Championship table since Michael Carrick took charge

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CarrickBall

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If we don't win the Play-Offs and get promotion to the Premier League, you've got to hope we can keep hold of our key players, replace/re-sign the loan players that have been effective to go again next year.

We've certainly got the right man in charge. You'd have to fancy Boro to go close with a full summer under Carrick and a full season.

If we hadn't wasted 16 games of the season under Wilder and had Carrick since the start of this season, we'd be up there with Burnley.

Here's the Championship table since Carrick took over on October 25th 2022...

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The_Lizards_Jumpers said:
We'd probably be 3rd and we've played 2 less games than Sheff Utd and are only 1 point better off than them.
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That’s assuming we’d have taken our foot off the gas against Luton, or lost concentration like we did against Huddersfield. Nothing like true competition to focus the mind. I therefore actually think the opposite… that we’d probably be challenging Burnley had Carrick been in 10 games earlier.

All hypothetical though. But what isn’t is the fact that Carrick has done an incredible job.
 
In a way its reassuring to know that our poor start didn't mean we aren't 20 points clear at the top of the league.
 
CarrickBall said:
If we don't win the Play-Offs and get promotion to the Premier League, you've got to hope we can keep hold of our key players, replace/re-sign the loan players that have been effective to go again next year.

We've certainly got the right man in charge. You'd have to fancy Boro to go close with a full summer under Carrick and a full season.

If we hadn't wasted 16 games of the season under Wilder and had Carrick since the start of this season, we'd be up there with Burnley.

Here's the Championship table since Carrick took over on October 25th 2022...

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Good going considering where the squad was at mentally.

Only downside to that table is how many goals we've shipped when playing away, but of course it's crazy how many we've scored.
 
The_Lizards_Jumpers said:
We are "up there", but you suggested we'd be "...up there with Burnley". We wouldn't, we'd be 3rd, that's my point.
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Although the argument was that we wasted the first 16 games and would be challenging Burnley if we hadn't.
When Carrick started we had 17 points from those 16 games. Carrick's 2 ppg would have yielded 32 points, another 15.

So we would actually be sat in 2nd place on 89 points, 6 behind Burnley, 7 ahead of Sheff Utd.
 
It can also be argued that we'd have put a much stronger side out against Luton and bagged some chances that Crooks couldn't finish had it not been a dead rubber.

We'd have been battling it out with the Blades for 2nd nevertheless.
 
boringblock_21 said:
That’s assuming we’d have taken our foot off the gas against Luton, or lost concentration like we did against Huddersfield. Nothing like true competition to focus the mind. I therefore actually think the opposite… that we’d probably be challenging Burnley had Carrick been in 10 games earlier.

All hypothetical though. But what isn’t is the fact that Carrick has done an incredible job.
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Don't think we'd quite be challenging Burnley tbh. We'd probably be a bit ahead of the Blades, but Burnley it could be argued would also be slightly further ahead as they wouldn't have been on the beach for the last couple of games with us up there as well?🤔
 
Need to take a look at the number of goals we ship away from home before going into the Play Offs. Teams can "get at" us away from home, even if it's just in spells, but we need to up the tempo and urgency when they do.
 
Goals against away from home is relegation form, but goals for away from home is blowing away the form of champions. Crazy really.
 
CarrickBall said:
If we don't win the Play-Offs and get promotion to the Premier League, you've got to hope we can keep hold of our key players, replace/re-sign the loan players that have been effective to go again next year.

We've certainly got the right man in charge. You'd have to fancy Boro to go close with a full summer under Carrick and a full season.

If we hadn't wasted 16 games of the season under Wilder and had Carrick since the start of this season, we'd be up there with Burnley.

Here's the Championship table since Carrick took over on October 25th 2022...

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So we'd probable be 3rd after Sheff Utd get the points from their games in hand.
 
Rofesleg said:
Not if Carrick had been here since the start. Which I think was the point if the OP.
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That is the table since he took over though.

We'd be 6 points behind Burnley and they'd have a game in hand, one point above Sheff but they'd have 2 games in hand.

Great turnaround by Carrick all the same.
 
Corcaigh_the_Cat said:
That is the table since he took over though.

We'd be 6 points behind Burnley and they'd have a game in hand, one point above Sheff but they'd have 2 games in hand.

Great turnaround by Carrick all the same.
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That’s the table with Carrick coming in without a pre season, without a squad of his own players accustomed to playing the way he wants with their confidence on the floor.

With a full season of Carrick I think we’d have been up there with them, and not 19 points away like we are now.
 
CarrickBall said:
That’s the table with Carrick coming in without a pre season, without a squad of his own players accustomed to playing the way he wants with their confidence on the floor.

With a full season of Carrick I think we’d have been up there with them, and not 19 points away like we are now.
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Perhaps, perhaps not, something we'll never know.
 
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