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But what if there isn't a published source?

Just to give people an advance warning for the Summer Rumour Thread, when we start it, that the mods have had a talk about this and there will no longer be any unsubstantiated rumours. If you have news of anything happening on the transfer front, you will be required to back it up with a published source. Just saying my mate down the road, or the bloke over at TSW, or even my mate who talks to the players at the gate, will not be enough. So that's my 'special source' gone. We are doing this to cut down on the unsubstantiated rubbish that pervades the rumour thread.

Just saying, so take note. Summer Rumour thread will start end of April.

The mods will have to regroup and rethink. That obviously wasn't thought through/explained very well.
 
Just to give people an advance warning for the Summer Rumour Thread, when we start it, that the mods have had a talk about this and there will no longer be any unsubstantiated rumours. If you have news of anything happening on the transfer front, you will be required to back it up with a published source. Just saying my mate down the road, or the bloke over at TSW, or even my mate who talks to the players at the gate, will not be enough. So that's my 'special source' gone. We are doing this to cut down on the unsubstantiated rubbish that pervades the rumour thread.

Just saying, so take note. Summer Rumour thread will start end of April.

How quickly can you perform a U turn?
 
The main thing is the transfer thread usually goes way off topic about half way through. That is the thing that needs to be stopped far more then people giving bits of info.

Many a time I've logged in to see 4 or 5 new pages and expect to see an exciting rumour only for it to be pages of puns
 
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Just want to add my voice to the "EH?" crowd with that one. Seems a very strange and misguided decision. If somebody has complained to the mods that there's too many unsubstantiated rumours in the...umm...rumours thread, then surely by weight of numbers there are far many more that appreciate the snippets from Beefy, DTLW et al - and to be honest their information is far more substantiated than that which you can pull a source for.

Nah, sorry mods, I love you all but you have this one terribly wrong.
 
Just to echo everyone above that seems a very strange decision regarding the transfer RUMOUR thread. Are we now deciding that the Sun etc. is more reliable than Beef/Dtlw? One of the joys of coming on forums during transfer windows is to find out info outside the mainstream media. Otherwise I would just check BBC Gossip (<doh>) every day, they have 'sources'.

I also don't see the reason for this? Has someone/people complained about this? If so are we going to be made aware of how many people have. Honestly don't see any benefits at all and hope it is either re-explained with more detail or there is a rethink.

P.S. Also agree with others that a much bigger problem is 4 pages of puns in the thread!!