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I think out of all our signings, Conlon is the biggest mystery to me. He should be really key for us but either hasn’t shown it himself yet or hasn’t been used right. Will be interesting to see what happens to him over the summer. Just editing to say that the signing wasn’t a mystery, what has happened since he joined is the mystery!

I like Hammond, for the reasons you’ve listed. But he’s come in for a fair bit of stick seemingly for not being the finished product.

He knew who the manager was when he signed though? Mellon had already been here a couple of months.

I agree to an extent but the problem with that is if they don’t hit the ground running they get written off as shit… Hammond.

I think you’re slightly overstating Fondop’s abilities there! But he should 100% be getting a new deal. My question is over his record in delivering in big games, so personally I wouldn’t have him down as a constant starting striker. But as a sub or an occasional starter he is a really important player to have.

Cool.

They’ve got til a week on Sunday then! For all those waiting for it before they decide whether to buy or not.

I do think the club need to come out with something… a vision or an update on plans for the next period or something like that. But I’d prefer they take the time and produce something thorough rather than rush out something short.

I may just be a humble happy clapping, blind faith, Mellon loving, ultra positive fantasist, but I thought that interview was largely expectation management from Mellon. If he promised to sort it and say we’re going to have a great summer and we then drew the first 3 games next season everyone would lose their shit. Behind the scenes I reckon they’ll have had their plans in place for existing squad and target replacements for a while.

Could they refuse though if someone else is sniffing? Not really sure how options work. Maybe statsbomb has a suggested contract length feature and we should just go with whatever that says?!

We could have someone taken off us after 1 season if they’ve been really good though and we’d get nothing. Plus only offering those sort of deals could mean we lose out on targets. It’s a difficult thing to get right - long contracts for the great signings, short contracts for the shit ones.

The way I see it is that it’s an OASF led thing where they’re putting questions to him received from the membership. As opposed to a means of the club communicating with fans. There was a good explainer thread about it on Twitter from one of the oasf directors I think. I can’t find it but someone else may be able to.

When the frame rate can’t keep up with the speed of the game you shouldn’t be making absolute decisions on whether it was millimetres off or on. If you’re going to have it, it needs a tolerance that allows for frame rates etc.

Up in Manchester for a booze up tomorrow so taking the opportunity to get back to BP for the first time in ages. Quite looking forward to it. Miss the place.

Oh of course. Totally agree. They’re doing what they always do - looking after themselves and promising some trickle down for everyone else which either won’t come or won’t touch the sides.