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SPORT : Football : STFC Gen Mgr Steve Murrall has left the club, saying "it's time for me to move back onto my own business interests"

I dont know what that means.  To be fair I dont know what he was.

Or how to spell his name correctly.

Murrall

I don't think it takes a lot of inside knowledge to be able to interpret it pretty easily....

Interesting. He had a bit of bad press early on after it was alleged he had a shandy too many in the club bar. Then it transpired it may have been one of the others.

Either way, erm, not much to say until a new/existing person is installed as gm. If we replace him

Statement on the adver webbie

http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/sport/10793556.Murrall_steps_down_as_Town_general_manager/

 :hmmm:

Could mean nothing, could mean something....anyone itk? Chang?

Seems STFC Myworld is his business project

Isn't that an oxymoron Reg?

I always worry when something comes up saying 'STFC club statement'.

I think Ive been watching too long.

He will probably try to sell it to other football clubs using STFC as the example.

Those of us who live in a Changster's paradise...would have hoped for an early warning of this, but I suppose somethings have to be kept quiet...the least we can hope for is an explanation of what is going on at the CG atm.

You'll all have to wait. I think Chang's busy going to collect Jason Roberts from Reading as his replacement.

Player/General Manager then...I like it...

Heard there might be something fishy behind this... But I think that might just be what people expect, it is STFC after all!

I'm not sure there's much into it. Just think he wanted out.

Yeah. Sounds good doesn't it. My sources tell me that he's informing Jason of his new role as we speak. In the car as they travel down the M4.

I only know this as living in Reading I went out for a KFC at lunchtime and caught sight of the Chang mobile outside the Mad Stad, just as Roberts was being smuggled out of the back entrance under a blanket.

I suppose that Jed has a fairly hands on approach anyway so the departure of Murrall wont have much of a short term effect but we would need someone in as GM or Chief Exec longer term to help with the day to day running of things and oversee the goings on and to help Jed

I'll miss his shifty eyes.

What have you heard then?  You're right it is STFC, so something is bound to be going on...

He reminded me of mr potato head

sinister special edition..

Lets hear it then eh Tails, seeing as you spent all summer on here jumping on anyone who merely hinted that all was not well behind the scenes.

Alright Chang, keep your britches on, just because you were too busy with Mr Roberts to see this coming.

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Not sure what I expected when I read 'Club Statement', but was relieved when I saw it was only Steve Murrall going (No disrespect - after previous club statement's you never know!)

I noticed that the BBC story has a different, smiling, picture of him rather than the dodgy-geezer-looking-to-one-side one:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24854959

Still looks shifty though.

Heard a gun was pulled during the Bury after-match fracas. Don't know who though.

You are joking right? The only guns anywhere near the CG are the ones in the bar that dispense fizzy drinks.

Murell looks like an Essex-based 90's pop band manager. The sort of fizzog that frightens babies...

And whoever it was said Tails is an utter cunt for moaning at anyone who dared criticise the bopard over the summer was bang on the money.

Fuck you Tails, with your 'fishy' hints about scandals down at SN1.

Glad that this mornin's Adver clears things up: "We don't want to mug the fans off."

Danny Dyer will be installed as the replacement next week.

And considering the vast majority of it all transpired to be complete and utter bullshit which many were taking as fact, he was vindicated.

And look at you trying to act all mighty, you were one of the worst.

Did any of the rumours flying about turn out to be true?

I did hear from a somebody I trust that Murrell punching somebody was true, I can't think of anything else.

We played a friendly against Tottenham. Can't think of too many others.

Yeah.

But I mean 'The board are evil money stripping thieving chancers' type rumours that were flying about. Not just the Chang 'ITK' ones.

I heard he's gone because Jed isn't asset stripping fast enough . . . he just could not wait!!

I suspected that maybe what you were getting at Flash. That honestly is all I can think of though.

I'm as sceptical of those rumours as you FH (well, perhaps not quite as sceptical) but tbf it's too early to say whether they turned out to be true or not. In the nature of these things, you don't usually find out that they were up to no good until either it's all fallen apart or else they've all quit and a new lot have come in and gone "Oh my Lord, you wouldn't believe what's been going on here". Which doesn't mean the rumours weren't just what they seemed to be - speculative horse-shit based on exactly nothing.

I agree Paul, it's possible we could still find they are being very incompetent and/or devious.

I think the asset-stripping rumours took an almighty hit when we signed Luongo though. If they are asset stripping then they really aren't very good at it.

The MyWorld system, despite it's initial flaws and ongoing issues, is a fantastic idea and Murrall deserves credit for that


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Don't ticketmaster power the ticket purchasing and associated loyalty points.

I'd imagine the myworld stuff is more ship purchased and eventual affiliate schemes.

Not that it detracts. Whoever replaced the old online booking system with this one deserves a pat on the back.

The mantra from a fair few on here at the beginning of the new regime, was the need to be vigilant about the dealings of the new Board....given they came in from left field as unknowns. Since then a lot of names have come and gone, or seemingly in some cases gone before they came.

Lee Power then arrived some time after the initial burst of "investors"...so of the originals of 9/10 months ago we're left with Jed.

Atm things appear on the surface to be stable, but this is STFC.....Murrall going may be benign, but may not...don't think there's anything wrong in asking questions.

People can ask all the questions they like - they ain't going to be told jack

I still see Power as some kind of wannabe Bond villain type (Gert Frobe's Goldfinger, possibly), sitting in his Swiss hideaway stroking his furry white cat, and Murrell was just one of his expendable henchmen.  I see Jed as Herve Villechaiz's Nick Nack from the Man with the Golden Gun, and Sangita Shah as Irma Bunt from On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

You make it sound like a few asked questions. That is bollocks,they were crucified and called all sorts

By some. And some, like Reg said, stressed the need to be vigilant etc etc. It's not all black or white.

Well this is a fooball club...not a debating society...it could be that the likes of King, Hall, Hooper, Rice, didn't find the process of heat and kitchen to their liking. Murrall, we don't know, he lasted a bit longer.

Come on Paul, you can't deny that the TEF was rife with over-reaction and accusations against unfounded rumour which is exactly what Reg is trying to play down. Yes, some people merely stressed the need to be vigilant but let's not pretend the forum was a rational place.

I never had a problem with "the need to remain vigilant". We should still be doing the same now and always. Unless you know Jed personally then this will always be the case to some extent.

There were plenty of people on here who seemed to enjoy the conspiracy theories and bollocks though. And the bollocks quota certainly went through the roof around that time. As Flash says it wasn't a great place to be. A few questions I could have lived with.

Reg suggests a little wait and see and then adds that questions were asked and that is apparently bollocks?

Earlier we are re-assured that there will be no asset stripping because of the signing of Luongo and that sceptics of the Board propounded 'The board are evil money stripping thieving chancers' type rumours.

I am delighted with how matters have developed since August but it seems to me that the extreme statements come from the iron-fisted Board zealots who now act as if they are ITK to the contrary when any doubts are raised.

I didn't get a hammer and nails out but I was heavily sarcastic when Jed came up with the discovery of a 1950s debt being a reason for the M'Bargo not being lifted and my belief is that these were silly fibs deserving of some scorn and possibly even concern. 

I think even the Board admitted that it's PR was an area to improve on.

I didn't deny that. I said it was a sliding scale. One of the big problems with this forum over the past couple of years is the constant need some have to categorise everything as 100% doom-mongers or 100% happy clappy. It's rarely one or the other, but some people try to pigeonhole pretty much every post or poster they disagree with. And there was a LOT of that at the time, much of it aimed at people who were just stressing the need to be vigilant/sceptical. There was a lot of hysterical irrationality on BOTH extremes of the discussion which, as usual when discussions go to extremes like that, buried the shades of grey in the middle.

You do see a lot of crap ;D

Goldfinger, of course didnt have a white cat - that was Blofeld.
He did however have a private pilot called Pussy Galore.

Yeah, come on, if you're going to compare Bond villains and their pets at least get it right ::)

Stop getting Bond wrong.

Although Goldfinger does have a cat in the novel. It isn't white though and if memory serves me correct he gives it to Oddjob as a treat....

Read my post again.  I didn't say that Goldfinger was stroking the cat.  I likened Power to Goldfinger because they both have ginger hair.

For fuck's sake, if you want to be that picky, the unnamed bald villain in For Your Eyes Only (played by John Hollis) also had a white cat.  Who's to say that Lee Power doesn't have one, too?   ;D

Anyway, enough of this bollocks, I'm off to get the train to Macclesfield.   :bye:

Dr Evil had a cat. He also had sharks with lasers

Deserves a YouTube clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czWLEbNwjCI

Ha ha superb. Who says the TEF's lost it's touch? :)

Fiona Fullerton isn't in The Spy Who Loved Me.

Yeah, but it's Alan Partridge who said it...

Frickin' lasers.