There is an acclimatisation period when you move up a league and Hamilton think they are near the end of their theirs.

Hamilton have finally settled into the SPL according to striker Richard Offiong. He feels the only way is up now that they have moved off the bottom of the league after he scored the only goal in Saturday's win over Kilmarnock. That was the Englishman's third goal in as many games and secured Hamilton's' first league win since September 13, while Offiong's recent scoring run also comes after the 24-year-old endured an 11-game drought. He said: "We've definitely turned a corner - we're new to the league but we've learned a lot and now we can kick on. You get punished for mistakes in this league and we needed to eradicate those, but we seem to be getting rid of those silly mistakes that were costing us earlier on this season. Apart from that, we've been playing football in the right way and we were never far away even when we weren't picking up results; we still weren't adrift at the bottom but we're pleased to get off the bottom of the league. We're delighted to get the three points, and I'm pleased with another goal as it had been starting to play on my mind so I'm glad to get back on the scoring charts; David Graham put a good ball through, I managed to turn and get my shot away and luckily it went in. Things were tense in the closing stages but we were solid at the back, Mark McLaughlin was a rock for us, so I didn't think we were going to concede."

Hamilton head to Ibrox to meet Rangers next week full of confidence after ending their long wait for a win and by the knowledge they opened the scoring against both halves of the Old Firm on their respective visits to New Douglas Park this term. Offiong added: "It would have been tough going to Ibrox if we hadn't got a result here; it's always difficult there and nobody expects us to get a result there, but this will give us some confidence. We ran Celtic close a couple of weeks ago and managed to score first against them and Rangers here; it shows that we can score against them but we need to keep them out, which will be difficult as they have some quality players in their side."

Kilmarnock midfielder Willie Gibson admitted he and his teammates were disappointed to leave empty-handed after dominating the first half. The visitors also had to suffer Donovan Simmonds missing a gilt-edged chance and Simon Ford have an injury-time effort saved. The Rugby Park side have won only one of their past seven league games, and Gibson said: "We knew it would be a hard game and we dominated for long periods, so we're disappointed that we came away with nothing. In the past few weeks we've been guilty of starting poorly and then needing to come back into the game; this time we started quite well and had a few chances in the first half, but we were sloppy for 10 or 15 minutes at the start of the second (half) and paid the price for that. It was a hard game and Hamilton had a lot of men behind the ball; the manager was quite happy with the way we played but not with the way we conceded the goal cheaply. We were on top for long periods and can take positives from that, work on things in training this week and take it from there for our game at home to Aberdeen next week. Hopefully, we can start then as well as we did today and it will be us who get the goal and then go on to dominate more. We want to get a win any way we can at the moment and we're still in the mix, so hopefully we can get three points and press on from there."

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