Carruthers Brothers' Move On Edinburgh Gunners Offers Glimmer of Hope Rugby: Takeover Deal the Sru's Bombshell Will Give Professional Players a New Sense of Optimism, Believes Alasdair Reid
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WITH expletives deleted, the scene in the plushly understated surroundings of the Murrayfield hospitality suite last Monday might have done justice to an HM Bateman cartoon entitled "The Day The SRU Issued An Interesting Press Release". As journalists scanned the documents they had been given, their eyebrows shot upwards and their animation levels reached heights more commonly provoked by the rejection of expenses claims.
After all, the expectation had been that the previous evening's summons to Murrayfield implied nothing more than a bland briefing from the nothingcontinues-to-happen school of media relations. Bear in mind that for almost adecade the union's official position had been that they were willing to negotiate with outside investors, and an awful lot of nothing had happened in that time. The last thing we expected to hear was that a breakthrough had finally been made.See the full content of this document
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Carruthers Brothers' Move On Edinburgh Gunners Offers Glimmer of Hope Rugby: Takeover Deal the Sru's Bombshell Will Give Professional Players a New Sense of Optimism, Believes Alasdair Reid
Breakthrough? Make that a bombshell. In a few terse paragraphs the SRU announced a deal had been struck for a consortium nobody had heard of to take control of the side nobody imagined would ever pass into private hands. It would be a considerab...
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