Hamilton boss John Rankin has revealed he'll use this week’s surprising break to assist Accies keep away from one other early Scottish Cup exit this season.
The Championship aspect had been resulting from face Rangers B within the third spherical of the SPFL Belief Trophy on Saturday however that conflict with the Lowland League outfit has been postponed till November 8 resulting from worldwide call-ups amongst each squads.
As an alternative, Accies will swap New Douglas Park for New Dundas Park tomorrow night time after they tackle League Two Bonnyrigg Rose in a bounce recreation.
And it's a match Rankin has taken on to arrange his younger squad for the potential pitfalls of dealing with a decrease league aspect after they enter the Scottish Cup third spherical on November 26.
Final time period, Accies suffered an embarrassing 1-0 defeat away to West of Scotland Premier League aspect Auchinleck Talbot at that stage beneath Stuart Taylor and Rankin is making good use of the week off from aggressive motion, to make sure his crew keep away from turning into a cup scalp.
He defined: “As quickly as I discovered the Rangers recreation was off I spoke to a couple golf equipment to attempt to organize a bounce recreation and we'll now play Bonnyrigg tomorrow night time behind closed doorways.
“And it’s extra a case of giving the boys an expertise of going to all these grounds.
“I do know final season we received knocked out of the Scottish Cup by Auchinleck so we're utilizing this chance to go to one of many smaller grounds, familiarise ourselves with the dressing room house, the scale of the pitches and the way these locations may be.
“Particularly for the youthful ones, this will likely be their first expertise of being at that kind of floor.
“That was a part of the concept behind it as a result of we're getting near the stage the place we enter the competitors and this can assist construct up youthful gamers as an alternative of throwing them in deep, since you don’t know what can occur within the draw.
“It’s a case of being snug in that type of surrounding.”
Bonnyrigg sit fifth in League Two with three wins from seven video games, whereas Accies are eighth within the Championship with one win from seven and Rankin expectes a very good check.
He added: “I do know Bonnyrigg from earlier seasons. I used to take groups via there to play pre-season video games.
“I do know their supervisor Robbie Horn effectively from borrowing mortgage gamers down the years and it's a nice set-up there.
“They run the membership rather well and when the choice got here up we had been all delighted as a result of will probably be useful for each golf equipment.”
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