Edinburgh double blow as Matt Scott and Mark Bennett are ruled out

Edinburgh's Matt Scott suffered a head knock against Connacht. Picture: SNS

Edinburgh have suffered a double injury blow with the news that Matt Scott and Mark Bennett have both succumbed to familiar problems.

The former is out with another head injury and the latter a hamstring complaint.

“I don’t think it’s going to be anything major,” said Edinburgh defence coach Calum MacRae ahead of Friday night’s Pro14 visit of Cardiff Blues to the Conference B table toppers at BT

Murrayfield.

“They both picked up knocks last week, Matt’s is a head knock and that is something we want to make sure he is looked after appropriately.”

Scott, who has 39 Scotland caps, spent five months out with a serious concussion problem in the 2018-19 season.

“Mark Bennett picked up a bit of a niggle during the [Connacht] game to his hamstring. It’s just one of those situations,” added MacRae.

Bennett, who has 22 Scotland caps and won an Olympic silver medal with the Great Britain sevens side as they lost to Fiji at Rio 2016, lost most of last season due to a ruptured hamstring sustained in September 2018.

“I’m not a medic but we trust those guys to do their job in that department,” said MacRae. “Every injury is taken on an individual basis so I’m not looking at them in the broader sense.

Ultimately they are down at the moment but I am sure they’ll be back in contention for selection pretty soon.

“Again it is a case of those other guys stepping up. We haven’t got major concerns with Mark and Matt being out this week, we back the other guys to come in and get the

job done.”