The midfielder is back with the squad and currently in the USA for the team’s Florida Cup trip and told RangersTV he wants to regain the form he had early on in his Rangers career.
Halliday played 48 times in the Gers 2015/16 Championship winning season, scoring 10 goals and is determined to battle for his spot in Murty’s team.
Speaking to RangersTV he said: “First things first I am just happy to be back and back in amongst the squad. It has been an enjoyable couple of days so far and I just want to look ahead to this week – those are my short term goals.
“I am just happy to be back playing for Rangers and if I can find my way back into the team. It is all up to me, it is important I train well, get fit and see where we go from there.
“I have spoken to him (Graeme Murty) quite a bit, we have always had a great relationship and I have been texting him back and forth and I wished him all the best when he got the interim job and then when he got the job.
“Under the previous manager there was just no chance, I would never have had a future at Rangers Football Club.
“I am very thankful and I suppose it is a second chance and it a good chance to try and make a name for myself and get the form that I had that I sort of had at the start of my Rangers career.
“I don’t want to put too much onus on myself but I would like to get into the team, I would like to score goals and I would like us to win games and we’ll see where we go from there.
“You have to have competition at a club of this stature; I say it every time you need to thrive on the expectations and the pressure of being at this football club.
Despite being over 3000 miles away from Glasgow Halliday has kept a keen eye on Ibrox and know the Light Blues must find some consistency in the second-half of the season.
He continued: “The frustrating thing is watching and Rangers just not winning games, it was not too dissimilar to the year before.
“We have just been too inconsistent; we have had a lot of good performances, a lot of good results but dropped too many points when we shouldn’t have.
“We have a chance to do that second-half of this season and if you get wins then the table takes care of itself but until you put a run together you can’t get into any sort of race.
“When you look at the performance at Parkhead I think it will give a bit of spirit, our top level is high but our bottom level is far too low.”