Hamilton Accies star aims to take cup frustration out on Cove Rangers in league opener

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Hamilton Accies intend to take out their Viaplay Cup frustrations on Cove Rangers in Saturday’s League One opener, according to defender Reghan Tumilty.John Rankin’s side missed out on qualification for the last 16 by the narrowest of margins, after his goal earned a 2-2 draw at home to Cove, only for Paul Hartley’s side to win the shoot-out 4-2.Mark Gallagher levelled Kevin O’Hara’s 13th-minute opener just before half-time, with Rumarn Burrell giving the visitors the lead on the hour-mark.Tumilty levelled six minutes into stoppage time to force a shoot-out, but Accies lost and ended up on nine points, missing out on goal-difference as Livingston progressed by a point as group leaders.A peculiar double-header has the same opponents facing off at New Douglas Park on Saturday, and Tumilty is determined to do better.He said: “Taking it to penalties gave us a chance, and we knew we needed that extra point – it’s just the classic lottery of penalties and it didn’t go our way on the day.“It would have made it a bit sweeter, we all wanted to go through, but to take the positives out of it, we’re still unbeaten this season and that’s the way we want to go about it.“Nine points usually takes you through quite comfortably, but not this season.“Teams didn’t grab points off of us and there were some decent teams in the group so we can take our frustration out in the league, I think.”Right-back Tumilty reckons it’s important to get their league campaign off to a flier, and says everybody is well prepared, with 10 new players brought in so far this summer.“It’s important to start with a bang.

You need to get a good start,” he said.“On Tuesday we went through our targets as a squad and as a team, so we all know what we want to do and