Morning all,

Winter is well and truly approaching in snowy Norfolk, but we're all feeling sunny as a return to Championship action draws nearer for Norwich City.

The Canaries make the trip to face West Brom on Saturday in their first fixture for two weeks, and our attentions have turned to that clash this morning.

Adam and I will head down to The Nest this afternoon for Johannes Hoff Thorup's pre-match press conference, where he'll provide updates on the fitness of his squad and answer all of the key questions going into that Baggies trip.

You can follow along with that in our live blog from 4pm, but until then we've got loads to keep you entertained and informed on the Pink Un app.

That includes more from our chat with City icon Mike Walker, who discusses that famous win over Bayern Munich, Premier League success in the 90s and a sadly bitter end to his time at Carrow Road.

We've also got a column from Will Grant, known on social media as Norwich Youth, who writes about Lucien Mahovo and his potential to feature in the first team in future. I've written a piece of analysis too, on where things are going wrong defensively and whether that's been overlooked.

All that plus JHT on Ben Chrisene's struggle for game time, Tim Krul's thoughts on what he'll do when he finishes playing and much, much more. Speaking of retirement, we've got an interesting interview coming out later this morning. But I'll leave you in suspense on that one for now 😉.

Keep an eye out for that, some analysis of Borja Sainz's fine start to the season and all the rest of the usual good stuff as the day unfolds. In the meantime I'm off for some breakfast, but I'll be back tomorrow to round it all up.

Have a great day!

OTBC
Sam

Newsletter exclusive: In at the deep end

It's been a whirlwind start to life at Carrow Road for 18-year-old Oscar Schwartau, who's had more game time than initially expected amid City's injury crisis.

Here's Thorup on how his charge has adapted, exclusively for readers of this newsletter.

"A player where we actually didn't expect that he would be playing so much for us to begin with.

"This first season we expected would be for him to find his role here at the club, to start developing in the Championship and with the team, and then maybe in the second season be ready to really, really compete for his position for the team and have regular starts.

"But now he's in there and he's doing well, and I think a lot of the young ones have been doing really, really well."