Nearly there now.  After a few weeks without footie things are almost back to normal.

The SFL kicked off on Saturday with new kids on the block Annan Athletic catching Cowdenbeath cold and inflicting an embarrassing defeat on them.  The SPL kicks off this weekend, by which time Rangers’ European campaign may already be history…

It is still a few weeks before the juvenile football gets underway for the new season but things are definitely starting to ratchet up a gear.  Here are just some of the things on the current ToDo list :

• Complete kit audit and order up new shorts/socks etc as required
• Check on players’ availability for upcoming gala tournament (rearranged from earlier this year when a monsoon struck on the original date).  Tournament is only 2 weeks away now.  Might be worth trying to get the boys together beforehand for a quick training session to knock the cobwebs off.
• Arrange some pre-season friendly games.  One set up at the moment, could do with a couple more.
• Sort out squads for coming season.  Any players moving on ? Room to take on new players from waiting list?
• Training nights.  Agree format.  Agree themes and devise drills accordingly.
• Personal training kit.  Order up new training tops etc.
• Coaching resources.  Transcribe scribbled notes from coaching conference into proper session plans (should have done this ages ago…), read new coaching books that have just ordered.
• Forward planning.  The season after the impending one sees us move to the 11-a-side game, need to agree how we are going to transition from two 7-a-side teams to (presumably) one 11-a-side squad.
• Prepare the paperwork for the new season: membership forms, consent forms, etc.

I still have a feeling that I am going to be a couple of players down when we resume training, we shall have to see…