AUSSIE teenager Tom Robertson is getting a run out for a local rugby club.

The 13-year-old will line-up this weekend with Moldgreen Junior Amateur Rugby League side.

It comes after the Examiner ran an appeal from his Fartown grandmother, Margaret Robertson, who wanted to help fulfil young Tom’s dream of playing rugby in the UK.

And the Moldgreen side were more than happy to oblige, letting Tom train with them last weekend and giving him the chance to play in a match this Sunday.

Margaret said: “He’s so pleased with it.

“They invited him to training so they could see what he could do and apparently he beat them all at running.

“I’m so pleased he’s got this opportunity and he’s very happy too.”

Rugby-mad Tom wanted to learn more about the birthplace of rugby.

Tom is already captain of his school team and was named the Albury Rugby League Junior Puma player of the year, despite a difficult few months.

Tom’s mother Josie spent four months in hospital following a car crash and suffered a severed artery, broke a collar bone, shattered her right arm, broke a leg and was left with bleeding to the brain.

But family and friends rallied round to take him to games in New South Wales, Australia – some of them more than 100km away.

Tom, sister Zoe, along with dad Iain and mum Josie, have returned to the UK to visit their paternal family.

It’s Tom’s second visit to this country in his 13 years.

Mrs Robertson added: “We’re really pleased Moldgreen have offered Tom the training and the game.

“The manager asked him to train so they could have a look at him and they said ‘no problems’ when he did.

“He went to watch Moldgreen last Sunday so he could see what it was like, and we’re hoping to take him to the Huddersfield Giants tomorrow night too.”

Tom usually plays as forward in the Wagga Wagga group nine competition and has been playing since he was just six-years-old.