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Sat in Frankfurt main station on platform 19 waiting for my train, I had the chance to follow most of the first half of the game against the Hornets on Canaries TV, with the excellent Chris Goreham on commentary.
Two defensive errors later it was half-time and before I boarded my train, I sent a quick message to a friend in Norwich: "so we haven’t turned the corner yet then."
From what I hear the comments inside Carrow Road at half-time were worse, and understandably so.
Deutsche Bahn isn’t what it used to be, but the Wi-Fi is normally OK and taking my seat, the second half started and I was back with Chris on Canaries TV.
The lady sat next to me had to put up with three increasingly loud celebrations as Messrs Ben Chrisene, Anthony Musaba and Paris Maghoma turned the game around in 18 minutes, notably assisted by Matthias Kvistgaarden and Sam Field.
The train pulled into Siegburg station on time (a real rarity with Deutsche Bahn nowadays) and I was home in time to follow the afternoon's Bundesliga action.
An excellent Saturday in the end.
But have we turned the corner?
If we are honest, I don’t think anybody knows the answer.
Trick or treat, Jekyll and Hyde, chalk and cheese, whichever wording is used to describe the performances of our beloved Canaries in the last two games, they all fit the bill.
Consistent only in their inconsistency.
On more recent travels I enjoyed a week back in the fine county of Norfolk.
The less enjoyable parts of the visit were the two home league games against Southampton and Portsmouth, around which the visit was organised.
Those two performances were consistent, but certainly not in the right way.
The attempt to shore up the defence after conceding too many goals seemed to remove almost all our attacking guile.
But for all the defensive frailties in our last two games against Charlton and Watford, both games have brought a response, exemplified by grit and determination and no little attacking prowess.
There are at last signs of belief and improvement.
We have something to build on.
The challenge now is to take the newly found momentum into away games at Derby County and Bristol City and then beyond that into a rugged Championship winter with all the vagaries and difficult opponents that brings.
Whatever may be said in the heat of the moment, this squad isn’t full of bad players.
That has been proved in longer and shorter spells last season and this.
Our manager could do no wrong last season and was a true leader in a pretty desperate situation for the club.
But we are now in a different season with different challenges.
Players who could do no wrong last season have been caught out at times this season, can’t get in the team or have been the ones to fall to injury this time around.
Equally players who were out of favour and seemingly didn’t fit the bill last year (most notably Kvistgaarden) or at the start of this season (Maghoma) have stepped up in the last couple of games to help bring the bad run to an end.
This season the manager may well have made some wrong calls in what at first appeared to be a season of opportunity, but that doesn’t suddenly make him a bad coach.
The expectation at the start of the season was high but we may well have to put up with more trials and tribulations before the consistency needed to really move us closer to the top of the table is found.
But after a weekend experiencing Norwich coming from 2-0 down to win and a Deutsche Bahn train being on time, I must have hope that the corner has indeed been turned!