Winning the title and getting an automatic passage to the Champions League has certainly eased the pressure on our finances but anybody who thinks the bigger picture has changed had better think again. Our club remains vulnerable to the whims of a Custodian who has long since lost any stomach for the fight to maintain the Gers' greatness and his well-tanned lackey who is a laughing stock, with agents and rival clubs' officials, most noteably Liewell, running rings around him.
But Murray and Bain need not lose any sleep over adverse publicity from the jokers who pass for objective journalists in this small-minded wee country of ours.
The Minted One's press puppets (or should that be muppets?) were queuing up in good brown-nosing fashion to bask in the the glory of Rangers' Double success and, true to form, they couldn't resist the temptation to have a pop at the Rangers Supporters Trust and those behind the We Deserve Better campaign.
As if reading from a Murray hand-out - surely not? - McInnes, Young, Traynor and the rest all regurgitated the same line about those who speak up for the fans. 'These are the people who wanted Walter Smith out not so very long ago'.
WRONG! (no surprise there then)
The campaign never was against the team manager. Yes, there have been plenty of reservations about our style of play and Walter's reluctance to bring in younger players but We Deserve Better was aimed primarily at the man at the head of the house who, smugly pocketing a hefty wedge from various Rangers-related sources of income, rolls in the folding stuff while the club is perpetually pleading poverty.
Ask yourself this. Does anybody really believe that, if Murray had got his way and Boydie was hustled through the door in January, we would still have won the league? So any relief which comes from guaranteed Champions League football has been brought about despite the man with the knighthood, certainly not because of any smart thinking in the boardroom.
Maybe if car parking, catering, publishing, ticketing and marketing were brought back 'in house' Rangers' finances would improve dramatically and the fans might get the better club they rightly feel they deserve.
But it won't happen while the Minted One is in charge. Having done their arse-licking bit, the Hack Pack were summoned to the other side of the city by Mr Integrity and they are actually buying into the line that we might see Barcelona-style football in the SPL next season. Do these eejits ever ask a serious question?
Just as they take every word Murray utters as gospel, they accept the airy-fairy nonsense being peddled at Breezeblock Boulevard and we get the cavalier football/ Kafflick principles/ RaSellick family crap rammed down our throats day after day. Well, it makes for an easy life if you just take the press release, add in a word or two of your own, then head off to the pub. Aye, its nice work if you can get it.
If Murray was serious he would have responded to the way Septic have dominated the back pages lately with a True Blue charm offensive. Kirk Broadfoot bleating about almost being blinded by a badly poached egg and telling the world that we can't compete in Europe hardly constitutes good PR. What do Media House do for their tidy retainer? Answers on the back of a stamp to...
Meanwhile it will be left to the Trust and other fans' bodies to keep beating the We Deserve Better drum. Murray has had a free ride for far too long. His tenure has reduced Rangers to a debt-laden shell, instead of planning ahead ambitiously and looking to improve the team, we stumble from one transfer window to another, looking to pick up a bargain basement buy and hoping against hope that our top men aren't sold off to the highest bidder.
If the Rangers support is prepared to accept such mismanagement, the patch-up-and-make-do philosophy is fully deserved. But the Minted One is not a stupid man. He knew he was in for a hard time following the Kaunus debacle and the sale of Carlos Cuellar so he created a situation where he was praised for letting the Carlos cash be spent on strengthening the squad, when he really should have been asked why he allowed us to get into such a mess in the first place.
Remember, we are referring to just a matter of weeks after the team had played in a European final. The time was right to build on the club's new high profile, attract genuine quality to Ibrox and put together an exciting five-year plan to take us onwards and upwards. But our commercial operation was so slack that we didn't cash in on our appearance in the UEFA Cup Final, we didn't strengthen the squad, flopped in Kaunus and were at the mercy of a tuppence-ha'penny bid for Cuellar.
A year further down the road, we've got the SPL trophy and the Scottish Cup wrapped up in red, white and blue ribbons but, whilst enjoying the success, those who maintain that We Deserve Better have seen where Murray's complacency tends to take us. He looks for the cheap option, the team suffers, the Bears get restless, then he throws a couple of shekels at the problem and claims to be the saviour. Yet it is his mismanagement which continually causes us to be reaching for the panic button.
But don't dare suggest such a thing within earshot of a Scottish scribbler. Instead of asking difficult questions about where all the money has gone over the past twenty years, they'd much prefer to bad-mouth those who pay through the nose for their fitba and have long since got wise to Mr Chairman's smoke and mirrors routine.
Rangers are back on top but, with our rivals getting a lift from the appointment of a new manager, regardless of how far down the short list he was, the successes of 2008-09 cannot be overcooked. The team did well to do the Double but this must be a launching pad to bigger and better things, we have to build from a position of strength, constantly seeking to improve.
For all their faults, nobody will ever accuse RaSellick's board of lacking ambition or failing to generate optimism. Sure, talk is cheap but the noises coming out of the Piggery, aided and abetted by gutless journos, are much more encouraging for their fans than the silence at Ibrox is for us. We get all stressed out about who might be sold, worry about the absence of fresh blood, get into heated debate about a takeover consortium (or the lack of!) and generally see our club sit back and do nothing while our rivals plan ahead.
There is merit in the say-nothing-until-you-have-something-meaningful-to-say approach and I'd love to think Walter and his backroom team are quietly going about the business of preparing things for the new season. But having been here before on several occasions, I'm more inclined to believe that Murray is basking in the glory of the Double, intent on muddling through on the cheap again, maybe picking up a snip just as the August transfer window is about to slam shut and keeping his fingers crossed that everything works out fine. I hope it does too but it is hardly a bold ambitious business plan.
Boardroom complacency cost the Mockit Ones four-in-a-row, of that I have no doubt. With our lot skint and seemingly proud to declare it, they didn't strengthen when they were in pole position and paid the price in May. The We Deserve Better campaign aims to make sure David Murray does not make the same mistake this summer and, by refusing to go away, these passionate articulate fans have let it be known who will be held responsible if Rangers' hard-earned superiority is thrown away.
Mind you, it would be daft to expect any of the liars with laptops to share our concerns about which direction our club might take. Mr Chairman throws them enough freebies here and there to keep them sweet. He and Liewell have got the Press Gang eating out of the palm of their hands and they won't rock the boat for anything the fans (the paying customers!) might have to say, regardless of how valid their viewpoint may be.
Nevertheless, to those behind the We Deserve Better initiative, I say: Keep up the good work! We certainly do deserve better.