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Steven Naismith reveals Hearts conversation with Steve Clarke as he uses top boss experience in Snodgrass scenario

Hearts interim boss Steven Naismith has known enough top gaffers to know making huge decisions comes with the territory.

The men in charge don’t shirk the major calls and the Jambos caretaker boss had to deliver a whopper of his own on day one. Naismith was asked to take the reins after the shock exit of Robbie Neilson and one of the first points of order was to get shot of vastly-experienced midfielder Robert Snodgrass.

In prison rules it might be seen as picking on the big guy to make a statement. In football terms you look at the major force in the dressing room and either invite them out to dinner or tell them their tea’s oot. Snoddy, surprisingly, was fed the latter. The steer might’ve come from above but Naismith was given the responsibility – and he proved from the off he wasn’t going to duck it.

He said: “That’s for no other reason than when Snoddy is not going to be playing loads of minutes then that becomes a distraction for the media to play on and give me. I said ‘Snoddy, with this opportunity that’s hard for me’. We had an honest conversation. Snoddy was disappointed and probably feels let down by me. But I was honest with him.

“It’s a decision which was made and hopefully as this moves on everyone can see it’s either the right decision or the wrong decision, time will tell, but that’s the decision that was made.”

Naismith will very much be his very own man in the Tynecastle dugout however long this lasts – but he’ll lean on the experience he’s gained over the years working for the best in the business.

Walter Smith, David Moyes, Roberto Martinez, Alex McLeish, Gordon Strachan, Alex Neil, Daniel Farke, Craig Levein – right on the shoulder of Scotland boss Steve Clarke. None of those guys were ever afraid to

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