Pre Seasons are So Dull

OK, so I have had 2 and a half months now of no domestic football. The new season is a mere week away, and I sit here on a Saturday bored rigid.
Yes the World cup was a nice distraction for a month, even if some of the football left a lot to be desired, but now my real passion is back, my team, Nottingham Forest.
So why do I have this feeling of apathy? Forest have done nothing this pre season. We havn't signed anybody, or it sems come close to signing anybody. So in what should be an exciting period, I just feel like its going to be a season of mediocrity. We have only let two players go and neither of them were exactly first teamers. Yet there is a feeling of dread coming up really. That this season isn't the one, it isn't going to be exciting, and that it's merely a case of going through the motions.
And its the same with all the teams. Maybe, its the economy, but it just doesn't seem like an exciting pre season. Maybe I am getting old.
In the past I'd be excitied at all the new football kits being relaeased and seeing which ones were good and which ones were horrific. The 90's were a superb time for this, as there really was a time of releasing horrendous shirts.You'd laugh at some monstrosity of an away shirt someone had been given, and then pleased that some designer somewhere had made a shirt that ok for your own. Now everyone seems to be adopting a more reserved manner. Kit's are largely more classical and hardlybreak from the basic templates. There's always someone though who comes up with something horrible.
Then there are the adverts. Well I haven't seen much advertising heralding the oncoming season. There was a time it was everywhere. It's almost as if this season is going to sneak up and surprise us all. There used to big brash adverts, but now it merely seems like people think if you don't know August means a new season you aren't worth talking to.
And even on the forum, (yes the forum for which this blog serves, http://www.soccer24-7.com/forum) that not much is happening.
Perhaps its we're all jaded after a world cup. It'd only been 2-3 weeks now since all that ended, so it's not like we've had a barren summer where the return is wlecomed in like in an odd numbered year.

Lets just hope this apathy goes away and is replaced with unbridalled joy.