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Am I right in saying though that only the 51% sold in 2004 was owned by the Murray group? I think the rest was owned by someone else. I don't believe it was ever worth as much as �£3m. Given the drop in related party transactions in the accounts, it appears to have only been worth around �£2m.

I can think of one international striker who wouldn't have scored it.

I doubt it as well TBH. Lafferty looked excellent in his short time on the pitch, and gives Walter another (better?) option for next week.

So why go 4-5-1?

Why go for a 4-5-1 for the first 18 minutes of the second half with Boyd up himself? Made absolutely no sense and Boyd didn't get a sniff. Totally baffling. I thought that Walter was happy to settle for 0-0.

Yes, as MF points out. if you look back on some of the more recent previous threads he has been involved in you'll see that I've given him a bit of a hard time.

Looked like a stone-wall penalty to me. Levein came acrross as a bitter asshole on the radio.

None of that is publicly available info. However what I do know is that Azure was sold by Murray (for �£1 IIRC) as it was a loss maker. It was bought by Elior, a French catering giant. According to the accounts, Rangers paid Azure, so you have to assume that Azure were providing the service for catering and Rangers got the income from the sales, or otherwise I don't see how it would have worked. if Azure got all the catering income then they would have been paying us. It's sound commercial sense to sub-contract the catering so that Rangers don't have the expense of having to pay the staff for one day every 2 weeks.

I'm concerned that these factors may give them an added incentive and also concerned about our tactics.

Why does my post come out with lower case letters when I type them in upper case? Bloody fascist admin.

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nice one

Shame on you. I believe that the net gain would be over �£3m, but usual inaccuracies from one of their journalists. It's not only football scribes that question your financial management, David. I'm sure Murray has lots of budget scenarios at the start of each season. he won'tt work with just one. Perhaps Murray does have a point about football scibes after all. Try nearer �£30m. I don't believe Advocaat sanctioned any spending so it was Murray himself who should be equated to Fred ("the world's worst banker"). Sorry, but that's just bollocks. Murray's executives are there to do a job, and I'm sure they are glad that Murray spends a lot of his time on Rangers. if they can't manage their businesses without him handholding them then they shouldn't be there. It's certainly refreshing to see a journalist trying to have a constructive go. Just a shame it wasn't that good an effort.

MF, I am aware of his allegiences having argued with him both on his site (my one and only visit) and on here. I'm sure G_S and theEA will also both be aware but it's up to them whether they wish their publications to be featured on his site. FWIW, I wouldn't have my publication involved with him either if I had one.

The moral of the story is "don't read the evening Times".

He's never impressed me. They are welcome to him. Not surprised to see the usual "Real madrid" mention in the article.

The fact that it was live on TV was also blamed.

I believe all CCCS people should get a ticket as I've been told there are around 17,000 of them.

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In FM09 or real life? :fish:

The whole Homecoming thingy seems to me to have been hijacked by the SNP for political purposes. I'm all for celebrating our Scottishness, but can't get too enthusiastic about this because of how it is being used.

We only have Aaron on loan so I doubt he will be in the team in a couple of years.

"Of course we will sell you McGregor for �£3m as long as you tell everyone it's �£7.5m"

Outstanding article. Thanks for posting Frankie.

The gossip is that we have until Monday to sign players.