McKinlay also ruled out Hearts ever becoming a feeder club amid Tony Bloom investment talks
Tony Bloom's Starlizard algorithm WON'T pick Hearts' new manager for them, but will rank the candidates to inform the board's decision.
But McKinlay has stressed that they won't be ignoring applications already made - some several weeks ago while Naismith was still in the hot seat - or names on their own list. Kilmarnock boss Derek McInnes has been widely hailed as an ideal fit, and suitability budget etc will all be taken into account, with the Starlizard rankings helping inform any decision rather than making it for McKinlay and co.
"In fact, we’ve had a significant amount in the weeks previous to that, such is the nature of football. They’ll all be fed into that analytics and that will give us an idea of a ranking of managers.
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