Rising Sun Rory ready for Roos

OVER THE TOP: Gold Coast Suns defender Rory Thompson rolled his ankle in his club's first of two NAB Cup matches on Saturday night. Source: The Courier-Mail

RORY Thompson may yet to have caused much of a ripple outside the Suns, but when he rolled his ankle last Saturday the shudder that went through the coach's box left Guy McKenna nauseous for days.

Thompson, a low-fuss defender, has quietly become one of the Suns' most important players.

He was playing on Hawk star Lance Franklin when he re-injured the same ankle that needed surgery last year, restricting him to five games.

It forced him out of the Suns' second game against the Brisbane Lions but he said yesterday club doctors said he had escaped any serious damage and he hoped to play against the Kangaroos in Townsville on Saturday.

"It was a slight roll, nothing major at all," he said.

"I was just unlucky the way I came down on it and it wasn't worth the risk of going out there for the second game.

"It is the same foot I injured last year but it is on the other side of the ankle, I don't think they are linked."

Thompson has become something of an accidental hero for McKenna.

He played all his junior football as a forward and in the ruck and was picked up as a Queensland zone selection as a project player.

No one back then would have had his name down in the club's first premiership side, but these days he is one of the first players picked.

Thompson was thrown into the back half by reserves coach Shaun Hart midway through the Suns' first season and two weeks later he was playing key defence in the seniors, holding his spot for the remainder of the year.

He went into the Suns' second season as their first-choice defender, with McKenna intending to use vice-captain Nathan Bock in attack.

"When I first went back there I was thinking, 'That's not my go'," he said.

"But I love it back there now, it suits how I play and I'm very happy."

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