By Dave Innes.
Two weeks in advance of the undoubted sterile dull predictability that will be the 2010-11 SPL, the Highland League kicked off on 30 July, with deposed champions Cove Rangers setting the early pace with a 5-0 win away at Nairn County.
Buckie Thistle, league winners last season for the first time since the late 1950s, opened by beating Clachnacuddin 3-1.