Reid slams abject Accies.

Hamilton manager Billy Reid branded his team's dire start to the season "unacceptable" but insisted he blames himself for it as much as his players. After opening the season with a 4-0 defeat at Aberdeen, Reid was stunned to see his side beaten by the same scoreline at home by Hearts, the Edinburgh club's biggest winning margin in four seasons. Reid is without club captain Alex Neil and his most senior defender Mark McLaughlin because of injuries and lost James McArthur to Wigan during the summer but admitted he still expected much better. Reid said: "For a Premier League club that wasn't acceptable and wasn't good enough but it's not the players who take the blame, it's me as well. I signed them, I put them on the park. "We were well beaten four-nothing. We'll deal with some of the defending in-house. Some of the individual mistakes were absolutely suicidal. "We didn't dwell on last week's performance, we chose to look forward, but maybe we should have done. Maybe it wasn't a blip. We need to show people the mistakes they were making because if they continue to do that it won't be good enough. At times it was embarrassing."

Source: PA