The only rules we have is to request a lot and donate before requesting. We're a chill bunch who like to help each other by donating. We're also an international clan. I'm not sure if we have a guy from England yet but you can be our first or ask our members.
This is a known glitch within my alliance.. When you're training your troops in the barrack and decide to remove a different set of tier troop in the que. It will reset the training time of the first unit in the barrack. Really annoying when my supply cart was about to finish training at 5 min...