Do you think Carrick still wants to manage us?

If Jones is fit, where does Forss play? Dare i say upfront and thats a big part of MCs plans for next year?
 
GibbosEmpire said:
Something just doesn't feel right within the club, over the last month we look a shadow of our former selves.
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People said the same in September.

We're on a bad run, January was tough and we've had two poor results in Feb. Not sure that would mean he wants to immediately leave.

I've no doubt at all he isn't thinking beyond June 2025 though, cos that's how managers/players tend to think now. The club shouldn't be either.
 
Yes.

I think there have been a lot of fans superimposing their own feelings on MC in the last month, assuming he feels just like they do, without any justification.

He's an intelligent guy, not the sort who throws his toys out when things get a little challenging.
 
GibbosEmpire said:
Something just doesn't feel right within the club, over the last month we look a shadow of our former selves.
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100% he wants to manage us. Enough of the conspiracy theories.. we've had half the squad out with injury and the playoffs are still within reach. Michael Carrick is a winner.. that 90 minute mentality.. when games are won. Sunderland and Bristol will have been a slap in the face.. but maybe the wake up call that we need. The fans need to be onside tho..

Being without players and yet trying to keep consistency with the team does seem like a sound plan.. short term loses for long term goals.. however it can paper over being fresh out of ideas. Hackney further up the pitch did not show a consistent approach.. we do have changes in the squad with the transfer window.. although it does remind me of the 2020/21 season.. the negative impact the new guys had with getting up to speed and then the added hinderance.. loosing key players.

RB Darnell Fisher <> Luke Ayling - shyt house master at right back
LW Yannick Bolasie <> Finn Azaz - flickers of promise, moved around, disrupts the flow
LW Neeskens Kebano <> Luke Thomas - fits in straight away
RW Nathanial Mendez Laing <> Matthew Hoppe - mad roll of the dice on a whopper

We lost Marcus Tavernier for the 2nd half of the season that year, much like selling Morgan Rogers with no replacement.

Dael Fry was out for the last 8 games and missed 4 games Jan/Feb (3 of which we lost)

We finished 10th on 64 points that season, 78 points were needed for 6th position

Bottom 3 were Wycombe (beat us 3-0 at home), Rotherham (beat us 3-0 at home) and Sheffield Wednesday (beat us 2-1 away)

Warnock himself wrote off the season early doors..
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those five loses in the last 9 games.. turned around would have done the job.. so it's not over.. it's far from over.

But we do need to learn lessons from season past..
 
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I do, I just think it's the usual issues stemming from bad form.

A few wins in a row and everything will feel rosier, it's just getting them that's the issue.
 
i think Carrick has lost his way a little bit, last season we had a settled side with very few injuries, the team hardly changed week win week out, this season has been impossible to put a settled team out, injuries have massively tested the squad but also Carrick's ability to get squad players in the right holes playing the way he wants to play. I found it really strange in his pre-bristol city press conference he mentioned he though Hackney did really well in the '10' role aganist Sunderland. I thought Hackney looked lost and had one his worse games in a Boro shirt. Carrick keeps saying about his options in the front 4 and the flexibility of players to adapt to diferrent positions, it just shouts out that he doesn't know how to get the right players in the correct positions to get the best out of them and the team, I understand the advantage of rotation of movement and flexibility in patterns of play, but footballers want to play in their preferred position, you don't get the best out of them 'doing a job' in a position they don't feel comfortable in. McGree on the bench is baffling. he's our best player, by a long way imho, there could still of course be a question on his fitness, but he has just been to a tournament where he played in games and trained fully, to me if he's fit enough to be on the bench he's should be fit enough to play from the off
 
It's a good question
Carrick didn't covet a management role in football. He'd had offers but was persuaded to come to us by SG.

I'd have to assume SG provided some kind of vision that MC really liked.
It's hard to imagine that vision included the transfer window we have just had.

Maybe, its all been explained to MC and he is ok with it or.... maybe not.
 
1finny said:
It's a good question
Carrick didn't covet a management role in football. He'd had offers but was persuaded to come to us by SG.

I'd have to assume SG provided some kind of vision that MC really liked.
It's hard to imagine that vision included the transfer window we have just had.

Maybe, its all been explained to MC and he is ok with it or.... maybe not.
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TBH, if Carrick came to a mid-table Championship club with limited resources expecting every transfer window to go exactly to plan, that was probably a bit unrealistic.
 
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