Cardiff City have to talented youngsters

And despite everything that's just gone wrong, they also possess a generational crop of talented young players who the future needs to be built around.

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That future can yet be blue.

For way too much time the dressing room, in my view, appears to have been dominated by under-performing senior stars.

That needs to be turned totally on its head. Make the young guns the new kingpins, let them grow together, in League One, then hopefully the Championship again and one day perhaps even the Premier League.

Let the effervescence, enthusiasm, pace and no-fear approach they offer become the nucleus of the side.

Supplement them with four or five key summer signings, men to do a man’s job in the uncompromising nature of League One football.

Rubin Colwill needs to be given the keys to No.10, possibly even indulged - and then he needs to deliver, in terms of goals and assists.

We want the kind of swagger we saw earlier in the season, not the timid displays witnessed towards the end, the sign of a player whose confidence has been completely knocked out of him.

Being told the team is being built around him might bring greater responsibility on a more regular basis. Colwill played very well at Norwich, to be fair.

Joel Colwill will return a better player from his loan spells away with Cheltenham and Exeter City.

Some shrewd judges tell me he'll be even better than Rubin. We'll see, but his athleticism, energy and ability also has to be part of the Cardiff midfield mix next season and beyond.

Cian Ashford and Isaak Davies offer the flair and pace the Bluebirds have missed so often on the wing. They are key parts of the jigsaw, too.

Yousef Salech, if Cardiff can keep him, can be a 20-goal a season man. Alex Robertson, if they can keep him too, can prove a midfield dynamo with the right set-up around him.

Will Fish looked the club's best centre-back at times this season.