Derek McInnes as Hearts manager has me buzzing but one thing from Tynecastle unveiling does my nut in – Ryan Stevenson

Derek McInnes may not have been p****d off about it as he sat there. But I can assure you, I most certainly was.

Head coach Derek McInnes? Give that a rest right now. He’s a manager, so let him manage Hearts. Put it this way, it’ll be absolute stupidity if they don’t.

The club needed a leader, a strong presence to take the players forward, to take the fans with him and be the figurehead of a massive footballing institution in this country.

McInnes is that man. So let him be it and forget this nonsensical head coach rubbish.

Seeing him sit at that podium to be unveiled had me buzzing as a Hearts man, only for it to be kicked off like a nightmare when they’ve announced him as a head coach, I hate that. That seriously did my nut in. Del should not change. Not one iota. He’s proven as a manager and that’s why Hearts went for him.

I’m all for him having the help and all that sort of stuff, but I don’t think he should ever get away from him being the boss, overseeing the lot.

I get the way Hearts are wanting to go and I watched the interviews with him and Graeme Jones and the amount of times Jamestown was mentioned. I’m like: I understand Jamestown and it’s a great thing and Tony Bloom is going to invest money, which is also great. But let’s just draw a line here.

Let Derek come in and be manager. He’s a manager. I’ve been saying for the last 16 months the club needed a manager and not a head coach. Some clubs need head coaches and I think it suits that club, suits their ethos. I don’t think it suits Hearts.

I did see in his interview that, when Derek was speaking, he used the word manager in a couple of phrases. Maybe that was just coincidental, but you only have to look at what Hearts have had in the past.

George Burley,