Dave Jones was content to leave Carrow Road with all three points, especially after admitting that the performance from his team was lacking the levels required.

"Today was probably our worst performance of the season and yet we come away with a win," he admitted after the game. "We'll have to play a lot better than that and the players know it. Having said that, I'll take the result.

"Sometimes you don't play as well as you can and still take the points. This was one of those occasions. Peter Grant will feel hard done by right now, and he probably feels like I did after our first two home games this season. We dominated like they did in our games against Stoke and Coventry without getting any reward.

"I wasn't happy with how we played in the first half and decided to give Norwich something different to worry about and fortunately it paid off. I thought we played a lot better in the second half and that's got a lot to do with the strength of the squad I've got now.

"Now I can bring on players from the bench and not affect the strength of the team and that's very important. I don't think it was the case last season. We are not the finished article yet but I've still got people out there who are playing to get fit like Peter Whittingham, Robbie Fowler and Jimmy-Floyd Hasselbaink; and we will get stronger as the season goes on."

Meanwhile, Norwich boss Peter Grant was angered by the nature of the defeat after feeling his players had let what looked like an ensured three points turn into nothing.

"We gifted them the points with some basic errors," he explained. "For the second goal we had three boys around a big centre-half and yet he still headed the ball into the back of the net. The fact that we played well before the break is no consolation to me at all. We should have won the game but instead we let them back into it.

"We should have been taking the game to them in the second half but instead we let them take it to us by passing the ball square and backwards. We kept them in the game by doing that and I call it a lack of professionalism. We have got to learn how to win games, that's our Achilles' heel at the moment."