Bench press: Murray eager for starting role

Despite failing to squeeze his way into a stacked starting pack, he is content with becoming arguably the best bench player in the Telstra Premiership.Murray came up with the play of the game in his team's heart-stopping 13-12 semi-final win over the Dragons on Saturday night, pulling off a one-on-one strip on Leeson Ah Mau with three and a half minutes remaining and his team trailing by a point to set the scene for Adam Reynolds's matchi-winning field goal moments later."The opportunity presented itself and I was in a good position," Murray shrugged when quizzed on the clutch play after the game."I just tried my
best, luckily it came off and probably put the team in a good position to equal the score. I trust Renno to get the job done and he did it. It was pretty clutch by him."I knew that we needed a big play and we were down by one and we needed something to change momentum. The opportunity presented itself and luckily we were able to close out the game."Despite his superb efforts off the bench through much of the second half of the season and particularly the past three weeks (he was close to the team's best in a huge 51-10 round 25 win over Wests Tigers and again, with the go-ahead try late in an eventual 29-28 qualifying loss to the Storm last week), Murray still wants to prove himself as a starter."One of my goals this year was to be in the starting 13," Murray said.