McInnes on Shankland & Devlin return, 'relevant' Hearts & Scotland snubs

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Derek McInnes has been speaking to the media before Hearts host Dundee in the Premiership this weekend. Here are the key lines from the Tynecastle boss: Lawrence Shankland and Cammy Devlin are available having returned to training this week after injury lay-offs - "it looks as if they've not been away" - and McInnes says the key duo's comeback gives the squad and fans a boost. He adds: "Lawrence, until he went out of the team through injury, was the best striker in the league and Cammy for me was arguably the best midfielder in the league so it's good to have both boys back at such a crucial time in the season.

" McInnes will have to "weigh up" whether they are ready to start and says: "There's obviously a temptation with that but we also don't want to put ourselves in a position where you put both boys at risk and then we lose them again. " Harry Milne, who has a slight calf strain, and Beni Baningime haven't trained all week. Tomas Magnusson suffered a fractured cheekbone in last weekend's defeat at Kilmarnock and will miss Saturday's game but should be available after that to play while wearing a mask.

With Hearts' lead at the top now down to two points, McInnes says there is "not a lot of room for error" for all teams in the title race and none of the top four are "really catching fire" in recent weeks. On what went wrong in defeat at Killie, he says: "We were quite bold with our approach. It was the same team that played so well against Aberdeen but we never started the game well enough and we've got to be mindful of that.