JIMMY Lowes paid tribute to Danny Addy after the homegrown star helped to orchestrate a stunning 41-10 victory over Salford Red Devils.

The Scotland international was instrumental throughout and claimed a 16-point haul which included a brilliantly-worked second-half try (pictured) and six goals.

It was the first time a Championship club had defeated a Super League opponent in the qualifiers and it came at the eighth attempt.

Addy played stand-off and controlled the game in the absence of injured playmaker Lee Gaskell and Harry Siejka, who was due to start only to succumb to injury in training on Saturday.

“We’ve played all year without two recognised half-backs together,” said Lowes. But the one consistent has been Danny Addy and I don’t think he gets the recognition he deserves from media but the fans as well.

“He can slot in and do a fantastic job. He is an outstanding rugby player and I’m really pleased he got the man of the match. It was fully deserved.”

Bradford were 17-4 up at half-time and then pulled clear after the break with Adrian Purtell, Dale Ferguson, James Clare and Danny Williams all scoring tries to banish memories from their thumping loss at Wakefield.

Jake Mullaney, who played half-back alongside Addy but went off early in the second half with a tight calf, took to Twitter to apologise after celebrating his first try in front of the Salford fans.

Lowes said: “He’s a little rat up a drainpipe is Jake; he’s got some play in him.

“Unfortunately he’s been dogged by injuries this year and that’s something we’ll look at in coming months and pre-season to fix him and make sure it doesn’t happen in the future.

“But even at 80 per cent he’s a threat. We performed really well today. I believe in this bunch of players and when we perform like that we have some rugby in us.

“I was unhappy with the first 25 minutes at Wakefield last week but we put that to bed last Sunday. We’ll put this to bed tomorrow and move on to the next game.”

Salford acting-head coach Ian Watson says his side were guilty of “falling in loves with themselves” after winning their opening couple of qualifiers against Wakefield and Leigh.

“It was embarrassing from us,” he said, their only tries coming from Rangi Chase and Iain Thornley.

Salford could be in trouble with the Rugby Football League after a number of flares were set off by their fans in the second half at Odsal.

Red Devils owner Marwan Koukash was believed to have entered the visiting dressing room at half-time before leaving the game long before the final hooter.