Ross Thompson (rugby union)

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Ross Thompson
Birth nameRoss Thompson
Date of birth (1999-04-10) 10 April 1999 (age 22)
Place of birthEdinburgh, 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) Stand Off
Amateur team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
2017-19 Glasgow Hawks 24 (42)
Senior career
Years Team Apps (Points)
2021– Glasgow Warriors 25 (192)
Correct as of 22 January 2022
Super Rugby
Years Team Apps (Points)
2019-20 Ayrshire Bulls (61)
National team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
2018–19 Scotland U20 20 (76)
2021- Scotland 1 (4)

Ross Thompson (born 10 April 1999)[1] is a Scotland international rugby union player. He plays for Glasgow Warriors in the Pro14. Thompson's primary position is stand-off.

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[]

He 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 was named in the Glasgow Warriors academy for the 2020–21 season.[7] He made his debut for Glasgow Warriors in Round 10 of the 2020–21 Pro14 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 graduated from the academy, signing a professional deal with the Warriors in February 2021.[10] He became the third fastest player to reach 100 points for the Warriors, with a conversion in the Rainbow Cup 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.)[11] 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.[12] He won Young Player of the Season for the 2020-21 season in the annual Glasgow Warriors awards;[13] and then was later announced to also win the Player of the Season award too,[14] beoming 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.[15] In June 2021 he was called up to the Scotland squad for the Summer internationals.[16]

He made his Scotland debut against Tonga on 30 October 2021. Scotland won the match 60 - 14, Thompson scoring 2 conversions.[17]

Family[]

His 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]

External links[]

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. ^ "FOSROC Scottish Rugby Academy to align with Scotland's professional teams". Scotland Rugby. 30 June 2020. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  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. ^ "Ross Thompson signs his first professional contract with Glasgow Warriors". www.scotsman.com.
  11. ^ @GlasgowWarriors (4 June 2021). "And with that conversion, @Thompson_Ross10 reaches 100 points for Glasgow Warriors and becomes the fastest player…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  12. ^ "Glasgow Warriors 15-12 Leinster". Glasgow Warriors.
  13. ^ @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.
  14. ^ "Ross Thompson on how he made most of lockdown after being voted Warriors' Player of the Year".
  15. ^ Barnes, David (22 February 2018). "U20 6N preview: Ross Thompson on learning to swim in the deep end". The Offside Line.
  16. ^ "Scotland: Seventeen uncapped players in squad for summer Tests". BBC. 1 June 2021. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  17. ^ https://www.scottishrugby.org/fixtures-and-results/internationals/2021-22/autumn-nations-series-2021/30oct/scotland-v-tonga
  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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