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Weddings in the season is just sheer bad planning - I got married in Englandshire on the opening day of the 76/77 season, I thought it was the following week! The new Mrs CC was not impressed when I suggested consumating the nuptials in the style of wee doggies so I could watch Match of the Day at the same time.

You mean that 50p information sheet? No wonder it's the cheapest! Say what you like about it, but I believe the idea of the Monthly Magazine and the match day add-on is working....for everyone. It costs fans less and it sells more...win/win. 10 x Monthly Mag = £30 19 x Add-On = £4.50 (you get one free with each monthly mag) Total for 19 Home matches = £34.50 (£1.82 per match) Still the cheapest programme choice in the league and even factoring that into the match cost we are still the cheapest day out in the league.

Excuse me as an Englishman butting in on your national grief but I do wonder why there is this sudden desparate rush to replace Levein. Just a few games ago he was the new white hope and folk were excited by his appointment. I don't think his approach to international management has changed that much since then. So if Levein jumps or is pushed in the near future what does that achieve? Will Strachan, McLeish or the Moderator of the Church of Scotland turn things round so that Scotland qualify? No, they won't! Even if Scotland were to win their remaining matches that would not necessarily see them qualifying. Scotland can get a maximum of 20 points and Belgium and Croatia only need another 10 points from 6 games to equal that. The SFA now need to look to 2016 and beyond and that is a long way away. Levein's appointment and others before his seem to have gone pear shaped in no time at all. So what the SFA need to do is to take a long hard look at what they were aiming for with recent appointments, analyse why things went wrong, consider what they need to do differently in the future and then identify the qualities they will be looking for in a manager to deliver the future strategy. They'll not be able to do that in a week. In the meantime they should be giving Levein full support and telling him that he will not be dismissed at least until some defined point in the future at the earliest - the point at which it is mathematically impossible for Scotland to qualify, for example. After all, Levein has been working with the SFA, players and coaching staff and has as good a chance of getting some decent results from a reasonable squad as any other manager has. It was, after all, the SFA who appointed Levein just a short while ago and he is still the same guy now as he was then. If they rush to get rid of him and rush to get someone else in without giving proper thought to what is required, they will simply get it wrong again. If the SFA axe him now, it will say far more about the ineptness of the SFA than about Levein.

Andrew Shinnie just tweeted that Graeme Shinnie is going to be captain tomorrow...

"He has settled in very well. He's a big threat and he's got a lot of pace. He's an Arsenal player, so he's very comfortable with the ball. He's got different hairstyles as well, which is quite nice." Versatile hair, that's what we've lacked all these years.

Not an easy one to do for away games unless one of the coaching team were willing to write it. Scorers and team line up would be good enough.