Leeds 0 Derby 2: Bad boy Brown sent off as bogey side add to Warnock's home woes

Mail 9/4/12

By John Edwards
Neil Warnock faces one of the busiest summers of his managerial career if he is to achieve his goal of promotion before signing off at Elland Road next season.
With retirement beckoning at the end of his short-term Leeds contract, Warnock knows he has little time to build a squad fit for the Barclays Premier League and admits he is using the rest of this season to decide on individual futures.
Chairman Ken Bates put it more bluntly in his programme notes, claiming: 'The players are beginning to fall into three categories: 1 Keep, 2 Get Rid, 3 Undecided.'
Category two is in danger of being oversubscribed, judging by the evidence of a third successive defeat riddled with defensive shortcomings, basic errors and more indiscipline.
An eighth red card of Michael Brown's career, for a high challenge on Theo Robinson, was Leeds's third in as many games and left them a man short for 64 minutes.
Given Jake Buxton and Nathan Tyson squandered two glaring chances after barely a minute and Tyson steered a close-range header wide soon after it is debatable if it would have made much difference if Brown had stayed on.
The 10 men went behind to Craig Bryson's 25-yard curler in the 32nd minute before substitute Steven Davies doubled Derby's lead in the 66th minute with a low finish.
Leeds could muster little in reply, other than a Ross McCormack header that Frank Fielding turned away at full stretch, and Warnock said: 'A lot of the players know they won't be here next season. There weren't enough Leeds players out there, ones who revel in the atmosphere here.
'That will change, though, and I said to Nigel Clough at the end, "Enjoy it, because you will never see another Leeds or Warnock team like this one".'
Derby manager Clough said: 'If the season had an extra four games to go, maybe we'd have a chance of the play-offs, but we might just run out of time.'

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