Five conclusions: Cambridge, Cartwright and more capitulation

Resignation and apathy have taken hold. The end of the season cannot come soon enough

1. The biggest indictment of Huddersfield Town is that this was no surprise at all

There was a moment in the first half when Jonathan Hogg took control of the ball and played a pass to nobody. It went straight out for a Cambridge throw, and rather than the usual chorus of frustrated moans and groans, the crowd let out a far more damning sound: laughter.

Town are now so predictably awful that they’ve passed through the same threshold Southampton did earlier this season. Half the fans in the John Smith’s Stadium were clearly past caring one way or the other, turning up out of obligation in the absence of anything better to do on Good Friday.

To be clear, a sense of resignation is entirely fair. The fans are taking their cue from the players, who look like they have given up on themselves, given up on the play-offs, and given up on offering the supporters anything in return for their patient loyalty.

Holding onto only a point after Josh Koroma’s late equaliser would have been disappointing. Going on to lose to a second cheap Cambridge goal elicited nothing more than, yeah, feels about right. By now it defies all laws of nature for Town to do anything more than fall to another dismal capitulation.

2. Mark Cartwright’s dismissal was equally inevitable