the second league game of the season and it seemed to work as the side looked a lot better balanced and after a couple of early scares took the lead on 37 minutes with a well taken goal from Kenwynne Jones, the half finished with Saints pressure but the score remained at one each.

But on 55 minutes came the first incident that changed the game, Saints had had several chances but the feeling was that unless they bagged a second they might just pay for wasting so many, but Saints felt hard done by as Andrew Surman seemed to have a shot cross the line after squirming through the grasp of Marshall in the City goal, it appeared even from a distance to be well over the line when the keeper clawed it back, but the referee aided by his linesman decided that it hadnt and the tide of the game had started to change.

The second controversial incident seven minutes later came when the referee Beeby ruled that Chris Makin had passed the ball back to Davis rather than shielded it as the Saints players protested, meaning that the home side had a free kick just outside the six yard box, the ball was laid cleverly across to Cureton who rifled it into the top corner, Saints were hard done by but when you are struggling these things invariably go against you.

But on 71 minutes things got worse as Cureton peeled of Wright and Makin and hit a volley to put the Canaries in front, the last 20 minutes saw Saints push forward but not really threaten with the wind knocked out of their sails.

In truth Saints should have won, but after the Palace game it was just good to see that things arent quite as bad as some would make out, yes it was another defeat, but the manner of it lead Saints fan to believe we are on the right track and that we do have a squad capable of turning things round, maybe there will be some fans who will disagree with this and think because we are bottom we are going to get relegated, I think nothing could be father from the truth, in essence we have only lost two players who were first team regulars from last season, the squad is still strong, things arent quite right yet, but we are moving in the right direction 

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