Hamilton Accies have a 'hunger' to right wrongs in Scottish Cup test, says boss

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John Rankin has a hunger for Hamilton Accies to knock Premiership side St Johnstone out of the Scottish Cup, and set a few things right this weekend.Accies head to McDiarmid Park in Perth on Saturday on the back of three straight defeats, while Saints have hit a bit of form with three wins on the bounce against St Mirren and Motherwell, twice.Rankin says it’s a free hit against top-flight opposition, and a chance to atone for some poor recent displays.He said: “The pressure is on them.

We’re playing away to a Premiership team, nobody’s expecting us to win, but we have standards in the dressing room and a hunger to go to McDiarmid Park and give a good account of ourselves.“It’s a free hit at a Premiership team, we’re looking forward to the game at a nice stadium, with a good pitch and a good atmosphere.“We go up to Perth on Saturday, having not played against them for the last couple of years, so we’re looking forward to it.“We’re looking to go up there and see what we can get out of the game, show the standard that we’ve set in previous weeks and months.

In the last wee bit we’ve let ourselves down and we need to get back to those standards.“There’s no better way to prove yourself than against a Premiership team, and prove what we can do.

We’re going there knowing the pressure is on them, and we’ve been on the opposite side of that in previous rounds.“We played against Musselburgh, went to Banks O’Dee, and those were really difficult games – we need to be at it on Saturday, but we’re now the underdog.