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May be something to do with your IE (or whatever) settings, Shroomz? I never have any problems and are automatically logged in each time I come to the site.

McCoist doesn't have the experience of Jimmy Calderwood, but it doesn't mean that I'd want Calderwood as the next Rangers manager. Out of interest, which SPL club offered McCoist the job as manager?

LOL. Great stuff. DJ, I see that you have a UK Prod verifier on your desktop. A great recruitment tool, I'm sure.

I've got no idea which of them would make a better manager, and as Norris points out, fergie's got more experience, albeit at a lower level. Why do you prefer McCoist?

Interesting interview, but there's no way he'll be the next manager. Needs a bit more experience back in the UK. Looks like a good life though.

I went to Bruges and Bochum (and also the game in Copenhagen against Lyngby). I never made Marseille as my cash had run out. My favourite season ever.

92/93.

Agreed, and their win in Moscow hasn't broken their duck of nil away wins in the Champios League.

At least I didn't mention facial humiliation.

There's never a good reason not to.

Feck the second pot. There's only one issue of concern. Up the Arse!

During the NIAR years, nobody bothered about the money side. Everything was rolling along quite nicely thank you and we trusted the people in charge of our club to continue to run it sensibly as we had no reason not to. The Bosman ruling, the advent of Sky etc and the cash in the champions League suddenly meant that there was a lot more money in the game. Rangers' wage bill rocketed from �£7.6m in 1994 to �£34.2m just 6 years later. During the Advocaat years some concerns were raised by a few as they didn't like the look of what was happening, but were reassured by the directors of the club that they would not allow the borrowing to get out of control, and given their track record there wasn't any reason to think that they were lying when, BANG, we were �£70 million+ in debt and everybody woke up to the fact that the money side was, perhaps, important. Since then, our lack of cash has dominated our approach, and fans have had to become more interested. The internet, and message boards like this one has allowed the dissemination of information and allowed people to read or even debate on subjects that they would previously have had little interest. Guys like Boss, Carino and hopefully myself have tried to pass on information in a user friendly manner to allow people to have an understanding of what is going on, without having to pore over a set of complicated accounts. This is going to continue to be an issue as Rangers and Celtic try to compete with the best in Europe while surviving in a backwater. The financial side of football is like a genie out of a bottle. It's out and it's here to stay.

Esplin is the man who insisted that Spiers wrote in his last Rangers book, which resulted in a lot of great contributors pulling their very interesting articles from it, and ended up spoiling what should have been a very worthwhile project. I lost a lot of respect for him over that.

I don't. I much prefer to talk about the finance. :devil:

Wow.....I think....

The general feeling around me was this was walter putting McGregor in the shop winow.

Who is talking about saving society? I hardly think that the club standing up to a few media types is the same as curing all of society's ills. I know it's hard to justify allowing the press free range at the club and its support but that's streching it a little too far.

On the OP, I now see it was made by Barrybaldy on FF, so that adds a lot of credibility to it.

And people's pensions and pay packets have suffered due the government you were a part of, Reid, ya c*nt.

I don't believe that last August's spend did take us over the �£15m limit in itself. However we must have been very close around March/April this year. On the retail being "sold off", it hasn't affect our net income.

I don't know if you recall, but I told you back in May that the bank were in, helping to run things. However since then, we have secured CL football, lowered the wagebill and Got in a little transfer cash, removing the immediate requirement for monitoring, I would have thought. If they are still there then it shows little confidence in the current people running the show.

They will have a fair number, on both sides of the old firm.

Good news.

92/94 followed by 97/99