Ben Banks reacts from Fir Park after Hearts dropped into the bottom six with a draw at Motherwell.
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00:00We're here at Firth Park in the aftermath of Motherwell 0-Harch 0, a drab affair as both sides miss out on the top 6, both came into the game with hopes of finishing in the top half and as the game kind of served up and kind of showed neither team really took their chances to get into the top 6 and to be honest on the basis of that 90 minutes I don't think any side can grumble about missing out on it.
00:24It was a game of very few chances, Mullow had a couple in the first half through Callum Slattery and Tony Watt, Harch had the biggest of them when Sander Carton was afforded an opportunity off a Mullow mistake but the game overall was extremely scrappy, very limited quality.
00:39Lawrence Shanklin missed the biggest of the chances in the second half, one in particular where he was rolled through in goal and the ball agonisingly rolled wide in painful fashion.
00:47Dan Casey missed a header up the other end as Craig Gordon came for the ball and didn't get it and it leaves both clubs in the bottom 6 and they will meet again before the end of May.
00:58For Motherwell it leaves them with somewhat looking over their shoulder, they are 5 points clear of Dundee in 11th but it won't take much if they don't pick up points quickly in the bottom 6 fixtures to then start sliding back into the relegation playoff mix.
01:12For Harch, their hopes of European football are over via the league format this season but they can still hold on to those hopes in the Scottish Cup.
01:20They face Aberdeen in the semi-finals next week where really their season hinges on that.
01:25Harch will have ambitions of finishing third on the table, not finishing in the bottom half which will bear much frustration to the fans as they showed it full time.
01:33So it's a massive game if it wasn't already for the Jambos away to Hamden next week and they will look to get maximum points out of the bottom 6 fixtures and ensure themselves they don't get dragged into that mix which really would be quite unconceivable at the start of the season.