Jim Thompson (rugby player)

Jim Thompson

Jim Thompson (r) with Scotland 7s and Heriot's team mate Chris Fusaro at the 2008 Edinburgh 7s
Birth name	James Gordon Thompson
Date of birth	(1984-11-05) 5 November 1984 (age 33)
Place of birth	Catterick, North Yorkshire, England
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight	14 st 4 lb (91 kg)
School	Stewart's Melville College Dollar Academy
University	Napier University
Notable relative(s)	Derek Thompson Rory Lawson Alan Lawson Bill McLaren
Rugby union career
Position(s) Fullback Amateur team(s) Years Team Apps (Points) 2003–2007 Heriot's () Senior career Years Team Apps (Points) 2007-2012 2012- Edinburgh Rugby London Scottish 61 51 (35) (30) National team(s) Years Team Apps (Points) 2008 2007 Scotland A Scotland Club XV 12 (5) (0) National sevens team(s) Years Team Comps 2007–2013 Scotland IRB Series RWC 7s FIRA-AER 7s Series Melrose Sevens

Jim Thompson (born 5 November 1984 in Catterick, North Yorkshire, England) is a Scottish rugby union player. He currently works at King's Ely School in Cambridgeshire as Head of Rugby, Athletics and General Sprt.

Jim is the son of At The Races and Radio Five Live presenter Derek Thompson and the grandson of the 'Voice of Rugby' Bill McLaren. His cousin Rory Lawson and uncle Alan Lawson were Scotland international Scrum-halves with Rory having also played for Edinburgh Rugby albeit before Thompson joined the club. His cousin Gregor Lawson also played rugby for London Scottish, Heriot's and Scotland 7s and is one of the founders and owners of Morphsuits.

He went to school at Stewart's Melville College in Edinburgh and Dollar Academy in Clackmannanshire before graduating with a degree in Sport and Exercise Science from Napier University.

Thompson was a member of Scottish Rugby's Senior National Academy.

Thompson played his first match for Edinburgh Rugby while an academy player as a replacement against Leinster in the opening fixture of the 2007–08 Celtic League season. He signed a professional contract with Edinburgh in May 2008.

He joined Scottish Premier One side Heriot's in 2003 and was in the side who reached the final of the 2006 Melrose Sevens tournament. A tournament he would subsequently go on to win as part of the Scottish Thistles select side, formed of Scottish international sevens players, in the 125th Melrose Sevens in 2008.