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Might want to re-examine your post/requote matey. Was in now way dressing CMS up as a handful for defenders. Quite the opposite in fact.. :shrug:

The pointless running about all over the place to little effect in the 2nd half v Southampton didn't exactly install confidence that his game had changed in any way tho eh?

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Quite. For a couple of consecutive seasons during the CMS era their figures used to read something ludicrous like Goals For: 100 Goals Against: 100 :lol:

It's unbelievable why? Because CMS lack of positional sense worked in our favour bigtime on one occasion? Ashley Barnes has a striker's instinctive positional sense and is still improving. CMS doesn't and isn't. IMHO, like.

That bloke out by the corner flag you mean? We were all obviously grateful for the cross, but what the f*ck was he doing out there in the first place? In the dying seconds, you'd like to think he'd have been in the box, looking for a knock-down or something. Barnes would have been. Sort of says...

CMS whole game is based on running onto a through ball past flat-footed defenders. Might work in League One but not enough flat-footed defenders in the Championship for him to be very effective.