We got rid of Mowbray and appointed Karanka. Karanka added a group of good players to a good group signed by Mowbray. The team started to fly. There’s no reason to think the same can’t happen under Carrick and some of the current squad.
Karanka inherited Adomah, Ayala, Friend, Gibson and Leadbitter but he also inherited Carayol, Emnes, Jutkiewicz, Richardson and Kamara.
The new bloke needs to tighten us up at the back and build from there, then strengthen the midfield in January. Again, there is absolutely nothing to suggest Carrick can’t or isn’t able to do that.
I get that we’re struggling, managerless, 22nd. Things are at quite a low ebb. But some of the stuff I’ve read on here over the past few days, a lot of it reads as defeatist nonsense borne of a misplaced sense of entitlement.
Some people seem so angry, so bitter, so sure they’re right about how sh*t the Boro and those running it are. You really do wonder why some people follow us, it seems to bring so much misery. I remember when I started going in 1990/91, we were team trying to get back up and had never won anything or even reached a big final before. There did seem to be some sort of humour to be found in it though, something still to be enjoyed, a sort of shared experience. That just doesn’t seem to be there any more.
I remember blokes swearing and stuff but nobody really stood in the corner of the Holgate shouting about how’d they’d been through the club’s accounts and we’re f*cked and so are you. This level of criticism I’ve seen here every day for a week and often before, right since game one of the season, it feels genuinely unpleasant TBH.
Anyway, Carrick. No reason he can’t lift the place and instil some confidence IMO. Good luck to him if he takes it. I’d be optimistic but I was optimistic about Wilder. And the rest of them before him.
