It's becoming difficult to not start getting slightly concerned about what's currently going on at Portman Road.

While Norwich City slumped to that humiliating Home Park horror-show and were dumped out of the Carabao Cup at Fulham, Kieran McKenna's Ipswich Town racked up their seventh win in eight Championship matches before stunning Premier League Wolves to keep their Wembley hopes alive.

The Tractor Boys are understandably generating significant national attention and that, as a 26-year-old City fan who has only ever known East Anglia to be firmly yellow and green, is becoming increasingly alarming to witness. 

Credit where it's due - McKenna is without doubt doing an impressive job in Suffolk, instilling a fearless and fluent brand of football that's seen his side pick up where they left off in League One and surge towards the second-tier summit.

He's a young coach rapidly making a name for himself and, similarly to Michael Carrick at Middlesbrough last season, probably revelling in receiving more high-profile plaudits than others given his previous Manchester United connection.

But, Ipswich fans, purring podcasts and annoyingly adoring pundits - we're eight games into a gruelling Championship season here and, for a club who've spent three of the last four years fundamentally unable to get out of League One, it's hard to escape the feeling you're all getting a little carried away.

Granted, Tuesday night's battling comeback win over a strong Wolves side was a particularly eye-catching one, amplified even further by a brilliant third goal and an admittedly amusing, darts-fuelled piece of social media content that appeared on my Twitter timeline yesterday morning.

And despite losing to Daniel Farke's in-form Leeds on home soil, it's difficult to dispute a start to the season that's seen a trio of hard-fought 1-0 away victories and a similarly steely opening day triumph at the Stadium of Light.

The Pink Un: A sign of the recent teams...A sign of the recent teams... (Image: Paul Chesterton/Focus Images)

But the point I'm making is this - that bubble can quite easily burst and for a club that's failed to beat Norwich for almost 15 years, is it really too much to ask you to get back in your box and quit the premature smugness?

Let's not forget, this is a club that loves harping on about history - but will conveniently omit the last decade-plus and an unequivocal, unforgettable, epoch of Norwich City dominance.

In a week where City slipped to their fourth defeat in five and McKenna’s men continued their flying start, spirits are understandably high in IP1.

But the Championship is a marathon not a sprint and with considerably tougher tests to come - four of those seven wins have come against struggling Stoke, QPR, Sheffield Wednesday and totally out-of-sorts Southampton - I think I speak for all City fans when I say I not only hope, but believe, it will start to unravel soon.

For all the free-flowing, progressive and aesthetically-pleasing football McKenna is masterminding at Portman Road, let’s not lose sight of the fact this is a team that has conceded a whopping nine goals in just four home matches.

And while that may sound ridiculous given City’s similarly shambolic recent defensive record - particularly off the back of that pathetic Plymouth pummelling - it’s still a valid observation that should serve as a reminder to Town fans of this division’s potential perils and their side’s underlying fragility.

This season’s East Anglian derby looks likely to be one of the most hotly-anticipated ever and, infused with an additional festive flavour, it will be fascinating to gauge the positions of both teams when the weekend of December 16 rolls around.

City may be suffering something of a mini early-season wobble, but despite last weekend’s Devon demolition and difficult recent run, I have every faith David Wagner’s experienced Championship campaigners can turn things back around.

But for McKenna’s young, admittedly enterprising but still extremely raw second-tier side, I would love it - and genuinely not be surprised - if their fast start soon goes up in smoke and City are the ones in pole position heading into that seismic pre-Christmas Portman Road showdown.