CITY Chairman Roger Munby has pledged the Board will do everything in its power to back Glenn Roeder's summer re-building plans.

The Canaries' manager has a big job ahead of him at the end of the current season, with six loan players set to return to their parent clubs and Dion Dublin retiring.

It means Roeder will need to wheel and deal if he is to re-build a squad capable of challenging for promotion to the Premier League.

And Munby (pictured right) said the Board would do all they could to ensure he had the financial backing necessary to compete in the transfer market.

"It's a matter of absolute commitment," said Munby, speaking to CanariesWorld at a Disabled Supporter Forum at Carrow Road as part of the Club's Ability Counts week.

"The Board will do everything in its power possible to meet the challenge Glenn will impose on us when he comes to us in the summer. The rotation of the squad - there are a fair cohort of loan players and some who we know will be leaving the Club in the summer, one in particular in Dion.

"They have to be replaced and the whole squad itself needs to be built and enhanced for next season and it's a big challenge."

Of course City could yet find themselves challenging for a place in the Premier League this season, should their amazing run of form take them all the way to the Championship play-offs.

However, chances of such an outcome remain slight, and Munby said the priority still remained getting enough points to be safe from relegation to League One.

"It's pleasing, for sure," he said, reflecting on the recent run compared to a time when Norwich sat at the bottom of the Championship on eight points before Roeder arrived. "Relieving too. It's taken one or two deep apprehensions out of thoughts and what we debated around the boardroom table from earlier in the season.

"And it's been the work of a genius. And Glenn wouldn't thank me for saying that, because what he would say is that 'it isn't just me, it's a collective effort'. And of course it's a collective effort. I think the fans have played their full part in being inspired by the arrival of the new management team. The new management team have done a galvanising job. If Glenn were here he'd say 'you've got to thank the players' and he's quite right about that too.

"The whole collective effort has come together and it's as pleasing as it has been relieving. We can now look forwards and upwards. We haven't at this moment guaranteed avoiding relegation. That's the first and most urgent task, and having done that it gives us the best possible platform for developing through the summer and into next season."

And many fans are already turning their attentions to next season, with ticket office staff reporting brisk business in the purchase of new season tickets and renewals.

On Monday canaries.co.uk reported how 660 fans had bought new season tickets on top of the many thousands of renewals already received. The first price deadline is close of business on Saturday, with fans having until that time to take advantage of the lowest available prices.

And regardless of business done between now and then, it looks as if Carrow Road can expect more large crowds next season. But Munby said it wasn't a situation the Board took for granted - quite the opposite in fact.

"There's nothing you take for granted," he said. "In fact, what the supporters do for this football club is the antidote to complacency. It just drives you and makes you strive harder in the interests of them and the football club itself. It's not only the quantity of fans, it's the quality and they have played their full part."

Munby was chairing the Disabled Fans Forum held in the Russell Allison Lounge beneath the Barclay. The event was attended by some 50 supporters, and Munby said the event was yet another illustration of Norwich City's commitment to providing affordable live football to all.

"It's a fundamental fact that fans comes first," he said. "It doesn't matter who the fans are - they come first. The fans and the team are like the hub and the wheel and all of us who work in and around the football club - myself, the board the executives, the full-time workers, the part-time workers, are the spokes.

"And the whole organisation is devoted to supporting and encouraging the fans and their relationship with their football team. Of course, disabled football supporters are no different. They are fans like everyone else and they merit being treated exactly as such."