Millen (left) and Taylor were not at training on Friday

By John Barnes

Hamilton could be without assistant manager Andy Millen and first team coach Stuart Taylor after reaching a contract impasse with the pair.

Both men have failed to sign new deals despite reminders and the club now see them as being out of contract.

Neither were at training on Friday and it is thought they will not return to the Scottish Premier League club.

However, Accies chairman Ronnie MacDonald insisted that the pair had not been sacked.

"The pair were offered contracts just over a month ago along with other staff but so far they have not signed them," he told BBC Scotland.

"They've had two reminders in a month but I've had no answer. I don't understand their rationale."

Millen, who joined the club in July, had been working without a formal written contract and it is believed Taylor had been operating in the same manner since the club were promoted to the SPL.

I don't understand their rationale. Hamilton chairman Ronnie MacDonald

MacDonald says he is mystified why they have not conformed like other employees who were in a similar situation.

"The deal mirrored the terms and conditions they had been employed under so far. This was basically a process of formalising it.

"If they weren't happy with the terms then you would expect them to get in touch if they wanted to renegotiate," he added.

Taylor and Millen have both refused to comment on the matter.

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