Hamilton Accies boss John Rankin 'ignoring other results' after thumping win

Hamilton Accies boss John Rankin watched his side thump Inverness Caley 3-0 this afternoon and insists he’s not looking at the Championship table or other results.

Lucas De Bolle’s first professional goal, Jean-Pierre Tiehi’s fourth strike of the season and a Connor Smith penalty gave the New Douglas Park side a resounding win in the Highlands, that moved them to within a point of ninth-placed Arbroath, who drew 1-1 at Cove Rangers.

That’s with a game in hand, as Inverness travel down to Hamilton on Tuesday, but Rankin says he’s ordered his players to focus solely on what they do.

He said: “I’m not interested in any other team in the league, I’m only interested in us.

“I haven’t even looked at the [Cove v Arbroath] result, and I’m not going to.

“We can only take care of our own business.”

While delighted with the win in Inverness, Rankin says Accies had to weather a storm and goals came at the right times for his side.

De Bolle got Accies off the mark two minutes into the second half, on-loan Fulham striker Tiehi netted with 10 minutes to go, and Hearts loanee Smith fired a penalty into the top corner with three minutes left, after Scott Martin had been tripped inside the box.

Rankin said: “It was 3-0, but it certainly wasn’t that if you were at the game.

“We didn’t start the game too well.

“Inverness hit the post within the first 10 minutes, we were under a good bit of pressure but managed to stay in the game.

“In previous games we would probably have found ourselves down and out the game.

“But this group has a bit of character, there’s a different mentality.

“We dug in and got through the difficult part of the game.

“Our goal came at the right time, and after that Fults [goalkeeper Ryan Fulton] makes an unbelievable