Position: Forward

Date of birth: 19/10/2002

Heritage number: 1187

Previous club: Latchford Giants

Representative honours: Lancashire Academy, Wales under-16s, Wales

Warrington debut: vs Leeds Rhinos (A), substitute, lost 24-18 on 19/08/22

Profile

Crewe-born Luke Thomas is a promising young forward who was capped by Wales before he made his Warrington debut.

As a youngster, he played for Sandbach RUFC and Warrington RUFC.

He played for the Latchford Giants community club, captaining teams from under-12s to under-16s, before joining Warrington’s scholarship programme.

He was the Warrington’s under-16s Man of Steel in 2019.

He made his Wales debut, aged 19, as a substitute against France in Albi in June 2022. France won 34-10.

He made his Warrington debut at Leeds in August 2022 and scored his first try for the club at Salford in the last game of that season.

He has had loan spells with Rochdale Hornets (2022), Swinton Lions (2023) and Hull KR (2023).

He was called into the Wales squad for the 2021 Rugby League World Cup as a replacement for the injured Ben Evans.