SPEAKING at the official start to City's pre-season training, new recruit Owain Tudur Jones says he is looking forward to life with the Canaries.

The midfielder, Bryan Gunn's second summer signing, has this week joined up with his new colleagues at the Colney Training Centre to prepare for the forthcoming friendly matches and the League One campaign which commences on August 8.

Tudur Jones told canaries.co.uk it has already been a busy start to his Canary career: "I've only been here a couple of days so am still trying to find my feet, but it's good to get back into training and get to know the players, the coaching staff and see how the Club works. I'm also busy on the internet after training with trying to find houses - so it's all go at the moment."

On the start to pre-season training, he added: "It's been OK, we're slowly getting into it. We've had fitness testing on Monday and Tuesday and we started for real on Wednesday and there's going to be a few stiff bodies probably, so it will get tougher. But I think all the players are looking forward to when the games start and that's what the players are used to."

The 24-year-old joined the Canaries last month from Championship Swansea City, but had no concerns in making the decision to drop down a division and sign for City: "I think it's a very big club and there are the cliches about it being too big club to be where they're at, but we are in League One for a reason and it's about being a part of the achievement of trying to get back up to the Championship. It's not going to be easy but the management are working hard to get the right squad that are mentally and physically prepared for a long hard season."

He continued: "I think you look at the situation, you see where Norwich has been in the last few years. What you hope is they've reached rock bottom and the only way is up now. It's certainly not going to be easy getting out of this division and there will be other teams with similar aspirations, but it's about getting the lads together, a good bunch who are going to work hard for each other, week-in week-out and we'll see where that takes us."

And asked whether the new lads would make a difference to the squad and be a breath of fresh air, the Welshman said: "I think all the new players will try and have that influence. Players like myself and Michael Nelson who have played at this level where people at the Club already might not have. It's about having that little bit of knowledge of going to not some of the nicest places in the middle of winter and knowing how to grind out results."

He added: "Norwich is going to be a bit of a scalp for most of the teams but I think the good thing about that is there's a few now.  Leeds have had it, it's just been them for the last few years but now there's Leeds, us, Southampton, Charlton - there's a few different scalps now and that will hopefully take a little bit of the pressure away but it's certainly not going to be easy."