Most of the ITK's have an income stream related to thier work. Fab Rom has Twitter, YouTube plus agents bunging him a few quid for headlines. Alan Myers until recently worked for Sky, Joyce & Ornstien etc work for papers & so do many other guys. Adverts everywhere that help pay towards you being able to read it 'for free'.
I don't know what The Bobble does for a living but i would imagine he doesn't have the same ITK revenue opportunities that the others do. Plus his catchment area of predominantly Everton fans makes it even harder.
To me, he clearly does get some information. How much or little you belive it is up to the individual. No ITK gets every scoop so they will always bounce off eachother. I respect Bobbles choice of only sharing what he believes are more substantial moves rather than just rumours.
I don't begrudge the guy for trying to earn a few extra quid for information he believes he has over the average fan in the same way I don't begrudge Myers, Joyce, Ornstien etc when you help them through Twitter engagement, YouTube or buying a newspaper or reading thier online articles with adverts everywhere.
Life can be hard. Let the man earn a crust. If you don't like it then all sports journo's are pretty much dead to you so your problem isn't with Bobble, it's with the system. Of course we all wish every article or statement was true & free but the reality is that it isn't. At least Bobble has a bull sheet threshold.
That said I wouldn't personally pay for his service. But I also don't pay The Times, The Telegraph, The Daily Fail etc either. Fab Rom is becoming increasingly poor quality, The red tops can get in the bin & sky have to fill thier breaking news quota on a daily basis so will run any old nonsense nowadays.
The Bobble ain't perfect but he's alright. That's better than most apparent ITK's.