If Steven Naismith is the real Hearts boss can he please stand up because recruitment is becoming a joke - Ryan Stevenson

If I had the chance to start my sporting career all over again I'd have become a professional golfer.

What's not to love about it? Do you ever see Rory McIlroy shanking the ball into the rough and someone shouting, "You're s**** Mcllroy"? Try shanking the ball out of play at Tynecastle and it would be a chorus of "Stevenson, you fat ba****"." I keep hearing that footballers are paid too much but nobody criticises golfers who are literally scooping up millions of pounds from week to week.

Nobody bats an eyelid at them yet it's these footballers who are earning far too much money? Do me a favour. Private jets, best of everything and not once have I heard anyone shouting, "you are effing rubbish, how could you miss that putt." What a life they have, give me a bit of that any day with nobody giving out abuse.

Football's a world where the rules of engagement and etiquette are far different. Look at Hearts, we've yet to see the ball roll on a new season and I'm already prepared to have a bit of a pop at my old club. With two weeks to go before a new campaign commences, the lack of new signings is becoming a critical issue.

I don't want to be the one to rain on new boss Steven Naismith's parade but the recruitment, or lack of it, is becoming a bit of a joke. His comments this week about the young players coming through the academy concerned me.

There have been no outfield players signed, there have been no assurances and a lack of authority over the playing side of things. I watched Steven doing an interview after losing to Wigan and my honest reaction was to find it difficult to imagine him as the Hearts manager.

If you rewind it all back, he was appointed caretaker manager towards the end of last season and immediately