'We have a huge amount of work to do'

Liam Manning believes his relationship with Norwich fans is "recoverable" but he understands why they are on his back at present.

Sunday's 3-1 derby defeat at Ipswich was a fifth loss in nine Championship games, with Manning's side also having lost all five games at Carrow Road in all competitions.

City are two points above the drop zone, with eight points from nine matches, and asked about his position coming under scrutiny so early on, Manning told BBC Radio Norfolk: "It's where the world is at in this industry, unfortunately.

"When you look at the back half of last season, the change in the summer, where everything's at, we've got a huge amount of work to do. I'm under no illusion.

"I'd have loved to hit the ground running, played some beautiful football and won games, and really built a rapport with the fans, but we haven't done it."

Manning says he'd experienced similar pressure early on at Bristol City and said: "All I can control is keeping my head down and keep working.

"We've acquired a load of talent but we're now in the process of trying to build a team. It does take time, but whilst you're doing that you do have to win games and that's what we're not doing.

"You have to find a way of grinding out results to keep people on board and we haven't done that well enough.

"If we win games the relationship with the fans is recoverable. I had it early on at Bristol. Rightly the fans are on us, we have to accept it, but the only way to change it is by delivering, and that's what I'm focusing on."

Manning said the East Anglian derby loss had hurt him as much as it had the fans, adding: "I'm gutted, disappointed. Basic errors cost us again, which has been a little bit of a pattern so far this season.

"If you look at it outside the goals, I didn't think there was a huge amount in the game."