You could never fault his effort. Most fans don't really mind if a player is shit as long as he's trying his best.
Personally I think CMS is shit but I'm always desperate for the guy to prove me wrong - he seems a very decent sort, especially for a professional footballer.
He puts a lot of effort in. Fans can't abide a lazy player or one that is perceived to be lazy.
You could never fault his effort. Most fans don't really mind if a player is shit as long as he's trying his best.
Because he runs a lot?
Please tell me what else he adds?
He came on, fell over, Miscontrolled it, and was certainly no better than Best...
I'm confused.
More worryingly from the article in the Argus by Bloom last week, it appears he still rates CMS. Not enough to give him a new deal I hope..
CMS doesn't get grief from me, because I don't see him as a lone striker.
He is a player (like Baldock) who has made his name playing as one of a pair, yet we have either stuck him up front on his own and isolated him pumping ball into his head against centre halves 12 inches taller than him, or played him out wide. He is not that sort of player.
If he played regularly up front as one of a front pair (not just 10 or 15 minutes when we are chasing a game), and he still didn't produce results, then I think he would get a lot more stick than he does.
But as not one of our managers has played to his strength, that's why I think it's unfair to judge him.