Liam Rosenior’s demand of Hull City players as MKM crowd request made
City are back in action this Friday in the first of nine games remaining in the campaign
Liam Rosenior has told his players to relish the opportunity ahead of them, while calling on supporters to create an atmosphere befitting of the excitement building around a potential push for a Wembley play-off final. Nine games stand between City and the chance to shoot it out in the play-offs for a chance to return to the Premier League.
City have returned to England after their week-long training trip to Antalya and are now well underway with their preparations for the visit of Stoke City on Friday afternoon, before taking on Leeds United at Elland Road on Easter Monday. From there, City face games against Cardiff, QPR, Middlesbrough, Watford, Coventry City, Ipswich Town and then Plymouth Argyle on the final day in what is now a nine-game mini-league between at least five clubs fighting for a play-off berth.
It’s the first time since City won promotion from the Championship in 2015/16 that the Tigers are going into the final stages of the season with a chance of winning promotion to the Premier League.
Rosenior, who was part of that promotion-winning squad under Steve Bruce, says the position the players have got themselves into is one to relish, and one to be excited about, and urged the fans to create an atmosphere at the MKM Stadium that reflects that.
“It’s been nice and refocused and reenergized (during the break), and I’m really excited now, this is the exciting part of the season,” Rosenior told Hull Live. “We’re in a great position, we had our international players back today, which is really nice to see them and, yes, back to work and back to doing what we love to do. It was exactly what we wanted. The players had some really, really good times together. We had some really, really good open conversations, not just about football.
