After Hamilton's stunning 4-1 win over Motherwell in the Lanarkshire derby, we spoke to two Accies supporters to get their reaction to the emphatic win.
We spoke to Brandon Coghill and Ewan Summers to get an insight into fan opinion after Hamilton's third consecutive win over their rivals.
You must be delighted with yesterday's performance and result?
BS:Absolutely buzzing! Best feeling I’ve had all season and there is definitely a proper feel good factor about Accies the past week and long may it continue.
I thought if we even played remotely as good as we did against Rangers then we would have had a chance but to better that performance was unbelievable.
It's not very often that we can say we can take the foot off the gas in a game, only downside is it could’ve been more than 4 if we kept at them!
ES: It was probably our most important game of the season to see how we kicked on from such a good performance against Rangers.
We’ve seen all too often – particularly last season – an impressive performance against Celtic or Rangers being followed up by a really poor display against a team around us, so yesterday’s win and performance hopefully suggest that things are on the up.
Scoring four without arguably our two best attacking players in Lewis Smith and David Templeton also shows that things are clicking as a unit due to the pressing to win the ball in dangerous areas as opposed to relying on individuals.
You've beat Motherwell three times this season, why do you think you're so successful against your rivals?
BC: I personally don’t know what it is but I’m not going to complain, it’s a phenomenal feeling beating them.
I think maybe Motherwell go into the games giving us far too much respect and for some reason we always tend to turn up in the fixture.
There is definitely some sort of different mentality involved when it comes to this fixture.
ES: Despite winning three in a row against Motherwell, yesterday was the first time that we were convincingly better than them in every department.
Much of the first game was David Turnbull v Ryan Fulton before Rice’s subs won the game, the second was more similar to yesterday – and was the first game of this system that’s served us well in 2021 – but we still got a bit of luck with Motherwell’s goalkeeper and conceded a few chances.
The most recent game was a culmination of everything we’ve done well recently.
Does the result give you confidence for the remainder of the season? Do you think you will avoid relegation?
BC: There definitely is a feel good factor right now around the players ever since Rangers and you can tell that by just looking on social media.
I thought we were dead and buried after Ross County but now we seem to have a new lease of life, right at the perfect time.
Rice justifiably has been criticised all season but now he deserves a lot of praise for seemingly turning it around and lifting the players since County.
If we can continue to show up like we have the past two games and keep the performances up I have no doubt that the wee Accies will do it once again but it’s never that easy.
It will go right up to the wire but at least now we definitely have a fighting chance!
ES: I remember reading after the Rangers game that the standard had been set which was a really nice way of putting it.
We’ll have dips between now and the end of the season, but we’ve seen over the last few weeks just how well this team can play.
In Rice’s first half-season, despite there being plenty of bad results, they were offset by the feeling that we could bounce back in the next game, and even feeling that confidence again would be an improvement.
We seem to have, by and large, found the 11 that will give us the best chance of staying up.
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