Leeds slipped to an embarrassing home defeat to Huddersfield Town. Despite a huge promotion for us fans to "paint it white", it was the dog botherers who earned their own flag day in their traditional big day-out.

Leeds were without the injured Steve Morison and Ross McCormack was advised not to play following a head-injury, this meant a much eagerly anticipated start for on-loan striker Habib Habibou and a recall for Rodolph Austin.

Alex Smithies was the busier keeper early doors, saving well from Diouf and relieved to see a Varney header hit the post. At the other end Vaughan clipped the post as the half ended goalless. Kenny also had to make a decent save from former Leeds striker Danny Ward, well according to wiki we took him from Bradford's youth team and in turn he moved on to Bolon which we were compensated for before arriving in a £1m deal at Huddersfield last summer.

But on 53 minutes, the 1600 visiting fans had something to finally shout about when they took the lead. Neil Danns, on loan from Leicester capitalised on some sloppy defending put Huddersfield in front kicking towards the Gelderd End Leeds traditionally like to attack on the second half.

Warnock withdrew the ineffectual Habibou, who despite showing some decent touches didn't look like scoring and on 59 minutes it looked to be a inspired substitution when his replacement Aidy White got on the end of a long punt from Tom Lees to draw Leeds level.

Leeds were left cursing when both Austin and fellow sub Ryan Hall drew fine saves from Smithies and just when we were facing up to the disappointment of not closing the gap in the play-off race significantly, all three points were surrendered when James Vaughan easily advanced through the cavern left from two backing off defenders and squirmed the ball past Kenny for an 86th minute winner.

Hopefully now our play-off hopes are truly dead and buried, but thanks to stuttering Leicester City the gap has widened to just seven points. I sincerely hope we start looking at the bigger picture now, the Warnock experiment has failed and as LUFC/GFHC send out or season-ticket renewal demands, albeit generously reduced then we need to see some fast evidence of long-term future planning.

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