{"id":13520,"date":"2025-04-22T17:15:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T17:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/simon-murray-harbours-scotland-hope-but-prioritises-dundee-survival-fight\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T17:15:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T17:15:45","slug":"simon-murray-harbours-scotland-hope-but-prioritises-dundee-survival-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/simon-murray-harbours-scotland-hope-but-prioritises-dundee-survival-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Murray harbours Scotland hope but prioritises Dundee survival fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is obviously something that would be unbelievable but it is not my full focus or my focus at the moment, I am fully focussed on helping Dundee stay in the Premiership and if I do that, and I do my job, then if something like that was to happen then so be it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Scotland have been doing so well, they got to the Euros, they have got top players in the English Premier League and they have had [Kevin] Nisbet and [Lawrence] Shankland, who have been doing really well for season after season so it is a tough squad to get into.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But, at the same time, I know I could probably add something to that but I just need to keep doing what I am doing and whatever takes place takes place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Murray feels the current campaign &#8220;has probably been my best season&#8221; but his scoring form is no flash in the pan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Dundonian scored 23 times for Ross County last term, following a campaign of 21 with the Staggies and Queen&#8217;s Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It took me a wee bit to get going here, there was probably a bit of frustration in the early part of the season for myself in front of goal and I felt I left a few goals out there, but I think since the end of December I have kicked on and shown pretty good consistency,&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I came into full-time football a bit later. I feel like I have applied myself from then but maybe I am starting to get some rewards. In the last three seasons it has been pretty consistent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/ckgev7v1vpxo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is obviously something that would be unbelievable but it is not my full focus or my focus at the moment, I am fully focussed on helping Dundee stay in the Premiership and if I do that, and I do my job, then if something like that was to happen then so be it. &#8220;Scotland [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13522,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13520\/revisions\/13522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}