The Daily ITK Discussion Thread - 4th August 2015

[Bombsey]

St

2 strikers AND a winger is one player more than we can hope for I think. I reckon the other ITK of one striker + one winger is more achievable in the time left.

Stambouli

Fazio to go would make sense to me, but I just don't think Spurs will cash in 12 months after signing him.

 

[HappySpur]

Just because you may disagree with something does not make it stupid. Seems like you lot need to learn that. People are allowed to think dofferently and have other opinions. For example, i dont think you guys are stupid for having differing opinions that are wrong. I just think you guys are misguided by a love of dear leader and a fear to try something new.


Btw, the scouts bit is soooo clearly opinion. He even spelled it out for us, FFS! For example, I predict we'll return from Germany with nothing but broken hearts and shattered dreams. The key word there is predict. Predictions ARE opinions.

How long until Hertyid has to eat his beanie?

@Spurrific I have you seen complain about neg rep many times. Yet, you give yankspurs a spam rating (but not the guy that attacked him for no effing reason) for defending himself but trying to close the loop with ITK talk.

And then you post twice with quite blatant spam.

By the way @Stoof spam'd yankspur too. And then got caught up in trying to get in on the 'Arry Potter jokes, which were all terrible, especially as "I can't name him" is nowhere in the vicinity of "He who can't be named". Forgivable for anything funny. But none of that dozen posts (of which you contributed) would be funny to a 12 year old fan girl of the Potter series. Let alone angry grown ups with a need to act childish. He may have been trying to stop them, but he made the statements so vague that they just allowed them to exacerbate.

And that's what we've become. Ironic nasty posters. And not highly intelligent ones at that. With basically @Spurger King being the only one that seems to have retained his humor and his sense of not being an utter douche bag. We see everybody's fault but our own.

gilzeantheking SPAM rates everyone. Gb160 is horrible. And Coops is the worst. And that's just rating trolls.

Anybody who has ever faced a ban of a few days, loses their head and comes back in here to be the uber-police with their ratings. Heck, I thought about just troll-rating earlier today. Made me feel like a twat and I had to immediately quit that. But it tells you how loathsome some of the raters are here that they revel in such behaviour. And lots of older posters.

It's nasty here. Really the worst I feel like I have ever seen. It's so bad, that TheFightingCock is more civil. That's a damning statement because those people hate each other. I mean you just want to get them into a locked room and give them all guns and let them self-wean the gene pool. And now that's what is happening here.

So you people need to clean your act up. All of you that engage a lot here other than probably a select few, such as Dova and SK.

Because it will fall apart if you can't stop being horrible. I am just skimming for news on signings until I find something less like a Nazi book burning. But when I wander in I think, I don't care. I'll find out on SSN. And as you go about your business of becoming a better, more angry and hateful TFC, note how little goes on there. 100 posts a day maybe. Because nobody sticks around to listen to angry people scream obscenities at each other. I hope you guys can turn it around.

But I would put money that it's already hit a tipping point, and it will only take one guy with some time to build an aggregation system like the RO and people will start gravitating away. And since it's really the old guard that is acting the most petulant, it will just concentrate the loathsome behaviour, wean the customers and leave the staff with high server costs and few posters.

Good luck.

 

[Spurrific]

@Spurrific I have you seen complain about neg rep many times. Yet, you give yankspurs a spam rating (but not the guy that attacked him for no effing reason) for defending himself but trying to close the loop with ITK talk.

And then you post twice with quite blatant spam.

By the way @Stoof spam'd yankspur too. And then got caught up in trying to get in on the 'Arry Potter jokes, which were all terrible, especially as "I can't name him" is nowhere in the vicinity of "He who can't be named". Forgivable for anything funny. But none of that dozen posts (of which you contributed) would be funny to a 12 year old fan girl of the Potter series. Let alone angry grown ups with a need to act childish. He may have been trying to stop them, but he made the statements so vague that they just allowed them to exacerbate.

And that's what we've become. Ironic nasty posters. And not highly intelligent ones at that. With basically @Spurger King being the only one that seems to have retained his humor and his sense of not being an utter douche bag. We see everybody's fault but our own.

gilzeantheking SPAM rates everyone. Gb160 is horrible. And Coops is the worst. And that's just rating trolls.

Anybody who has ever faced a ban of a few days, loses their head and comes back in here to be the uber-police with their ratings. Heck, I thought about just troll-rating earlier today. Made me feel like a twat and I had to immediately quit that. But it tells you how loathsome some of the raters are here that they revel in such behaviour. And lots of older posters.

It's nasty here. Really the worst I feel like I have ever seen. It's so bad, that TheFightingCock is more civil. That's a damning statement because those people hate each other. I mean you just want to get them into a locked room and give them all guns and let them self-wean the gene pool. And now that's what is happening here.

So you people need to clean your act up. All of you that engage a lot here other than probably a select few, such as Dova and SK.

Because it will fall apart if you can't stop being horrible. I am just skimming for news on signings until I find something less like a Nazi book burning. But when I wander in I think, I don't care. I'll find out on SSN. And as you go about your business of becoming a better, more angry and hateful TFC, note how little goes on there. 100 posts a day maybe. Because nobody sticks around to listen to angry people scream obscenities at each other. I hope you guys can turn it around.

But I would put money that it's already hit a tipping point, and it will only take one guy with some time to build an aggregation system like the RO and people will start gravitating away. And since it's really the old guard that is acting the most petulant, it will just concentrate the loathsome behaviour, wean the customers and leave the staff with high server costs and few posters.

Good luck.

Oh, another HappySpur storm off. I gave him a spam because this is the ITK thread and he's dragging his snooze worthy "dear leader" shit in here when it bears no relevance. Get a fucking grip you cry baby.

 

[Stoof]

By the way @Stoof spam'd yankspur too. And then got caught up in trying to get in on the 'Arry Potter jokes, which were all terrible, especially as "I can't name him" is nowhere in the vicinity of "He who can't be named". Forgivable for anything funny. But none of that dozen posts (of which you contributed) would be funny to a 12 year old fan girl of the Potter series. Let alone angry grown ups with a need to act childish. He may have been trying to stop them, but he made the statements so vague that they just allowed them to exacerbate.

Not that I need to justify anything I do, but a repeated overly negative view (in the face of evidence to the absolute contrary and bearing little or no relevance to the matter at hand) is spam in my book, and just agenda pushing and I have no time for it whatsoever. I could rate "disagree" but I think that's a coward's way out. So I rated it spam. Not sure it needed this level of rant, mate.

I also curved off the jokes by making it serious again. Almost like moderating the thread. I've been in this place a lot longer than most who frequent it, and it has ballooned in popularity (year on year). So we must be doing something right.

 

[PhezTHFC]

@Spurrific I have you seen complain about neg rep many times. Yet, you give yankspurs a spam rating (but not the guy that attacked him for no effing reason) for defending himself but trying to close the loop with ITK talk.

And then you post twice with quite blatant spam.

By the way @Stoof spam'd yankspur too. And then got caught up in trying to get in on the 'Arry Potter jokes, which were all terrible, especially as "I can't name him" is nowhere in the vicinity of "He who can't be named". Forgivable for anything funny. But none of that dozen posts (of which you contributed) would be funny to a 12 year old fan girl of the Potter series. Let alone angry grown ups with a need to act childish. He may have been trying to stop them, but he made the statements so vague that they just allowed them to exacerbate.

And that's what we've become. Ironic nasty posters. And not highly intelligent ones at that. With basically @Spurger King being the only one that seems to have retained his humor and his sense of not being an utter douche bag. We see everybody's fault but our own.

gilzeantheking SPAM rates everyone. Gb160 is horrible. And Coops is the worst. And that's just rating trolls.

Anybody who has ever faced a ban of a few days, loses their head and comes back in here to be the uber-police with their ratings. Heck, I thought about just troll-rating earlier today. Made me feel like a twat and I had to immediately quit that. But it tells you how loathsome some of the raters are here that they revel in such behaviour. And lots of older posters.

It's nasty here. Really the worst I feel like I have ever seen. It's so bad, that TheFightingCock is more civil. That's a damning statement because those people hate each other. I mean you just want to get them into a locked room and give them all guns and let them self-wean the gene pool. And now that's what is happening here.

So you people need to clean your act up. All of you that engage a lot here other than probably a select few, such as Dova and SK.

Because it will fall apart if you can't stop being horrible. I am just skimming for news on signings until I find something less like a Nazi book burning. But when I wander in I think, I don't care. I'll find out on SSN. And as you go about your business of becoming a better, more angry and hateful TFC, note how little goes on there. 100 posts a day maybe. Because nobody sticks around to listen to angry people scream obscenities at each other. I hope you guys can turn it around.

But I would put money that it's already hit a tipping point, and it will only take one guy with some time to build an aggregation system like the RO and people will start gravitating away. And since it's really the old guard that is acting the most petulant, it will just concentrate the loathsome behaviour, wean the customers and leave the staff with high server costs and few posters.

Good luck.

Someone has had a bad day... go have a snickers you turn into a diva every time you get hungry...

 

[Drexl]

@Spurrific I have you seen complain about neg rep many times. Yet, you give yankspurs a spam rating (but not the guy that attacked him for no effing reason) for defending himself but trying to close the loop with ITK talk.

And then you post twice with quite blatant spam.

By the way @Stoof spam'd yankspur too. And then got caught up in trying to get in on the 'Arry Potter jokes, which were all terrible, especially as "I can't name him" is nowhere in the vicinity of "He who can't be named". Forgivable for anything funny. But none of that dozen posts (of which you contributed) would be funny to a 12 year old fan girl of the Potter series. Let alone angry grown ups with a need to act childish. He may have been trying to stop them, but he made the statements so vague that they just allowed them to exacerbate.

And that's what we've become. Ironic nasty posters. And not highly intelligent ones at that. With basically @Spurger King being the only one that seems to have retained his humor and his sense of not being an utter douche bag. We see everybody's fault but our own.

gilzeantheking SPAM rates everyone. Gb160 is horrible. And Coops is the worst. And that's just rating trolls.

Anybody who has ever faced a ban of a few days, loses their head and comes back in here to be the uber-police with their ratings. Heck, I thought about just troll-rating earlier today. Made me feel like a twat and I had to immediately quit that. But it tells you how loathsome some of the raters are here that they revel in such behaviour. And lots of older posters.

It's nasty here. Really the worst I feel like I have ever seen. It's so bad, that TheFightingCock is more civil. That's a damning statement because those people hate each other. I mean you just want to get them into a locked room and give them all guns and let them self-wean the gene pool. And now that's what is happening here.

So you people need to clean your act up. All of you that engage a lot here other than probably a select few, such as Dova and SK.

Because it will fall apart if you can't stop being horrible. I am just skimming for news on signings until I find something less like a Nazi book burning. But when I wander in I think, I don't care. I'll find out on SSN. And as you go about your business of becoming a better, more angry and hateful TFC, note how little goes on there. 100 posts a day maybe. Because nobody sticks around to listen to angry people scream obscenities at each other. I hope you guys can turn it around.

But I would put money that it's already hit a tipping point, and it will only take one guy with some time to build an aggregation system like the RO and people will start gravitating away. And since it's really the old guard that is acting the most petulant, it will just concentrate the loathsome behaviour, wean the customers and leave the staff with high server costs and few posters.

Good luck.

At the end of the day do ratings REALLY matter?

Is approval from people 99% never going to meet really that important? or disapproval?

Sure its nice to have posts appreciated but why the fuss over negatives?

Say what is on your mind, and if its approved then great, if it isn't who gives a flying fuck?

Other day i reacted and gave a tit for tat but i was hungover so had an excuse

 

[SonicSarr]

We need a handbag rating.

Or a signing....

 

[mil1lion]

The way we play (3rd most possession in the league), we don't need a hold-up/target man striker like Ade. In fact Ade's on pitch issue last season was that he was just way too static. Having mobile channel runners is the key to our system - look at the positions Kane ends up in.

Both Berahino and Werner are 5'11" and reasonably well built. Both will become CFs as they get older. They are more equipped for lone role in our system than say the likes of Soldado/Keane/Defoe ever were.

I'm not sure what height has to do with leading the line, otherwise Chadli or Lamela could do it. A like for like Adebayor replacement isn't what I'm saying (there would be no point looking for a replacement otherwise). Just someone better suited to leading the line. I think Austin would be the ideal competition for Kane in addition to a couple of attacking midfielders like Berahino and Werner. Those 3 and a centre midfielder would give us the complete squad we need to challenge for top 4.

 

[absolute bobbins]

Lolz at people giving a damn about normal ratings, you're not a true G until you've got a Watch It rating

 

[ryantegan]

Wow.

@HappySpur is failing his username again

 

[225]

Lolz at people giving a damn about normal ratings, you're not a true G until you've got a Watch It rating

Nah, that's just a wanna-G. A true G has at least two

 

[absolute bobbins]

Nah, that's just a wanna-G. A true G has at least two

Checks has two...

True

 

[SargeantMeatCurtains]

Nah, that's just a wanna-G. A true G has at least two

Ahem

 

[Good Doctor M]

I'm putting some popcorn in the microwave. Any takers?

 

[dirtyh]

Someone needs a reacharound. Where's mr oddie?

 

[Snarfalicious]

Hello, Daniel. What's happening? We have a bit of a problem here. You apparently forgot to sign some attacking players and now we have only one striker.

Levy: Oh yeah, sorry about that. See, I forgot...

Mmhmm, yeah. You see, we have a season that's about to start and we have one striker and yeah, I need more than that if you don't want this season to become a dumpster fire. Did you see the memo about this?

Levy: Yeah, yeah I got the memo. I have the memo right here. But, the window doesn't close for another 4 weeks...

Yeah, Im going to need you to do that immediately... Yeah.

*Slurps coffee, walks away*

 

[Jonesywasbestever]

I'm not sure where this should go, but the club has updated photos of the players on the official site. http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/first-team-profiles/

You can tell which players have been photoshopped in. Lamela and Yedlin who were both on international duty until the US tour, but Lennon, Ade, and Soldado were available and obviously not invited to photo day and have been photoshopped in.

Just had a peek at Villa site but Ade's photo not on there either. Where is he? Should we put out an all points bulletin?

 

[SpartanSpur]

Here's hoping for some positive ITK on attacking players now the first Audi Cup game is out of the way.

 

[paulcumpstone]

Hello, Daniel. What's happening? We have a bit of a problem here. You apparently forgot to sign some attacking players and now we have only one striker.

Levy: Oh yeah, sorry about that. See, I forgot...

Mmhmm, yeah. You see, we have a season that's about to start and we have one striker and yeah, I need more than that if you don't want this season to become a dumpster fire. Did you see the memo about this?

Levy: Yeah, yeah I got the memo. I have the memo right here. But, the window doesn't close for another 4 weeks...

Yeah, Im going to need you to do that immediately... Yeah.

*Slurps coffee, walks away*

love the funny posts, i worry though the mood in here won't be the same in 4 weeks though if Levy does his usual stunts

 

[Snarfalicious]

love the funny posts, i worry though the mood in here won't be the same in 4 weeks though if Levy does his usual stunts

All things considered, I think a fair few around here could use a good laugh.