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Re: New manager

PostPosted: Tue Jan 29, 2019 8:05 pm
by smc4761
Listening to Clyde 1 superscoreboard and it just about all been Accies fans saying it was right decision to let Martin go

Re: New manager

PostPosted: Tue Jan 29, 2019 8:09 pm
by Euan
porcupine wrote:Nothing on BBC Scotland TV in their sport news. Don't suppose we matter as a Premier team, being just Hamilton Accies.

Yeah watched the news hoping to hear a bit more but not a mention on the EBC Scottish News :roll:

Re: New manager

PostPosted: Tue Jan 29, 2019 8:59 pm
by Swift Frank
John Collins from a good source.

Re: New manager

PostPosted: Tue Jan 29, 2019 9:17 pm
by Todd_is_God
Swift Frank wrote:Jane Lewis on BBC in the last few minutes has said Accies are already inundated with applications from Spain,France,and "well known "names from Scotland and England.
So much for the diddies who said who'd want the job if Canning went!


It's an attractive job.

We have the bones of a decent squad, and a manager with a bit about him will keep us up.

Then you have the opportunity to make your mark by taking the club forward.

Re: New manager

PostPosted: Tue Jan 29, 2019 9:31 pm
by Accies Bill
Please not John Collins, dear lord.

This appointment, if we are to have any chance of staying up, has to be right. So no more experts in failure please.

Re: New manager

PostPosted: Tue Jan 29, 2019 10:30 pm
by Stevie Clarke
I know Stephen Dobbie loves Queen of the South but I wonder if he fancies being a player-manager? Like, in time for Saturday!

Re: New manager

PostPosted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 12:23 am
by Swift Frank
If only.
And Lawrence Shankland,as his player-assistant coach?
Lol.

Re: New manager

PostPosted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 10:46 am
by TerracingTomas
From the BBC gossip page:-

Latvia-based Gordon Young has emerged as a shock contender to be the next Hamilton manager after they sacked Martin Canning. Paul Hartley, Jim Goodwin, Mark McGhee, Alex Rae, Barry Ferguson and Massimo Donati are also among the contenders. (Scottish Sun)


Hes 52 never managed, always been an assistant/head of youth and the last few years his positions seem to have been a few month there a few months here. Another friendly journaiist touting his pal?

I’m afraid we are going to have to put up with all sorts of suggestions until the real appointment is made. I have to confess to being taken in by the one about Kris Boyd I posted yesterday which is a pity cos I still like the idea of him coming in as player coach.

Re: New manager

PostPosted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 11:27 am
by monkeybones
Please no player/coaches. Time is short on the season.
One job. Manage the team strategically

Re: New manager

PostPosted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 1:00 pm
by TerracingTomas
Please no player/coaches. Time is short on the season.
One job. Manage the team strategically


Sorry I meant bring him in as a part of the first team squad and with a coaching role not as head Coach/Manager Monkey bones.

Re: New manager

PostPosted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 2:19 pm
by TerracingTomas
Latest from maitland on the BBC sport website. Says we might have a new manager in by the weekend.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47057309

Hamilton Academical chairman Allan Maitland hopes to have a new manager in place by this weekend after shortening a vast list to "four or five" options.

The South Lanarkshire club parted company with Martin Canning by mutual agreement on Tuesday after picking up just one point in eight league games.

Maitland told BBC Scotland he wants someone with experience of Scottish football who can bring "flair".

"I want us to play to win games as opposed to not lose games," he said.

"There's been an element of that recently. It's important for supporters who come and watch to see a team with a bit of flair.

"And I want to find a pathway for kids coming through to play in the first team."

Maitland, who took over in December, said he has heard from the "usual suspects" and that "there's been a lot of really interesting names put forward".

Re: New manager

PostPosted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 3:42 pm
by AlMac
TerracingTomas wrote:Latest from maitland on the BBC sport website. Says we might have a new manager in by the weekend.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47057309

Hamilton Academical chairman Allan Maitland hopes to have a new manager in place by this weekend after shortening a vast list to "four or five" options.

The South Lanarkshire club parted company with Martin Canning by mutual agreement on Tuesday after picking up just one point in eight league games.

Maitland told BBC Scotland he wants someone with experience of Scottish football who can bring "flair".

"I want us to play to win games as opposed to not lose games," he said.

"There's been an element of that recently. It's important for supporters who come and watch to see a team with a bit of flair.

"And I want to find a pathway for kids coming through to play in the first team."

Maitland, who took over in December, said he has heard from the "usual suspects" and that "there's been a lot of really interesting names put forward".


This is a summary of what he said on Radio Scotland last night. From memory, he said that he would ideally like to have someone in place before the Dundee game but it was more likely to be next week. He also said that his preference is to appoint an experienced coach that already knows the Scottish game and that his current "shortlist" of 4 or 5 candidates meet those criteria.

Re: New manager

PostPosted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 5:11 pm
by Swift Frank
Brian Rice.

Re: New manager

PostPosted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 5:21 pm
by Bomber Harris
Brian Rice

Re: New manager

PostPosted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 5:54 pm
by Swift Frank
Is there an echo in here?

Re: New manager

PostPosted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 7:30 pm
by smc4761
Superscoreboard also touting Brian Rice as the next coach. Not for me.

Jim Duffy or John Hughes??

Re: New manager

PostPosted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 7:32 pm
by Swift Frank
Totally underwhelming.
I want Canning re instated.

Re: New manager

PostPosted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 7:55 pm
by judgeflash
18 plus years as an assistant manager/coach, he certainly has experience.
REALLY surprised if he is the choice though. I thought Goodwin was surely gonna be the choice.

Re: New manager

PostPosted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 8:06 pm
by Swift Frank
Bit too hurried an appointment.
I know they can't exactly take an eternity but shouldn't rush into a decision until every avenue is exhausted.

Re: New manager

PostPosted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 8:21 pm
by Tess Tickles
If it's Rice, then that's a totally disappointing and uninspiring choice!