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Reason for CMS dip in form?
- Thread starter wallyback
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Common as Mook
Not Posh as Fook
- Jul 26, 2004
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Or, his injury interrupted his real form and is now out of form. I'm a glass half full kind of guy
I am too, sir. I genuinely hope I'm wrong, but to me, he doesn't look like a striker who is going to get us promoted. I'm not saying he's a league one striker, but he is massively overrated IMO.
supaseagull
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Its simple - we've gone from a more direct style of play we were playing at the start of the season to a more possession based game again. The former suits his style more than the possession game.
Hillian1
( . ) ( . )
This.
I'm not sure this is true. Tactics aside, the fact is that you need to be clinical at the top end of the game, and you wouldn't trust any of our strikers to score from the penalty spot at the moment, let alone a perfectly presentable one-on-one at our arch rivals.
deletebeepbeepbeep
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- May 12, 2009
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Worth noting he scored most of his goals early last season before not scoring again for months. Hope that's not the case this season.
I think a lot of his problems are related to pressure, he's our only striker that's scoring and he plays every game when fit, we need one of the others to take some of the pressure off him.
I think a lot of his problems are related to pressure, he's our only striker that's scoring and he plays every game when fit, we need one of the others to take some of the pressure off him.
ali jenkins
Thanks to Guinness Dave
The problem is that we are only creating 1 or 2 good chances a game. Not even Messi and Ronaldo score every chance that they get so to expect CMS and Barnes to do so is silly. At the start of the season we were creating loads of chances and they were both scoring goals.
deletebeepbeepbeep
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- May 12, 2009
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We are still creating a shit ton of chances like we did earlier this season they are just not being converted.
supaseagull
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...and that aswell lol
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
by everyone (with exception of buckers maybe)
True, but I don't think it's unreasonable that we concentrate specifically on what our £3m *striker* brings to the table in this respect.
Not defending him, indeed it's a limitation but they are "not his sort of chances" I think
His first touch is pretty rank so cuts out an intricate 1-2 stuff around the edge of the box ... he's not much good at getting on the the end of crosses (although he has converted a few good ones) and I think 90% of his game is latching on to the ball over the top or slid through the channel (per Barnes last Saturday which he f***ed up).
So he's a one (maybe) two trick pony ... we'll get more out of him if we play that way but it will limit all other opportunities and make us predictable.
I like the bloke but he's got to develop his game pretty sharpish I reckon
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Stumpy Tim
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Utter nonsense. Palace aside, we've been creating shit loads of chances
deletebeepbeepbeep
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- May 12, 2009
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He's almost 30.
Yeah I was going to say something about that but chose not to. There are examples of players developing (yet) further at his age but I accept they are in a large minority. I'm just trying to give him the benefit of the doubt ... he wouldn't have got any decent coaching at D&R and Posh probably made him worse with their "Charge!" approach to the game. When I was putting up my post I was just wondering if some decent coaching and focus could develop him. Hence using the word sharpish!
I still think he's got potential but it's getting increasingly difficult to have a meaningful argument to support that view
StonehamPark
#Brighton-Nil
Definitely. CMS is a poacher, not a typical striker, anyone can see this by watching his Peterborough 'Greatest Hits' on Youtube.
deletebeepbeepbeep
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- May 12, 2009
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I don't disagree that he's a good player and I like him a lot, as well as the Hoskins and Dobbie signings. They were all signings we have to be delighted with (I was beside myself with glee when we signed CMS, I can still remember where I was and what I was doing when I read twitter and all the rumours were coming out (SAD)), given the level of signings we were able to make for the 20 years previous to the last few years it would be wrong not to be happy with that, but for whatever reason they are unable to score with Poyet's tactics and to be honest I'm not exactly sure what sort of striker we need to resolve the situation.