Hawick’s Rory Sutherland ruled out of Scotland national rugby team’s test v Argentina by concussion protocols
Hawick’s Rory Sutherland has been ruled out of contention to play for Scotland’s national rugby team against Argentina this coming Sunday by a head injury sustained during Saturday gone’s 25-17 defeat hosting New Zealand.
The Glasgow Warriors loosehead prop was brought on as a replacement for Pierre Schoeman 55 minutes into that game but forced to go off for a head-injury assessment 13 minutes later, with the Scots’ starting No 1 returning to the pitch.
A pitch-side inspection cleared the 45-times-capped 33-year-old to go back on with two minutes left to play but subsequent checks have led to him being released from head coach Gregor Townsend’s squad, though he’s in with a chance of returning after 12 days out if given the thumbs-up by medics.
Fellow prop Murphy Walker has also been dropped from the squad and winger Arron Reed has been ruled out of this autumn’s remaining tests by a quad injury.
Former Melrose player Jamie Bhatti and fellow prop Will Hurd have been called up to replace Sutherland and Walker, 26.
Sutherland’s departure due to concussion protocols, following on from Harri Morris’s release after Scotland’s opening 85-0 test series win against the USA at Edinburgh’s Murrayfield Stadium at the start of the month, leaves winger Darcy Graham and hooker Patrick Harrison as the only Borderers in ex-Gala back Townsend’s 41-strong squad for the time being.
The Scots are now halfway through their four-match test series, with games against the Pumas this Sunday and Tonga seven days later to go, both at Murrayfield, with kick-offs at 3.10pm and 1.40pm respectively.
Townsend, 52, is due to name his match-day squad to face Argentina on Sunday this Friday.
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