Hamilton Accies boss needs players to take more responsibility after dropping points

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Hamilton Accies boss John Rankin says he needs players to stand up to responsibility, and didn’t have that on Saturday as Montrose fought back to draw 1-1.Kevin O’Hara’s 12th goal of the season had Accies in front after 15 minutes against the Gable Endies, but Luke Graham snatched an equaliser with six minutes left.Rankin pointed at failure to score a second goal and kill the game off, and Accies had chances to do so, with Jake Hastie, Mikey Hewitt and Euan Henderson all going close.He said: “You’ve just got to keep battling.

We come off the back of a disappointing result, but we have to build again and make sure we’re ready to play next week.“It’s frustrating.

We had umpteen chances in the first half, balls into the box, but did we really hurt ourselves to get another goal, were there opportunities – of course there were.“There were inviting balls into the box, but nobody really took that by the scruff of the neck and thought ‘I’m going to be the one that gets the second goal and kill the game’.“You can go from the bit where we were in front and quite comfortable to being under the cosh and being a wee bit anxious.“What we need is for people to stand up and take responsibility, and now we need to take the pressure on of going and winning games.“We come off the back of a disappointing result.

The frustration will build up this week in training and hopefully we will be ready to go on Saturday at Queen of the South.”Rankin added: “It feels like a defeat.