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[FAQ] Summer 2012 Transfer Rumours Forum -THE RULES

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Archibald&Crooks

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First and foremost, it is important to remember:

1. All Spurs Community rules apply, especially those about swearing and member abuse. Go and take a look at them if you are not familiar with what is acceptable then take a look here: ### Spurs Community RULES ###

2. Abusive/Snidey comments aimed at ITK's will see your access to this part of the site revoked without warning.


3. One thread per player and one player per thread. Check this forum first to see if there is a link to the player you want to discuss. If you can't see one, go ahead and start one - but please be wary of this, in order to be a successful forum it needs to be kept clutter free!


When starting a new thread, please post the text of the article that links Spurs with the player (preferably with a hyperlink) - and please try and avoid the world of Tribalfootball and websites like it!!

Right, now that we've got the rules bit out of the way, let's give you all a brief run down of what this place is about.

This forum will contain information about the players we are linked with, and the clubs that are linked with our players via all media. The player threads are there to allow you to share opinions and press articles about the player and of course any ITK regarding them; although the majority of ITK discussion will probably (as it always does) take place in the Daily ITK Discussion Thread at the top of this forum.

Do not abuse the ITK! If you do, you'll be out of here sharpish!

The Daily ITK Discussion thread will be refreshed and renewed in the morning of every day of the window (if I get up in time!), to allow the server some breathing space - as we all know how busy it gets on here during Window Time! I personally blame talkshowhost86 for the busy-ness, I will create a reason for that later. :wink:

Please help out the Admins, Mods and Rumour Rangers by pointing out any ITK that you've seen in and around the other forums (mentioned below) so we can try and keep this place as the One Stop Shop for Spurs Transfer News. (And also try and take credit away from other messageboards :wink: I joke of course :shifty:).

All ITK will be in the SC ITK Read Only forum, each bit of info posted as a separate thread.

Finally, THE GOAT........The Goat is SC's medium for passing along any info from posters who wish to remain anonymous. PM Rob or Archibald&Crooks with the info and source. The Goat also has one or two sources of his own and when The Goat (ALL HAIL THE GOAT) appears as I have no doubt he will do this window, all of his info will be found in the most modern of Gazebos: The Goat Gazebo

Here are a few tips to see you through the madness..............
THE GOLDEN RULE

The golden rule is: never believe anything until you read it on the official Tottenham Hotspur web site. If you are of a frail constitution or nervous disposition, this is by far your best means of getting through to the end of the window.


MESSAGE BOARDS AND FAN FORUMS

Apart from our own wonderful SpursCommunity, there are a number of other message boards and fan forums. You can find like-minded people on Come On You Spurs (COYS), FromTheLane (FTL), Glory-Glory (GG), Spurs Odyssey (SO) and On the Shelf. And there are many others, as well as general fan forums like the BBC 606 Message Board.

Anyone and everyone can post in these places, and stories spread like wildfire. Eventually, they feed each other, and may be picked up by other web sites and even the printed media. And these places are home to possibly the most controversial source of transfer information: the ITKs!



IN THE KNOWS (ITKs)

Experience shows that those claiming to have inside knowledge of what is going on at Spurs usually fall into one of three categories:

Genuine ITKs

There are a few people that really do have contacts within the club and communicate this news to the rest of us. Sometimes it takes the form of cryptic clues, but that's another bag of worms. But there's no doubt that some message board predictions by posters have turned out to be true before the popular press or other web sites got hold of the news.

Most of the genuine ITKs post on COYS, FTL and SO (and of course our beloved Spurs Community.

Wannabes

Next down the food chain comes those who want to be ITK but are not. They read what others have written and rehash it, claiming it as their own.

Wind-Up Merchants and Bullshitters

Probably the largest category. Stories are made up using friends and relatives who know/saw someone somewhere.

The big problem is working out which ITK falls into which category. Experience is on the only guide to this. Well, that and common sense. But even the so-called genuine ITKs can get it wrong.

And really, all an ITK can say is that we are interested in a player. There's a long way from that to a signing. The club may be happy with that, to mislead other clubs about who they are genuinely interested in, or to drive up the price of a player they don't want to eliminate competition for their true target.

PLEASE TAKE ALL ITK INFORMATION WITH A PINCH OF SALT - IT WILL MAKE FOR A MUCH SMOOTHER WINDOW!!
 
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