Is CMS just huff and puff?

[Deano's Invisible Pants]

It pains me to say it, but overall he has been a disappointment. Yes, his work rate is tremendous. Yes, in some games the service hasn't been great. But he's had a hatful of chances in recent games and his finishing has been less than what you would expect from a £2.5m striker. Saying that, it's too early to write him off - he seems a great bloke on and off the pitch and I hope he comes good.

 

[BLOCK F]

No ,not just a huff and puff merchant,but is he worth £2.5m. ? Jury is out for me,but it has to be said,we are not playing to his strengths.
Should have put a few more away than he has done though!

 

[BLOCK F]

No ,not just a huff and puff merchant,but is he worth £2.5m. ? Jury is out for me,but it has to be said,we are not playing to his strengths.
Should have put a few more away than he has done though!



So good I said it twice!!!

 

[Steveapps71]

Think without his work rate/goals we would be looking down in the league table rather than up (hopefully)
He will be an Albion legend, if we can hang onto him.

 

[Dandyman]

Interesting that most of us seem to agree that CMS is being starved of service and that playing one up front is not paying dividends.

Is January the opportunity to find another striker or does the team just need re-jigging to ensure that someone plays off the front man ?

 

[BensGrandad]

Hopefully he will get his scoring boots on very soon even if it is against Wrexham and that will raise his confidence and he will go on to have a very good 2nd half of the season.

 

[ferring seagull]

It pains me to say it, but overall he has been a disappointment. Yes, his work rate is tremendous. Yes, in some games the service hasn't been great. But he's had a hatful of chances in recent games and his finishing has been less than what you would expect from a £2.5m striker. Saying that, it's too early to write him off - he seems a great bloke on and off the pitch and I hope he comes good.

He is a great bloke and who can argue he ever gives less than 100%.

Sadly, he is a striker and his problem, to me, seems to be that he has to create his own chances most of the time and by the time he has carried the ball that 40 yards, weaving or whatever, and no-one nearby to help, he is not then at his sharpest to actually 'strike' . Alternatively, he is on the end of a ball rapidly going away from him at an angle where he has no chance of finishing.

God, I hope we can keep him !

 

[The judge]

Is he a naughty boy or the Messiah?

Sent by yolk folk

He's not the Messiah he's a very naughty boy !!!

 

[middletoenail]

Hopefully he will get his scoring boots on very soon even if it is against Wrexham and that will raise his confidence and he will go on to have a very good 2nd half of the season.

I hope we rest him vs Wrexham!

 

[The Peanut Roaster]

CMS reminds me of my current sex life.

We all know how good he is given a decent partner, but at the moment he's assisting himself too much for his own good.

 

[Driver8]

CMS reminds me of my current sex life.

We all know how good he is given a decent partner, but at the moment he's assisting himself too much for his own good.

Billy Paynter reminds me of mine. Not very good and can't see it improving.

 

[The Peanut Roaster]

Billy Paynter reminds me of mine. Not very good and can't see it improving.

So both of you haven't had a jump for a while.

 

[Goring Gull]

Best player we have by a long, long way - If the other players could actually get a decent ball through to him........

 

[Arkwright]

[WIKI][/WIKI]

Think without his work rate/goals we would be looking down in the league table rather than up (hopefully)
He will be an Albion legend, if we can hang onto him.

I don't think we will have any problems hanging on to CMS, at least not for the price tag we purchased him for.

 

[bhawoddy]

Hopefully he will get his scoring boots on very soon even if it is against Wrexham and that will raise his confidence and he will go on to have a very good 2nd half of the season.

I think your missing the overall problem. Nothing wrong with CMS apart from service and a strike partner.

 

[aolstudios]

He is a great bloke and who can argue he ever gives less than 100%.

Sadly, he is a striker and his problem, to me, seems to be that he has to create his own chances most of the time and by the time he has carried the ball that 40 yards, weaving or whatever, and no-one nearby to help, he is not then at his sharpest to actually 'strike' . Alternatively, he is on the end of a ball rapidly going away from him at an angle where he has no chance of finishing.

God, I hope we can keep him !

All of this. Seconded

 

[Gullys Cats]

CMS reminds me of my current sex life.

We all know how good he is given a decent partner, but at the moment he's assisting himself too much for his own good.

 

[Seagull on the wing]

He was worth every penny we paid for him,does the work of two men,at Reading he chased a ball giving the Reading defender a 3 yard start...and still got to the ball,get a Boyd type ploayer and he will be banging them in again.

 

[Deano's Invisible Pants]

Best player we have by a long, long way - If the other players could actually get a decent ball through to him........

Sorry GG, but were you at the game yesterday? He had some great balls into him (especially once Noone came on) and missed two absolute sitters in the 2nd half. As I said further up, he's a great bloke who contributes a hulluva lot on the pitch, but as Greer said, 'goals change games'. CMS is not scoring goals at the moment and that's primarily what we spent £2.5m for. His track recrd suggests its a problem of form rather than quality, so let's hope he starts delivering soon.

 

[7:18]

It's like having a Ferrari in the garage and refusing to put petrol in the engine

fantastic analogy!