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. The Tynecastle outfit endured a troubled start last term before Jim Jefferies returned for a second spell in January to replace Csaba Laszlo.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.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.The 27-year-old said: "We were in the top six last season but I think we can do better."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."We have the possibility to be better and have a better finish. Why not in the third position?"Darren Barr arrived from Falkirk in the summer to strengthen Hearts' defensive resources.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.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."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."Bouzid remembers the club's last visit to Hamilton for all the wrong reasons - but he is confident there will be no repeat.The centre-half was one of five players red-carded in a fiery encounter last December which culminated in a post-match tunnel brawl.He said: "I remember this game. But every game is a new game and is different."There were a lot of red cards, but sometimes it can happen in football."We now have a new season and new players and we will try to not have the same situation again."

Source: Team_Talk