Whatever anyone thinks you have to admit that this season has been chalk and cheese compared to the 2022-23 season when City finished in the bottom half of the Championship.

That campaign finished disastrously, with City taking just one point from their last five games at Carrow Road, scoring zero goals. So to finish sixth this season is an accomplishment in my opinion, even if it did finish horrendously.

I said in last week's column about the second leg and how the lads should see the game in segments - get the first 20 minutes over with unscathed. Sadly, it couldn’t have gone far worse!

I actually thought Norwich started the brighter, even though they conceded that early goal, but the second goal on 20 minutes was the killer for me; you just saw every ounce of energy and confidence being sucked out of their bodies. Sadly, it was tie over.

To be fair, Leeds had finished 17 points in front of Norwich, and had the second best home record in the Championship. Norwich, on the other hand, had the sixth worst away record and only Rotherham conceded more away goals. Sadly, that old defensive Achilles heel came back to haunt them at the most important of times.

The club wasted no time after losing on Thursday night and David Wagner was relieved of his duties the next day. Wagner paid the price for not being brave enough at times - the home leg against Leeds springs to mind.

He burst onto the scene in his first two games, both away, at Preston and Coventry and blew them way with some scintillating attacking football, scoring four goals in each game. But, critical for him, too many times he sent his team out with too much of a cautious look about them,which didn’t go down well with a lot of City supporters.

So who next for Norwich City?

Carlos Cuesta has been heavily linked because of his obvious Arsenal connections with director of football, Ben Knapper. The problem I've got with Cuesta is he’s not 29 until July 29.

I think owners now look at what's happened at Leicester and Ipswich, who both recruited their head coaches from similar positions from huge clubs and have benefited enormously from brave appointments. The difference is that both Enzo Maresca at Leicester and Kieran McKenna at Ipswich had quite a bit of experience before making the step up to being the main man.

Two names I thought of straight away when I saw that Wagner had left his post were two former Swansea head coaches, Steve Cooper and Graham Potter, who are both looking for a route back into management.

Cooper did a fantastic job at both Swansea and Forest, who he guided back into the big time after the club's 23-year absence from the Premier League. Cooper's England U17 side won the U17 World Cup in 2017 - he’s very good at development part of the game. He can organise a defence and, let's be honest, Norwich’s defence last season was one of the leakiest in the league.

I’ve mentioned Potter as he's been out of work for a while now and needs to get back into the game because the longer you are out, the harder it is to get back in.

He did a decent job at Swansea - not as good as the one Cooper did in my opinion, but nonetheless, the way his Swansea and Brighton sides played was very attractive on the eye and it seems that that's what supporters want these days. However, even having been out of work for a while, I get the feeling he would think he’s maybe capable of landing a bigger job than the Norwich one.

Whoever the next head coach is he’s got a big job to do, and not a lot of time to do it in. Mind you, if someone can come in and get assurances that the club keep certain key players and give him a smallish treasure chest to get a bit more quality in, I think it's a very attractive job.