ONE City player who is clearly enjoying a fresh lease of life under boss Paul Lambert is striker Jamie Cureton. The Carrow Road favourite may well have failed to find the back of the net as often as he would have liked but the arrival of Lambert as City boss has provided Cureton with a major confidence boost.

"It is nice to be back involved", said Cureton ahead of Monday's League One match away to MK Dons. "Until the manager change I felt I may probably have to leave to get football but since I've started all three league games so it really is so far so good."

Having rejoined the Club in the summer of 2007, Cureton is now playing under his fourth full-time City boss in that short period. However, this most recent change has certainly been to the 34-year-old striker's benefit.

"Once a new manager comes in they've got new ideas and you just hope you're part of his plans but this time the change has certainly helped me. I've now got to prove I'm good enough to stay in the team but it is just nice to be given that opportunity again."

Cureton confirmed he and his team-mates had been impressed by the way in which Lambert and his staff had gone about galvanising the City squad and getting their point across.

"He made it clear in the first week what he wanted, how he wanted us to play and what he expected of us a professionals. The boys have responded well to it and I think are enjoying it now."

Lambert was rumoured to have expressed an interest in taking him back to Colchester. Clearly a fan of the City striker, Lambert's arrival at Carrow Road could not have came at a better time for Cureton.

"The day he can in, on the Tuesday, I wasn't even in the squad when the boys went to Brentford but he made a point of coming up to me and telling me he wanted me in his plans.

"As a player when you hear that from the boss it gives you a big boost. So I knew he liked me as a player - so when he was appointed I'd a chance again."

After figuring in all three of City's Coca-Cola League One matches under Lambert, Cureton has played his part in helping City pick up seven points from a potential nine. A goal would just now be the icing on the cake.

"It has been a bit of a strange one, even in the 5-2 win I didn't get a chance where you think 'I should have taken that'.

"It was the same again at Hartlepool and again last Saturday but nothing has come to me. It would certainly be nice to get a chance, get on a goal trail and start banging them in. It is nice having the manger's backing and hopefully if a chance does fall I'll take it and we can go from there."

Now in the final year of his contract at Carrow Road, Cureton's desire to score goals for the Canaries remains as strong as ever.

"It would be nice in my last year to have a real good year and score lots of goals and help the Club to promotion, that would be a great year for me."