Source: Team_Talk
Bouzid aiming high with Jambos
Hearts defender Ismael Bouzid will not be satisfied if the team scrape into the top six of the SPL for a second successive season.[LNB] The Tynecastle outfit endured a troubled start last term before Jim Jefferies returned for a second spell in January to replace Csaba Laszlo.[LNB]Hearts had to fend off St Johnstone to reach the top half of the table and then had to settle for a sixth-placed finish.[LNB]As he prepares to return to the Hearts side at Hamilton on Saturday, after missing the league opener with Saints due to suspension, Bouzid is aiming higher.[LNB]The 27-year-old said: "We were in the top six last season but I think we can do better.[LNB]"We have got a lot of young players and, for me, they have the quality. I hope we can have a better season to play well and be good.[LNB]"We have the possibility to be better and have a better finish. Why not in the third position?"[LNB]Darren Barr arrived from Falkirk in the summer to strengthen Hearts' defensive resources.[LNB]But Bouzid, who missed out on the World Cup with Algeria and was then carried off with a head injury in a pre-season fixture at Millwall, is pleased to have the competition.[LNB]Now fully fit after getting the all-clear following initial fears he had fractured his skull, Bouzid added: "I'm very happy to come back, I'm better now after training.[LNB]"We have some new players and I'm very happy. Every season players need to go and every season some need to come. I enjoy having new players in the team."[LNB]Bouzid remembers the club's last visit to Hamilton for all the wrong reasons - but he is confident there will be no repeat.[LNB]The centre-half was one of five players red-carded in a fiery encounter last December which culminated in a post-match tunnel brawl.[LNB]He said: "I remember this game. But every game is a new game and is different.[LNB]"There were a lot of red cards, but sometimes it can happen in football.[LNB]"We now have a new season and new players and we will try to not have the same situation again."
