Town’s penultimate home game of the season against Fulham remains 0-0 at half-time.
Sixteen-year-old Andre Dozzell was handed his full debut, while Cole Skuse and Brett Pitman returned to the Town line-up and Kevin Bru, Kevin Foley and David McGoldrick dropped to the bench.
The Blues started with Dozzell in a central midfield three ahead of Skuse and Jonathan Douglas, with Liam Feeney on the right Freddie Sears on the left of Pitman up front.
Former Town loanees Richard Stearman and Ryan Tunnicliffe started for the Cottagers at right-back and in midfield respectively.
Neither side threatened in the early stages, although the Blues saw most of the ball. On 12 Dozzell fed Feeney to his right and the on-loan Bolton man sent over a cross towards Pitman, who claimed he was fouled but referee Paul Tierney showed no interest.
A minute later, Sears crossed low from the left to Dozzell, but he was unable to find Douglas with his lay-off.
Fulham subsequently broke down the Town left but Ross McCormack’s cross was too deep and Jonas Knudsen saw it out of play. On 19 Moussa Dembele shot powerfully wide from just outside the Blues area.
Chances continued to be far and few between but on 34 the Cottagers almost went in front. Ex-Blues loanee Ryan Tunnicliffe was played in on goal by Lasse Vigen Christiansen and tried to stab the ball past Bialkowski, who did superbly to get an arm down to his left to divert it wide.
Four minutes later Fulham skipper Scott Parker caught Douglas in possession midway inside the Town half and found Dembele, who took the ball into the area before shooting well over.
Referee Tierney ended what had been a hardly enthralling half after one additional minute.
It had been a 45 minutes typical of an end of season game between two teams with nothing left to play for.
Fulham came closest to scoring when Bialkowski saved from Tunnicliffe, while the Blues had seen a fair amount of the ball but without being able to create any serious opportunities.
Town’s biggest threat had been Feeney crosses from the right but too many of them flew behind.
Full debutant Dozzell, had shown one or two nice touches and had got into the box on a number of occasions as he looked to add to Saturday’s goal at Sheffield Wednesday.
Town: Bialkowski, Chambers (c), Smith, Berra, Knudsen, Douglas, Skuse, Dozzell, Feeney, Sears, Pitman. Subs: Gerken, McGoldrick, Bru, Hyam, Kenlock, Digby, Foley.
Fulham: Bettinelli, Stearman, Hutchinson, Burn, Ream, Tunnicliffe, Parker (c), Ince, Christensen, McCormack, Dembele. Subs: Lonergan, Garbutt, Fredericks, Smith, Cairney, Woodrow, Baird. Referee: Paul Tierney (Lancashire).