Hibernian boss Terry Butcher will ignore the confident noises coming out of the Hamilton camp ahead of the SPFL Premiership play-off final first-leg at New Douglas Park tonight.

The Lanarkshire side go into the crunch double-header on a high following their second-place finish in the Championship and the 2-1 aggregate semi-final win over Falkirk.

Tony Andreu, who scored in Accies' 1-0 second-leg victory over the Bairns on Sunday, said afterwards that he did not fear the Easter Road side while Hamilton player/manager Alex Neil claimed he would not like to be in Butcher's shoes given that his side won only one of their last 18 league games.

However, the Hibs manager said: "They can say what they want and they are certainly doing that. We just get on with our job.

"We have had a lot of criticism this year and rightly so because we haven't played anywhere near the level we can do and we are in a position where we didn't want to be.

"You can talk and say things and Hamilton are coming into this match very confident because they won their last league game by 10 goals [against Morton] and had a great season.

"They are certainly on a high and there is a lot of talk that they have positivity and we have negativity but I don't see negativity in our camp.

"I see only positive signs and good signs and a group of players who are determined to do well and keep us in the Premiership."

Butcher added: "Bad runs and good runs have to come to an end.

"If we keep on playing the way we have been playing and making the chances that we have been making, then we will be fine."