Ewan Murray

It's probably not very easy.

A lot of these players have been at Hearts for a while.

They see Jamestown, they see a new recruitment model and they think, oh, I'm going to be phased out of this.

But the spirit and performances that McInnes has created amongst those guys has been terrific.

And also, they've just ridden the crest of a wave.

They benefited, I think, from not playing in Europe this season.

So they started this campaign in quite a week-to-week basis and they started winning and just built on that.

And also the factors...

I think they've been overplayed, but they are significant.

Rangers started the season with Russell Martin, which clearly was disastrous and they got rid of him.

The Wilfred Nancy element in the middle of the season for Celtic after Brendan Rodgers had left amid much disruption, that was a factor there.

I mean, Celtic have lost eight games.

I think Rangers have drawn 12.

In modern terms, that's unheard of for these teams when they're pursuing the title.

So Hearts have capitalised on...

But just saying they would do that, given still the massive gap in resources between Hearts and the old firm, it's not as simple as saying, you know, the old firm have been crap and Hearts have been good.

They've done something really special so far.

Yeah, the latter.

It's funny, that's a regular conversation.

Everyone says to me, this is Hearts' best chance.