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What Hearts need in next manager and who it could be? | Hearts Digest Podcast
Edinburgh Evening News
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29/04/2025
What Hearts need in next manager and who it could be?
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it was an uphill battle from day one for him to get them onside and not not capitalizing on those
00:06
big games probably was is outdoing i think if if it had been seen as a more ambitious appointment
00:14
a foreign coach that came in and was more exciting and they'd had the same results i don't
00:21
necessarily believe that that coach would be sacked when neil critchley was if they didn't go if that
00:30
same coach then went and lost up at ross county probably would be anyway i i guess i'm saying
00:35
it might have bought him one more game but i just get the feeling that really didn't help critchley's
00:40
cause talking of sort of other names attention will quickly turn to who comes next barry i'll start
00:48
with you it's far too early for any concrete names or anything i think this could be a pretty
00:55
elongated process but you did a piece on on sunday sort of what a heart manager needs i suppose are
01:03
there any names out there and i don't think there particularly is any any that jump off the page at
01:08
the minute but probably more so what does this new guy have to come in with to to really be a success
01:13
at heart i think firstly you have to be passionate for the cause you know hearts is a passionate club
01:19
they have passionate fans and you have to demonstrate that on the touchdown secondly you have to have a
01:23
winning mentality you have to be in every game to win there's no point in accepting a point here and
01:30
there yes it's something you're not going to win every game but you can't just accept you know a draw is
01:35
good enough you know a way at for example st johnson or motherville or wherever you have to be going in
01:41
there looking for threes you need to demonstrate disappointment when you don't get three tactically
01:45
third tactically you need to be ready to set a team up to go and attack particularly at timecastle get
01:50
on the front foot pin your opponents back have an aggression about you um and go and take the game to
01:55
them you also have to now work with analytics because jamestown is is on board and isn't going anywhere so
02:01
every signing every coach is em as goes through that software system and is analyzed that way so
02:09
you need to accept that otherwise you can't be the hearts manager you shouldn't be taking any nonsense
02:14
as well most you know the hearts fans expect their manager to stand up for for the fans the team the
02:19
club the players as much as it might be a parochial issue for some but beating hybs is a huge thing for
02:25
hearts and their supporters if you can't beat hybs you're not going to last long as a heart manager
02:29
simple as that you have to make sure that you connect with the fans uh it's a fan owned club
02:35
at the end of the day tens of thousands of people are putting money in whether it's through season
02:39
tickets whether it's through foundation of hearts monthly pledges um commercial stuff buying strips
02:45
and all the rest of the shop there's loads of different ways that fans support the club and you
02:49
need to recognize that and be fully on board with that final two that i would say develop young players
02:54
that's massively important hearts spend a lot of money in their academy and there's an awful lot of
02:58
coaching staff up there who are tasked with producing players and getting them ready for
03:03
the first team so you then need to be willing to integrate those players into the side and biggest
03:07
of all lift silver were uh 13 years since hearts lasted a major trophy success so all of those things
03:13
combined uh i don't know who ticks all those boxes but it's a it's a big responsibility and an awful lot
03:19
of um factors to take on board martin i'm not sure if you want to pin a name to it if you want to
03:27
dive delve into the stephen robinson john mcglenn and derrick mckinnis bowl that will eventually get
03:31
trotted out or whether you want to go into the big supercomputer of madness and go and pick out somebody from
03:37
pin a dart to a country on the world wide map and see who comes in one name i saw floating about that i
03:46
kinda liked was rob edwards whether there's two whether he would want to come up to scotland i think
03:52
he would still have a few decent offers down in england
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whether the hearts you know want to go for another that rob edwards had more success than neil
04:02
pitchley did in english football who went to the one another english coach coming up i don't know
04:08
that was a name i i kind of liked i think that would would meet the criteria i think of being ambitious
04:17
enough to get the hearts fans excited that's just my take i don't want to speak too much
04:24
for hearts fans here but i do think not not to harp on about that point but they need that if they do
04:30
the same thing they did with critchley where they bring someone in who overwhelms the fans
04:36
it's going to be difficult and i think with respect to everything derrick mckinnis has achieved in
04:42
scottish football everything stephen robinson has achieved in scottish football and certainly
04:46
everything john mcglynn has achieved in scottish football and is potentially about to achieve taking
04:51
falkirk back up to the premiership and the hearts fans i just i just can't see them being happy with
04:59
any of those as an appointment because it just kind of screams too safe for me
05:08
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