{"id":5942,"date":"2024-10-23T08:30:40","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T08:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/blair-murray-scarlets-wing-still-in-shock-after-wales-autumn-call-up\/"},"modified":"2024-10-23T08:30:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T08:30:40","slug":"blair-murray-scarlets-wing-still-in-shock-after-wales-autumn-call-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/blair-murray-scarlets-wing-still-in-shock-after-wales-autumn-call-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Blair Murray: Scarlets wing still in shock after Wales autumn call-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Murray now hopes to win a first Test cap as Wales begin against Fiji on Sunday, 10 November at Principality Stadium, before playing Australia (17 November) and South Africa (23 November) in Cardiff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Whether his parents will fly over for those games remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m not sure, they really want to,&#8221; said Murray.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Unfortunately they&#8217;ve already booked flights for a couple of weeks later for when we play Glasgow on 29 November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They were planning on watching one of my Scarlets games but whether or not they can come a bit earlier or not we&#8217;ll see, but hopefully.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Murray was able to celebrate with his Scarlets team-mate and house-mate Taine Plumtree with the back rower also named in the squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s stoked as well,&#8221; said Murray.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You have to be when you get the opportunity to play international rugby. We went out for dinner as a little celebratory dinner and we&#8217;re both chuffed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One thing Murray will have to do if he gets his chance is become familiar with the words of the Welsh national anthem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I haven&#8217;t learned that yet, but I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll be practicing in the shower or something!&#8221; said Murray.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ll definitely have to get on to that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cqjrjg2qq1po\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Murray now hopes to win a first Test cap as Wales begin against Fiji on Sunday, 10 November at Principality Stadium, before playing Australia (17 November) and South Africa (23 November) in Cardiff. Whether his parents will fly over for those games remains to be seen. &#8220;I&#8217;m not sure, they really want to,&#8221; said Murray. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5942","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=5942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5944,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5942\/revisions\/5944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}