Blog - Merewether Carlton Rugby Club

Fundraising Bike Ride

Monday, November 20, 2023

The Merewether Greens Rugby Foundation is excited to announce the inaugural Newcastle to Bathurst Fundraising bike ride event in March 2024. MCRC Welfare and Wellbeing Working Group has implemented a unique program that supports its junior and senior players, coaches and managers to access psychological services and we have ambitions of tackling concussion and injury […]

300 Club Event A Success

Thursday, July 27, 2023

Last Sunday we held our 300 Club event, the first one in a few years and it didn’t disappoint. Our Green Room was the perfect location and the room was full of smiling faces. Up for grabs was $10,000 in cash for 1st prize, $1,000 for 2nd & $500 for 3rd. We got our last 4 ticket […]

AUB JONES SURVIVES CHANGI AND THE THAI BURMA DEATH RAILWAY – BUT AT A COST

Thursday, April 20, 2023

Aub Jones was blessed with speed. Not only did he terrorise defences when he helped Merewether Carlton win six rugby union premierships in the 1930’s but he was just as fleet-footed on the sand and became a noted beach sprinter. As a member of Merewether SLSC, he was standard bearer of the club’s march past […]

JACK CROFT 2/15 Field Regiment

Thursday, April 13, 2023

Jack Croft is a Merewether Carlton “original” having played in the Club’s very first game on 5th July 1930 following the then recent amalgamation of the Merewether (previously Cooks Hill Surf Club RUFC) and Carlton Clubs. With a previous history in Rugby League, Jack played Rugby for the Carlton Club in 1928,29 and in the […]

JACK CROFT AND AUB JONES OUR ANZAC HEROS

Thursday, March 30, 2023

JACK, AUB HONOURED ON ANZAC DAY Merewether Carlton will pay tribute to foundation players Jack Croft and Aub Jones at the club’s Anzac Day clash with Wanderers at Townson Oval. Both men served Australia in World War 2 in different units of the Australian Imperial Force. Despite both becoming prisoners of the Japanese following the […]