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Archibald&Crooks

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Morning

Here's today's thread. The last one. Hallalujah!

Last week I was driving through Wales with a friend of mine who is dyslexic. He was studying the road signs when all of a sudden he shouted, "Fuck me, I'm cured." So when we got home he invited me to a dyslexics party to celebrate. Fuck that for a game of shoulders.

Yesterday I took the dog for a walk and as I cut through the village graveyard I saw another man crouching behind a gravestone.

"Morning!" I said.

The other man replied, "No, just having a shit."

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 the summer transfer window 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. 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 reserves we built up in the summer are pretty much 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. If you want to send a postal order/cheque, please PM myself or Rob.

All donations are very much appreciated. Thanks.
 

Twizzle

The Alpha Male
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Expecting a big one, just hope its not a depressing place at 11 tonight.
 

yankspurs

Enic Out
Aug 22, 2013
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Levy wont even put his hands in his pocket for the club. Doubtful he'd do it for SC. Love the try though, A&C. Always worth it.
 

TH1239

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Thus far in the transfer window, we have sold Sigurdsson and seemingly loaned/sold Holtby. Meanwhile, we have yet to bring in a single attacking player to replace them. I don't believe we've signed one player that is a lock to be a regular in our starting XI, which was really what everyone was hoping for a few months ago (the consensus seemed to be 3 surefire starters at LB, CB, and LWF would've made a solid window).

Unfortunately, I don't see any real attacking players available on the market that can give us that goal scoring ability that we desperately need. Depay and Griezmann would've been the type of signings that would've transformed us, but those deals didn't come off. Remy would've been a very solid addition, but we waited too long and Chelsea swooped for him.

Losing out on Schneiderlin is one thing, but not bringing in a quality attacking player to supplement our front 4 would be a huge mistake. If Lamela or Chadli get hurt for any length of time, we will be in huge trouble, as Lennon and Townsend are a disaster in a system that relies on the front four scoring and creating goal scoring opportunities.

Waiting until January to address our attack would be a huge mistake. Deals then are even more difficult than now, and who knows how many points we'll have dropped by then. All I know is that we can't score goals against the top teams, and that clearly shows we need at least one player capable of getting a goal out of nowhere (which means he must be able to strike the ball from outside of 15 yards with pace).
 

Sweech

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Jun 27, 2013
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Thus far in the transfer window, we have sold Sigurdsson and seemingly loaned/sold Holtby. Meanwhile, we have yet to bring in a single attacking player to replace them. I don't believe we've signed one player that is a lock to be a regular in our starting XI, which was really what everyone was hoping for a few months ago (the consensus seemed to be 3 surefire starters at LB, CB, and LWF would've made a solid window).

Unfortunately, I don't see any real attacking players available on the market that can give us that goal scoring ability that we desperately need. Depay and Griezmann would've been the type of signings that would've transformed us, but those deals didn't come off. Remy would've been a very solid addition, but we waited too long and Chelsea swooped for him.

Losing out on Schneiderlin is one thing, but not bringing in a quality attacking player to supplement our front 4 would be a huge mistake. If Lamela or Chadli get hurt for any length of time, we will be in huge trouble, as Lennon and Townsend are a disaster in a system that relies on the front four scoring and creating goal scoring opportunities.

Waiting until January to address our attack would be a huge mistake. Deals then are even more difficult than now, and who knows how many points we'll have dropped by then. All I know is that we can't score goals against the top teams, and that clearly shows we need at least one player capable of getting a goal out of nowhere (which means he must be able to strike the ball from outside of 15 yards with pace).
If you think Lamela can score more than 0 league goals, Chadli can score more than 1 league goal (already has!), Soldado can score more than 2 league goals (from open play), Kane can score more than 3 league goals than we can actually score a whole lot more goals simply by keeping and developing the attacking talents we currently have.

You are in luck though as we do have ITK linking us to a couple attacking talents, the main one being Danny Welbeck.
 

Monkey boy

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Jun 18, 2011
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I feel that after yesterdays debacle that we are due some positive Karma. Just incase there is such thing as karma and one good deed rewards anther etc. there is a donation winging its way over to the coffers. Great job guys, its been emotional, see you in December fellow ITK junkies.
 

Zlatan

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Dec 30, 2012
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I'm feeling that we'll see Sandro and Fryers leave on a loan. And Azza and Holtby on a permanent.

Stambouli and Welbeck in? Would I be happy with that, I don't know. I love Sandro, Azza and Lewis. Players who really care.
 

Scott Spur

SC Supporter
Aug 9, 2011
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Levy time....

Come on Daniel, you saw the game yesterday right?

(Hoping the ITK about us being 'busy' is correct)

COYS
 

HibeeSpur

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STOOF EDIT: probably not advisable to post pictures here unless you're called Stoof and it's a transfer done stamp (or pictures of Stoof's tits if you haven't donated enough).

Giggidy.
 

Stoof

THERE IS A PIGEON IN MY BANK ACCOUNT
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Jun 5, 2004
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Donate now. Seriously.

Or I'll post pictures of my tits. Including side and under boob shots.

Stoof is dat guy. Zupzup.
 

archiewasking

Waiting for silverware..........
Jul 5, 2004
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Skint myself, but will give on the 25th when I get paid again. Hoping for a brilliant deadline day for us, as it's my birthday tomorrow. 54...........

And at least yesterday's performance will reaffirm the ones who need to go and what we need to get in. Sounds from the latest itk that Poch has his head screwed on and at last can see what we've known for months. Unless he came on here and we switched the light on for him.
 
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