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Wonder how many times he's completed a full 90 minutes?

I've got nothing against him. Don't think he had the quality to go with the speed but he was never really injury free long enough to show it.

Good luck to him. He was only ever bit part so I don't really hold him in the contempt that I do most other players. He was also indirectly my source for STFC happenings. Shhh

Giving him a 2 year contract was a massive risk, given his injury record.

Noooooo

the first of many i hope.
all these decisions being made point to hart being kept on.

This is my thinking aswell arriba

Oh dear, calls tomorrow for "Hart Out" to ring out around the stadium.

It does look that way.

Feel a bit sorry for O'Brien, if he'd been able to perform like he did at home against Exeter on a more consistent basis (more than once would have been a start), then he would have been a real asset. Unfortunately 1 good 90 minutes in 2 years just doesn't cut the mustard.

O'Brien was going regardless. He couldn't get into Danny Wilson's team and he signed him!

Agreed.

What a great bit of news to start the Bank holiday weekend. Lets be completely honest....this guy was absolutely `pants` and cluless to boot. How he convinced DW to sign him, god only knows. The fact he was given so long to prove himself showed a complete lack of management I beleive. This has got nothing to do with Hart the bloke was not footballer....O`Brian could have been signed by Malpas, he was that bad.

Despite some of the negative above. O'Brien supplied the only football that I will remember from this abysmal season.  For ninety minutes, this man actually entertained me. I wish him well and for that game, he's my player of the season. How sad is that?

That is about as sad as it gets...presume you didn`t see the Charlton game..?

Maybe Hart isn't making the decisions?

Let's hope this is the first of many departures.

AOB was always a risk. Sadly it didn't pay off. As for Hart well i'll be very pissed off if he's staying on. I'd almost be tempted to ask for a refund of my ST.

Alan!

There's several possible alternative explanations, equally credible:
1) As you say, Hart is staying on (I presume you mean as manager) and has started a clear-out
2) Hart is staying on but as DoF or some such in which role he'd be amply able to take a call on a fringe player like AOB
3) Hart isn't staying on but they've already got someone lined up who's had a look and said "Well you can get rid of xyz for a start"
4) No decision's been made on the manager, but the club have decided it doesn't require specialist football knowledge to recognise that AOB isn't that good and is a crock anyway and so have decided to shift his (if rumours are to be believed) rather substantial wages off the wage bill, irrespective of who's in charge next season

No point in reading more into this than the fact that AOB was shite and if being paid too much then another reason for him to go. If we continue to play in the same fashion as in recent weeks I dont believe Fitton is stupid enough to think Hart is the answer to our problems. I think Hart has a contract that will cease come the end of the season and a new man will come in - my money is on Trollope. who I dont have a problem with. However Fitton never ceases to amaze...

all possible.
5) fitton thinks he can pick the squad.

as a result of this i've had to terminate my contract with my picture, i'm currently in the market searching for a suitable replacement.

I think I'm too nice to celebrate someone losing their job.

Hart staying is the only thing that could make this disastrous season worse. At least give us hope for next year. I can't stomach a summer of looking "forward" to more of this. I'll wake up soon. I'm sure of it. It's all fine and we've just got home from Wembley a bit down, that's all.

Maybe this is what Plymouth owe us 4p for - transfer fee for AOB. I hear we could get up to a further twopence as well, depending on appearances. And a penny sell-on clause

What wages was he rumoured to be on?

3k a week?

Not even on 28th November 1990 or weren't you about then?

You have to have humanity to be a person.

(I was 6)

What if O'Brien requested it (with a pay off)?

Wouldn't surprise me tbh.