City have all but secured a playoff spot.

Okay, it isn?t mathematically guaranteed yet but it is hard to imagine a scenario where Norwich don?t finish the job at Birmingham.

A three-point lead on seventh-placed Hull is all-importantly backed up by a considerably healthier goal difference on the Tigers. An eight-goal swing on the final day with Hull travelling to Plymouth seems an impossible outcome.

But how funny it is that we relied on those noisy neighbours of ours to do us a favour. I can?t say that I was actively cheering for the Tractor Boys – I could never bring myself to do such a thing under any circumstances – but I?ll admit to breathing a huge sigh of relief after finding out the final score from the KCOM Stadium.
So (whisper it quietly), playoffs here we come!

This should be cause for celebration yet somehow all feels rather anticlimactic. Successive home draws against mid-table opposition were certainly frustrating, yet even after the dust settled it still felt like the Carrow Road faithful were largely underwhelmed. I can?t definitively say it?s the consensus but right now it feels like a bit of a damp squib.

I?m aware that social media – namely X (Twitter) – can be a cesspool of negativity at the best of times but it still took me by surprise to see the amount of moaning and whining that was taking place in the wake of the Saturday’s result.

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