Marshall – “He’s a shining star for us”

Marshall – “He’s a shining star for us”

by | Apr 12, 2021

Head coach Richard Marshall was delighted with a number of individual performances from his Red Devils side in last Saturday’s comfortable victory over Widnes Vikings in the Betfred Challenge Cup.

ย The dominant 68-4 victory over Widnes booked the Red Devils a place in the Quarter-Finals of the Betfred Challenge Cup, in what was Marshall’s first runout in the competition as the Salford head coach.ย 

ย Theย victory was highlighted by a Man of the Match performance from Jack Ormondroyd, and Morgan Escare and Matt Costello both picking up two tries each on their debuts for Salford.

ย It was a particularly great afternoon for Ormondroyd, who repeatedly broke the Widnes line and looked a constant threat, capping his Man of the Match performance with a try of his own.ย 

ย Speaking on Salford’s number 25, Marshall said: โ€œHeโ€™s one of those unsung heroes within our team. He had a really good, solid game for us, he looked strong in contact,ย but his challenge would be to do that every week.

ย โ€œHeโ€™s probably on the periphery of the first team at our club. Heโ€™s not a young man anymore, if he wants to beย aย Super League player,ย heโ€™s going to have to play week in, week out againstย the best team and packs in theย country.ย 

“Heโ€™s been good over the past couple of weeks so heโ€™s a shining star for us.โ€ย ย 

ย Marshall was also full of praise for Escare and Costello.

ย โ€œTheyโ€™ve obviously been knocking on the doorย theย last couple of weeks,” Marshall added.

“Both new players to our club and both took their opportunities really, really well. I thought defensively, Matt had some reads when challenged and I thought Morgan was everywhereโ€ฆ heโ€™s electric. Theyโ€™ll gainย a lot of confidence.โ€ย 

ย Despite the blowout win, Marshall still acknowledged the effort put in from Widnes, in a contest that began quite evenly matched.

Marshall said:ย โ€œThey had some quality in their troops. I thoughtย their half backs had a good go and challenged us at times. But for ourย guysย we scored some wonderful points.

“Albeitย it was against a Championshipย side, butย youโ€™ve still got to score, make breaks, offload and from that point of view it was really encouraging.โ€ย ย 

Salford travel to Castleford Tigers in the Betfred Challenge Cup Quarter-Final, which will be contested over the first weekend of May.

Image credit: Steve McCormick

Written by: Callum Williams

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