Cardiff looked by far the better team, but despite having proven goal scorers in Michael Chopra, Jay Bothroyd and Craig Bellamy attacking the Tractor Boys' goal, they just couldn't find a way past in form keeper Marton Fulop.
Once the threat had been soaked up, Jimmy Bullard did what he does best and fired two screamers past his old pal, debutant keeper Stephen Bywater.
Bywater was drafted in on loan from Derby until the end of the season following injuries to three of Cardiff's stoppers, but it would be harsh to lay any blame at his door.
Bullard's first was an angled drive from thirty yards that by his own admission afterwards "just bobbled up nicely to be hit". The second was a free kick hit from the same distance, but in a more central position, that took a wicked deflected of midfielder Stephen McPhail as the defensive wall broke to close down.
Assistant boss Terry Burton was sent in to the press room to face the media and when he was asked where Jones was, he looked somber.
"I'm not sure whether I should be telling you this," he said straight faced. "But Dave's family has been abducted by aliens and so he has had to go and sort things out."
As it turned out, Jones had a function to attend with Chopra and so had merely asked Burton to cover for him.
Jewell jumped to the defence of his pal after Cardiff left the field to jeers from some home fans. He said:
"Dave Jones and his team are 3rd in the Championship and if he doesn`t know what he`s doing, then we might as well all go home. Some fans had a go and it`s madness. City will go up, I am convinced of that."
And Cardiff skipper Bellamy said: “If we had come out and been hesitant the crowd might have had the right to boo us, but that is the way football is if you don’t get the result we each want.
That’s not a problem though because if you pay your money you are entitled to say what you want. I did sense as players that we did not deserve that to be honest, but in this game you don’t always get what you deserve.
We moved the ball well, we were quick and we closed down well, but in football, not just in our league, you do need that first goal and I think if we had got that we would have gone on to win comfortably."
And they might have had that first goal if defender Dekel Keinan's first half header hadn't been ruled offside. Burton said:
"“Sometimes you have to wonder if there is some sort of conspiracy going on. We do not seem to get many decisions. We have had a legitimate goal disallowed for offside when most other sides will get it because there was only a pair of shorts between the players.”
But Burton said:
"We are gutted. We don’t like to lose any game but when you look at the performance it did not warrant a 2-0 defeat.
I don’t think anyone will say we deserved to lose that 2-0. They got their goal and it gave them something to hold on to, we had to try and break them down then. We would have liked to kick on with more chances after they scored, but we had enough in the first half and we should have put one of them away.”
My clipping from this morning's copy of The Sun
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On the way home I bumped into the Plymouth lads who were lining up for a KFC with me on the services on the M5 and were in buoyant mood after their win at Sheffield Wednesday. We had a chat about the sides they were doing battle with at the foot of League One and they are certainly up for the fight despite their off-field problems. Swindon should take note before Tuesday's game!
Song artist: Simon and Garfunkel
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