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DAN Wagaluka is determined to secure his career-dream move to Scottish Premiership side Inverness Caledonian Thistle this week. The diminutive midfielder had a work out with the club?s reserve team last Thursday during which he impressed with his huge work ethic and movement, on and off the ball. Wagaluka, a star of former Super Division soccer League champions Uganda Revenue Authority (URA), is expected to have his second trial match today when an Iverness select team hosts Liverpool?s reserve side in a testimonial game. ?I enjoyed my first game last week. After the game, everybody around me liked what I had done,? Wagaluka told The New Vision on phone yesterday. ?I hope to impress in my second match today and hopefully that will convince the technical staff that I am worth a contract.? Scottish publications had earlier stated that Iverness had shown willingness to pay his club?URA?a nominal transfer fee to complete the deal. If Wagaluka excels in his trials, he will just like his Cranes teammate David Obua, have to rely on the appeals procedure to secure a work permit. Aside from playing over 75% of Uganda?s matches, Wagaluka has also impressed against Africa giants such as Nigeria and Angola. Wagaluka will become the second Ugandan in the SPL after former national coach Csaba Laszlo signed left-winger David Obua at Hearts. Dan Wagaluka SC Villa The former Iganga TC and Villa goal merchant has not only given trouble to defenders of other teams in the local league but to international ones too. Nigeria's much-hyped backline, commanded by Everton's Joseph Yobo can attest to how deadly this boy was during 2007. He has attracted several foreign clubs including South African giants Kaiser Chiefs and defending champions Sundowns who are scrambling for his signature Worth the feckin risk - but this story is the one that convinced me - cant wait to get his name on ma shirt. :thumb04: In another development, URA FC winger Dan Wagaluka recently survived deportation for escaping from the team camp. The Cranes star sneaked out of the team`s residential venue at Gwami Hotel, Morogoro and spent a night on the prowl without the team`s official permission. This occurred last Wednesday night after URA`s 1-1 draw with Ethiopian side Awassa, a result that sealed their qualification to the quarterfinals. The team`s disciplinary committee comprising of Nixion Twebaze, Bernard Bainaman, Sam Okabu, Henry Mateku and head coach Moses Basena met to consider punishment for Wagaluka. Sam Mubiru, Johnson Bagole, Alex Isabirye and Manco Kaweesa represented the players. Most of the officials advocated for the player`s deportation, but the players pushed for a more lenient punishment. The committee finally ruled that Wagaluka makes an apology, which he did in writing. The decision, however, left some officials unhappy. ?No one is untouchable at this club. We set rules and they should be followed. Why is it that 20 players abide by the rules and only one goes against them,? one official complained. Another committee member said the decision was taken in the interest of the team. ?We decided to go by the senior players\? request because any action taken out of their favour would disorganise the team,? he said. Wagaluka` reportedly went to a local discotheque called Ze Club. Last year the same player escaped from the team camp during the tournament in Rwanda.

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Very close to agreeing with the super steel girded hammock swinging Mountie - but I reckon Brew will bring back Proctor and play him in central defence, dropping Duff to the bench. I reckon if Munro is fit he will stick with Maguire and both Proctor and Duff will warm the bench. It wouldnt totally surprise me if he played McBain in left midfield and pair Imrie up front with Barrowman - if I am rite Brew needs booting out pronto. Personally I would go: Fraser Proctor (Tokely) Munro (Duff) Duff (Proctor) McBain Cowie Black Duncan Imrie Barrowman Rooney Lets look to the feckin future.

Glad someone else noticed IHE. It baffled us and was best decribed as a very strong smell of hamster. Did anyone check Caley100's pockets - he has a feckin knack of getting rid of hamsters.

I thought that Bristol Rovers deserved the draw at Old Triffid.

If he was a Jeggie - who the **** gives a ****.

But my mince is usually rite in the long run - this time I am only stating what I have been told from another source - and I dont think that he is taking the ****.

My flag is evidently under used - who wants to take care of it and fly the feckin thing home and away on a game by game basis - I will hand it over at falkirk.

But there is no life after ICT - it is death fer the faithful few - watching the Highland League in the celestial Howden End. Doesnt that thought ease the thoughts of dying ?

Shurely you have all learned the lesson not to listen to what our club representatives say on a formal basis - learn to read between the lines fer fecks sake. It would be great if somebody at ICT actually just told us the bottom line fer once - as if we wouldnt understand statements like - we dont have enuff dosh - or we have tried fer --- and he turned it down cos of the wages - but the club then thinks that they are showing themselves up as clowns. How can they be any more clowns than they have been over the last couple of seasons - by not telling the facts at the onset and trying to cloud rumours or issues they ceraete the chinese whispers and end up with egg on their faces as most time the outcome has been forecast on this forum. Shurely they must also understand that this is a small club and information leaks readily. Brew is happy with the defenders that he has - he wants to be proved right about his signings of Proctor, Maguire or Zadi and his insisitence with Hastings and faith in Munro as a leader. Otherwise he would have to admit tht he has made a mistake - but the Board should be over ruling him on that. We clearly need a central defender with experience - but that may put Brew in a bad light if he was seen to be wrong and a seasoned professional may also challenge Brew - and we know what happens then.

As a predominantly away fan I suspect that this season will be a return to the away day point taking affairs and I suspect that we may return to ending up with more away points than home points. This seemed to always be the case in the first two seasons when we stuck rigidly to a 4-5-1 and counter attacking style. Apart from a 6 week spell last season we appeared to have tried to go without that system and we didnt really have the players to do it plus Brew kept on changing the team and the formations. I suspect that with what we have got Brew is almost resigned to stick with the 4-5-1 which augurs well fer the away day support. But how does he change that at home. Well IMHO it has to be a 4-4-2 or an attack minded 4-4-1-1. Play with width and try and play the ball on the deck. And wait fer it - that may be the one place that we will miss the Mercenary - at home he could play the lone striker role becos of his touch and being able to hold the ball up and pass - Barrowman may be a better option away from home - with pace and movement in midfield - but he - nor anybody else - isnt going to replace the greedy one up front. Barrowman isnt a Bayne either so we have to look to putting two up front and playing to their strengths and stop the aimless feckin hoofing. Anyway it is 3-0 to the Away X1 and I think that the Away X1 will win again this season.

I suspect that he has had a previous record. I can clearly recall seing "Marius woz here" scratched into a cell wall when I toured the new Longman establishment last season.

Agree that it is early days yet but disagree that we have to play 4-5-1 - Harped on fer ages about it but 4-5-1 at home only works against the likes of the Old Filth. Best to get the bad ones out of our system early doors and we should know how to beat Hibees tactically at home. And it is irritating that we are not straining a gut to get in a new dfeender - I fear that Brew continues to keep faith in what he has got - That is a BIG mistake.

Treesferlife in the Caledonian Forest !! Fer fecks sake its a Greenpeace Supporters Club - but perhaps they are pining for home.

Now - if this isnt a visual hallucination to add to yer tactile and visual ones - this is indeed a disgrace and needs to be reported pronto. Before I read anything else did ya smell anything funny yesterday ?

Aaah - now I understand - you were on an all day bender - that is the only explanation for tactile and visual hallucinatory experiences - I suppose in the sober light of day you will now realise that Andy Barrowman has more chance of being the next Mr Whippy than the next Paul Ritchie. :018: ;)

How feckin much did you drink last night ? And leave the feckin prophecies to an expert.

It could have been worse - he could have been charged with impersonating a goal scoring forward - even Donald Findlay would have struggled to defend that.

As I am commenting fromafar - please correct me - but WHY do we go 4-5-1 at home - it cries out fer a 4-4-2. Brew still hankers for Royster - get him back to left full back as that is the only position that he tends to perform consistently in - Imrie needs a spell of games on the left fer fecks sake - if Duncan wasnt 100% then why play him ? And have we not learned from the Mercenary last year - even he struggled up front on his tod with hoofs being the ploy - how the **** is Barrowman supposed to cope on his own. A central defender is a must.. And I have a feeling that we will be picking up the most points on the away days this season.

Bentley is a seasoned pro and a captain - Rooney is looking to his future not his pocket.

Well probably within our price range - this guy is rumoured to be no nonsense and he evidently has experience of captaincy and is a regular - my only worry is that he may be another "hoofer". Surely to **** wecan match Morecambe in the wage department.i

I have been at a meeting today in Lancaster and my counterpart in that area is a Morecambe FC supporter and states that there are rumours that ICT have made enquiries about a guy called Jim Bentley - My mate rates Bentley highly and cant understand why other English clubs havent gone for him - apart from the fact that he is described as a no nonsense player, not the most skillful but a leader and a 110% man. Interesting ?

Good feckin point - it fair concerned me last season. To play the offside trap you have to either have a very organised, together defence or a defender with real pace to recover - we have neither, Last season the main culprits were Rosscoe and Hastings who often dawdled when the shout came. Maguire on the other hand was often edgy and tended to hold back. Granty was guilty of putting the hands up on several occasions but surely he would have been responsible for the initial shout. I feel that Granty learned the "push" form Dods who regularly held his hand up but was always in the stance to try and recover. Fraser used to be of little help but he improved last season when he played the "sweeper" role a lot better. Surely this has been practised in feckin training. I dont mind Granty giving the shout and putting his hands up as long as the line comes out together, the central defenders position themselves to play on and recover and Mikey is on his feckin toes to "sweep".

Only if he feckin behaves himself. Any **** from Cork is dodgy in ma book but I am impressed that he appears literate. It may make him feel more at home if he knows that we have an IRA bastion in the town - Inverness Royal Academy. How any **** could be linked with the feckin Cellic is beyond me - and if I am wrong about him I will get a Fenian tattoo.

Hairy - ma boss IS actually a Stoke City season ticket holder who goes to most of their reserve games as well. He reckons that if the Potters were still in the Championship that they may well have held on to Mr Rooney. He feels that they have let him go as Adam can see that his chances will be limited and he wants to play first team football at as high a level as possible. He has a lot to prove and unfortunately his sights are probably aimed at a higher level eventually and he will be desperate to bring himself to the attention of the FAI. I reckon that we have got a feckin cracker.