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Blair Spittal opens up on Neil Critchley's first days in Hearts hot seat and what he has been stressing to his new team

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If Carlsberg did managerial welcome Saturday’s then it would include an afternoon of glorious sunshine and four goals for new Hearts boss Neil Critchley.

But a full-time Tynecastle tannoy announcement confirming city rivals Hibs had replaced them at the bottom of the Premiership would probably be stretching it.

For a Jambos side that had achieved a first league win of the campaign with a destruction of St Mirren, news of events on Tayside should have been small beer for the support but that scoreline brought the biggest cheer from a feelgood-starved fanbase.

Even Critchley admitted he couldn’t have stage-managed a better way to settle into the Gorgie dugout and scripting those two late Dundee United goals at Tannadice would just have been greedy.

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