Enough of that quiet

By: Ian Rose | July 6th, 2009

Well, it’s been a solid month or two since I posted here, and I think I’ve licked my wounds enough. True, we went down, and true, we did it in the most painful way possible, a single Falkirk goal sending us packing to play the likes of (spit) County. But life goes on, and it’s time to stop looking backward, time to pull my head up and look forward to the 2009-10 Scottish First Division and the road back to the SPL. We have been here before, and we triumphed. We will triumph again.

So, what’s been going on, you ask, in good ol’ Sneck? Well, I suppose I’m contractually obligated to tell you. Here’s the roundup:

Out: Iain Vigurs, Garry Wood, Brian Kerr and Phil McGuire are no longer Caley Jags. Kerr has signed for Dundee, so we’ll see him a few times out, and McGuire left for … well, McGuire just sort of left. I’m not sure whether anyone’s calling it a retirement, but he’s not headed anywhere in particular either. Good luck to both the lads. Not the same kind of goodbye to Iain Vigurs and Garry Wood, who left Caley for Ross County. I liked Vigurs a lot, but anyone in that shirt is my enemy, and I can’t wholeheartedly wish Iain or Woody well in their dingy new digs.

In: Lee Cox from Leicester City. We got the 18-year-old on a one-year contract. We’ll see how the young midfielder, who spent some time at Yeovil Town last season, does north of the border.

Staying: Richie Foran, David Proctor and love-him-or-hate-him defender Lionel Djebi Zadi have all signed new contracts. Foran in particular pleases me, as I thought we might lose him.

Not a lot else coming out of the front office these days. We’ll be starting our First Division campaign against our old SPL rivals from a few years back, Dunfermline, a road match exactly one month from tomorrow. It seems like the season just ended, but that’s what’s great about being a football fan. You can practically hold your breath through the offseason.

Dundee and County in particular are spending this offseason, but we have something they don’t, and that’s five seasons in a row of top-flight football under our belts. As much as the team disappointed last season, I hope we can keep a lot of the remaining questionable players, because while we were playing Celtic, Rangers, Hibs, Hearts and the rest, our new league-mates had nothing like the same level of competition.

Let’s show them where we deserve to be, especially the Does over at Victoria Park. Mon the Caley.