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Team news from bbc.co.uk Motherwell striker Chris Porter is ruled out of the visit of Inverness after suffering a knee injury in the Scottish Cup win over Hearts. Jim Paterson is still suspended, but Steven McGarry is expected to return from illness. New signing Luke Daniels could be on the bench after the goalkeeper arrived from West Brom. Defender Phil McGuire, serving the last of a three-match suspension, is the only absentee for Inverness. Glad to see that Chris Porter is out injured :021:

To be honest i'm not bothered if Duncan and Tokely go. Both have been excellent servants for the club and at times produced match winning performances. But they are really not worth paying over the odds for, especially when we have the likes of Dale Gillespie and Ian Vigurs coming through looking for a first team place. I actually think that young defender we have, Kerr (can't remember his first name) would make an excellent defensive midfielder. Good in the tackle and in the air and every game i've seen him in, he has shown excellent distribution. Something definitely lacking in Russel's locker. It's all very well and good breaking up play... but when you give the ball back to the opposition 5 secs later :024:

From what I've seen of Dale Gillespie in pre season friendlies, I think we'll be fine without Richie Hart. Garry Wood can also play as an attacking center midfielder I think? It really is time we played some youth players :024:

That was the name of my local pub in my first year living in Aberdeen (2000 I think?). It was surprisingly easy to find :rolleyes02:

I got up about about 8am, won a bit of money on the Tennis and now i'm tidying the flat in preparation for about 6 or 7 guys coming round to watch the game. As i'm in Aberdeen, it'll be 1 Caley fan (me), 6 Dons fans and 1 Rangers fan, which should make the match banter interesting... Pies, beer and cava been in the fridge since yesterday. Cava; because I had 2 bottles saved in the fridge for xmas period, which both got drunk at the full time whistle in the Celtic 3-2 win :021: Hope to crack them open today as well! Stuck my tennis winnings on Ajax and PSV wins, which i'll watch before our kick offs.

I'm sure this has been answered somewhere else before, but did we sign that young striker from Wick in the end? Anyone know how he's doing, if we did?

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

A rangers fan with a 7 year old daughter.... :024: I'm guessing the mother is in 4th year of secondary school by now? So we could maybe excuse her spelling.... :023:

A choice phrase for our guests on sunday... Any chance we can club together to leave a bar of soap on each away end seat? It'll save a fortune in defumigating the stand after the game :016:

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

Glad to hear it's looking like a sell out :clapping03:

It would make my Monday morning absolutely brilliant if I could take the **** out of all the Hun supporting urchins, somewhat akin to the next day after the Celtic win. That was a very hazy night out, followed by an hour so of sleep, then 7 hours of dealing with bratty kids...

Chants of the week "We couldn't sell you on ebay!" Grimsby Town fans to ex-keeper Anthony Williams. Pretty sure the Man Utd fans tried to sell Darren Fletcher on ebay at one point :024:

He hit that pen straight down the middle (a bit like Rankin's against Celtic), except the Hibs goalie's freakishly long legs saved it (hit his foot I recall). I'd be confident with him taking all our pens in future, as Wilson, Wyness and Tokely have never impressed me over the years with their pens... If you are including Blackie in the Internationalists, you might have to include the likes of Dargo, Rory, Zander, Vigurs and Kerr??

Inverness reject Hibs' Rankin bid Inverness Caledonian Thistle have rejected a second offer from Hibernian for midfielder John Rankin. Director of football Graeme Bennett told BBC Sport: "Both offers were better than those previously received from St Mirren and Falkirk. "But they still did not meet our valuation of the player." The 24-year-old Rankin had been told that he could find a new club but has recently won himself a regular starting place with the SPL outfit. And Inverness have indicated that they are looking for more than the ?65,000 they paid Ross County for the left-sided player in the summer of 2006. A move to Easter Road would see Rankin, who still has a year-and-a-half on his contract, reunited with Donald Park, the new assistant manager at Hibs. Park left the same role at Caley Thistle in November, citing family reasons. And Mixu Paatelainen moved for Park last week when he took over the manager's job at the Edinburgh club. St Mirren are believed to have approached Inverness with a ?40,000 bid for Rankin, but that was dismissed along with a slightly improved offer. Rankin began his career at Manchester United but moved to Ross County in 2003, having failed to break through at Old Trafford. He has netted three goals in 18 appearances this season but was not included in the squad for the Scottish Cup defeat by Hibs on Saturday.

Glad to see the Romanian International Assistant Manager phoned him the other day to say he's being considered. Something to do with "keep scoring and we'll call you up"... I'd be happy with that :021:

From what I gather, we're holding out for at least ?100,000; which is not that bad a bit of business I suppose. I liked Rankin, but won't be losing any sleep of how we'll cope without him. Although, I'd like to give him a massive thankyou for making an extremely injured man (broken ribs and 18 stitch head wound, gained from a car crash) sat in a predominantly Rangers supporting pub in Elgin very happy, for THAT goal. I completely lost it when it hit the back of the net and to this day I don't know how I didn't get my head kicked in that night :022: Really looking forward to seeing how Markus gets on in the next few months, as he has the chance to cement his place at Left Midfield. Just hope he doesn't sign a pre-contract with anyone!

Perhaps it's a good thing that he's suspended for the Rangers match, what with Chris Burke playing...?

I actually think it'll be a draw, but... I've got ?20 on the Hibs win for that very reason, just in case....

Were Livi not made a feeder club by Man Utd about 4 seasons ago? Where they got a sum of money, but didn't get any players on loan and safe to say didn't have any players join Man Utd!

When a pal of mine asked Brew what he thought of Watt, Brew said "Watt thinks he's better than he actually is". Don't know how that information can further the story behind his departure, but from that I can gather Brew didn't think much of his attitude. Maybe going to Chelsea when so young will do that to you?

Aye just noticed the Gretna game sandwiched in the fixture list. Hutton being out is a bonus though. That'll probably mean Whittaker will take his place and that wee girlie Burke will be on the wing Burke is a terrific player. 2 seasons ago we lost 3-2 to them at caley park. Burke ripped the ****. I agree Burke is a great player, and could cause a lot of problems. Set up all of Rangers goals in the last 2 games. Hopefully he'll either get injured or rested for our game. I seem to remember him going off after one challenge in a game at ICT last season :024:

Aye just noticed the Gretna game sandwiched in the fixture list. Hutton being out is a bonus though. That'll probably mean Whittaker will take his place and that wee girlie Burke will be on the wing

I've seen us play Celtic 5 times and get beat by Celtic 5 times!! Every Setanta game we've had with the Old Firm, I've watched on TV in the pub or at home thanks to my terrible luck with going to Ibrox and Celtic Park :020: