Ross Ford out of Scotland's autumn Tests as three Edinburgh players called up
Monday 6 November 2017 11:19, UK
Scotland and Edinburgh hooker Ross Ford has been ruled out for four months with a pectoral injury.
Ford was hurt in training last week and a scan at Spire Murrayfield Hospital revealed the 33-year-old will need surgery that will rule him out until the run-up to the Six Nations.
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Uncapped Edinburgh team-mate Neil Cochrane has been added to Scotland coach Gregor Townsend's squad as a replacement for Ford.
Cochrane is one of three Edinburgh players called up on Monday, joining club-mates Magnus Bradbury and Rory Sutherland in training with the national squad at Oriam.
Back-row Bradbury was recently stripped of the Edinburgh captaincy after an incident during a night out, but he is now back in PRO14 action and looking to add to his pair of caps.
Prop Sutherland earned his first international cap in last year's Six Nations and then played twice more during the summer tour of Japan.
Scotland take on Samoa on Saturday at Murrayfield to open their autumn Test campaign and then welcome New Zealand and Australia on November 18 and 25 respectively.
