Joe proud to lead Scarboro’

Scarborough RUFC’s Joe Marshall has shared his pride at leading the team out against local rivals Malton & Norton at Silver Royd on Saturday.

Describing the moment that he found out he would be captain, Marshall spoke of his pride and joy at coach Matty Jones asking him to lead the team out and how proud his late dad, Keith, would have been of him being named as first-team captain, writes Charlie Hopper.

He added: “Obviously I’d rather have Drew (Govier) playing for his work rate, but for myself it’s massive pride especially having played at the club since I was four years old, to captain the first team meant a lot.

“Jonesy gave me the nod on Thursday night when we found out that Drew wasn’t fit for the Malton match and I was just really happy to take on the role.

“I’m sure my dad would have been proud of me, he put so much into this club, so I guess that one was for the both of us.”

The winger took the opportunity in place of the injured Drew Govier, but his first match as captain didn’t end as he would have imagined as the hosts lost out by a 17-5 margin.

He said: “It wasn’t a great day at the office, we just left too much out there on the pitch.

“Our discipline cost us again and the weather didn’t really help which meant we dropped a lot of balls, and our skills weren’t up to standards.

“We had a really good week, Tuesday was a bit of a lighter session, Thursday was a normal session, warm-up was good before the game but it just didn’t click for us.”