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The Daily ITK Discussion Thread - The Thick Cut Edition 29th August 2013

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Good morning fine upstanding citizens of the ITK Discussion Thread​
Yesterday was a good day. Today might be even better! One thing is for sure, there is more good news on the horizon if not downright imminent and there might even be a massive surprise still to come!​
The BSoDL were out in force yesterday, strutting their stuff, but i'll be reserving judgement until the window closes. Lets see if we can magic something up at the last minute. We've struggled to do that before when it comes to the 'bigger' names but as I said yesterday, is it a case of 'where there's a will, there's a way'? And if so, where was that will over the last few TW's? *Goes into hiding from the BSoDL​
Yesterday I said to Mrs A&C, 'I thought I saw your name on a loaf of bread today but, when I looked again, it said 'Thick Cut'..........A bit later she walked into the living room naked. So I asked "Why are you naked?" She said, "This is my love dress." So I replied, "Well go and fucking iron it."​
Anyway, later on I went out for a drink with the wild boys from the mingleticklers and fourflushers club, I got a bit rat arsed and when I eventually got home, I ever so slowly eased open the front door, terrified of waking Mrs A&C. I tip-toed up the stairs.

Unfortunately, I slipped on the first step and landed hard on my arse, smashing the empty bottle of Jack Daniels I had stuffed into my back pocket. Undeterred, I staggered up the stairs, goes into the bathroom and turns the light on. 'Urgh - fuck' I muttered to myself, pulled my trousers down, angled the mirror so I can see my badly bleeding arse and slowly picked out the broken shards of glass and started sticking on some plasters.

The next morning I was woken by a bucket of cold water thrown over him by a very pissed off Mrs A&C

'You went out on the piss last night, didn't you, after you promised not to, you fucking bastard' she shouted

I never got drunk, why would you think that?' I shouted back

'Oh, I don't know, maybe it's the fact that the front door was left open, or the broken bottle of Jack Daniels in the hallway, or perhaps the trail of blood on the stairs...,' she shouted sarcastically.

'...but it's mainly the fact that the bathroom mirror is covered in fucking plasters.' :confused:

For the final time this year, we're passing around the begging bowl in the hope that we can raise enough to see us through to the next transfer window!​

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.
A few weeks ago we ran a poll asking when people thought we'd sign Benteke. 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. Or if you're a famous Spurs fan, then send me a PM, you might be able to help us.
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.

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. If you want to send a postal order/cheque, please PM myself or Rob.
Today's word of the day is: Orgasmic​
Finally, if you pretty much only use SC for your transfer fix, why not extend that and stay? There's a lot more to SC than the ITK Forums. Have a look around, there's something for pretty much everyone.​
 

FreddieYid

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Lay in this morning A&C? Good morning all, the sun is shining and we're in the midst of a week that will put us firmly at the top of tree in North London.
 

wishkah

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I feel like Levy handed AVB a laptop with a pre-saved Football Manager game on it.

The game starts on August 1st, with the first unread message, "the Board have accepted Real Madrid's £86m bid for Gareth Bale, as they feel the offer is too good to turn down".

Daniel instructs AVB to play onwards until the first week in September, "there you go laddy, let me know how you get on and who you sign for what amounts".

24 hours later AVB hands back the laptop having pulled off some stuning transfer coups, Daniel downloads the saved game onto his smart phone, gets onto a plane and sets off around europe!
 

Sweech

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Oh don't you worry.

If the big three come through (Lamela, Eriksen, and Chiriches) that's $90 in your pocket.
 

ButchCassidy

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I feel like Levy handed AVB a laptop with a pre-saved Football Manager game on it.

The game starts on August 1st, with the first unread message, "the Board have accepted Real Madrid's £86m bid for Gareth Bale, as they feel the offer is too good to turn down".

Daniel instructs AVB to play onwards until the first week in September, "there you go laddy, let me know how you get on and who you sign for what amounts".

24 hours later AVB hands back the laptop having pulled off some stuning transfer coups, Daniel downloads the saved game onto his smart phone, gets onto a plane and sets off around europe!


More like Daniel has been trapped Jumanji-style in a twisted real-life game of FM and he has to win the league within two years or his family get eaten by bears.
 

tiger666

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I feel like Levy handed AVB a laptop with a pre-saved Football Manager game on it.

Exactly how I feel. Amazing. All I need to complete my team now is James Rodriguez and Muniain. Going out soon, will throw a fiver in the SC bucket later (y)
 

ryantegan

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Welcome to another day of...................


"Daniel Levy has amnesia and forgets that he is a tight fucker and goes out to buy every quality player available in world football"
 

Dr Know

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Has the donation button gone walkies again or is the pot too full so no more donations are needed?
 

CowInAComa

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I expect some last minute smart arse-ary from Madrid now if they havent put ink to paper officially.
 

Mark-Spur

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A fiver thrown in, short this month, will try again in September.

Exciting times, got a great feeling announcements today or tomorrow COYS!
 
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