Ross Thompson (rugby union)

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Ross Thompson
Birth nameRoss Eric Thompson
Date of birth (1999-04-10) 10 April 1999 (age 23)
Place of birth Edinburgh, Scotland
Height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight86 kg (13 st 8 lb)
Notable relative(s) Eric Thompson, grandfather
Kirsty Gilmour, cousin
Rugby union career
Position(s) Fly-half / Fullback
Amateur team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
2017–2019 Glasgow Hawks 24 (42)
Senior career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
2021– Glasgow Warriors 38 (260)
Correct as of 24 October 2022
Super Rugby
YearsTeamApps(Points)
2019–2021 Ayrshire Bulls 29 (83)
National team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
2018–2019 Scotland U20 20 (76)
2021– Scotland 3 (8)
2022 Scotland 'A' 1 (8)
Correct as of 18 July 2022

Ross Thompson (born 10 April 1999) [1] is a Scotland international rugby union player. He plays for Glasgow Warriors in the United Rugby Championship. Thompson's primary position is Flyhalf. Thompson has previously played for the Ayrshire Bulls.

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Rugby Union career

Amateur career

Thompson played for Glasgow Hawks. He made 14 appearances for the first team in 2017-18 season scoring 21 pts including 1 try [2] and 10 appearances in 2018-19 season scoring 21 points. [3] Peter Horne coached him at the club: [4]

When he came out of school, I coached him at Glasgow Hawks for a year, and I couldn’t believe how far ahead he was of where I would have been at his age. He had such a polished kicking game, he had a really nice passing game, and he was pretty studious – anything you asked him to do, he’d go away and learn it and come back – so he was just a good all-round player.

Professional career

Thompson was signed by the Ayrshire Bulls to play in the Super 6 league in 2019. [5] He scored 61 points for the club in the 2019-20 season, the 3rd highest points scorer in the league that season. [6]

Thompson signed for Glasgow Warriors in 2021. [7] He made his debut for Glasgow Warriors in Round 10 of the 2021–22 URC against Edinburgh coming on as a replacement on 2 January 2021. [8] He became Glasgow Warrior No. 319. He won man of the match in his first start for the club. [9] He became the third fastest player to reach 100 points for the Warriors, with a conversion in the URC match against Leinster on 4 June 2021, 153 days after his competitive debut. (Tommy Hayes with a competitive debut on 8 September 1997 secured his 100 points on 24 October 1997. This was only 77 days. Dan Parks with a competitive debut on 19 September 2003 secured his 100 points on 16 January 2004, totalling 119 days. Thompson is one of only 4 Warriors in history to break the 100 points milestone in their debut season for the club, the other being Calvin Howarth who reached that total in 189 days.) [10] He would go on to add to this in the match with a penalty that secured the win over the Irish provincial Leinster side, with Glasgow winning 15-12. [11] He won Young Player of the Season for the 2021-22 season in the annual Glasgow Warriors awards; [12] and then was later announced to also win the Player of the Season award too, [13] becoming the second player to win both the Young Player and Player of the Season award in the same season; George Horne pulling off the same feat in the 2017-18 season.

International career

Thompson has been capped by Scotland U20. [14] In June 2021 he was called up to the Scotland squad for the Summer internationals. [15]

Thompson made his Scotland debut against Tonga on 30 October 2021. Scotland won the match 60 - 14, Thompson scoring 2 conversions. [16]

He was capped by Scotland 'A' on 25 June 2022 in their match against Chile. [17]

Family

Thompson's grandfather Eric Thompson represented Scotland at cricket; his uncle Graeme Thompson represented Scotland at rugby league; and his cousin Kirsty Gilmour is a Commonwealth Games medalist for Scotland in Badminton. [18] [19]

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References

  1. ↑ "Ross Thompson". Ultimaterugby.com. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
  2. ↑ "StackPath". www.glasgowhawks.com.
  3. ↑ "StackPath". www.glasgowhawks.com.
  4. ↑ "Pete Horne details the development of Glasgow Warriors' Ross Thompson". HeraldScotland.
  5. ↑ Harper, Gavin (26 September 2019). "Thompson among latest Ayrshire Bulls recruits".
  6. ↑ "Ross Thompson Signs Professional Contract With Glasgow Warriors". 4 February 2021.
  7. ↑ "Ross Thompson signs his first professional contract with Glasgow Warriors". www.scotsman.com.
  8. ↑ "1872 Cup: Edinburgh claim late win over Glasgow Warriors at Murrayfield". BBC Sport. 2 January 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  9. ↑ "Ross Thompson wins man of the match on his first start for Glasgow Warriors". www.scotsman.com.
  10. ↑ @GlasgowWarriors (4 June 2021). "And with that conversion, @Thompson_Ross10 reaches 100 points for Glasgow Warriors and becomes the fastest player…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  11. ↑ "Glasgow Warriors 15-12 Leinster". Glasgow Warriors.
  12. ↑ @GlasgowWarriors (7 June 2021). "Time to announce our first award winner of the week, and it's a hotly-contested one - it's the @LandRoverRugby Youn…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  13. ↑ "Ross Thompson on how he made most of lockdown after being voted Warriors' Player of the Year".
  14. ↑ Barnes, David (22 February 2018). "U20 6N preview: Ross Thompson on learning to swim in the deep end". The Offside Line.
  15. ↑ "Scotland: Seventeen uncapped players in squad for summer Tests". BBC. 1 June 2021. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  16. ↑ "Scotland v Tonga".
  17. ↑ "Chile v Scotland A".
  18. ↑ "School's Pride as Ross Thompson Shines on the Rugby Field". ESMS. 21 January 2021.
  19. ↑ "Glasgow Warriors | Ross Thompson". www.glasgowwarriors.com.
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