We stared out with a 4-2-3-1 formation Draper, C Brown Cooper J Brown Howarth, Williams Polworth, Sutherland Christie Ross, Evans. Bench: Mackay, Wilson, Rennie, McCarthy.
The first half was battled in the centre of the park with ICT dominating it creating good passages of play just not being able to hit the final shot, where as Hearts when they had the ball always seemed to make the most of it, even with Heart's striker Paul MacCallum (on loan from West Ham), Hearts couldn't break through our defence. By the looks of it when it came to corners or other set pieces that we were defending Duncan Shearer wanted Cooper to be taking control and make sure everyone was where they were suppose to be. The first half ended 0-0 with both teams needing to regroup and see how they could score.
The second half started and ICT dominated from the start, 15 minutes into the second half Ali Sutherland finished off a great footballing goal and netting from 12 yards out, ICT then went onto control the rest of the second half, on the 74th minute Jamie Wilson (who had come on for Adam Evans just before) made a darting run into the box and netted after a through ball into the box by Sutherland (i think) and netted from 6 yards. Near the end of the game Hearts starting pushing and without our keeper Nick Draper then chances are they might have gotten a consolation goal. Draper had a great game and in the last 10 minutes he made 2/3 outstanding saves.
It finished 2-0 ICT with a lot of positives from it, the young lads a few might not do much after us but there were a few who played brilliantly. From the first team we had Danny Williams and Nicky Ross and contrary to what ICTRoughi has said i feel Nicky had the better game, he was mainly covering Calum Howarth who was playing at LB while still trying to push forward, where as i feel Williams could have been better played on the wing instead of the holding midfield role but they both had a really good engine but i think when Williams was subbed he wasn't too happy about it cause he didn't even look at Shearer where as the rest got handshakes from him when they came off.