HOEF THE CUFF: The sky's the limit!
TUESDAY'S derby win at Wolves put us on cloud nine - but we'll literally be taking to the skies ahead of Saturday's trip to Norwich.
The team is flying to a game for the first time this season because it's a fair old journey to Carrow Road.
Saturday will be our sixth game in 18 days and sitting quite close to each other on a coach for four hours is not so good for your muscles.
Flying should only take about 30 minutes and will really help from that point of view.
It's a long way to go for the fans and to have sold all our tickets for this game and our final two fixtures already is a great testament to our supporters.
Since the beginning of the season, the fans have been on the same wavelength as the players and staff.
They deserve huge credit.
In the second-half at Molineux, they did themselves proud by out-singing the Wolves fans in their own stadium.
It was a hostile atmosphere - but I've played in worse.
The Black Country derby is really important to both sets of fans but it's mainly banter and you can live with that.
I've played in Serbia where you fear for your life at times while in Belgium there is a real hatred between the fans.
We were a bit disappointed to draw 1-1 with Watford on Saturday but now it looks like a good result after Tuesday's 1-0 win at Wolves.
It was frustrating to concede from a set-piece again against Watford but it was a very good corner.
They put the ball in the perfect spot and had players there to finish it off.
They've scored a lot of goals from set-pieces this season so to only concede one in two games against them is not that bad.
We were really focused on not conceding against Wolves and that was our 17th clean-sheet of the season.
We always go out for the win and to attack but at the end against Wolves we were forced to defend and I think the whole team did really well.
I almost missed the Molineux encounter altogether.
I got a knock on my ankle in the Watford game and I didn't think I'd be ready for Wolves.
But I went for it and it worked out really well.
Having said that, getting a whack in the face at a corner didn't help!
It was right on a spot on my nose that I have cracked before.
The blood was gushing out but fortunately we were able to stop it and I carried on.
Robbo's ankle was pretty bad going into the game too and he did great for the team to get through the 90 minutes.
There's a real determination in the dressing room to finish things off now.
We couldn't win the FA Cup semi-final so we're focusing all our attentions on promotion.
We're just going to keep taking it game by game.
The next match is always the most important one.
Norwich is a massive game and Hull and Stoke are still breathing down our neck so we can't let ourselves down now.
As always, we'll put 100 per cent in against Norwich and then we've got nine days' breathing space before the next game.
We've had so many games in a short space of time and we've played everyone like it's a cup final.
The rest will do us the world of good and because we play Southampton on the Monday we will see what the other teams do over that weekend.
Hopefully, if we can win at Norwich, we'll be very, very close to finishing things off.
If that's the case there will be plenty of banter flying around the dressing room - and I've been the victim of some of that this week.
I've been getting a lot of stick for the way I dress, which I don't think is that bad.
I just like to be comfy and I didn't know coming to training was like a fashion show!
But if the lads want to be the fashion police, I'm sure I can make a nice little gallery of some of the gear the others wear!
If they want to make it a fashion show, I'll make it a proper one!
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