Hamilton Accies star blasts 'Jekyll and Hyde' show in Ayr defeat

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Jamie Barjonas blasted Hamilton’s Jekyll and Hyde performance against Ayr United and insists something needs to change if they are to turn their fortunes around.Barjonas got his first goal of the season to put Accies 2-1 up at the interval, adding to Oli Shaw’s sensational strike that cancelled out Jamie Murphy’s early opener for Ayr.But Marco Rus scored a peach of a leveller with a 25-yard lob seven minutes after the restart, and ex-Accies striker George Oakley bagged the winner in 66 minutes to send Hamilton home empty-handed.“I’m happy with the goal but not happy with the second-half performance,” said Barjonas.“I don’t know how we can play so well in the first half and come out in the second half like a completely different team.“It’s something we need to work on, talk about and analyse, because if we want to do what we want to do in this league we need to keep a lead.“That’s something we will definitely look at.“At half-time I think we were quite happy with the first half performance.

We had carried out the game-plan well, defended really well, played well on the counter, and were pretty confident, going into the second half.“So that’s something we really need to address, the fact that the second-half performance is nowhere near the standards of the first half and nowhere near the standards that we want to be.“That’s something we will definitely talk about on Monday and we’ll take it into next week.”Hamilton attacked Ayr in the first half and can take positives into the game when Dunfermline Athletic visit next weekend, but Barjonas reckons they need to turn things around.He said:” We did have chances, but you could say the same when Ayr beat us 2-0 on the opening day of the season.“We had a lot of chances against