Jonny Vaughan has made the most of a tough situation and took his chance in a Salford Red Devils shirt.
The back-rower/centre joined the Club on a season-long loan from St Helens in late March and has featured in every game since.
Scoring his first try out in Perpignan last month, Vaughan is a popular figure with the Salford faithful for his industrious performances.
Now, with bodies back in the team, the youngster is targeting winning games and pushing the team back up the Betfred Super League table.
Speaking to us before this weekend’s game against Castleford, Vaughan told us: “I think we’re both two teams that are sort of struggling in Super League.
“Two teams that I think will look back on this year and see it as a failure. I think everyone has been a bit sympathetic with Salford’s situation saying: ‘Glad we’re still going’, but it doesn’t change our mindset as a group.
“As a group, we see this season as a failure because we’ve not won anything and we’ve not contested for anything, but I think this week brings a different type of challenge.
“We need to get back off the bottom, we need to go back up in the table and we need to start winning games; now we’ve got bodies back there’s less and less excuses for us to fall back on.”
On his loan move to the Club, he continued: “There wasn’t really a set plan as to where I’d fit into the team (when he joined), it was more of a…
“He (Paul Rowley) brought me into his office and he said: ‘You’re here to write your own chapter, this is your story and you’ve got to write it.
“You’ve got to be part of the story for Salford, but at the end of the day it’s about writing a chapter for yourself this season, go out there and do what you’ve been doing since you were young, and try and pick up anything you can along the way, and enjoy it,” that was the main thing.”
Tap the video above to watch our full interview with Jonny before this Sunday’s trip to Castleford Tigers…
