Just for the record, our prediction for Tuesday night's Carling Cup tie was that the home fans would be in for a real treat if the Norwich performance was "half as good" as it was against Stoke.
Even when Paul Lambert made eleven changes to the starting line-up, it still looked as if the players he had left out two days earlier would seize the opportunity to impress their manager by turning in a thoroughly professional performance. Unfortunately, it did not turn out that way.
New boy, Daniel Ayala gave the ball away for the first goal; 'old boy', Adam Drury was all too easily dispossessed for the second; then Andrew Surman's poor back pass set up the fourth.
Only the third goal owed more to the skill and composure of the visitors than to the generosity of the home side.
After the game, Paul Lambert looked as shell-shocked as most of the 13,000 spectators by the failure of his players to rise to the occasion, but in the cold light of the following day he was probably wondering just how quickly he could unload at least half the players who failed to carry on where their first-choice colleagues had left off against Stoke.
One or two of them may yet be named as substitutes for the trip to Stamford Bridge, but none of them should be too surprised if the starting line-up to face Chelsea is more or less the same as it was against Stoke.