Seconds out. They're back!
It'll be nice to have everyone back from sunning themselves in parts foreign.
And things are always livelier when the teams are accompanied by their entourage.
The Homo sapiens who like to refer to themselves as bears and the dear old Brigate Verde, the philosophical wing of Scottish football.
And even nicer still for everyone to bed themselves back in on the wave of a fresh bout of controversy.
Neil Lennon saying Celtic wouldn't be up for the idea of cancelling the Premiership card the weekend before Scotland's Euro 2020 play-off against Israel is the very job to kick-off what will be the most acrimonious and hostile finale to a season ever seen in these parts.
If ever there was a manufactured controversy, this is it.
The players in Steve Clarke's Scotland squad who earn their living over the border in England will be going about their league business as normal that weekend, and any request for them to be released from club duties for an international training camp would be laughed out of court so loudly you'd hear the guffawing from miles away.
But Lennon going public on his disapproval of a Premiership closedown will get the argumentative juices flowing in preparation for the weekly fall-outs which will characterise the finale to the championship race.
The manager has already been accused of going back on an earlier statement that Clarke should be afforded all the help he can get in advance of the game against Israel.
Now the club as a whole can be accused of rejecting a cancellation of the fixture card as a reprisal for the SFA's three game ban on Ryan Christie following his clash with Rangers' Alfredo Morelos.
It's the perfect storm before the resumption of league hostilities and it'll make up for the absence of competitive matches for Celtic and Rangers in the Scottish Cup this weekend.
Stranraer's visit to Ibrox on Friday night is a non-match.
The team cut adrift at the bottom of League One and awaiting demotion to the bottom tier of Scottish football against a Rangers side who could be league champions of the Premiership in May?
Do me a favour.
Partick Thistle, fresh from a four goal pounding at home against Dundee United and on a break from trying to stave off relegation, against a Celtic side who've won thirty-one cup ties in a row over a three year period?
Are you kidding me on?
Celtic already know they have to hit the ground running in order to begin proving they're not a team on the slide after the beating they took from Rangers before departing for Dubai.
The holy grail of Nine in a Row is hanging by a thread. Any false moves and there'll be a backlash that would curdle the blood.
In any case, I am now of the belief that it may be a long time before we see anyone outside of Celtic and Rangers win a major trophy in this country.
There is a reason why only four league titles have gone to clubs outside of Glasgow over the last fifty-four years.
That's just the way it is when Celtic and Rangers have all the money and the ability to spend it on the best players who'll agree to join them.
The cups, however, were always seen as a sprint that could create an upset or two, like Hibs beating Rangers or Kilmarnock overcoming Celtic in a League Cup final.
But now, when Celtic and Rangers have arguably become more distanced from the rest than ever before?
You might, just might, beat one of them on the way to a final. But you would, in all probability, have to beat the other one when you get there.
What are the chances of that happening?
Slender, I would say.
We could argue over it. We're going to argue about everything else from now until May.
Steven Gerrard said there was no point in "Getting the violins out" if anything went wrong. We should just get on and deal with things that weren't necessarily to our liking.
Did he forget about the statement that cost Rangers a six thousand pound fine last season when they claimed the referee, Willie Collum, had "underlying issues" where the Ibrox club was concerned?
Did he overlook the statement released this season in the aftermath of the Betfred Cup final that was decided on a controversial goal for Celtic and called for the introduction of VAR?
No-one ever gets on with anything where Rangers and Celtic are concerned.
Lennon said Celtic were due an apology from the SFA over the ban imposed on Christie.
The SFA tried him. The SFA convicted him. The SFA sentenced him.
Why would they say sorry for carrying out what they believed to be the letter of the law?
This is what we've been starved of in 2020 so far, but now the chaps are back from Dubai we can get started once again.
If you listen carefully you can hear the official timekeeper ringing that bell.
Seconds out.