Derek McInnes has been speaking to the media before Hearts host Rangers in the Premiership this weekend. McInnes says a meeting this week with SFA referees chief Willie Collum and other Premiership managers - where 20 clips were watched and discussed - went well and he hopes these talks can happen "more regularly". McInnes says managers are usually "fighting against each other" on a matchday so it was "quite refreshing" to "relax" together and talk through certain issues.
Derek McInnes has been speaking to the media before Hearts host Rangers in the Premiership this weekend.
Here are the key lines from the Hearts boss:
- McInnes says a meeting this week with SFA referees chief Willie Collum and other Premiership managers - where 20 clips were watched and discussed - went well and he hopes these talks can happen "more regularly".
- He adds that Collum spoke about "how they're trying to improve as a department, how they are using analysts now to try and see what clubs are doing and educate the referees to what to look out for" and give them a "more rounded outlook".
- McInnes says managers are usually "fighting against each other" on a matchday so it was "quite refreshing" to "relax" together and talk through certain issues.
- He adds: "It's not VAR that's the issue, it's how we use VAR" and "the clear and obvious error is what we forget about".
- Khazakstan winger Islam Chesnokov is expected to arrive just after Christmas and McInnes hopes to have him available for a debut against Livingston on 3 January.
- McInnes says no clubs have been in touch about taking Craig Gordon on loan and he is reluctant to lose the Scotland goalkeeper because he is "too important" despite not having played for Hearts this season.
- On Josh McPake, McInnes says talks remain ongoing with the St Johnstone forward over a move to Tynecastle next summer.
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