In a strange sense, the end of last season seems both a lifetime ago and a fairly recent affair.
While England's deep progression into the bafflingly expanded World Cup meant to some extent it hasn't felt like football has been away, it equally seems like an eternity since City last kicked a ball in anger.
So obviously, it does feel about blooming time we get back to the real stuff, where the influence of a certain orange-hued octogenarian is limited to whether or not he decides to blow the world into smithereens.
Inevitably, a new season means new ambitions, new goals and new hopeful wish lists to draw up as the slate become clean again.
It is fair to say that optimism in the Norwich City camp is probably fairly high, given the way the second half of the season went.
However, the beauty of football fandom is that no two opinions are the same, so equally, no two wish lists for any supporter will be exactly the same.
Broadly, they will likely be similar. It goes without saying that everyone wants their team to win every game, if at all possible.
And it likely also goes without saying that there can't be too many City fans out there that don't have promotion at the very top of their wish list for the season.
However, what might differ is the way we want to see that achieved - which I will get to later.
Before then, though, I've got a few other wishes on my list for the season. Clearly I've tried to be borderline realistic with them, as much as I would love for home games to be moved to the Coopers Stadium in Adelaide.
Underdog stories
Like all football fans, I would imagine, I love an underdog story.
There are a few players in the City set-up currently that I consider underdogs. Individuals who have gone through hardship or been consistently written off.
Two names that come to mind, for different reasons, are Matej Jurasek and Ante Crnac.
For reasons baffling to all of us, Jurasek hasn't hit the ground running in yellow and green at all, while Crnac is making his way back from an horrendous injury.
Few things would fill me with more satisfaction than if these two both live out redemption arcs and carve important roles out for themselves this season, even if it is in cameos.
We've seen players come back from being typecast as scapegoats before, even Kenny McLean, who is pretty much now universally accepted for the marvellous player that he is, had his critics. I'd love to see Matej and Ante prove some people wrong.
An end to fitness woes
Given what has already happened to Ali Ahmed, the ship may already have sailed on this one, but a wish is still a wish.
I realise injuries are part and parcel of professional sport and to hope for a season to pass without at least a few lay-offs is just as realistic as my wish for home games to be played in Adelaide.
However, if we can get through a whole season without having the use the term "makeshift" to describe anyone in the starting line-up, that would be just grand.
A history-making promotion
As I alluded to earlier, obviously any dyed in the wool City fan will be happy come May if we're looking ahead to a 2027/28 Premier League tilt, however it happens.
That doesn't mean, however, that I can't have a preference for the way it comes about - and this year, I do.
It is near enough universally accepted that finishing second is the worst way to get promoted, while I'd wager the jury is split between winning the league and winning the play-offs.
Walking the league is fun and all that, but in terms of core memories, little compares to a play-off victory.
And this season, there's even more incentive to want to do it that way.
I'll be the first to admit that I'm not too eager about the new format and wouldn't disagree with anybody who might say that the eighth best team in the Championship has no right to be promoted. Even sixth is a bit of a stretch really, but it's just the way of the world.
However, that is exactly what I want to happen, as clearly it is the funniest possible outcome.
Should any team who finish eighth end up getting promoted, there would no doubt be copious yells of injustice and anger from all but fans of that team.
Personally, I'm desperate for us to be that agitator, particularly if a certain other team comes in the opposite way. I salivate at the thought of the injustice they would feel being replaced in the top flight by the 28th best team in the country.
Which brings me to my last wish...
A history-making relegation
I'll keep this one brief. Derby's infamous Premier League record, I want it gone. That is all.
OTBC
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