Hamilton Academical FC

Several Accies players are being selected for international recognition just now.

Stephen Hendrie, 17,  is meeting up with the Scotland u20 squad to take part in the 59th ADO Den Haag youth tournament this weekend in the Netherlands. The squad, which also features Celtic's Tony Watt, St Johnstone's Stevie May, Fraser Fyvie of Aberdeen and Chelsea's Islam Feruz amongst others, will take part in matches v Manchester City, Den Haag and Brazilian side Cruzeiro.

Full back Scott McMann, 15, is away with Scotland u16/17s on 3rd June to take part in the Besov Cup youth tournament in St Petersburg, Russia where they will face matches against Lokomotiv Moscow, FC Krasnodar and local side Zenit St Petersburg.

Finally, we have four players from our youth academy selected to represent Team Lanarkshire who are competing in the 46th International Children's Games in Daegu, South Korea in July. Josh Kerr, Ronan Hughes, Jack Harrison, Stephen Barr and Mark Hill have all been selected for the football element of the tournament. We should also give a mention to 16 year old Greg Docherty who last week ran for Scotland Schools in an athletics event at the new Olympic Stadium in London.

Accies will host local rivals - and UEFA Champions League entrants - Motherwell at NDP on Tuesday 24th July, kick off 7pm in a pre-season friendly. We will be participating in the annual Oban Saints tournament on Saturday 14th July before heading down south to a training camp, and Billy Reid is delighted that Stuart McCall has agreed to bring his team 'across the road' for this intriguing challenge match in the week prior to Motherwell's European fixture. "Motherwell obviously have a lot to look forward to at that time so I'm really pleased they have agreed to visit. It will be ideal for us as our last game before the season starts with the Ramsdens Cup on Saturday 28th July."

Admission prices have still to be determined and we will advise these later

The club's after school children's community programme is still running, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday between 5pm-6pm, with community coach Alan Cairns. For more information please call Academy and Community Manager George Cairns 01698 368662 or e mail This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  All sessions take place on the mini-piych behind the goal at the Sainsbury's end and is designed for children aged 4-14.

The club would confirm that the following players have been released: Grant Anderson, David Hutton, Andrew Gibson, Ciaran Johnston and Lewis Milton (the latter two players are still presently on loan to Armadale Thistle JFC). The club thanks them all for their efforts at first team and youth level over the past season and wishes them the very best for the future.

Under 17s utility player Jack McCue has today extended his contract with the club for a further two years. He has been a member of Alex Neil's u17 squad this season and was part of the Reserve League Cup winning team on Friday night.

Midfielder Kyle Wilkie, who has been unfortunately out injured with an achilles injury all season, has been invited back in for pre-season with the club and we shall re-assess the situation with him then.

Loan Players: Graeme MacGregor (Bolton), Danny Redmond (Wigan Athletic), Jon Routledge (Stockport County) and Mark Stewart (Bradford City) will all return to their parent clubs next month. Blair Currie returned to Rangers last week, while Greig Spence's registration will revert to Celtic on 30th June. The club have agreed a transfer fee with St Mirren FC for Jon McShane and his loan deal will now be made permanent for him to join Accies. Additionally, the following players who were out on loan will all have their registrations return to Accies over the next week - Mikey Devlin and Kieran Millar (both Stenhousemuir), Ryan Finnie (Dumbarton) and Conner McGlinchey (Berwick Rangers).