New Signings

[redandwhite1874]

Lucas staying for another year.

Eremonko will be on daft money and he isn't fit enough or willing to work. Sutton? maybe a chance we could get him but I think Scott MacDonald will also be on daft money. jim McAllister would be good but we would need to fight with Killie and Partick.

[YeOldeHamiltonian]

Did Eremenko not say he hates playing on plastic pitches?

[glasgow accie]

Heard Sutton was off to St.J ?
Might be wrong though.......

[AmanAccie]

Sutton no thanks! He must get about a hundred clear cut chances every season. Misses 90% of them. We need to do better than him.

[redandwhite1874]

Sutton no thanks! He must get about a hundred clear cut chances every season. Misses 90% of them. We need to do better than him.

12 goals last season in the premier and Well cant be making that many chances for him?

Cash will always be an issue, but Neil, MAC, Nigel and Jason are now off the pay roll and they will have perhaps have been up towards the top of our scale; so there must be some room to bring in that all important striker than can play up on his own.

[AmanAccie]

Sutton no thanks! He must get about a hundred clear cut chances every season. Misses 90% of them. We need to do better than him.

12 goals last season in the premier and Well cant be making that many chances for him?

I stand corrected he misses 88% of his chances. Every goal is either a header or bundled over the line. There is no hold up play, no real attacking prowess, no flair,no style I could go on. I've never liked him. I don't think he would fit into our setup.

[H9crx]

James Keeting been allowed to leave Jamtarts.

[Colombian Boffin]

James Keeting been allowed to leave Jamtarts.

Surely worth consideration?

[burnsy5shoes]

James Keeting been allowed to leave Jamtarts.

Surely worth consideration?

No chance. He scored well for hearts in the championship. If he was up to premiership level, hearts would have kept him on. They clearly don't think he is up to it so off he goes. A decent enough striker for a top half championship team.

[Alfie Olek]

Keating has signed a 2 year deal with Hibs.

[AmanAccie]

Tomas Cerny has signed for Thistle. Be good to see the wee guy again.

[judgeflash]

I know the clubs budget is very small compared to nearly everyone else within the SPL, but this season we really need some experience and quality to help guide our young setup. The loss of 22, MAC and Neil was pretty horrendous. MAC for all his faults, still made a good target man.

Brophy has yet to show me he has anything to offer in a premier league game, Andy Ryans contract extension confused me, as he falls into that same bracket.
I thought Jason could've stayed on another season as he could still have at least a part in games and make a difference.

The likes of Tagliapietra, Mcgovern and Mcdonald have been welcome new additions into the main squad this season. Crawford, Imrie, Devlin and Jesus have also worked very hard all season.
Ideally 2 attackers, one with a bit of height/physicality would be great. Our midfield is maybe our strongest place, I'm not sure if Lyon is the answer. Gillespie might get the chance to play as a centre mid next season, instead of his usual jack of all trades. Mackinnon has been a liability for most of the season, showing very little creativity and a terrible temperament. Ziggy and Devlin are currently injured leaving us short at the back when it comes to a spare CB or RB.
Mcgovern in goals has been great, lets hope we can keep him.

[redandwhite1874]

From Hammy Ad:

Hamilton chairman Les Gray is looking ahead to next season and seeing the latest batch of youngsters emerge into the first-team squad.

Gray and manager Martin Canning have identified where they need to strengthen, but the New Douglas Park supremo is also looking for younger members of the current squad to step up and help the new ones coming through from their Academy set-up.

He said: “We agreed to sign four players on professional contracts a couple of weeks ago – Conor Scullion, Alex Marshall, Rico Quitongo and Marc Kelly, and we have another couple of signings that we’re hopefully ready to announce shortly as well.

“We’ve signed the ex-Clyde goalkeeper Alan Martin, midfielder Chris Turner from Dumbarton, and there are another couple that we’re speaking to just now that will come out in the wash.

“Martin and I have had a few chats about it, we know where we need to strengthen the squad. We have a lot of young players and we know there are players who are not going to be here next season, so we need to replace them with quality and with a bit of experience.

“Next season is exciting, because we’re starting with a fresh bit of paper, with a young squad, a lot of whom will have played 15, 20, 30 games in some cases in the Premiership.

“We’re looking now for the likes of Grant Gillespie, Ali Crawford and Michael Devlin to kick on and be experienced Premiership footballers, having played a lot of games – and it’s up to us now to bring through the next batch and give guys like Darren Lyon and Eamonn Brophy time on the park and to get them playing.

“These boys just need time on the park and the manager knows that, but you can’t play five or six guys with no experience at the same time, you can play one or two.

“We’ve done that this season, and on the last day there were two or three starting, which was exciting for them and exciting for us as a club.

“These guys are ready for an opportunity now but they’re not established first-team players and they’re not ready to play every week.

“What we need to do is give them time on the park, get them substitute appearances and under-20s football, and when they’re ready to be called upon to the bench they will hopefully be ready to play and take that opportunity – that has happened for Greg Docherty and Eamonn Brophy.

“We will continue with more of the same, but we realise that the league will be tough again next season, so we need to make sure we strengthen, and we will do that.”

Hamilton will prepare for the new season with some warm-up games in Scotland before heading for a tour of Malta in July, where they will play champions Hibernians and fourth-placed Balzan Youths.

Gray said: “We have a couple of games here and then the club are going to Malta for a week on a pre-season tour, where we will take on two top teams – one of them is the league champions Hibernians, who are in the Champions’ League and we’re their warm-up game, and another team who finished fourth and are in the Europa League.

“These games are finalised, and that’s going to be part of our pre-season.”

[Alfie Olek]

“What we need to do is give them time on the park, get them substitute appearances and under-20s football, and when they’re ready to be called upon to the bench they will hopefully be ready to play and take that opportunity – that has happened for Greg Docherty and Eamonn Brophy.

Don’t think this applies to Eamonn. Hardly had a kick of the ball in the first team

[judgeflash]

“What we need to do is give them time on the park, get them substitute appearances and under-20s football, and when they’re ready to be called upon to the bench they will hopefully be ready to play and take that opportunity – that has happened for Greg Docherty and Eamonn Brophy.

Don’t think this applies to Eamonn. Hardly had a kick of the ball in the first team

He had 19 first team appearances last season. Most of which were last 20 of the game, however I still don't see the potential in him yet, even when he's started. I could be wrong.

We desperately need some quality signings, if we are to survive. Older signings like Scotland were great investments for us. I am proud of our youth system, however the likes of Mackinnon/Gillespie etc could do with replacing, or at least having their position challenged.

[Whiskeytown]

What about Liam Craig, released by Hibs? Perhaps not he sort of signing we'd normally make but we need some experience in midfield and he scores a few too.