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Victorious Hull get smarmy...we're stuck with Luke Varney

Leeds annual Christmas collapse continues with a 2-0 reversal at Hull, Neil Warnock made five changes to the side that performed so feebly on Boxing Day but today we were probably even worse than at Forest. At the end booing could be heard from the away end!

Warnock handed starts to Davide Somma, Ross McCormack, Aidy White, Jason Pearce and David Norris, leaving out Luciano Becchio, El Hadji Diouf who didn't even make the bench, Adam Drury, Rodolph Austin and Jerome Thomas. He also deployed a 3-5-2 formation and from the word go Leeds did not look comfortable.

Tate presented a one-on-one for Koren which he failed to take. On seven minutes, Leeds were sweating when Pearce looked like he'd felled Alunko.

The only chance Leeds seemed to have of nicking something came when Lees pounced on a McCormack half chance from a corner. Other than that, it was hide your eyes time as Hull piled on the pressure, a Faye header hit the side netting and Koren failed to connect to two perfect crosses from the right from Elmohamady.

Leeds went into the break with three yellow cards, White's means he faces a three-match ban, McCormack marked his return with a booking and surprise surprise Michael Brown's name was also taken.

The second half continued in a similar vain. Warnock brought on Luke Varney for Davide Somma, clearly not wanting to risk Becchio getting booked or he would have been out for three matches like White. It was no surprise when Hull took the lead on 52 minutes, Koren picked out Corry Evans and the Northern Ireland international drilled a low shot past Paddy Kenny.

Three minutes later, Hull doubled their lead when David Meyler headed home Brady's corner at the near post.

On the day that Leeds released their "half season ticket deal", a populist move to try and lure back the 6000 fans who have deserted the club in the past two seasons, could there really have been a worser advert?

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