It was absolutely roasting, I feel as if I have burnt my face watching that game today, I dread to think what it was like for the players to play in it.

It’s bound to to be fair, but it’s pre-season, it’s about getting the match fitness, we know that the lads are not going to be fully fit for the full 90 minutes. It’s about using them right and building it up so that hopefully when the start of the season comes around we are all ready to go then.

It was a fantastic workout for us, I’m delighted that Hearts have come down to play us, we knew that it was going to be tough because you normally find that the Scottish teams are two or three weeks ahead of us, they are a very good side but I’m delighted with our players, there are a lot of plusses from it and we can move on to the next match now.

I’ve said all along, I want us to be successful and I’m still not going to be drawn into saying what success is. We all know what has happened over the last couple of years and everybody wants to go one better but we have just got to keep working to make sure that we are putting a team out that does this football club justice.

I was pleased with the reaction after the second goal, I thought after the first goal went in that we lost our way a bit for 10 or 15 minutes we got a bit erratic and we were going chasing things that weren’t going to win and giving silly free-kicks away and making wrong decisions, once we settled down we started playing football and created some chances. The big thing from today is that you have got to want to score goals a bit more, people have got to want to get into the box a bit more and go and get goals for us.

Somebody landed awkawardly on him and he just had a bit of soreness and I am not prepared to take any risks with anybody so I just took him off as a precaution but I expect him to be fine.

I’m hoping so, there’s nothing imminent at the moment but as with the ones we have brought in, we go about it very quietly until the point when we can let everyone know once he signs the contract.

Sean St. Ledger should be fine for Wednesday, Callum Davidson should be fit, Alan McCormack will be fit, Adam Nowland, Brett Ormerod and Andy Smith I don’t expect to be right for Wednesday. Matt Hill probably won’t be right for Wednesday but we will probably have to wait and see if he can join in training over the next couple of days.

Callum saw the specialist on Friday and the specialist said that he has got to go and try and get on with it, work through and try and resolve the problem that he has got, he wanted to be involved today but he has only had one day’s training so I decided that it was better if he had a couple of days next week with a view to being involved on Wednesday night. There’s still a threat that that could happen, the surgeon has said that he has got to get on with it, it may heal itself, it may not but we can’t predict that at the moment.

It was a good goal, he was brave to be fair to him, we had a couple of other opportunities, Nugent put him in second half but his first touch just let him down and he didn’t get in, he had other opportunities that I felt with a little bit more concentration and a better touch we could have got more goals, but that will come over the next couple of weeks.

I was very pleased, really pleased. The big disappointment for me was the two goals, there could have been more communication for the first and we should have been stronger for the second one, the lad should not have got through there when we have got three defenders around him on the edge of the box, apart from those two things I felt that we performed very well on the day against a very good opposition.