New Town keeper Brian Murphy says he wants to make a first team place his own from the moment he is able to play for the Blues on January 1st. Murphy joins Town for what manager Roy Keane has called a “mini-pre-season” on Tuesday but isn’t eligible to play a match until the transfer window opens and his Bosman switch from Dublin side Bohemians is formalised.
In a lengthy interview with WLRFM in his native Waterford, carried out by reporter Matt Keane, a long-time Town fan, Murphy says he’s out to win a place in the team from the off: "It’s up to me to go over and work hard and to try and impress the manager from the first day, so when it comes to January 1st he’ll be playing me.
"That’s my aim, so it’s going to be a lot of hard work over the next few weeks and six months to try and get my place in the team and progress, otherwise I don’t think I’ll be a happy person.”
Murphy, who was an unused member of the Ireland squad for both the World Cup play-off games with France, says Town are beginning to see the fruits of the work carried out by new manager Roy Keane since the summer: "I think it’s a good time for the club. It probably needed time to change the way of thinking towards the game.
"Roy came in and he had to change the whole outlook of things and I think they are probably seeing the results of that now.”
Murphy, who previously played with Manchester City, Peterborough and Swansea in his earlier spell in England, looks set to make his Town debut in the FA Cup third round tie at Blackpool on January 2nd.