COULD Fearsome February become Fantastic February?

That’s what Town fans are asking themselves this week, although admittedly usually in slightly less hyperbolic terms.

The Blues’ resurgence during a tough month continued as they again impressed while drawing 1-1 at home to fifth-placed Leeds last Saturday.

Even without the suspended Tom Lawrence, Town were much the better team.

Freddie Sears, Lawrence’s replacement, netted a well-worked early opener and they might have added to their lead prior to Leeds grabbing an undeserved equaliser before half-time through Stuart Dallas.

In the second half, the visitors had a lot of the ball without doing much with it and the Blues, and in particular the otherwise superb David McGoldrick, had plenty of chances to win it but without managing to ripple Rob Green’s net a second time.

However, as has been the case for four games now, Town supporters went home happy, not just having seen their side compete against one of the division’s higher-flyers but having seen their side play some very decent football, a lack of style having been one of the major complaints during the Mick McCarthy era.

Confidence and self-belief, both on and off the field, appears to grow with every game and there’s no longer a feeling of trepidation going into matches against the Championship’s leading lights.

Indeed, following the draws with Reading, third when they visited Portman Road, and second-placed Brighton, and the win at Aston Villa, some fans were already expecting to get something from the Leeds match.

How quickly things change. Only a matter of weeks ago the only expectations were that a dull season was going to drift to an uninspiring end and that McCarthy would probably move on at the end of it.

After Saturday’s match, McCarthy put the revival down to the January addition of the likes of Emyr Huws and Toumani Diagouraga - defender Jordan Spence has also made an impact - as well as the return from injury of McGoldrick.

A winning goal was the only thing which was missing but the performance was still a very positive way to go into Sunday’s second East Anglian derby of the season at Carrow Road, the first in August at Portman Road having ended 1-1.

Only a month ago Town fans would have gone into the Sunday’s match with little hope of taking anything from it but now there’s a belief that their revitalised team might well be able to claim victory - or at least a draw - on enemy soil.

It’s fair to say that a Blues’ derby win is long overdue. The only current player to have been in a Norwich-vanquishing squad is Bartosz Bialkowski, who was an unused sub for Town’s last victory, the April 2009 3-2 victory at Portman Road, during a short loan spell at the club.

You have to go back to February 2006 for the last win at Carrow Road, the famous Hand of Haynes goal sealing a 2-1 victory, one of a number of occasions when Canary Crusher Danny Haynes proved the difference between the teams. How Town could do with a new derby hero emerging on Sunday.

Of course, on paper there should be only one winner. Norwich, relegated from the Premier League last season, have the significant advantage of many millions in parachute payments and consequently a much more expensively assembled squad.

However, they’ve had an inconsistent season and are currently eighth, seven points off the play-offs when the target was automatic promotion.

Their fans have remained unconvinced by their team and similarly sceptical about the abilities of manager Alex Neil.

Even so, Norwich’s home record has still been pretty formidable, won 11, drawn two and lost three, scoring 36 times, more than anyone else in the division, with their last defeat on Norfolk turf Huddersfield’s excellent live-on-Sky 2-1 win in mid-December.

But last week’s 2-1 defeat away against Burton was far from the ideal preparation for a derby, particularly against an opposition gaining in confidence.

So, can the Blues - again without suspended top scorer Lawrence - do it? If they play as they did against Leeds, Brighton, Villa and Reading then they’ve every chance of bringing back at least a point, and perhaps even the long-awaited win that would complete that Fantastic February.