BRIAN RICE believes Hamilton deserved more than a point from their Premiership clash with Rangers after giving their survival hopes a timely boost on Sunday.
Accies produced a bold showing to take the game to Steven Gerrard's side and got their rewards in the final seconds as Ross Callachan bundled home a dramatic equaliser at the FOYS Stadium.
A Brian Easton own goal looked to have denied Accies a share of the spoils but Rice was delighted with the performance from his bottom of the table side.
Rice said: "From my point of view and my team’s point of view, I think a point is the least that we deserved for our bravery, the way we played and for the commitment the boys showed. I think a point is the least they deserved.
"It just shows you the spirit that we have got here and the belief that we have got that we didn’t let the heads go down. To go to the 94th minute against Rangers and get that equaliser says a lot for the lads. As I say, I think it was thoroughly deserved.
"You get that feeling sometimes [that it won’t be your day] when you are at the sidelines but I had a belief in them. At half time I told them they were being so brave but that you don’t get anything for half-times.
"If we lost a goal, we had to go again. I don’t want us to ever, ever give up and I don’t want to see us feeling sorry for ourselves. I am shouting that, telling them to keep going and Ross Callachan, he missed a really good chance at 0-0, but he is in there.
"I said to him to keep getting in, keep getting in. It doesn’t matter when it is, something will fall for you and it happened. But I am proud of the boys. I thought it was a really top class performance."
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