Norwich City signed 24year old left-sided midfielder Simon Lappin from St Mirren on 31st January 2007 for a fee of approxinmately £75,000. He made his City debut in the 2-1 home win over Leeds United on 3rd February 2007. Lappin had made 158 appearances for St Mirren before his transfer and had been with Motherwell as a yougnster.

Manager Peter Grant said: “Simon is a boy who has been doing very well with St Mirren. He's a natural left-sided boy, he can cover the full area of the left-hand side of the pitch and he can also play in midfield. He's a natural left-footer, and an under-21 international. I felt for the value we were getting for him it was too good an opportunity to miss. I was asking in Scotland about the left-siders and his name kept appearing - his was one name that kept coming up. Everybody spoke very highly of him.”

Lappin scored his first goal for the Canaries when he struck a 90th minute free-kick to make the score 3-2 to Norwich in their 27th February 2007 clash against Luton at Kenilworth Road.

Althoug Lappin had made 33 appearances for Norwich by January 2008, he had fallen out of favour with new manager Glenn Roeder and was loaned out to Motherwell until the end of the 2007/8 season

Lappin returned to the Norwich first team under new manager Bryan Gunn in the early part of 2009 and was rewarded with a new two year contract on 29th June 2009. He made 50 appearances in 2009/10 as the Canaries won the League One title.

Lappin signed a new contract with City on 10th January 2011 extending his stay in Norwich until June 2013. He played a key role, making 30 appearances, as Norwich won promotion in 2011/12 to the Premiership