As afternoons go, that was intense. A glorious day floodlit the MKM as the fans just kept pouring in and the lines at the food and beer kiosks never seem to get smaller with Steve Jordan as MC doing a superb job on the pitch ramping up the volts, introducing Norwich fans to their stand neighbours in only a way that he knows how.

The line up, far better with Hughes and Slater starting from previous games that hasn't seen a win in 6

The game itself, from the off didn't appear to match the importance of the next 90 minutes and not sure some of the players really got to grips with what was at stake?

Straight from the off, after a false start, Pandur took his first touch of the game and lumped it straight into touch. It took a further 12 minutes for the game to produce the first danger of the afternoon when Canary, Fisher, fizzed a shot at Pandur's right who made a superb save to tip it round the post.

Norwich looked a decent side and had some good players, especially Ahmed the left winger who showed trickery and pace who put Coyle to the test time and time again.

Hughes with a reported double hernia had a decent game and thankfully the odd mistake was not pounced upon by Norwich and we got away with a fair share of spooned clearances but Slater put himself about and did a lot of spoiling for City against the more dominant Norwich midfield and an area we struggled to totally command.

A calamity of errors in our box saw the exact thing we didn't want to see. A Yellow's goal courtesy of Toure which was a double blow because Szmodics had already put Derby 1-0 up after 5 minutes and in 6th place.

Gelhardt who has been out of sorts all last month wasn't having any of it and put in a determined run just a minute later, up the other end and into the box, creating a power tussle between himself and number 15, McConville who lost superiority and chopped Joe down. Penalty!

Only one man to take it and up he pops. Cool and clinical as you like, Mc Fkg Burnie sending Kovacevic to the shops in the East Stand as the ball was slammed in the other side on 28 minutes. 1-1.

Meanwhile over in Welsh Wales, with Boro beating Wrexham 1-0, at the exact same minute, Windass Junior rifled home a free kick for The Red Dragons, top left to bring them back 1-1 and on level terms with City again in the standings as they were before kick off.

The rest of the half was a scrappy affair with neither side showing any value or composure and so the first 45 ran out 1-1 between us and Norwich, 2-2 by this time between Wrexham and Boro and Derby still 1-0 up and in 6th at Pride Park V The Blunts.

Lots to do.

McNair on for Egan at the half time restart and the game still a bit stale with tensions mounting, nails bit, edge of seats wearing thin and fingernails peeling off the cliff edge, seeing two sitters go begging, one from Crooks in the first half when his header was denied at point blank range by the keeper and McBurnie with a touch that was destined for the right hand corner of the Norwich goal thanks to a sublime cross by Giles but once again, Kovacevic came to their rescue and all 4 stands clasped their heads in both stands in disbelief.

Subs today were good and made the difference. 3 pro active subs with Joseph, Dowell and Lundstram on to freshen legs up a bit and also 1 reactive sub, with Koumas on when Kvistgaarden was swapped for Toure on 82 minutes.

The first two on 59 and 60 minutes were the difference. Joseph and Dowell adding bit more bite and fight on the right but City suckered Slimane into committing a foul on the busy Slater to the left of midfield. The set piece floated tantalisingly cross field was knocked on by the head of Crooks which found it's way to a hovering McBurnie who cottoned onto the box bound ball and dispatched it goalward for the second and decisive City goal of the afternoon just 7 minutes after the double sub.

The crowd really did go wild. 67 minutes. 2-1 City.

Meanwhile, across in the North Midlands, The Blunts had pulled a goal back at Derby. 1-1. Hope turned into a possible.

No sooner had we kicked off the Crowd spontaneously combusted into raptures as the City Chants bellowed out and we found out the Blunts in Derbyshire had a bit more of a sharpening on their cutting edge and put a 69th minute winner into Zetterström's net again, and all we had to do was hold on and keep Norwich out and hope Wrexham wouldn't find a goal rush.

Make no mistake, we were average. Little quality and little idea other than to run our lungs out. That together with the odd bit of good fortune and the 12th man it was sheer relief when Josh Smith (who had a good game IMO) blew for full and the final time of the domestic Championship campaign. 2-1 City

We have done it. Play offs.

MOTM. Got to be Oli who came to the rescue. He was treat like a rag doll this afternoon being pulled from pillar to post but you can NEVER write him off as "Johnny on the Spot".

And 24,600+ Fans. Outstanding support. Looked great from U/W.

So, Millwall tickets all booked for Friday, It's onto the next game to see what we can do? UTT.