Robbie Neilson admits ring rusty Hearts almost suffered a false start to their Premiership before coming good to claim three points against Ross County.
Despite being outplayed and County hitting the woodwork twice in the opening 45 minutes, second half strikes from Allan Forrest and Barrie McKay secured the win as Jordan White reduced the deficit late on. But the Jambos boss revealed he had to warn his players at the interval that the season had already started.
Neilson said: “We showed the rustiness of coming into competitive games from pre-season. Sometimes when you are out there and it’s 200 miles per hour and you need to come in and settle down and say, ‘right this is it now, the league has started. You can talk all you want in the build up to it, you need to be at it - when you go out there it can sometimes come at you like that’.
