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Brown warning for Dons Manager Craig Brown has warned his Aberdeen side against complacency when Hamilton, the Clydesdale Bank Premier League's bottom club, visit Pittodrie on Tuesday night. Aberdeen have been rejuvenated since Brown was installed as boss - winning seven and losing four of 12 games in all competitions - and now sit 12 points above bottom club Accies. The ninth-placed Dons defeated fourth-placed Kilmarnock 5-0 last Saturday, but Brown warned that victory over Hamilton, five points adrift at the foot of the table, is far from a certainty. The former Scotland manager said: "They're a better team than their results have been indicating. One thing about them is they're a committed team - they'll fight, they'll scrap, it will not be pretty. "They'll play a very determined game. We have to be up for that. "Because we scored five goals on Saturday we can't expect just to go out and think it will automatically happen. "There's got to be an urgency and a determination to continue the good form we had on Saturday." The result against Killie was all the more pleasing for Brown following the 2-1 defeat to Motherwell, the club he abandoned for Pittodrie in December. He added: "Prior to the fixtures against two teams in the top five, Kilmarnock and Motherwell, two draws would be acceptable. Not great, but acceptable. "We've actually done better than that (taking three points), so we've got to build on that and make sure we don't slip up against Hamilton." Brown was frustrated by the loss to his former team but conceded Well were the better side last Tuesday night. Hamilton midfielder James Chambers is sure it is only a matter of time before his "unacceptable" performances improve - but the January signing knows time is running out for struggling Accies. Billy Reid brought Irishman Chambers to the Clydesdale Bank Premier League last month along with Aaron Wildig, Mark Carrington and Tom Elliott as the Accies boss tried to turn around their season. But the Lanarkshire side are still looking for their first SPL victory since October and sit five points adrift of St Mirren at the foot of the table. Chambers, who joined from Shamrock Rovers, made his debut in a 2-0 defeat at St Johnstone and returned to the team on Saturday against Motherwell, but was substituted early in the second half of Hamilton's 1-0 loss. "I've loved every minute of it but my two performances to date haven't been good enough, they have been unacceptable," he said. "I know it's going to take a step up from back home. I have confidence in my ability and I will get better, it's just a matter of finding my feet. "But we don't have an awful lot of time." Chambers had not played since the end of the Airtricity League season in November when he arrived at New Douglas Park, but he is not using his fitness as an excuse. "I feel fit, the gaffer has worked me hard, I just think it's a matter of me getting a bit of confidence and getting better," the 24-year-old said. "The pace of the game is a little bit quicker, and I just think everybody on the ball is a lot more comfortable and it's a lot more technical than back home. "I just hope I can put in a few half-decent performances rather than the poor ones I have put in so far. "The manager has been great with me, he has said what he's happy with and what I need to improve on. "He has been brilliant, as have the rest of the coaching staff, it's really up to me now to keep my head down and repay the faith the gaffer has shown in me." Chambers returns to familiar surroundings at Pittodrie having been there when then Dons boss Jimmy Calderwood tried to sign him from Shelbourne. "I was there when I was younger for a couple of weeks," Chambers said. "I was meant to sign and then there was a problem with my club back home. "They wanted compensation and Aberdeen weren't willing to pay for me. So that was dead in the water before it started. "I was 18, I had just left school. It was a blow, but I ended up going full-time with Shelbourne so it wasn't too bad. "I could have been released after three months, so you never know. "But it would have been nice and now I have the opportunity to test myself here."