George Thomson was a Scottish rugby union player.
[7] He won a Distinguished Service Cross for his work on Arctic convoys.
Jim Telfer described Thomson as 'the father of (rugby union) coaching in Scotland'.
It was his enthusiasm of developing a professional, cutting edge to rugby coaching that inspired me.
Intriguingly he was fanatical about the development of the ruck as part of the Scottish armoury and, believe it or not, occasionally I had to dampen down his enthusiasm.