Yet Blues started the brighter and were extremely unlucky not to go one-nil up when replays showed that a perfectly good goal from new signing Liam Miller was erroneously chalked off. Unfortunately they were then made to pay, conceding a couple of sloppy goals when the visiting full-backs allowed crosses into the box and midway through the second half. Both Ethan Laird and Alex Cochrane were brought on and you have to wonder whether the result might have been different if Chris Davies had started the pair.

The Blues midfield generally looked lacking in drive with neither Paik Seung-ho or Tomoki Iwata setting the world alight and the return of Jhon Solis can’t come quickly enough.

Up front, Millar was yet again a stand-out player although it was Carlos Vicente who cut the arrears in the second half and nearly netted an equaliser before scuffing his shot wide. August Priske battled hard but, for once, probably lost more than his fair share of headers. As usual Jay Stansfield never stopped running and probing but got little change out of an uncompromising Norwich defence.