Hamilton boss: Accies legend and Morton gaffer Dougie Imrie will be our enemy as we aim to beat 'best team in the Championship'

Hamilton boss Stuart Taylor insists his side will be facing the best team in the Championship right now when Accies hero Dougie Imrie brings his Morton side to town this weekend.

Imrie has legendary status around New Douglas Park after some 250 appearances and 35 goals for Accies during two spells in the 2010s, not to mention being part of the side that kept the team in the Premiership in 2017 via the play-offs.

The former winger was also part of the coaching staff until a move to Livingston last year.

He then joined Morton in December for his first managerial job and he's taken to it like a duck to water.

Imrie is unbeaten in his first six Championship games, winning four of them and outperforming league leaders Arbroath in the form guide to claim the January manager of the month award.

It represents a huge challenge for seventh-place Accies, who are below Morton on goal difference.

And while Taylor knows players and fans will show their respect for Imrie, he will still be very much the enemy for 90 minutes on Saturday.

Taylor said: "As it stands at this moment in time, Morton are the best team in the league on latest form.

"And that's the way we'll treat it.

"We know it's going to be a really tough game with the form they are on and Dougie has, quite rightly so, got manager of the month and they've done really well.

"I've known him from the time I was here before. Back then Dougie was a give-everything type of player and he was different to anything else we had at the club at the time.

"He was a really committed player, full of hunger, passion and desire and did very well for the club. He turned out to be a great signing and he's taken that hunger, desire and passion into his management career.

"He's enjoying it and it