And they're off! Well, in Scotland at least.

While the rest of us have to wait at least another week to get cracking, some Scottish clubs are already two matches into the campaign, with last week's Challenge Cup 1st Round encounters the mere teaser to the cracking open of the league season piggybank on Saturday.

Most of the attention found itself on the Cowdenbeath v Annan Athletic clash (no, really), with the visitors joining the Scottish League 'elite' for the first time following the demise of Gretna, and kicking off the campaign in some style with a 4-1 away success that sees them top Division Three. Will it last? It's doubtful. Will most of us even forget to check their result next week. Yes, very probably.

Some interesting transfer movements further up the ladder though, and it just goes to prove that it's not only our Premier League clubs who know where to pluck promising youngsters from the relative unknown.

Division Two side Queens Park certainly have a lot of fingers in scouting pies, but I'm sure their Publicity Officer must have been at the Tennants Super when he dashed out his press release last week.

For a start, the club have supposedly been on an all-expenses training camp in Germany (was there no room at the mammoth Hampden Park where they play their home matches?), hosted by manager Gardner Spiers (real name). In addition, 'the Spiders' (don't ask) have been flashing the cash in the transfer market, signing David Murray (isn't he Rangers chairman?), and two geezers called Paul Harkins and Ryan Holmes .. standard enough, you might think, until it's revealed that they were signed from Neilston Juniors and Knightswood Juveniles respectively.

The latter, in particular, doesn't sound like the sort of place you want to be recruiting young talent from, although at least the Publicity man will have some drinking partners.