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Murph Not Setting a Target - Ipswich Town News

Championship top scorer Daryl Murphy isn’t setting himself an ultimate target for the season having hit his 20th and 21st goals of the campaign as Town beat Fulham 2-1 at Craven Cottage on Saturday.

The Irish international, currently the Championship's top scorer, says he didn’t actually see his 20th goal cross the line, having broken his nose as he clashed with former Blues loanee Ryan Tunnicliffe as he nodded home his seventh headed goal of the season.

"I didn’t even see the first one go in to be honest with you because my eyes were all blurred and watery, but if it takes a broken nose to score every week then I’d take it,” he said

"They had to click it back in to place. That’s why it took so long to get me back on because it wouldn’t stop bleeding. It would take a sledgehammer to keep me off the pitch at the moment though.”

Quizzed on whether he has a target in mind, he added: "I don’t know, I just wanted to get to 20 as soon as possible. I’ve done that now, so I’ll just keep going and get as many as I can.

"I was delighted when that first one went in to get that number 20 out the way, then I get another. I’m still waiting for that hat-trick. Hopefully one of them will come along before the end of the season.

"To finish as the league’s leading scorer would be nice, but I’m not really thinking about that. It’s about the team and where we finish up which is the main thing.”

Murphy’s last hat-trick came back in his Waterford United days, in August 2004 when he went on to hit four goals in a 7-2 FAI Cup victory at home to Kilkenny City.

Meanwhile, striker Noel Hunt says he hopes the knee injury which saw him stretchered off in the closing stages of Saturday’s game isn’t too bad.

Responding to a tweet from his former Reading boss Nigel Adkins, Hunt said: "Thanks for asking about me, hopefully nothing too serious.”

Elsewhere, former Blues skipper David Norris, 33, has joined his local club Peterborough United on a deal to the end of the season, having left Leeds by mutual consent at the end of January.

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