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Martin Canning not quoted?

Not to worry,you guys can have him in the lower echelons when he is in his mid to late 30's.

Will be a good Accies support for this game as you will see.Even more so,now it may be the last game for a while.

Perhaps Accies and County fans thinking a draw on Wednesday is the best bet?

Biggest scandal here is folk still buy/read The Sunday Post.

Aye,we've peaked with half a squad out ffs. Constant negativity from some of our fan base is as usual ott. Even on a day when we win with ten men,a section of our fan base still have to put a downer on things ffs.

Mad Freddy strikes again with that distinctive voice of his.A disgrace the guy is banned from home games till next season.

So, what is your point exactly? It's the lesser of two evils, watch us struggle in the Premiership or slog away in the Championship hoping to get back up and then struggle to stay there. I know which I'd choose. Nothing is going to change approach wise under this current regime so your other choice is give up supporting the team. I've watched us play in the lower leagues for years and it was soul destroying at times, give me our current status any day of the week. I have watched Accies for 43 years, most of them in The Championship with lengthy spells in the Seaside Leagues and have no great desire to go back there. A change of Manager,decent signings and we could easily do a Livingston.Go down and we are down for years and any half decent players will be off and once the novelty wears off then crowds will go down again. We were down to 500 at times pre John Lambie and it will be back to that.Only way to try and grow the club is in the top League-no matter how hard it is.

Home end was busier than it has been for a while considering the dreadful pricing but when you look at us Alex Neil era in that wonderful half season compared to now,the drop would have any decent Owners/Directors trying to entice people back and asking where have the fans gone. Instead we chase people away and the fans are considered an afterthought as The Petting Zoos,addiction services and all the other shenanigans are well up the pecking order. Dreadful pricing for home fans with kids without season books also and has been for years.Away fans are badly affected by this also.

Cough cough,think Accies are still owed the final instalment for Greg Docherty.

Shambles of a performance by Accies against ten men and Motherwell should have sneaked that in injury time. I felt if Ogympoe scored first half,we would have went on to win but second half he was breathing out his backside and Templeton for me looked unfit. The less said of Johnny Hunt's cross for an open goal the better.Alston again continues to disappoint and Lewis Smith should be playing before him every week. FInally,Accies not publicising the prices led to folk turning back at the home turnstile and rushing round for the extra cash.Disgraceful pricing and they simply haven't learned from the first game.

That must be why they horsed us the last few weeks? The constant negativity of some of our fans is as usual OTT.A hard fought point on Saturday after being on the end of another bad decision by officialdom and Accies fans on Social Media having a go at the team ffs.

Disappointed to concede the equaliser so late on but playing with ten men for so long in those conditions,the team did well. Ex Referee Brian Winter said young Hamilton should have had a booking at most and if we had retained eleven on the pitch,we would have scored again as the Hearts defence was a shambles. Many twists and turns to come in the race at the bottom.

Speak for yourself.I know few who think like this I this and plenty on forums/social media are more confident after the transfer window. Fwiw,it may get worse before it gets better but we have 10 games left versus bottom six sides.

There are a lot of Motherwell fans in Hamilton.Some who moved here,others who were brought up supporting a top League team when Accies languished in the Seaside Leagues and plenty who became Well fans when John Boyle flooded Hamilton schools with free tickets during our homeless years. Strathaven has a good number of Accies fans with a few in East Kilbride I know of, but not as many as there should be due to the club never trying to reach out to folk from there which has always been a missed opportunity.

Accies v Aberdeen is at NDP

Apparently Accies have seven players injured;you know what needs to be done here our Livvy brethren.

Give the guy a chance ffs. I'm not enamoured by signing League Two benchwarmer but let's give him a chance before making a judgement.

Most Accies fans on Forums feel the club were daft to let young McCann go as he has been playing great for you guys and any time I watched him in the reserves/under 20's he was a stand out. Hopefully,there is a sell on clause as this will probably bite us in the arse down the line.Scott McMann has been playing ok at left back, but I read you have been playing him further forward,so that could have been an option for us next season. I expected him to be around the first team next season following in the footsteps of Lewis Smith,Jamie Hamilton, George Stanger and Andy Winter from our great under 18 side who won the SPL under 18 league undefeated(humping the Old Firm in the process) so very surprised at this. Rumours that Brian Rice thought he was too small to make it at SPL level(don't believe this myself).If true,then it will come back to haunt us.

Ross County and Killie come on down and join the scrap.

I've never known the Accies support to be so so depressed going into a game versus our neighbours across The Clyde in my 43 years watching us.The St.Johnstone result has sealed many months of turgid displays made worse by Brian Rice going 'full Martin Canning' in recent interviews. Wee note for Brian Rice...never go full Canning. Many won't travel as they expect a humping by three or four, but even although we have had terrible performances,we rarely lose by more than a goal. We have been in this position before against our neighbours and the result has went completely against what many predicted.Some of these games have produced great memories:coming back from 2-0 down to win 3-2_after three goals in the last 20 minutes; ending a 20 game Motherwell unbeaten run beating them 1-0 and even a few years ago an injury time Ali Crawford penalty to snatch a draw from a certain defeat. Unlike our neighbours who are run for the fans(although £24 for Adults is OTT),our Owners care more about their jobs for the boys and local junkies and the like and the disconnect between fans and club is illustrated by the big decline in support from the Alex Neil era which must now be over 50% judging by attendance in the home end. I'll be there,not expecting much but a fighting performance whether or not Rice makes the usual arse of team selection.The players deserve our backing-not the Manager of Owners.

Martin Canning is the man here.Vastly experienced in taking a side overachieving and dropping them into an exciting race to the bottom.

The comment is because he is the same height as him ,only morons see racism where none is intended.

In a game like that where Rice makes a Johnny Hunt(why was he starting?) of it,we need the first goal but playing two big lumps together was never going to do this and the makeshift St.Mirren defence did well. Goodwin got his tactics spot on and Stubbs had his worst game for Accies thanks to wee Arnold from Different Strokes making a nuisance of himself and not allowing him to pass out from the back. Rice should have played the same midfield as against Celtic,Oakley with Davies and not have a spine of a team who were easily muscled off the ball by a side who displayed greater desire and will to win who should have won three or four nil. Accies have lost our fighting spirit in games against our rivals:no Big Marko(could have done with him today),Imrie or McKinnon type will to win and taking off Davies for Moyo is where he lost it totally.Davies wasn't playing great but playing against a swirling wind,he can create a goal out of nothing via winning headers or flick ons.Instead we brought on a guy who doesn't have the fighting spirit or will go win you need in games like this. Wrong team,wrong formation and wrong subs(Oakley and Martin should have started) and that second half was as bad as anything under Canning. St.Mirren got their tactics,formation and even subs correct and deserved a more emphatic win.An Accies team with no fighting spirit-bar a spell when down to ten men- who only play well against the top table sides highlights a lack of desire and hunger which has been the hallmark of us for donkeys years. Beer needed after that...in fact many beers.

The only one of the above which has any relevance is the St.Johnstone game this season which was a bad Accies performance and bears no resemblance to the side we are a few months down the line. Some of our fans are the most negative bunch on the planet and even a thumping win tomorrow won't please them.