Rosenior

[Madstad to Nadderud]

Coppell undid everything he achieved - the second half of last season proves that and Rodgers is rebuilding and doing a reasonable job, Cummings being one blip.

You really don't have a clue do you?!

[runrunrunrungilksey]

He was Ipswich's best player today

[Royalee]

No need for his gesture towards east stand 1st half though. Ok he may of got absue but you have to live with it especially when it was self inflicted prior to the game!!

Missed that, what did he do?

[Terminal Boardom]

And how much did Jonny Fordham make up?

Sounds as if Liam was extremely pissed off with some shallow parochial journalism. He was MOM yesterday and gave us an example of what we are missing.

Good luck for the future Liam. I am sure you will be playing Championship football at the very least next season. I can't say the same about us.

[Ian Royal]

Bang out of order Moo.

[Ferris]

http://www.getreading.co.uk/sport/footb ... e_playoffs

Liam Rosenior insists his former club have enough quality to climb out of the relegation zone and launch an unlikely play-off bid.

Reading outplayed Rosenior’s Ipswich Town side for large periods of Saturday’s 1-1 draw and the Tractor Boys were forced to hold on for a point in the second half.

And the 25-year-old believes Brendan Rodgers’ team can make up the 13-point gap to the play-off positions.

He said: “They played really well, as they did against Leicester. We watched videos of that match before our game and the boys here deserve more than they are getting. They’re a bit like us. They should be turning draws into wins and losses into draws, and it will turn if they keep playing the right way.

“At Reading last year we were 12 points behind Wolves at one stage and five games later we were a point behind them. That’s the Championship.

“If Ipswich and Reading can go on a run then I still think we can get into the play-offs. Fifteen points is only five wins and there are 30 games to go. That has to be the aim of both clubs this season.

“Last season Reading didn’t win at home in their last nine games and yet we still could have gone up on the last game.

“If you put a run together then you can get there – just like Burnley, Hull and Crystal Palace have done.”

Despite receiving a mixed reaction from the Madejski crowd, the defender admitted he enjoyed his return to the club that he joined from Fulham in 2007.

Rosenior joked: “I was getting booed last season when I was playing for them so I was expecting it. I have nothing but respect, though, for the fans here.

“I had a bit of banter with them and I hope they don’t take it too seriously. It was nice to come back and see a few friendly faces. It was a great club to play for.

“It is emotional. I said my time here was disappointing because we got relegated and didn’t get promoted and it was a shame.

“The club has been great to me and gave me the opportunity to play in the Premier League and I was devastated to not go up last year.

“I think it is a really good club, the chairman runs it really well. They have a great manager and the performances the boys are putting in and they have just been a bit unlucky, just like last season at home.”

Rosenior was faced with the task of containing September’s Reading Post player-of-the-month Gylfi Sigurdsson and he kept the Iceland Under-21 international relatively quite, but Rosenior believes Sigurdsson has a big future in the game.

“Gylfi is going to be an unbelievable player,”he said.

“He has two great feet and has wonderful technique and can shoot from anywhere. Alex Pearce, Jem (Karacan), there are so many good players here and I think the right man is in the job. Brendan will make them into good players.

“Training is unbelievable and he makes players better than they are. I was a better player in the two months that I was here with him, so imagine the young lads after two years here.”

The 1-1 draw did neither side a favour as Royals dropped into the drop zone alongside their opponents and Rosenior admits both teams are underperforming given the talent at their disposal.

He added: “You look at our squad and you look at Reading’s and we are both under-achieving.

“When I was still here I was really confident that we would still be up there. I said to the manager ‘I don’t see why we shouldn’t be going for promotion, the young lads are good enough’ and I stand by that.

“Reading haven’t won here since January and if you went over every game then 90-per-cent of those they should have done. If you keep doing the right things then your luck will change.”

[brendywendy]

i like him again now

[Gordons Cumming]

i like him again now

[Ian Royal]

I see he's still full of shit.

[Smoking Kills Dancing Doe]

If your a local journo you'd just have him on speed dial.

Slow news week? Need a story? Call Liam Rosenior. Full of shite 24/7.....

[RoyalBlue]

The thing is, intelligent and articulate professional footballers are a pretty rare breed. Therefore, when one pops up, the average fan seems to have difficulty coping with it.

Kitson was one example, Rosenior is another. I'm sure that, unlike many of their fellow professionals, they will not be at all worried by a few supporters who are unable to articulate the same level of argument and therefore resort to cheap insults.

I reckon there's quite a good chance that when his playing career is over, Rosenior will develop into a very successful coach/manager - cue more small-minded insults along the lines of 'What, like his father! '

[Ian Royal]

The thing is, intelligent and articulate professional footballers are a pretty rare breed. Therefore, when one pops up, the average fan seems to have difficulty coping with it.

Kitson was one example, Rosenior is another. I'm sure that, unlike many of their fellow professionals, they will not be at all worried by a few supporters who are unable to articulate the same level of argument and therefore resort to cheap insults.

I reckon there's quite a good chance that when his playing career is over, Rosenior will develop into a very successful coach/manager - cue more small-minded insults along the lines of 'What, like his father! '

Rosenior is not in any way comparable to Kitson in terms of eloquence, articularity or intelligence.

[Smoking Kills Dancing Doe]

Kitson said things that were different.

Rosenior says everything you'd expect him to say.

He's not really smart, just media savey. Which he understandable considering who his Dad is.

[Terminal Boardom]

Kitson said things that were different.

Rosenior says everything you'd expect him to say.

He's not really smart, just media savey. Which he understandable considering who his Dad is.

Mick Gooding said after the game last Saturday that he wasn't sure about Liam. He felt that he was just a little too deliberate with his dealings with the media and was not as spontaneous as he could have been.

[brendywendy]

i like him again now

Derr

[Ferris]

brain

[brendywendy]

[BB104]

No need for his gesture towards east stand 1st half though. Ok he may of got absue but you have to live with it especially when it was self inflicted prior to the game!!

This may be going a bit off topic, but I have no problem with players gesturing to the crowd. Two examples spring to mind:

Cardiff - Boxing Day. Doobs had taken all kinds of racial and other abuse from the South Wales scumbags for an hour. What would you do? - go and rub it in their faces.

Man City v Arsenal: Adebayor - had taken racial abuse and comments about his parents all the game long. God, I'd have run the length of the pitch to stick it up them. And gladly taken a ban.

Fans dish it out big time, but when a player does it back it's "Oh that nasty, overpaid man just insulted me!"

If you dish it out - be prepared to get it back and live with it!

(Sorry - prob should be in AE)

[RobRoyal]

No need for his gesture towards east stand 1st half though. Ok he may of got absue but you have to live with it especially when it was self inflicted prior to the game!!

This may be going a bit off topic, but I have no problem with players gesturing to the crowd. Two examples spring to mind:

Cardiff - Boxing Day. Doobs had taken all kinds of racial and other abuse from the South Wales scumbags for an hour. What would you do? - go and rub it in their faces.

Man City v Arsenal: Adebayor - had taken racial abuse and comments about his parents all the game long. God, I'd have run the length of the pitch to stick it up them. And gladly taken a ban.

Fans dish it out big time, but when a player does it back it's "Oh that nasty, overpaid man just insulted me!"

If you dish it out - be prepared to get it back and live with it!

(Sorry - prob should be in AE)

Plus one.

[juanpablo]

The thing is, intelligent and articulate professional footballers are a pretty rare breed. Therefore, when one pops up, the average fan seems to have difficulty coping with it.

Kitson was one example, Rosenior is another. I'm sure that, unlike many of their fellow professionals, they will not be at all worried by a few supporters who are unable to articulate the same level of argument and therefore resort to cheap insults.

I reckon there's quite a good chance that when his playing career is over, Rosenior will develop into a very successful coach/manager - cue more small-minded insults along the lines of 'What, like his father! '

Rosenior is not in any way comparable to Kitson in terms of eloquence, articularity or intelligence.

yes banned for drink driving what a clever man


oh I forgot he used to stack shelves in a supermarket

genius