Carrick, Woodgate et al have gone!

[boroie 558 1.4k]

I feel most of us, myself included, think we are better than we are deserve more than we do. I'm done with that illusion and ready for an even more prolonged period of mediocrity. I'd keep him.

What will probably happen is that he gets to start the season and gets the sack as soon as the transfer window closes, then we kneejerk to a manager with a completely different philosophy requiring months of using wrong players before an expensive rip up in January. 

[Nobby Barnes 679 1.2k]

Guys I'm out in Harrogate, I'm not certain I'm going to survive this...hic

PS Got my tickets for The Crucible 2026 Quarter Finals hope you did RiseAgainst ???

[AllBoro10 3,555 4.3k]

Will we hear the first speculation of his sacking today? I think we will.

["KM" 2,135 15.1k]

21 minutes ago, AllBoro10 said:

Will we hear the first speculation of his sacking today? I think we will.

Nope, it’s BHM. 

[OldManGravz 2,305 6.3k]

1 hour ago, AllBoro10 said:

Will we hear the first speculation of his sacking today? I think we will.

You are gagging for this aren't ya hahaha 🤣

[Borodane 7,744 27.4k]

1 hour ago, AllBoro10 said:

Will we hear the first speculation of his sacking today? I think we will.

Nah it's way too early. I think there will be a few weeks with nothing coming out and then we will hear whether he stays or goes. It's not exactly rush hour to make a decision is it. When does pre-season start? In 6 weeks or something like that?

[AnglianRed 7,876 18.1k]

1 hour ago, AllBoro10 said:

Will we hear the first speculation of his sacking today? I think we will.

Nah. Everyone's settling down for an all-day VE Day celebration session. Be tomorrow at the very earliest.

Personally, I think it might not come til the end of the month. Gibson & Scott might be frantically making a shortlist of preferred candidates then putting the feelers out.

[Denzel Zanzibar 8,037 15.3k]

He's definitely not staying 

[TomHark 27 21]

Long time lurker plucking up the courage to share my thought, so be gentle.

He is clearly a nice bloke, our Michael, but he is wedded to one way of playing. I don’t believe the squad to be as good as it was when he came. We lack width and pace, certainly since January anyway. Carrick has a say in signings claimed he was happy with his squad, even claiming it to be his best. Whether he was spinning a company line or he meant it I don’t know, but either way a 10th place finish is in no way acceptable. We have only won 7 games out of 22 in 2025, our drop off is alarming. He has some mitigating circumstances, but so does every team. That form is relegation form, Gibson has to act, the whole coaching set up should go too. We are too nice and accommodating as a club, too predictable, every opposition manager states we know how they’ll set up and play. I wanted him to succeed so much, Michael is like an adorable faithful Labrador, but the time has come to do the right thing and call the vet.

I’d like to see the guy at Sheffield Wednesday to come in, lets hope a decision is made this week so we can start to look forwards with renewed hope.  UTB.

[Stitchy 243 159]

If he's going we'll have somebody lined up already. We wouldn't sack him without anybody in place to take over I'm sure.

I personally think if he is going it will be this week. If not there will be some sort of interview with Carrick saying he's had an end of season review with Gibson and is looking forward to next season.

Personally, it's time to part ways. The performances have gone over a cliff for most of this season. I read about selling Lath and the injuries.  He still had 20+ games from when we sold Lath and had the ability to change tactics and he really hasn't. The injuries have been bad since he came in, bar a few months,  so I don't think this is a mitigating factor.

Also, he choose Nacho as a Lath replacement apparently. That and Edmondson and selling Clarke so raise doubts about his judgement. 

In his first season he inherited a team Wilder had put together. Since he's been involved in the recruitment since then we've regressed. 

[Downsouth 8,142 39k]

6 minutes ago, TomHark said:

Long time lurker plucking up the courage to share my thought, so be gentle.

He is clearly a nice bloke, our Michael, but he is wedded to one way of playing. I don’t believe the squad to be as good as it was when he came. We lack width and pace, certainly since January anyway. Carrick has a say in signings claimed he was happy with his squad, even claiming it to be his best. Whether he was spinning a company line or he meant it I don’t know, but either way a 10th place finish is in no way acceptable. We have only won 7 games out of 22 in 2025, our drop off is alarming. He has some mitigating circumstances, but so does every team. That form is relegation form, Gibson has to act, the whole coaching set up should go too. We are too nice and accommodating as a club, too predictable, every opposition manager states we know how they’ll set up and play. I wanted him to succeed so much, Michael is like an adorable faithful Labrador, but the time has come to do the right thing and call the vet.

I’d like to see the guy at Sheffield Wednesday to come in, lets hope a decision is made this week so we can start to look forwards with renewed hope.  UTB.

Welcome to the forum TomHark and a good first post.

The rebuild that is needed and a forward momentum needed by the team will SG really trust MC and co to achieve that?

I do not think so

[AllBoro10 3,555 4.3k]

50 minutes ago, OldManGravz said:

You are gagging for this aren't ya hahaha 🤣

Yep

[ScarBoro 1,127 1.5k]

10 minutes ago, AnglianRed said:

Nah. Everyone's settling down for an all-day VE Day celebration session. Be tomorrow at the very earliest.

Personally, I think it might not come til the end of the month. Gibson & Scott might be frantically making a shortlist of preferred candidates then putting the feelers out.

Gibson should have made his mind up by now. Maybe  (but I doubt it) he is determined to stick with Carrick, in which case why not say something fairly banal through media about looking forward to next season and funds will be made available to Michael to rebuild. If he has had doubts then the events of the last few weeks can only have made a decision easier and all the remains is to tell Carrick and sort out his financial package. The quicker that is done the better - Carrick like all players and managers will have holidays planned, probably for early June as he would have hoped for play offs. Needs doing before then and preferably earlier so approaches to others can be done before they go on holiday as well. A new manager needs appointing quickly , so he and Scott (assuming Scott is staying) can plan before they both go off for a break. Leave it to  end of month and you risk not getting the new manager in place until near end of June by which time a lot of deals are underway, even if not completed.

[pikerman 1,523 2.5k]

Whichever way Gibson decides to jump,(and I really hope it is a new manager), then he needs to do it sooner rather than later as the debate between the pro and anti Carrick camps amongst our support base is becoming toxic, thankfully not on this site as we are all grown ups

[AnglianRed 7,876 18.1k]

1 hour ago, ScarBoro said:

Gibson should have made his mind up by now. Maybe  (but I doubt it) he is determined to stick with Carrick, in which case why not say something fairly banal through media about looking forward to next season and funds will be made available to Michael to rebuild. If he has had doubts then the events of the last few weeks can only have made a decision easier and all the remains is to tell Carrick and sort out his financial package. The quicker that is done the better - Carrick like all players and managers will have holidays planned, probably for early June as he would have hoped for play offs. Needs doing before then and preferably earlier so approaches to others can be done before they go on holiday as well. A new manager needs appointing quickly , so he and Scott (assuming Scott is staying) can plan before they both go off for a break. Leave it to  end of month and you risk not getting the new manager in place until near end of June by which time a lot of deals are underway, even if not completed.

I was thinking more along the lines of what may actually be happening, rather than what should be happening.

The fact we were mathematically in contention of the play-offs until the last game of the season, is what likely convinced Gibson to stick with Carrick this long.

But after this season I can't believe anyone on the board thinks MC is the man to take the club forward...hence my comment about looking for replacements now.

Maybe Gibson likes him...maybe Scott doesn't? Maybe Scott is off to Palace...has there been any more news on that? It seems likely there have been some differences of opinion behind the scenes...though obviously thats just speculation.

If Carrick stays, that tells me Gibson still sees the club's finances as being more of a priority than on-pitch performance. It'll be another season of careful spending and selling any players that attract big bids. While on matchdays Carrick continues to do what he's always done.

If thats the case I'm seriously considering following Doncaster next season! ☹️