HAMILTON boss Billy Reid has labelled the Kris Boyd and Kenny Miller strike partnership as the best in the Scottish game.

Reid's fast-improving Accies will face Rangers twice in a week in league and cup action and the New Douglas Park gaffer has no doubt about the danger the pairing will pose his team.

But the Accies boss says he will make no special plans to subdue the Light Blues' lethal weapons and will instead concentrate on getting his own game plan right.

Reid said: "As a pairing you have to say that they are the best.

"I mean no disrespect to the likes of Scott McDonald at Celtic, for whom I have the greatest respect, but it is the way Boyd and Miller dovetail so neatly with each other's games that makes them so deadly and, of course, 35 goals don't lie.

"Boyd is the ultimate predator and he has scored six goals against us this season already, so we know all about how lethal he is.

"Miller has scored four times in his last two games and you have to say that his movement and workrate are phenomenal.

"The way he drags defenders all over the place opens up space for Boyd and they are very good at playing round the corner passes to each other that are difficult to intercept.

"So for me there is no doubt they are the best strike partnership in the Scottish game and it is up to us to come up to the mark against them."

However, Reid is bullish about his side's prospects of upsetting the Ibrox form book as Accies go into the double header on the back of an impressive run that has seen them win seven of their last eight games.

The Hamilton boss said: "Even when we were not getting results in the first half of the season we had a belief that they would come.

"The key was that we were playing well without getting the breaks but maybe now we have learned how to help ourselves get the breaks.

"There was also quite a high turnover of playing personnel at the club in January and we believe the guys that have come in like Paul McGowan, Kenny Deuchar and Rocco Quinn have strengthened us in key areas.

"When you combine that with the way that our young boys like James McCarthy, James McArthur and Brian Easton have learned from the pre-Christmas period, that is a large reason for the points that are going on the board now."

Reid, though, admits that his plans for the first clash in the impending two-game sequence have been rocked by an injury to talismanic stopper Mark McLaughlin.

Martin Canning is also struggling after missing last week's clash against Falkirk with a hip injury.

The Accies boss said: "Mark typifies all that is good about us.

"In the final minutes against Falkirk he suffered a nasty head knock putting himself on the line and that has required eight stitches.

"That sums up his commitment to our cause but it also means that he is a doubt for Saturday.

"Having said that, I don't doubt for one minute that the big fellow will put himself forward for the game, that is just the way he is."

Reid added: "We have set ourselves a target of taking points off the Old Firm in the second half of the season and in that regard a home game at New Douglas Park offers us the best opportunity to do so. You can be sure we will have a real go on Saturday."