Highland League champions Huntly have turned the tables on Buckie Thistle this week by slapping in a bid for the Jags top scorer John Coutts and seven goal midfielder Neil Davidson.

In a statement released this afternoon Billy Anderson expressed his admiration for both players and his desire to add them to his squad:

"Coutts did very well in the last game of the season where he scored two and Taylor scored two. He is very lively and has an excellent left foot so he is the sort of quality addition you need when you have just won the title. I am sure that if they were both playing for Huntly they would cause most defences a lot of problems.

"Zico was a player that Alan Scott and I brought to Buckie as a talented young player. We gave him his chance and he has continued to develop into a skilful but aggressive players who would probably score a dozen goals a season in our side. I have always liked the guys attitude on the park and he is a nice guy off it as well and he would fit in perfectly with the excellent team spirit at Huntly.

"We are a very ambitious team and we want to do what no team either than Huntly has done for probably twenty years and that is to win back-to-back titles but we have to take in the right calibre of player to do that. John Coutts and Zico Davidson are players of that calibre and we will be doing everything we can to bring them on board."

Unsurprisingly Buckie have been quick to rebuff the approach with Jags boss Duncan Shearer simply stating:

"As far as I am concerned they are not for sale and that’s it."

Those within Victoria Park are believed to see this simply as an attempt to divert attention away from the bid they lodged for Richie Taylor last week that was similarly rejected.