Gary's comments after win at Carrow Rd

Last updated : 22 October 2007 By Morris (Bristol)
Gary Johnson has steered his side to 2nd place in the Championship after 11 games. With nearly a quarter of the season over it's a superb achievement but there's still a long way to go.

"We'll start dreaming if we are still in this sort of position after 40 games not just 11. There's no point in wishing your life away, at the moment we are just enjoying what we are doing.

"We didn't talk about being second in the table at the start of the season, but we were always confident that we could compete at this level. I think I have got the makings of a good Championship side here and we'll just carry on doing what we have been doing and see where that takes us.

"We're a side who likes to play our football but not just to pass for passing's sake. We want something at the end of it and I think you saw that today."

Being Norwich City caretaker manager is proving tough. Jim Duffy took control after the sacking of Peter Grant.

"At the moment the lads are devastated because we've lost the game, but in football you've always got to take the positives along with the negatives and I thought there were some pluses out there today," said Duffy.

"We started the game very well and created three or four very good chances and had one of them gone in, it would have been a totally different game. John Hartson did well on his debut, although he admitted himself that he should have stuck a couple of those away.

"Then we were punished for a lapse of concentration and after we got it back to 1-1, they scored a goal that had a good bit of fortune about it.

"They say if you don't shoot you don't score, but I think the lad sliced it and it just happened to go in. When you are down near the bottom of the table things like that tend to happen, although I'm not using it as an excuse.

"This game's all about results and you can't get away from the fact that this was another bad result for us."