ATHLETIC skipper Euan Murray admits he is unsure where his future lies after his side saw their top flight dream end on Saturday.

The 27-year-old moved to East End Park from Raith Rovers, who knocked them out of the SPFL Premiership play-off quarter-finals, in the summer of 2019 alongside forward Kevin Nisbet, who joined Hibernian last summer.

Murray penned a two-year deal, which expires at the end of the month, and speculation over his future is likely to intensify.

After scoring seven goals in his first 10 games of this season in all competitions, rumours that the former Motherwell and Stenhousemuir centre back was attracting interest from other clubs began to surface in November.

At the time, he described it as "a bit of noise", emphasising his focus on performing well for Dunfermline, but he said that he will now begin looking at where his future may lie.

Speaking after the Stark's Park defeat, which he admitted was "a sore one", Murray replied to a question on his situation by commenting: "I've not thought about that.

"I've had play-off games and I've said from the very very start that when there was speculation – I think in November – that my sole focus would be on giving everything for this club, and up to this week, it's been the very same.

"I'll sit down with representatives and see what's what."

When asked about how he would reflect on the season, he replied: "An absolute pleasure to play for the club, first and foremost, and other than that, just pride in being the captain of a club with a lot of young, inexperienced lads, and going through a lot through a season where we've not got the situation where we can bond in a dressing room.

"We're sitting in freezing cold stands at Alloa (where the Pars have been training) and it would be easy to sit and sulk about these kind of things, and let it drip into performances, but we didn't.

"We stuck together, we've had a great team, a great team spirit, and the club have been good with me, and I've got to be thankful for that."

Murray felt the missing Pars fans could have made a difference in the tie.

"I'm just gutted they couldn't be here for two good games as well," he said.

"It's been like that for the full season. Whether it would've pushed us on – I feel as if it would've – certainly, I loved playing at East End when it was full.

"We saw it last year. I know it was the first game but Dundee, for my first game coming into that, I was blown away by the support and the fanbase the club have.

"They've been a big miss and, for Fife football, it's been two excellent adverts for it. They'll be devastated, as are we, but there's foundations there and hopefully the club go forward and from strength to strength.

"It's always sore losing any game of football but one where I felt we were the better team over two legs. We knew that we'd had a lot of chances in the first leg that could maybe come back and haunt you but, to be fair, the mentality was good.

"Even today, I still thought we had the best chances in the game and, ultimately, if you don't take them, you get punished.

"We're devastated just now but we'll move on.

"We'll take a lot of credit away for getting the club in this position but they'll need to learn that having that cut-throat side to you in a play-off game like this is the difference because we probably were the better side over the two legs."