GLENN Roeder blamed failure to put chances away for a 2-0 defeat at Coventry in a game the Canaries dominated for long spells.

Roeder said he was encouraged by some of the build-up play from a side featuring six players making their full debut for the Club - but angered by failure to convert any of several chances which fell the visitors' way.

He told First News: "We controlled most of the game and were like the home side for large periods, in control for the first half and for large periods of the second.  We created lots of chances but haven't taken them. This is only the first game of the season but it better not be like last year, being in total control of games and making loads of chances and missing them.

"I've counted seven or eight good chances to score and either poor technique or poor decision to have another touch instead of putting it in the back of the net has cost us. It's not secret that I'm looking to bring a target man in to the Club. I have identified who I want and hopefully that ill happen within the next seven days.

"When the new man is here there will be three other strikers fighting for one place playing alongside him. To get that place they will need to be putting chances away, making and scoring goals which is a forward's job simple as that."

Referee Colin Webster's decision to award a penalty to the home side for what he judged to be a foul by Sammy Clingan on Guillaume Beuzelin at the start of the second half was incorrect in Roeder's view: "There's no way it's a penalty and he be hugely disappointed when he sees it again.

"Goals change games.  Instead of us being a goal in front we were a goal behind although we had plenty of time to get back in the game.  We carried on creating chances to get back into the game, but we didn't take our chances.   The second goal just about summed up the way things went for us overall.  When the cross looks like it's going out but it drifts across the face of the crossbar and it's a one-yard tap in but Marshy has had nothing to do whatsoever.  But defensively I thought the boys did ever so well today."