To be fair both Russell Martin and Sebastien Bassong, Club Captain and Team Captain respectively for 2013/14 do not possess the leadership qualities of the talisman Holt. Bassong especially let himself down last season after a number of his mistakes cost Norwich vital points. For example, the home games against Swansea City and Stoke City. It was also disappointing to see the 2012/13 Player Of The Season appear to blame his own goal at Aston Villa on March 2nd 2014 on a non existent foul. Bassong's fall from grace was a huge factor in the Canaries' relegation. The Cameroon international was so solid during the 2012/13 season and whenever he didn't play Norwich usually got a hammering. So his form during 2013/13 was all the more disappointing. Bassong's future now looks uncertain. Hughton's decision to name two captains at the start of the season was strange. Surely it would have been simpler to have one captain of the team?

Despite the Canaries 11th place finish in the Premier League during Chris Hughton's first season in charge it seemed like a false position because we were looking over our shoulders at relegation for most of the second half of that season. Indeed after our famous unbeaten ten game run (which included memorable home wins against Arsenal and Manchester United) we only managed to win five of the remaining twenty-one matches. During this time the Canaries were knocked out of the FA Cup by non-league Luton Town, surely the most embarrassing result in our history? So we rode our luck then and so did Hughton. He should have received his marching orders at the end of the 2012/13 season but survived and went on to waste many million of pounds in the transfer market. Ultimately Hughton and his negative tactics cost us our Premier League status. He had been been on the brink of the sack on a few occasions last season but got a result when it mattered such as the home wins against West Ham and Spurs. However the West Brom defeat was the final straw but by then the damage was too severe. Whilst clubs like Sunderland, West Brom, Fulham and Crystal Palace were changing managers like a pair of socks the Carrow Road hierarchy foolishly left it too late.

After Chris Hughton had spent over twenty million pounds in the transfer market during the summer of 2013 the Carrow Road faithful was expecting a top ten finish during 2013/14 and an increase in our goals output due to the arrival of the Wolf and Hoops. Unfortunately the aforementioned produced just seven Premier League goals between them at the cost of £1.92m each. Instead of scoring more goals somehow we managed to record our lowest top flight total ever (twenty-eight) which is pathetic really. So it's safe to say that those two signings didn't exactly work out but elsewhere it wasn't much better. Dutch international Leroy Fer arrived in July 2013 from FC Twente and appeared to be a useful signing by Chris Hughton. However after a promising start to his Norwich career the stylish midfielder got sent off at Crystal Palace and found it difficult adjusting to life in England.

Nathan Redmond, like Fer started off brightly for Norwich and scored an excellent winning goal at Carrow Road against Southampton. However he struggled to make the starting line up after Christmas but he's only 20 years old and will probably benefit from a season in the Championship. He's definitely one for the future.

Despite having a good start to his Norwich career Johan Elmander (he scored twice on his debut against Bury in the League Cup in August 2013) scored just once in the Premier League in 28 appearances. To be honest the omens were not good when the Swedish international striker arrived on a season long loan from Galatasaray as he had scored only 18 goals in 92 Premier League matches for Bolton Wanderers. In fact he has scored more goals for Sweden than he has in the Premier League! Elmander is now playing for Brondby. It's been suggested that Elmander was signed after Hughton missed out on another striking target. Obviously not Wilfried Bony who scored 25 goals for Swansea City last season (including 16 in the Premier League). Hughton admitted that the Ivorian international was on the club's radar but they had already decided to sign Ricky Van Wolfswinkel.

Martin Olsson took a while to make the left-back position his own following his move from Blackburn Rovers. Olsson was one of Chris Hughton's most successful signings with consistently good performances.

One of the biggest criticisms of Chris Hughton during his disastrous spell as Norwich manager was his unconvincing use of substitutes and lack of a plan b when the team was losing a match. Many of his substitutions were made too late or were pointless such as bringing on Elmander for Van Wolfswinkel when we badly needed a goal when replacing a defender/midfielder would have been a more positive move. He also had a habit of taking off players that were playing well such as Wes Hoolahan and Gary Hooper on one of his better days. In fact the only substitute to score a goal last season was Elmander at Southampton on March 15th 2014 but Norwich were already 3-0 down by then.

Neil Adams should have used his substitutes to more effect at Chelsea when the Canaries so desperately needed a win to have any hope of staying up. With the match goalless and entering the final minutes substitute Nathan Redmond's pace was causing the Chelsea defence problems. Adams should have brought on another fresh pair of legs to exploit this but chose not to do so. Adams could have sacrificed a defender or midfield player and brought on Hooper. This obvious lack of experience limited our chances of scoring a crucial winning goal. Oh to have a Hernandez or Dzeko!

Despite spending over £13 million on two strikers the Canaries (and another £3.2m on winger Nathan Redmond) the Canaries somehow managed to score just 28 goals in the Premier League during 2013/14, not surprisingly the least in the division and the fewest the club has ever scored in the top flight. (The previous record was 36 in 1973/74.) It was also the lowest figure in the whole of the English football league. We scored 2 goals or more in a match on just 5 occasions and our top scorers Hooper and Snodgrass got only 6 Premier League goals each. I can never remember it being this bad. Back in 1989/90 Tim Sherwood and Mark Bowen finished equal top scorers in the old Barclays First Division for the Canaries with 7 goals each but we finished the season in 10th place.