27 Aug 2026 12:46:07
Amazing what a "breaking news transfer" does to this site. Ornstein says it you all fall over yourselves. The real ITKs say it and they get hung drawn and quartered until it happens, then everyone apologises for miscalling them
Then there is the "kids playing with daddy's phone ITKs" that come out the woodwork claiming they had posted previously. It's all very tiring
Anyway - VG, Carra, Macca, The fields, Ned thank you for keeping this site going along with the amazing Ed's, without the info drops it would be a little less exciting. I for one appreciate it and while I don't post often as long as you guys are here and the Ed's are working on the site I will frequent to get my fix.
27 Aug 2026 13:17:13
To be fair, Ornstein gets dismissed on here. I find him to be reliable.
27 Aug 2026 13:24:37
Not sure who you're talking about, but the loyal few on this site have great faith in our trusted posters. The handful of fools who question them are just that, fools, and they should be ignored for the most part. They won't be here come October. Maybe don't address the entire community to paint them all with the one brush.
27 Aug 2026 13:28:31
It's not hard to understand, mate, nor is it personal. Ornstein, despite being a mouthpiece for clubs nowadays, has confirmed sources and is a leading journalist for a well-known publication with extensive contact with hundreds of clubs.
Though Carra, VG, Robbo et al. have excellent track records, especially in recent years, to the majority of people on here, they are still anonymous contributors with unknown sources.
They give us news well in advance, but Ornstein confirms what clubs actually tell him. We are lucky to have the ITKs on here, though, without a doubt.
27 Aug 2026 13:41:54
The Eds are working on the site from morning til night
That's livin alright (that's livin alright).
Then a pint with the boys in a bar full of noise
That's livin alright.
I'm sure an ex manager of ours sang about that ?.
27 Aug 2026 14:12:10
Maybe if the ITK info had a footnote to the "deal done" along the lines of "but not for another few weeks", then those prone to hysteria may have piped down a bit lol.
27 Aug 2026 14:36:03
My take on the proper ITKs is, and I said this the other day, I don't hang on every word they say, and I'm not being disrespectful in saying that. I'm appreciative of what they post, but, sometimes, like journalists who I respect, they are wrong. I don't think any less of them when they are. It's the nature of transfers.
27 Aug 2026 18:59:07
I don't know why people are so hung up on this "ITK's" nonsense?
People post what they say they have read. I read it and take the info for what it is, and move on.
If it pans out? Great. If it doesn't? Well, oh shucks, and I move on still.
I think people being hung up on these things are just trying to pull the "You see, these so called ITK's aren't reliable/can't be trusted".
Yeah, as if they ever said they were iron clad reliable, to begin with.