The facts and figures are pretty grim for Hearts. It’s only six wins from 24 games since he took over as head coach at Tynecastle.

The knives have been out for Cathro from the start. Many people had it in for the young coach ever since he was appointed. Some said he was not experienced enough, had the wrong personality or that he was not a typical ‘strong Scottish manager’.

I personally have no time for that line of thinking and typifies what is wrong with Scottish football these days. We need to be more open to appointments like Cathro and the system currently in operation in Gorgie.

A director of football, in this case Craig Levein, is the logical approach for a modern football club. I don’t understand why it’s such a controversial concept to some.

It allows you to have continuity instead of starting from scratch every time you sack a manager. You have a common culture from head coach to head coach and it means the ethos at a club is maintained no matter what happens.

Ian Cathro has done a number of things wrong. Craig Levein will be attached to that as well as that’s how it goes when they are engaged as a working partnership.

January was a strange window for them. It seemed weird to me to bring in as many players as they did and not for the long haul. For so many short-term signings to arrive at once for a club at the top end of the table was bizarre.

This summer will have to be considered construction from Hearts which we have not seen so far under this current regime.

Having said that, it’s still evolving. I don’t think we should judge him too harshly.

If things start off poorly next season Levein will be forced to take action in some way. The problem is Cathro has added to that group of players with his director of football's consultation. They need to look at what they have done.

Hearts have gained plaudits in recent years for their surge to the Championship title and also for their first season back in the Scottish top flight. It was tremendous and done on Levein's watch

However, in this country it is often about 'What have you done for me lately? It all makes for an interesting summer.

Whatever happens with Cathro, though, as a nation we must keep an open mind.

Already you can see parallels with Berti Vogts. A foreign manager as Scotland boss is almost unthinkable to some because one man failed. We are quick to go back to old methods if something new doesn’t work.

Managers succeed and fail but you must keep faith. The concept of a head coach and a football director is one favoured by every continental football country. There is a good reason for having a sporting director to assess what is happening.

Why would we want our football clubs to be ripping up the blueprint every year? It should be much more organic.

Hearts have had this system in place for a while with Craig Levein and it worked pretty well with Robbie Neilson. Naturally people are going to ask questions given how the first few months have gone for Cathro but they need a full summer together.

Rangers will be watching on with interest. Or perhaps not.

They should have had a director of football in when Mark Warburton left back in February and look at all aspects of the club. Instead, that didn’t happen.

They missed an opportunity there and now Pedro Caixinha is working on his own targets without that help. I must admit, their signing target strategy at the moment does strike me it is a little bit scatter gun. There is no clear pattern.

A director of football arriving soon to help out the head coach should be the first signing for Rangers.