HAMILTON ACCIES fans are to boycott one of their team’s upcoming games in a protest over their current plight.
Supporters group WeAreHamilton have published an open letter stating they will not attend the Ladbrokes Premiership game with Kilmarnock on February 4 and will instead travel to Selkirk to watch East Kilbride as they display their frustration and anger at the current regime and management.
The New Douglas Park club currently sit 11th in the table after 21 games with just two wins. They also sit just one point above Inverness Caley Thistle.
In a statement printed in the town’s local paper the Hamilton Advertiser, the group state they have ‘absolutely no faith’ in manager Martin Canning and have also criticised the club’s recruitment policy.
It read: “There seems to be a general consensus of opinion amongst Accies fans of all ages that the club are currently underperforming in the SPFL Premiership, and seem to be hell-bent on relegation back to the Championship.
“This is despite seemingly having a first team who are, in the main, good enough to achieve staying up, and some of us feel we are not being listened to.
“We, as a club, have no viable full-backs and we do not have the proven strikers that would ensure our survival and push for a top-six place.
“We have signed several goalkeepers unnecessarily, and sanctioned moves for players such as Oumar Diaby, Richard Roy, Christopher Mandiangu, Kemy Agustien and Nico Sumsky, who barely played.
“In our opinion there have been poor decisions and we are incapable of turning performances into wins, due to poor game management and poor substitutions; added to that we display, apparently, a complete lack of ability to rouse the players, as evidenced over the last half a dozen games.
“While realising that Martin Canning is not fully responsible for our signing policy, he seems unable to get the best out of the players that we have and has one of our best midfielders played out of position all season.
“As a form of protest we are planning to not attend the home league game against Kilmarnock on February 4 and instead attend East Kilbride’s away tie against Selkirk on the same date.
“That is not a course of action that we take lightly, but it’s a course of actions that we feel is necessary at this point to protest against decisions currently being made at the club, on and off the pitch.”
In a survey published in November last year, Accies came bottom of the pile when it came to an average salary for their players.
Sporting Intelligence’s Global Sports Salaries Survey revealed the figure for a Hamilton star levelled out at £42,606, around £3000 a year less than local rivals Motherwell and £10,000 under the average paid at bottom-club Inverness.
Hamilton Accies refused to comment.
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereLast Updated:
Report this comment Cancel