Hearts could bring in Bill Gates if they want but none of it counts til they find someone who can score goals - Ryan Stevenson

If Jamestown Analytics comes up with a big list of goalscorers Hearts can sign on January 1, it could well become game-changing.

Tynecastle chief executive Andrew McKinlay described their new partnership as “a game-changer” at the club’s AGM earlier this week. He has also said it could take Hearts to the next level. Andrew better hope it is because, as it stands, we are bottom of the Premiership.

How can he be talking about game-changers when we are at the foot of the table? I can’t wait to see between January 1 and February 3 the goalscorers this computer programme is going to bring to our attention and send us flying back up the league. I just don’t buy it. I hope I’m wrong but I don’t buy it just now at all.

They could have brought in Bill Gates or whoever they wanted, it doesn’t matter. Results on the pitch are the only thing that matters and, as it stands, we’re sitting bottom of the table. Who is taking responsibility for that?

I feel sorry for the new manager. There is nothing he can do until next month. Neil Critchley has inherited a squad and can do very little with it in terms of his attacking options. He is probably locking himself in the coaching room every night asking where the goals are going to come from unless Lawrence Shankland finds form again.

Unless that happens, I don’t see the manager being able to change too much before the January window.

I don’t see many other goal-scorers in the team. My fear is we could actually lose ground on teams in the run-up to 2025. I genuinely do because I look at all the other teams and they are all picking up points.

St Johnstone always find a way of getting through things. They’ve got boys who are determined, boys who are used to being in that situation. Ross