A FORMER Scotland captain is set to pay a visit to Greenock Wanderers this week on his latest fund-raising challenge in memory of a Scottish rugby great.

Rob Wainwright is cycling all the way from Dublin to Edinburgh this week to raise cash for the My Name’5 Doddie Foundation ahead of Scotland’s Six Nations Championship match against Ireland on Sunday.

Wanderers officials told the Tele that Wainwright and a team of Foundation supporters are due to arrive at Wanderers’ Fort Matilda ground on Doddie's Grand Tour 2025 on Thursday afternoon.

Wainwright, who won 37 caps for Scotland between 1992 and 1998, and was his country’s first captain of the professional era, is one of the best-known and most enthusiastic supporters of the foundation – set up by the late Doddie Weir, a team-mate of Wainwright’s throughout the 1990s, to raise money for research into motor neurone disease (MND)

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Weir was diagnosed with MND in 2016 and died in November 2022 at the age of 52.

An online fund-raiser for Doddie’s Grand Tour 2025 has already brought in more than £347,000 and donations can be made at justgiving.com/campaign/grandtour25.

Wainwright, who was made an OBE the 2024 New Year honours list for voluntary and charitable services to the Foundation, has already undertaken a series of bike rides to raise cash for the charity – the Doddie Cup 500 ride in 2022, the Doddie Cup 555 Ride the following year, and All Roads Lead To Rome last year.

This year’s epic cycle ride is seeing Wainwright lead a ‘core team’ from the charity from Dublin to Stranraer, before being joined by an intrepid team of supporters in the south-west of Scotland on Wednesday.

Their aim is to cover more than 700 miles in four days, finishing in Edinburgh on Saturday ahead of the following day’s crunch clash at Murrayfield.