 Thompson signed a new three-year deal at the club on 2 October, with manager Neil Warnock predicting a bright future for the player at the club whilst reiterating the need for Thompson to gain valuable match experience from a loan spell in the lower leagues.On 15 October 2012, Thompson and teammate Dominic Poleon joined League One side Bury in a month-long loan deal.Both youngsters would be working under the newly appointed Bury manager Kevin Blackwell, who had a seventeen-year association with Warnock as player and coach between 1986 and 2003 and had managed Thompson's parent club between 2004 and 2006.