Brian Rice reckons it was daft defending rather than coronavirus disruption that cost his side at Rugby Park. The Hamilton boss refused to blame the chaos caused by a covid outbreak in midweek for slumping to defeat to 10 men Killie – despite losing four players to quarantine in the build up.
Rice said: “There are no excuses. I told them before the game we had all the excuses in the world if we wanted them, but the excuse is we weren’t good enough and I am angry because that was a chance and we have beaten ourselves by doing something stupid.“What happened during the week had no bearing on what happened.“We were really slow out of the blocks, but once we got the equaliser, we had control of the game.
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