Norwich City staying grounded after Paul Lambert's side see off West Brom at The Hawthorns They may be in ninth place and seriously in-form but Lambert scoffs at suggestions of an attack on European places. No room for reminiscences of Norwich's finest continental hour, tipping Bayern Munich out of the Uefa Cup in 1993. It is Blackpool, rather than the mighty Bavarians, who Norwich are more likely to draw history lessons from. Blackpool won plenty of rave reviews during their maiden Premier League campaign last season, and were 10th this time last January but were still relegated on the final day. Blackpool last season showed how much things can turn around. If you haven't got the mentality and get ahead of yourselves in this league then you are going to stumble," said John Ruddy, Norwich's excellent goalkeeper. Everybody talks about the 40-point mark. We're only 12 points off that now and confident that if we keep playing like this we will get to that mark sooner rather than later. The manager won't allow us to think about safety, and he's brought a mentality where there's no big egos in the team. Norwich absorbed steady pressure from West Bromwich Albion and secured their third successive win with stunning breakaway goals from Andrew Surman and Steve Morison, who said: "There is a hell of a long way to go and we need to get to 40 points before the final six or seven games as we've got a tough run-in." It was another afternoon of Hawthorns frustrations for Albion, who have now managed just two wins from 11 matches in front of their own fans, scoring just eight times. Saturday's goal came from the penalty spot, calmly converted by recently arrived substitute Shane Long after Daniel Ayala had brought down Jerome Thomas. Long, whose side will be aiming to avoid an action replay when Norwich return for an FA Cup fourth round tie on Saturday week, said: "It's another sucker blow and it's hard to take. It looked like there was only going to be one winner after the equaliser. We are playing good football but it is just not clicking for us.