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It's been a far-from-ideal start to the season, and really, the best you can say about Albion in this last week is that we're off the mark and off the bottom. To follow our get-out-of-jail act at the City Ground on Tuesday night we're staying on the road with a visit to Norfolk, where we'll hopefully be looking to replicate the way we ended our last match, rather than the way we began it and continued it for eighty minutes.

Aside from having a surname that sounds like the noise I made when Forest scored the other night, Norwich boss Daniel Farke hasn't worked any major miracles thus far at Carrow Road. Last year the Canaries went from being early-season outsiders for promotion to an unremarkable mid-table finish, and they opened this season by snatching a point off Blues with a last-gasp equaliser. However, with the way Albion are playing right now, it's fair to say that we underestimate any opposition at our peril.

Irrespective of what (if anything) happens on the transfer front, we need to seriously up the tempo of our game and start playing with some urgency and creativity again. I do think we've got the attacking players to do it, though the centre of the park remains a huge weak spot, and I'd give an arm and a leg for the 2010 midfield triangle of Mulumbu, Jara and Dorrans again. Maybe the team just needs time to gel, though if that's the case, it'd better be some fast-acting Brylcreem, because the last thing we need in the aftermath of relegation is a winless streak.