Joel Thompson (rugby league)
| Personal information | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Joel Thompson | |||||
| Born | 24 August 1988 Ivanhoe, New South Wales, Australia | |||||
| Height | 190 cm (6 ft 3 in) | |||||
| Weight | 101 kg (15 st 13 lb) | |||||
| Playing information | ||||||
| Position | Second-row, Centre | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 2008–13 | Canberra Raiders | 89 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 112 |
| 2014- | St.George Illawarra | 31 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| Total | 120 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 132 | |
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 2010–13 | Indigenous All Stars | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2011 | Country Origin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Source: RLP | ||||||
Joel Thompson is an Australian professional rugby league footballer with the Canberra Raiders of the NRL. He plays in the second-row and has represented the Australian Schoolboys in 2006 and played for the Junior Kangaroos in 2007.[1]
Thompson was stood down from the Raiders squad on 2 February 2009 pending the outcome of an assault allegation.[2] He returned towards the end of the season and won a starting role.
It was announced in April 2013 that Thompson had signed a contract to join the St. George Illawarra Dragons, starting in 2014.[3]
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