Hibs continued their pre-season bounce games with a 2-1 victory over Hamilton Academical at an empty Easter Road this afternoon.

Darren McGregor captained the team as Alex Gogic featured against his old club alongside fellow new signings Drey Wright and Kevin Nisbet.

Shortly before the break Joe Newell, who missed the end of last season with a heel injury, opened the scoring then Nisbet made it 2-0 on the stroke of half time.

PHOTO Alan Rennie

Markus Fjortoft pulling one back for Brian Rice’s team early in the second period.

Another long term injury victim Stevie Mallan played the second half, his first action since being injured in the Boxing day defeat of Hearts at Tynecastle.

Hibs play Aberdeen this Saturday in the final warm up game before the season starts with a home game against Kilmarnock on 1st August.

John graduated from Telford College in 2010 with an HNC in Practical Journalism and since then he worked for the North Edinburgh News, The Southern Reporter, the Irish News Review and The Edinburgh Reporter. In addition he has been published in the Edinburgh Evening News and the Hibernian FC Programme.