Carrington made a handful of appearances the following season and saw a more regular place in the team with the arrival of new manager Guðjón Þórðarson in the 2008–09 season, and managed to score his first two goals for the club as a professional, in which his first goal came on 31 January 2009, in a 2–1 win over Tranmere Rovers. One of those goals being against his future club MK Dons in March 2009, and from that game Carrington earned praise from Steve Claridge in his Scouting Report for the Guardian. Having missed the last few games of the season with an injury, Carrington left the club when his contract expired in June 2009.