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The Daily ITK Discussion Thread - 31st August 2015 THE CLOCK IS TICKING!

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Archibald&Crooks

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Morning all!

So……we're almost there. Yay! An interesting couple of days ahead. Lets make it fun in here!


HAVE YOU DONATED THIS MONTH/YET/AT ALL?

As you all know, SC relies on your donations to be able to provide a unrivalled coverage of ITK, if it wasn't for you guys, the server would crash left right and centre and we simply couldn't afford to be as awesome and sexy as I am, I mean we are.

In one transfer window we ran a poll asking when people thought we'd sign Benteke (haha). The poll got an astonishing number of votes, over 600 of you took part.

Six bloody hundred. And that's just the yokes who bothered voting. Whichever way you slice it that's a lot. If everyone slung just three or four quid in the pot we'd be sorted for quite a while, so if you've never donated before, please consider doing so now.

Now, when it's donation drive time, which it is i'm afraid, where are you? *Goes all Delia* where aaaaare yoooooou? Let's be having youuuuuuu!

I reckon we've about 500 or more lurkmeisters, so come on guys, if you're one of them and you enjoy SC's coverage of the Transfer Window (and lets face it, you do because you're here right?), then please chip in. It doesn't have to be a massive amount. A monkey will do. Nah i'm kidding.......Why not a long 'un? Or even a pony? hehe, seriously though, a cockle would be great or even a lady. In fact whatever you can stretch to.

And if you happen to be a Spurs mad gazzillionaire, cough the fuck up. And if you're Daniel Levy, fucking hell shortstuff, put your hands in your pockets. And get the BSoDL to chip in too.

But A&C, where does the money go?

Outgoings: The server costs £390 per month. Forum software purchases/licenses/misc comes to around £500 a year. So currently, the cost of SC is about £5k a year.

Incomings: Advertising/Affiliates can sometimes cover the costs during the transfer window (January, July, August) but thats sometimes. The rest of the year that falls well short. Its difficult to give an exact figure because the numbers don't stay the same but i'd say £100 a month during the quiet months. Donations during the quiet months come to about £50pm if we're lucky.

Rob will know better than I do, but I reckon we're short by about £2500 a year.

If one month we raise more than is needed, it stays in the pot as it won't be long before it IS needed. The shortfall is made up out of Robs pocket. I'll repeat that.......It comes out of his pocket. Think about that for a minute. I reckon he pays an average of £50 a WEEK.

This is why i'm often cajoling, nudging, outright begging and open to bribery during the transfer window. It's when the most of you are about and our last big donation drive raised enough to cover costs for a couple of months or so.

Any excess raised stays in the pot until its needed when donations/income goes right down. Absolutely nothing goes on anything other than SC's running costs.

The donations raised in January is gone. SC IS SKINT.

So, if you'd like to donate, there's a donation link on the front or home page of the site. We use Paypal but you don't need an account with them, you can use your card in the same way as making any other online purchase. Very securely.

If you want to send a postal order/cheque, please PM myself or Rob.

All donations are very much appreciated. Thanks.
 

SWyid

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£10 donated from a major lurker to the best Spurs forum bar none. Hoping for some striker/DM news to cheer me up on a miserably wet bank holiday:pompous:
 

torbaytottenham

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£10 donation in the onion bag this morning, this place keeps dragging me back every transfer window, you guys do a fantastic job, keep it going :)
 

DaiT

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Jan 29, 2011
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Good evening. Hope by the time I get up tomorrow am that I will be paying out on my pledges. Good to hear from Trix that Berahino is still on the cards.
 

DanielJohnCosta

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can any ITK put us out of our misery. Good or bad news. even if we have no chance of anyone as long as I know not to waste my time :(
 

vicbob

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Donation made, could barely read the screen through the tears in my eyes as I read that A & C :)
Now keep this up and running over the next 36 hours, couldn't cope without deadline day and SC. no work is going to get done tomorrow.

Over to you baldy........................

Would double it if you got rid of that bloody Uber add as well:p
 

mckenz

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Donation done

next couple of days will be interesting and will include the phrase "are you checking that bloody site again?"
 

HW61

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Aug 31, 2012
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Donated 2 weeks ago, but no receipt confirmation so not sure if I screwed up somewhere. And agree re Uber ad. Annoying. But SC a magic site.
 

Vwbottom

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Donation done

next couple of days will be interesting and will include the phrase "are you checking that bloody site again?"

Transfer window widow, my Mrs is the same, i just ignore her she goes away eventually.
 
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