Cardiff City 0 - West Bromwich Albion 0

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Brendan Clegg:

For me that was the kind of frustrating unambitious rubbish that sums up our season.

The starting lineup was okay given Molumby was ill, although a return to AA up front alone when it's been proven to be ineffective was a bit... boring. Personally I could see the logic of picking Grant over MJ for the battle... but I'd rather have left Mowatt out, dropped Price deeper and played MJ behind the striker in a free-hit game.

We were just about okay in the first half but no more than that. Cardiff were and are absolutely desperate. So bad that they were there for the taking... there to put under pressure and I found it a bit unbelievable that given the Luton result against Coventry, we were so flat/calm/pedestrian. As a player I'd be wanting to smash them 4-0 but instead we defaulted to the usual... Mowatt dropping deep and us playing superficially okay possession football between our back 4 and our deep midfielder.

One of the things that Ajayi forces on this team is that he cannot help but open his legs, carry the ball and keep running until, rabbit-in-the-headlights-like, he has to pass it forward. Here it was the usual trot to the halfway line... pass it sideways and backwards.

When we did get into good areas the quality was just poor - cheaply given away by Price, Grant, Styles, Fellows and Armstrong who all, undeniably, worked hard but who were rushed, made poor choices or just ran into trouble.

We created enough chances to score had we had any composure... we also got lucky with goal-line clearances and Griffiths doing a decent job.

At halftime I thought - we have nothing to lose... let's get another striker on and just get the ball up there.

Instead it was like it has been so many times this season. We came out flat. Happy to be nil-nil. No urgency to go and win a very winnable game... letting the minutes tick by without concerns. Our opponents, who were terrible, could not believe how passive we were and just by running around and aimlessly putting the ball into our box should have scored in one passage of play where they proved to be even more inept in front of goal than we are... and again Griffiths showing a bit of promise.

Changes were obviously needed as by now we were largely comatose but rather than Lankshear or Dike it was Wallace who came on for Price. Now, as much as Price ran about and tried I'm afraid he was woeful on the ball and, for a player aspiring to be at EPL level his wild cross at Armstrong when we were gifted a 2 v 1 summed it up more than his over hit attempts to find Fellows for most of the game. BUT the kid has legs, and taking him off with no other centre midfield options meant we were doomed to play the game at the pace of Mowatt who was the slowest player on the pitch.

No truck with Wallace... he fights and tries even though the legs are gone but it was hardly ambitious.

AA missed an absolute sitter having been put through put taken an age to shoot or square for Grant for a tap in... and eventually Dike and MJ were given so few minutes in a game where our season wasn't totally dead just summed up the apathy and lack of ambition. Why not chuck everyone on and go for it? At least we'd have been entertained. A win would have ridiculously taken it to the last day. I'd have been sending the bloody defenders forward but instead we got the usual sideways crap and short goal-kicks as we went into added time.

Cardiff might have won it with their own laboured forays into our half but they were so bad that had this been a game of Russian Roulette with every chamber loaded, we'd both have survived.

Mozza's after match was fair but also a bit yawn, paraphrased as "I played the way we have all season and we got the same results which is the story of our season". He'll get a bit of a pass from me because we did scrap and battle and he's had little time to change much.

I guess, having listened to the Liquidator Live afterwards, that I'm in the minority of being absolutely livid that we didn't chuck the kitchen sink at it. Had we lost through cavalier, would anyone have cared more? Would anyone have even noticed? Just end it now... please.

• Griffiths - 7 Probably his best game, which is great.
• Furlong - 6 Actually defended well.
• Bartley - 6 Solid enough, put his head on things.
• Heggem - 6 Same. Occasionally got so bored he had a bit of a gallop.
• Styles - 5 On the ball was absolutely terrible and gave away moronic free kicks.
• Mowatt - 5 Bored me to death.
• Diakite - 6 Performed the role but needs more around him.
• Fellows - 6 One or two moments where he created and we fluffed it.
• Price - 5 Loved his energy but honestly on the ball he was wild. Young enough to get better.
• Grant - 5 Fight, energy... but absolutely trampoline feet. We're finishing where we are for a reason.
• AA - 5 A bit of a threat but also you have to be scoring those. Still can't believe how bad he's been.

• Wallace - 6 Had a go but never had the pace or quality to hurt the worst team in the league.
• MJ and Dike - No time to get involved.

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