Can't be bothered typing the full story, but keep an eye out for the courier online in a while.  Both a Scottish and an English investor have contacted ICT.  Scottish investors want to improve the stadium and the English aparently want to use us as a feeder club.

David Sutherland is reported as saying he would increase his shareholding to stop a businessman taking overall control of the club which has been run so well up until now.

Front page on the Courier with lots of quotes suggesting this more than a rumour.

I have now located a Courier and can quote directly the webwords of Mr. Hornell - "Wouldn't it be terrible if the hybrid ICT was bought by "outsiders" and run into the ground for a quick profit? As an ex Caley Fan I would laugh my socks off. It's no more than they deserve. Primus Inter Omnes.  - Alan Douglas." (And who was Chic Allan anyway? )

Ach, I miss the likes of Buenos on here, but then I got to laugh my black and gold socks off when Caley and Thistle both went up in a puff of HIE smoke(as opposed to IHE smoke, which is something else entirely) 

KingBeastie?s input:

?porn does not put me up nor down?

Each to their own honey!

Alan Douglas ? reminds me of one of those teddy boys with a DA and brothel (sorry Freudian) creepers who hanker after another age and can?t quite move on.

Don?t see too many of them now though.

More worryingly David Stewart is quoted in the Courier as saying he would

?oppose any takeover approach?

Really  - any?

Here's his picture:

I don't trust him. He's got that shifty eye a bit like the leader of the BNP

You're right, trustworthyness is all in the eyes...

Exhibit A: Abu Hamza

Exhibit B: Blackbeard the Pirate

Do you think the same of David Blunkett?

Alan Douglas ? reminds me of one of those teddy boys with a DA and brothel (sorry Freudian) creepers who hanker after another age and can?t quite move on.

Don?t see too many of them now though.

I was gonna say something similar, but I see him more as a 1970's throwback complete with high waister side pocket flares, stack heeled shoes, a tank top with three stars, huge round collar shirt and a feather cut, probably with his caley scarf tied round his wrist hanging out of the train window at Nairn station

Businessman Behind Football Buyout Exposed As A Pimp

A TYCOON trying to buy an SPL football club can today be exposed as a sleazy pimp luring women into prostitution.

Neil MacGregor, 35, claims to be a wealthy ex-SAS officer with a bodyguard firm protecting Hollywood stars.

Last week he launched a multi-million pound bid for Inverness Caledonian Thistle after a similar approach to Third Division Elgin City flopped.

But we can reveal that MacGregor operates an internet escort agency hiring Scots girls to sell sex in the US porn industry.

He was snared after trying to groom a Sunday Mail reporter, posing as a recruit, for a life of vice.

Our investigator, who provided a fake CV and photo, agreed to meet MacGregor at Crieff Hydro Hotel in Perthshire but he fled after being confronted.

Before the meeting, he bombarded our girl with sleazy phone calls and asked if she would perform sex acts with clients.

MacGregor also claims to have bedded porn star Jenna Jameson.

He said: "We're bodyguards and we got into this because I used to protect Jenna Jameson. She's the most famous porn actress in the world. I worked with her and we had an affair."

He boasted that "his girls" drove Porsche Carreras and Ferraris and that many were "heading to be millionaires".

MacGregor said: "Do you want to be more than an escort? Do you want to run a department in charge of the girls?

"I'm very upfront. Instead of sleeping with guys to earn some money, because basically you are just a prostitute, would you like to be in charge?

"I will show you how you can become a young lady with no financial problems at all. If you come with me you can be a millionaire in five years. How do you fancy ?250,000 a year? If you earn that, you will then double it every year.

"At one point we had 1000 girls on our books. We now have about 200 but we are looking for about 1000.

"I used to be a bodyguard and I said to Jenna when we were in bed together that she could be more. Now she is one of the best porn stars in the world."

Rangers fan MacGregor - using the title of doctor - last year approached Elgin City with a ?400,000 takeover bid, ?5million investment and a promise to take them to the SPL.

He said: "I want to be the David Murray of Elgin and do what he did for Rangers."

Within days, director Graham Tatters said: "I now believe we have been the victims of a hoax."

Despite claiming to be a millionaire, MacGregor was traced to a modest block of flats in Crieff.

And one of his websites is registered at another rundown flat in Pollokshaws, Glasgow.

On Tuesday, it emerged MacGregor had approached Caley Thistle and offered to build a ?10million training facility and 20,000-seater stadium.

Last week he criticised Caley chiefs in a local paper and said he could make the club a top-six side in the SPL.

He said: "They do not want to lose control but they have no money to do anything with it. Either do something with the club or step aside and let someone else do something." MacGregor agreed to meet our investigator on Friday afternoon at Crieff Hydro after supposedly flying in from America.

After being confronted he gave a fake name before threatening to call police, refusing to answer questions then fleeing on foot.

MacGregor said: "You can't do this. This is harassment."

He said later: "I'm not telling you what I'm worth. What I am doing is not illegal."

A senior military source dismissed MacGregor as a fantasist and said there was no record of his army career.

He said: "There is nothing on that name or age group. He's nothing to do with the army or the SAS and that includes the Territorials."

MacGregor only communicated with Elgin - who play in front of around 500 fans - through email and walked away after the club tried to involve lawyers.

Director Tatters, an ex-RAF NCO, said: "The man is a figment of his own imagination.

"Each time we tried to tie him down to a formal offer, he wouldn't do it. If it hadn't been so serious, it would have made a great comedy sketch."

Tatters was also suspicious of MacGregor's army claims.

He said: "He's now removed reference to his army career from the security firm website although it makes a vague reference to special forces."

"It didn't take much investigation to raise lots of red flags about him."

'I can make you a young lady with no financial problems at all' NEIL MACGREGOR TO REPORTER

SUNDAY MAIL

There's no doubt at all that this guy could transform our club.

Grade 'A' erse.

Deserves his own song this afternoon on live telly

On second thoughts, nah, he'd probably love the attention

Feck me Tiptoe - we would have been feckin proud to have conjured that story up.  :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

hes not the smartest cookie on the go then next stop county to take them to the top 

Alan Douglas ? reminds me of one of those teddy boys with a DA and brothel (sorry Freudian) creepers who hanker after another age and can?t quite move on.

Don?t see too many of them now though.

Strangely enough a hairstyle closely resembling the good old DA does seem to be acquiring a certain popularity among contemporary youth.

Does David Sutherland?s statement that he would buy up more shares to prevent a takeover suggest present day parsimony by those now in control?

or just that they wont let any fly by nights get invloived to make a quick pound whan the new devolpment is ready  to take off

Does David Sutherland?s statement that he would buy up more shares to prevent a takeover suggest present day parsimony by those now in control?

Prudence rather than parsimony

Well it certainly now won't be Prudence and the Pill..... :015:

Does David Sutherland?s statement that he would buy up more shares to prevent a takeover suggest present day parsimony by those now in control?

This does seem to betray a fundamental assumption and expectation that it is a football director's destiny in life regularly to put his hand in his own pocket and subsidise the club of which he is a board member.

That is not the point I am making.

I?m not ungrateful for what has been achieved but it does seem that the club is a prawn in the larger Longman game, a game for local players.

I think this guy taking over would be disasterous.  But as we have shares,  if this guy wants to write to shareholders and offer them X amount for the shares is there anything we can really do?

If I was a share holder and somebody offered me for arguments sake 5 x what they were worth,  I'd have to consider it.

Bottom line is that we should be open to investment from sources who we think have the interests of the club at heart. From my point of view, David Sutherland has always had this as part of his make up.

He rescued the club from the edge, has put money in when required, sometimes publicly to a fanfare of plaudits but also quietly and philanthropically when virtually no-one was watching.

I am not so naive that I think it was all done for no return - he has had plenty of good advertising of his business, he gets positive publicity for giving back to the local economy, his companies doubtless earn contracts both from ICT and others based on what they have done and if/when the Longman area starts developing as discussed, they will be in pole position to benefit from that. I have no problem with any of that so long as anything done concerning the stadium area is in the best interests of ICTFC.

This other character - described as a Rangers supporting fantasist in the media over the weekend - a "King Billy Liar" if you like - seems to have desires to take over a football club, any football club but no clue as to what he would do with it other than grand statements that he cant back up .... and should be kept as far away from ICT as humanly possible. 

Agreed - but why would David Stewart be quoted as saying he would "oppose any takeover approach??

I was once offered another job, my then employer offered me a pay rise.

a "King Billy Liar" if you like

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Agreed - but why would David Stewart be quoted as saying he would "oppose any takeover approach??

David Stewart - a fan of ICT, and former MP can say what he likes just like any other fan. David Sutherland, said he would buy more shares if he had to to keep McGregor out.

I?m not ungrateful for what has been achieved but it does seem that the club is a prawn in the larger Longman game, a game for local players.

Tut, tut, Sophia, maybe you meant a lobster in the larger Longman Game ?

who knows ...... we have yacht to see what will happen with the marina developments planned for that area  :029:

What Piscatorial gems---you guys are  just FISHING  for compliments. Please WATER down the complexity of your utterances so that plebs like me and Scarlet  get the message LOL

It's time to bring back HMS Sneck---IHE , are you listerning? :015:

Scarlet -

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