One young rugby league fan got the surprise of his life after wandering onto the field in the middle of a charity game.

The four-year-old had wandered away from his mother who was filming the game and turned up on the try-line for the New South Wales team in a Legends of League match in Toowoomba.

In a video sent in to the Footy Show, the NSW players give the youngster the ball and he manages to go the distance, stepping the likes of Petero Civoniceva and Shaun Berrigan.

But then, drama as the child begins to tire, it doesn't look like he's going to make it to the tryline until Queensland's Robbie O'Davis picks his opponent up and takes him over the line for the try.

With a decent effort from the conversion, the kid's moment in the spotlight is over, but the legend will live on in video.

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