Craig Sives

Sives attended Oxgangs Primary School and Firrhill High School, and played for youth club Hutchison Vale, before signing for boyhood favourites Hearts in June 2002. After impressing in the club's under-19 and reserve teams, the towering centre back was given his debut in the 2004 Festival Cup against Hibernian, scoring the opening goal in a 3–1 win. He made two league starts in the 2004–05 season, but he did not make any appearances during 2005–06 because of a serious back injury. Sives signed a 5-year contract in July 2006 and spent the 2006–07 season on loan with Partick Thistle to gain further experience. Despite a good start to his Thistle career, he was again sidelined by injury in early November 2006 when a groin injury suffered incapacitated him for five months. He returned for the last two months of the season but it later transpired that he had been playing with a double hernia, which was repaired by an operation in May 2007. Dundee signed him on loan for the 2007–08 season, but he did not play any competitive matches due to injuries. Sives then signed for Dumfries club Queen of the South on a short-term loan deal on 1 September 2008. He returned to Hearts in December 2008 after playing the whole of November with an ankle ligament tear. In January 2009 after three-and-a-half injury-plagued seasons, he was released from his contract at Hearts. Almost immediately after his release from Hearts he played for Tynecastle, as a trialist, in an East of Scotland Football…

Sives was appointed assistant manager of Tynecastle in 2019 & Tranent Juniors in 2020, before moving to Heriot-Watt University to do a similar role in 2022. He is a UEFA B licensed coach.

2014–15 Scottish Challenge Cup Livingston League of Ireland: 2 Shamrock Rovers – 2010, 2011 Setanta Sports Cup: Shamrock Rovers – 2011 SRFC Player of the Year: Shamrock Rovers F.C. – 2011 Shamrock Rovers Young Player of the Year: Shamrock Rovers F.C. – 2009 Leinster Senior Cup: Shamrock Rovers F.C. – 2012