Steven Naismith faces Hearts run that will make or break him and I have my doubts he can turn it around - Ryan Stevenson

It's genuinely make or break time for Steven Naismith at Hearts. The next five or six games are going to be huge for him as head coach. If we don’t get the right results then he could be majorly under pressure.

He and the team has to find some form of consistency because it hasn’t been there so far this season. You only have to look at Hearts’ results. They can be good one week and then rubbish the next. The Hearts team now needs to show a bit of form and show everybody what they are trying to build towards.

They have a difficult run of games coming up. They are at Motherwell, home to St Johnstone, away to Kilmarnock, home to Rangers and away to Aberdeen and Celtic. It is a horrible run of fixtures. Motherwell is a hard place to go, St Johnstone, under Craig Levein, will come and want to win, then you have Kilmarnock away, which is tough again. Then you have Rangers, Aberdeen and Celtic. You look at those games and It really is getting to a critical stage.

The season could go one way or the other. Can you imagine what the reaction would be like if Hearts don’t pick results up against Motherwell, St Johnstone or Kilmarnock? I would suggest that even the coaches will be looking at it knowing they will need to win at least two of those first three fixtures.

There are a lot of fans who aren’t happy with what they are seeing and what is happening at Hearts. It was a sore exit from Europe and then we should have hit the ground running but it hasn’t happened, it has been stop-start. The only way to win people around is to win matches. The wheels could quite easily come off and when they do it is hard to get them back on.

For the manager, coaching staff, players and people behind the scenes they all need to dial down and