so what do we do?

[The Fat el Hombre]

Was the 'abuse' really that bad? Anyone got some examples?

 

[SiMCFC]

Keep it open just make it stricter in that other users are not allowed to hound people if things don't come off, that has to go for the mods as well, everytime anyone new dares post anything you an guarantee a mod will threaten with the ban hammer if it doesn't come off which just seems to set a precedent to me..

I know someone who is very active in the club on a day to day basis and only once has he told me anything that has materialised, a few times things I have been told by him and even posted on here haven't happend so he is either a WUM or things sometimes genuinely don't materialse for whatever reason

 

[malg]

Was the 'abuse' really that bad? Anyone got some examples?

You'd have to read it. Like I said in a previous post, I read that last 20-25 pages and couldn't see what the fuss was all about. Go and read it, and I'm pretty sure you will just scratch your head and wonder what is going on.

 

[Benarbia]

Was the 'abuse' really that bad? Anyone got some examples?

I've just read back through the thread and there was very little abuse. From what I've seen Tolmie has thrown his toys out of the pram again, craving that oh so needed attention

 

[Rammy Blue]

Was the 'abuse' really that bad? Anyone got some examples?

No mate, just the usual stuff that happens every window.

 

[mcfcphil]

People seem to think that if we don’t sign someone tolmie says he thinks he will it’s his fault we don’t actually sign him. People seem to forget that whether he is ITK or the biggest WUM of all time, it has absolutely no influence on who the club eventually sign. We will have the squad we have when the transfer window closes whether tolmie posts clips of nimrod, sopranos or the teletubbies.
The people who get their knickers in a twist about tolmie are probably the type of people who approach coronation street actors in the street and have a go at them about something their character did.

 

[rastus]

Get shut of it and just have a Transfer Rumours Topic in the Blue Moon forum.

Oh there was no real abuse against T,

 

[hgblue]

Also, as many of you on here, I also go on other MCFC related forums.

There is one that has a poster who is one of our current players' close friends (i.e. he can actually pick up the phone and talk to him).

Even HE doesn't get info on who our targets are etc., so quite how TH does I have no idea.

This other poster gets info only when the deal is done yet perhaps not announced to the press yet.

I can't see what possible harm is being done by people posting transfer gossip and speculation in a Forum that has been created for transfer gossip and speculation? As for ITKs, if you don't believe anybody gets any inside info, then that's just fine for you. Probably a bit pointless you being on here really?

 

[Rammy Blue]

FWIW I enjoy Tolm's posts but take the view that considering I have no idea who he is in real life then I'd hardly be rushing out to bang some cash on a potential signing, although I'm aware that some people have won decent cash on some of his info.

It's impossible to know everything that is going on within the top echelons of City, however I can quite easily see that to get some snippets via agents/lawyers/bankers etc could be quite feasible.

In a long boring summer, TH's posts help pass the time and if he has any sort of inside track then it certainly keeps the forum ticking over.

 

[Neville Kneville]

There should be a ban on all Quiet threads and just allow people to post rumours etc but that stupid thread is just pathetic.

For what its worth I think Tolmie is about as reliable as Ajay (HE SAID YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

I think AJ was posting in good faith too. People told him stuff, he told us.

It's the people who jump on it as gospel truth when there are a million & one reasons why it isn't; they are the annoying fucking morons who ruin the place.

If you were a relative of Mancini's asked him in private " in your opinion, are we going to sign so & so ?" I guarantee there will be times when he would say "yes", & turn out to be wrong. Brian Kidd or Platt would probably be wrong half the time, a player would get it wrong, 80% of the time.

That's how it is.

The problem is, this place is full of stupid little fucking spoilt children, who go ballistic when their new toys don't arrive, & sad older cunts who think it makes them appear clever to keep coming on this forum & telling everyone how unintersting the threads are & how they've said before that so & so is not itk, & live only to say " I told you so ".

So now it's basically a place where people can come to slag off City's board for not buying the latest overrated pile of shite they've seen for five minutes on youtube or on a fucking computer game. Brilliant.

If somebody posts something claiming to br itk, why can't people just take it at face value & just see if it turns out to have substance ?

If they don't believe it, say so ONCE & leave it at that, instead of coming back time after time after fucking time saying the same.. Let the mods decide if the 'itk' poster turns out to be on a wind up or just someone posting stuff they have heard from sources, who MAY OR MAY NOT, have it right, like TH was clearly doing.