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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!

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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?

Wages. I have it on good authority that Chris Clark was asking for 7k a week! Aberdeen offered about 4k and he turned it down :029:

Aye, but they are also saying "we'll get him on a pre-contract"! As long as they can wait till Jan 2009, as he has 18 months left :blah01: They (as they say up here) "'ken hee haw"...

Since he's on loan with us till the 15th, I take it he's still training with us? Should be easier to meet for discussions if he's in Inverness, than down south I suppose...

In all fairness I think Russell Duncan is the only player we should be concerned about losing. I'd be surprised if another team came in for Rossco or Wyness. Who knows though, perhaps Plymouth will offer silly money much like they did with Chris Clark? 200k bid

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:

Since tonight's game has been rained off, will Hutton and McCulloch's suspensions be carried forward to our game? Apologies if this should be in NON-ICT

What with Aberdeen's outgoing players, I have suspect they'd be quite interested in taking him back :024:

Off topic again, but i've been to about 6 six games and we've been beat in all of them! And only scored 1 goal... :024: As a result, I decided to skip the Gretna game, which we won. For the good of the team, I shall now also skip the Hibs cup game and Rangers at home :009:

Word for word, I agree with everything that has been said here :clapping03:

I was about 11 when I started supporting ICT, when we were in our first season of the 3rd Division. Before that, my dad took me to a lot of Aberdeen games since he is a Dons fan; but I never much liked it. Instead I would look forward to Gazetta Football Italia on a Sunday, as I really liked the player Guiseppe Signori who played for Lazio; so I became a Lazio "fan". Spent 2 or 3 years in my back garden taking one-step penalties with my left foot, despite me being right footed, just to be like him. It was only when I was older that I discovered Lazio's fascist roots etc... Then my dad took me to an ICT v. Aberdeen friendly and I really enjoyed it, much more than Pittodrie games. So then I became an ICT fan. At the time I was playing for Elgin City youths, so got quite a bit of stick for that, and didn't even celebrate when I scored a winning goal in an important league game :009:

That was the highlights from the 30 minute show on the Saturday. You get extended highlights on all the games on the Sunday edition of the Full SPL on Setanta. I've got it Sky plus'ed, so hopefully there'll be more shown of the other chances...

Russel "Drunken, Driving"!! And surely Denzil can't still be tired! It was 9 months ago that the baby making took place?

There was a comment in the papers (Highland News?) where Brewster responded to "rumours" of Bayne going to Nottingham forest, by saying he's going nowhere. I think that's about right... From what I saw of Andy Barrowman in the pre-season friendly I was really impressed. Decent pace, decent height, good movement and strong finisher. I'd image we'd show an interest if County don't get promoted this year...

Oh christ I mind him from the Motherwell game! "Come on the Magnificent Nine!"