Ye Olde Hamiltonian

An underrated player by many who also did well playing for his country. My younger brother played with his son and others in the then Lesmahagow Under 18's which was basically the Accies youth team in the 1990's. Rip Tam,good Bowler as well was he not?

Home win for Aberdeen under 12's with Brian Rice again lamenting the lack of communication at the back and another sterling display from the Accies "midfield".

Yep badly missed Gogic and Collar(injured) who would have made a difference discipline wise as was shown last season. As I have said elsewhere,there are goals in this Accies team but we will concede plenty also. Just a shame they got that fifth at the end but our young players will have learned from playing against the best.We had a go,came up short and no regrets apart from the decision to start with Ronan Hughes.

I agree, but he's played at RB in I think every friendly this season and I'd be surprised if we brought in a backup. We just need to hope that Odoffin's good and/or stays fit. A wee thought here.Perhaps we could try him out in bounce/reserve games as a defensive midfielder and see how he does as he probably won't be first choice at right back/central defence. This would give us an option when Martin/Collar or both are unavailable.Gogic ended up covering three positions and Stanger despite not being as physical can pass the ball better.

Stanger strolled through games at central defence in the reserves/under 20's but was terrible any time he played right back/right wing back.

Rumours through here that Owain Fon Williams signing permanently for you guys.

Another two in a long line of underwhelming,insipid signings a la every summer since Canning became Manager onwards.

No surprises in those who have left apart from some of the kids: Jack Breen was highly rated and Neil Lennon while Hibs boss was angry we poached him away.Charlie Reilly and young Joseph obviously never kicked on the way the club thought they would. Notwithstanding,from games I watched at youth/reserve level young Kyle Munro was very impressive.He can play left back,left midfield,centre forward and has a physical presence for a young lad which would have served him well playing in the Juniors for Clydebank last season where he apparently did very well.

How did George Stanger play for you guys?

Hopefully there is a sell on clause as plenty of us were perplexed at this decision. The position he plays in was probably our strongest squad wise with four players capable in that position with Scott McMann not likely to lose his place. Now,if he only be could have played right back.He was outstanding in every game I watched him playing in under 20's/reserves, so knew you guys had won a watch.

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.