Hamilton Accies star Kyle MacDonald back in light training after horror head injury, as boss John Rankin provides update

Hamilton Accies boss John Rankin has confirmed that midfielder Kyle MacDonald has resumed light training as he begins rehabilitation from a fractured skull.

While the former Dunfermline and Airdrie star won’t be back in action any time soon, Rankin has high hopes that defender Jamie Hamilton nears a return after almost two years out of the game with a thigh injury.

MacDonald fractured his skull in a horror collision with Alloa’s Miko Virtanen in a 2-1 home League One defeat last month.

The midfielder had a 10cm crack in his skull following the collision and is out for six months.

But that hasn’t stopped him from kicking a ball on the training pitch.

Rankin said: “Macca has a fractured skull so he does need tests and various different things with him, and it’s just time with him.

“But Macca being Macca, he’s on the training pitch doing passing drills and continuing to make sure his fitness is at the peak that it can be.

“He’s a great pro, works ever so hard and that’s the way he is.

“He obviously can’t come back any time soon, he’s just doing fitness and non-contact passing drills.

“Yesterday [Thursday] morning he joined in passing with the rest of the group and it’s great for him, but it’s also great for the boys to see someone who has put so much into this season being on the training pitch.”

Jamie Hamilton last played for Accies in a 1-0 win over Morton in April 2022, but could be involved in a squad before the end of this season.

Rankin says the defender is pushing himself to regain fitness, and said: “Jamie is doing extras, at times he can be doing three or four sessions a day to get himself into the shape that we desire and he desires.

“That’s credit to him that he’s prepared to put in the long, hard graft to get