Derek McInnes staring Hearts in the face as Michael Stewart urges them to ditch soft 'sugar rush' approach

Michael Stewart has told Hearts that Derek McInnes is staring them in the face as the obvious choice as their new manager.

The Jambos axed Neil Critchley after last Saturday's home defeat to Dundee and now need a win sharpish to ease the nerves over being dragged into a battle to avoid the relegation playoff spot.

Liam Fox will take interim charge in the meantime with club chiefs now hunting for a new permanent boss.

All candidates will be ranked and rated using Jamestown Analytics, but when presented with a bookies list of optons which included McInnes, Stephen Robinson, Robbie Neilson and John McGlynn, Stewart saw a clear first choice in his eyes and can't understand why there is an apparent reluctance within Tynecastle to consider McInnes.

"Look, Hearts need a football manager," he told the Scottish Football Social Club. "They need an experienced manager to get control because the club as a whole have no leadership when it comes to football.

"I hear a lot of people, when the likes of myself or any other pundits talk about the board having no football people on it, they say 'well what board does? When has a board ever had football people on it?'

"The game's changed. You used to have a manager who basically ran club and a chairman who ran the business.

"Now there are so many layers of middle management people, that you've neutered the manager role in to what is a glorified coach without the power.

"At Hearts, if you look at the structure, there are business people doing very well. But then you have this sporting director.

"Now, Graeme Jones is form a sports science background. He's not a football person.

"Then you had Neil Critchley, with the greatest of respect, who wasn't a strong, football character. So you had the