Ross Thompson (born 10 April 1999) is a

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international

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player. He plays for

Glasgow Warriors Glasgow Warriors are a professional rugby union side from Scotland. The team plays in the United Rugby Championship league and in the European Professional Club Rugby tournaments. In the 2014–15 season they won the Pro12 title and became t ...

in the

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. Thompson's primary position is

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. Thompson has previously played for the Ayrshire Bulls.

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

Thompson played for

Glasgow Hawks Glasgow Hawks is an amateur rugby union team in Glasgow, Scotland. They were Premiership Division One champions for three consecutive seasons from 2003–04 to 2005–06. History In Paris on 27 August 1995 a meeting of the International Rugby ...

. He made 14 appearances for the first team in 2017-18 season scoring 21 pts including 1 try and 10 appearances in 2018-19 season scoring 21 points.

Peter Horne Peter Horne is a rugby union coach. He is currently a Skills Coach for Glasgow Warriors. He previously was Head Coach of the Ayrshire Bulls. As a player he was a Scotland international rugby union player; and at club level he previously played ...

coached him at the club:

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. He scored 61 points for the club in the 2019-20 season, the 3rd highest points scorer in the league that season. Thompson Signed for Glasgow Warriors do the 2021-22 season for £3.2 million (The highest fee for an under 23 player in Scottish rugby history). He made his debut for Glasgow Warriors in Round 10 of the 2021–22 URC against coming on as a replacement on 2 January 2021. He became Glasgow Warrior No. 319. He won man of the match in his first start for the club. He became the third fastest player to reach 100 points for the Warriors, with a conversion in the URC match against

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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.

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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.) 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. He won Young Player of the Season for the 2021-22 season in the annual Glasgow Warriors awards; and then was later announced to also win the Player of the Season award too, 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. In June 2021 he was called up to the

squad for the Summer internationals. Thompson made his

debut against

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on 30 October 2021. Scotland won the match 60 - 14, Thompson scoring 2 conversions. He was capped by Scotland 'A' on 25 June 2022 in their match against Chile.

Family

Thompson's grandfather

Eric Thompson Eric Norman Thompson (9 November 1929 – 30 November 1982) was an English actor, scriptwriter and stage director. He is best remembered for creating and performing the English narration for ''The Magic Roundabout'', which he adapted from ...

represented Scotland at cricket; his uncle Graeme Thompson represented Scotland at rugby league; and his cousin

Kirsty Gilmour Kirsty Gilmour (born 21 September 1993) is a Scottish badminton player who has represented both Scotland and Great Britain. Career Gilmour won the silver medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, losing out to Michelle Li of Canada in the fina ...

is a Commonwealth Games medalist for Scotland in Badminton.

References

External links

itsrugby.co.uk Profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Thompson, Ross 1999 births Living people Glasgow Warriors players Rugby union fly-halves Ayr RFC players Glasgow Hawks players Scottish rugby union players Scotland international rugby union players Rugby union players from Edinburgh Scotland 'A' international rugby union players