EVERITT BACKING HIS PATCHED-UP TROOPS

SEAN EVERITT hopes Edinburgh can put their injury crisis behind them to pull off another Italian job.

- BY GRAEME MACPHERSON

The capital club are missing around 20 first-team regulars for this afternoon's clash at Benetton. Everitt (left) has been a coach since 2008 and admits he's never seen anything like it in his career. He said: “If you're a rugby coach you'll work on 15 to 20 per cent of your squad being injured at any given time - obviously not all at once.