Iwan Roberts on Norwich away form, Hull, FA Cup and Idah

I think Liam Rosenior has done a tremendous job since he's been in charge, taking over from Shota Arveladze in November, 2022.

The new owners, who have pumped money into the club, wanted a big name manager and brought in Arveladze, but it just didn't work.

I was up there a few weeks ago for the Cardiff game, which Hull won 3-0 and it could have been six or seven. They’re a good side – they’ve got the ninth best home record in the division, albeit they've hit a bit of a sticky patch of late.

Rosenior’s teams play good, attractive quick football.

Over the Christmas period they had as bad a period as Norwich, winning only three points from the four games that they played, but as I say at home they have been decent. They’ve had a bit of money to spend, I like the boy Scott Twine, who they got from Burnley, he's a handful.

And Fabio Carvalho is on his way from Liverpool on loan, and he’s a talent.

I understand the argument that people can’t see Norwich getting anywhere near the play-offs, but while there’s still only five points separating Norwich in 13th and Sunderland in sixth, there is still a chance.

I was looking at the away form and it has been horrendous, they have got the 18th worst away record in the division. But they are the third highest scorers away from home in the league, with 23 in 13 games. Only Leicester and Middlesbrough have scored more.

But they've got the second worst defensive record at home – only Rotherham, who are bottom, have conceded more away from home than Norwich.

So that's where the improvement needs to come from – one clean sheet away from home all season and that was Huddersfield, which they won 4-0.

So why do teams do worse away than at home?

Sometimes it's easier to play away from home, and I can imagine times like now where there is a bit of unrest around the place. It only takes the team to start poorly, go a goal behind, a couple of mistakes to creep in and the crowd start venting their anger and their frustration.

So sometimes when you know you've got 1,000, 1,500 fans there and they're tucked away in one corner and you can't really hear them, sometimes that's easier. Dean Smith said it, that it was easier to play away. I understand that, I've been there myself where you’re getting slaughtered both as a team and individually, you just can't wait to go away from home.

I think another reason for Norwich is because we live where we do, every other weekend they're travelling on the bus on a Friday. I don't care what anybody says, ok, it’s great staying in hotels, but you don't see anything. You see the restaurant and that's it. You sleep in a bed that you not accustomed to so you might not get the best sleep.

There are plenty of other things and I am not making excuses, I think there are reasons why a team suffers away from home. There's no coincidence because Norwich, as I say, 99 times out of 100, have to travel on a Friday to an away game. If you put all those things together – the travel  and hotel, I do understand that because it happened to me for seven years when I was here.

But that record has to be addressed: that record of two wins in their 11 away games is not good enough. Turn that to five wins in 11 and you are in the top six so it is only little tweaks here and there.

Where's the fire?

Adam Idah - another chance goes missing (Image: Paul Chesterton/Focus Images Ltd)

Hwang Ui-jo has gone back to Nottingham Forests after Norwich cut short his loan. So let’s talk Adam Idah…

I saw the chance he missed against Bristol Rovers when he couldn’t get on the end of Onel Hernandez’s ball from the right.

You just have to throw your body at that sort of chance. Someone asked me the question - I would do anything to score a goal, breaking something, losing my teeth, getting stitches. I would do anything, even if I knew I was going  to get clattered. And that's what he's got to do.

He’s got to have fire in his belly, and you can't coach that, because that comes from within. How much do you really want to score. How much does it hurt you missing that. We've all missed them, I’ve missed worse. I missed the worst one at Ipswich on the back post when Jockey (Darren Eadie) put a great ball in and I thought I'd score from the yard out and I slid in and I put it wide and I hit the post with my leg and I pretended I was injured.

But got to have more desire in those types of areas. It's got to be life or death for him to score a goal.

Rovers return

Ashley Barnes scores City's opener against Bristol Rovers, but it wasn't enough (Image: Paul Chesterton/Focus Images Ltd)

The last thing Norwich wanted was an FA Cup replay away to Bristol Rovers.

I’m not sure if the reward for winning is good or bad!

In their last 18 meetings with Liverpool, Norwich have lost 16.

It’s got to be a good thing, though, to play Liverpool at Anfield – it is a massive carrot. If they get past Bristol Rovers, and that’s not a gimme, because they will fancy it.

When I was at Huddersfield, in 1991, we were in what is now League One and played away to Blackpool, who were in League Two. We drew up there and the draw was made before the replay and the winners got Spurs at White Hart Lane.

They had Gazza and Lineker and players like that. I had played there two or three times with Watford Reserves, when hardly anyone was in the ground. We were desperate to win the replay so we could have a night out at White Hart Lane - we lost. And I think the pressure of knowing what the prize was for the winner got to us. It most definitely affected our performance.

But the reason the players are here is because they want to win promotion back to the Premier League. They've got a chance of a taste of it.