Andrew Driver is hoping for a good dose of new manager syndrome, following the appointment of Jim Jefferies on Friday night.

A real Hearts hero is back in Gorgie, and with a commitment to blood young players and set out a more attacking strategy, the wing-king is hoping Jim's appointment its good news all round.

For Andrew, Saturday's game against St Johnstone marked his first match in nearly three months, and he understood the parallels which suggest that it's a fresh start all round.

"The first game I got a smashed and got a dead leg [after recovering from a pre-season injury] then I came back and got this tendonitis injury," he explained last night.

"I have not managed to play a game this year where I have felt as close to 100% as you can as a footballer so I am delighted to get back.

"It is strange how things work out like that - New Year as well. I am looking forward to getting back into it as there's nothing worse than being a footballer standing by watching every week. You always think you can do better when you're watching.

"You always see that when teams get a new manager. They tend to push on, don't they? With the game on Tuesday we need to do that as it is a massive game for us for the rest of the season.

"Hopefully we can kick on better than we did today and hopefully the rest of the season will take care of itself."

Of course Saturday's contest at McDiarmid Park came too early for the new boss to implement his own ideas, given he did not have any training session before the match having been appointed the night before.

Andrew knows that important work will be done on the training ground, even before tomorrow night's vitally important Co-operative Insurance Cup semi-final against St Mirren.

"We've got a couple of days and he can get a few more ideas across," he continued.

"He's literally not had any time to speak to anybody. He's had a few words with a few people who know what we're doing and I think that will make a massive difference. Even one training session can make a massive difference.

"There will always be expectations. The expectations at the start of the season have not been achieved so we've got to try and do our best to get to those achievements and improve. So far we've nowhere near reached that standard. We need to buck up our ideas

"It is the first time I have had a proper British manager at the club and I've had about nine now! I think a few people are looking forward to working with him. As a child you grew up with the British way of coaching."

On Hearts.TV today - Watch Jim Jefferies' first "formal" pre-match news conference and catch another exclusive one-to-one interview with the new Tynecastle boss