Ray Thompson (rugby league)

Ray Thompson

Personal information
Full name	Raymond Thompson
Born	(1990-01-20) 20 January 1990 (age 28) Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Height	175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	85 kg (13 st 5 lb)
Playing information
Position	Halfback, Five-eighth, Hooker
Club Years Team Pld T G FG P 2009–17 North Queensland 111 14 0 0 56 Representative Years Team Pld T G FG P 2011–15 Papua New Guinea 4 1 0 0 4 2015 Indigenous All Stars 1 0 0 0 0
As of 3 October 2017 Source:

Ray Thompson (born 20 January 1990) is a Papua New Guineainternational rugby league footballer. He is a Indigenous All Stars representative and spent his entire professional career with the North Queensland Cowboys. He primarily played as a five-eighth, halfback and hooker.

Born in Cairns, Queensland, Thompson is of Indigenous Australian and Papua New Guinean descent. He played his junior football for Centrals ASA Tigers and attended Kirwan State High School before being signed by the North Queensland Cowboys. In 2007 as a 17-year-old. Thompson played a match for the Cowboys now folded feeder club the North Queensland Young Guns as experience for 2008 when the under 20's competition started. Thompson played 21 matches in the NYC in 2008 where he was one of the club's leading scorers playing at halfback. In the opening round of the 2009 NYC season, Thompson injured his shoulder and required a shoulder reconstruction which kept him out of action until Round 19 of the season. He played another 7 games after coming back from surgery.

In Round 26, Thompson made his NRL debut for the Cowboys against the Sydney Roosters off the interchange bench in a 32-16 win at SFS. It was his sole appearance for the year.

Thompson played in the opening 3 games of the NYC in 2010 until being called into the Cowboys NRL squad as a replacement for the out of form Grant Rovelli. Thompson had been one of the Cowboys best players in Rounds 4-7 before being cruelly hit by another shoulder injury that kept him out for the rest of the season.