Green Room

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Pre-season Training

Time/Location: 6.00pm Empire Park (all welcome!).

Pre-season training commences on Wednesday 14th December, 2011 and will be again conducted on Wednesday 21st December, 2011 before breaking for Christmas.

Training will recommence on Monday 23rd January, 2012 and will be held twice weekly (Mondays and Wednesdays) until touch football ceases whereupon training will revert to Tuesdays and Thursdays.

If you have any questions or need further info, contact us.

Merewether Carlton will be holding their Annual General Meeting on the 26th October 2011 at the Green Room, Townson Oval, Merewether at 6.00pm
 
Nomination Forms for Office Bearers are available below and close with the Secretary on 19th October, 2011.
 
D. Neader
President
Merewether Carlton Rugby Club
PO Box 3103
Merewether   2291

Merewether Carlton Rugby Club presentation night is on again!

Date: Friday, 7th October, 2011

Venue: Merewether Bowling Club

Time: 6.30pm for a 7.00pm start

Tickets: $60.00pp includes meal and bear/wine

Payment: Please use the following details to make payments to Merewether Carlton Rugby Club:

Type: Direct Debit

BSB: 650 000

Account: 9703 55101

For more information please contact info@merewethercarlton.com.au

NHRU and All Sports Radio are providing a 'live' audio stream webcast of the 2011 Premier Division Finals Series and the First and Second Division Grand Final Day.

The NHRU Grand Final Day is set for Saturday 17 September and the All Sports Radio commentary team will be on the sidelines at Newcastle’s No 1 Sportsground right from the start of the day’s play – the Premier 3 Division Grand Final.

The first of the Grand Finals begins at 10:45am and you will be able to hear the exclusive live audio stream webcast of all four (4) Grand Final matches, culminating with the Premier 1 Division Grand Final from 3:00pm.

It’s a marathon day of top class rugby union action and a marathon day of live audio stream webcasting. The webcast will include descriptions of play and live interviews with players, coaches and officials.

Further details and streaming are available on the All Sports Radio website: http://www.allsportsradio.com.au

 Final results for 2011 round games are attached which includes four out of six minor premiership & our seventh straight Club Championship. Premier 1, Premier 2 and Premier Colts were all undefeated during round games.

 
Merewether Carlton's undefeated 1st grade record in 2011 matches the efforts of only four greens teams in our 80+ year history:
 
1932 undefeated (one draw) in regular season, lost one semi-final & won the grand final.
1938 minor & major undefeated.
1939 minor & major undefeated (three draws).
1946 undefeated in regular season & lost grand final. 
 
Thanks to our club historian Steve Slicer" Frost for the record search.

 The greens will be hosting their presidents lunch on Friday the 26th of August 2011 from 12:30pm at the Burword Inn with guest speeker Peter Fenton. Peter's CV includes a large number of achievemnts such as:

Chief sound mixer 150 Australian feature films.

 
Credits includes Newsfront, Caddie, Sunday Too Far Away, Picnic At Hanging Rock, My Brilliant Career, The Devil’s Playground, Gallipoli, Phar Lap, The Russia House, Six Degrees Of Separation and Paradise Road.
 
Wrote/ co-produced two documentary films on Wallaby tours. The Running Game featured the long tour of British Isles and Ireland in 1981. The African Campaign featured the four match tour of South Africa in 1992.
 
Wrote and presented one hour documentary on boxer Les Darcy for ABC, 1998
 
Has written 7 books on Australian sport.
 
The Legend Of The fighting Man, a biography on Australia’s most famous boxer Les Darcy who died in Memphis Tennessee aged 21 in 1917.
 
For The sake Of The Game tells the story of the 1927/28 Waratahs rugby tour of the British Isles, Ireland and France which virtually saved the game in Australia.
 
Riding On Courage (2000) is a biography on Jockey Wayne Harris, a Melbourne Cup and Golden slipper Stakes winner despite enormous health problems. 
 
They Called Him Boy is the biography of Andrew “Boy” Charlton who became Australia’s first Olympic 1500 metres champion as a 16 year old in Paris in 1924.
 
Olive is the biography of a teenage, North Queensland WW2 Nurse.
 
Also three books of sporting poetry.
 
Rugby Coaching career. 20 years first grade and representative rugby
 
Parramatta 1st XV, 1977-81. Coached them to initial 1st grade premiership 1977.
 
Sydney Representative Team 1982-85. Teams included the Ella Brothers, Michael Hawker, Simon Poidevin and Nick Farr Jones.
 
Eastwood 1st XV/ club coach 1986-1991
Penrith 1st XV 1997/club coach 1997-2001
Awarded Australian Sports Medal  2000 for service to Rugby.  

Bank Details for Merewether Carlton Rugby Club

for all events and functions

 Referees are an important part of any sport, without them we would have confusion on the field and player’s safety and enjoyment would be severely jeopardised and diminished. That is why it is important that referees are always treated with respect and never abused.

 
Nationwide surveys of match officials have shown that abuse of referees is the single biggest factor that dissuades people from becoming a referee and is also the biggest cause of referees leaving the sport after their first season.
 
A survey in late 2010 of the NSW Rugby Referee Department highlighted that the single biggest negative message was abuse of referees, both during and after matches by members of the crowd and unfortunately coaching staff.
 
The abuse ranged from verbal to physical and in some cases even assault. This is not acceptable – it is ugly, unnecessary and has no place in Rugby Union or any other sport.
 
Everybody involved in the game has a responsibility to help stamp out the abuse of referees, from those on the sideline watching to the head of the Union, it is up to YOU to give referee abuse the Red Card!
 
Australian Rugby Union’s Code of Conduct stipulates that abuse of match officials is not acceptable and anyone who chooses to verbally or physically abuse a match official is breaching that code of conduct.
 
Zones, School Convenors, Unions and Clubs must take action against:

• team coaching staff that abuse or incite abuse of referees both during and after matches,
• players that abuse or incite abuse of referees both during and after matches; and
• abusive spectators who can be identified.

Ground Managers and Club Officials must also be responsive to protecting referees from abuse and must actively dissuade spectators who are in any way abusive.
 
To ensure a strong message is sent to those who do abuse match officials judiciaries should deal with abuse, when it is proven, in accordance with the IRB scales of punishment for abuse of match officials.
 
If clubs fail to take action against those who abuse referees then Referee Associations are encouraged to withdraw services to that club.
 
Referee abuse is ugly, it is unnecessary, it reflects poorly on the individual, the team and the game as a whole. Referee abuse does not help to grow the game from a grassroots level and we all have a responsibility to see that it is given a Red Card! We want everyone to enjoy their Rugby, thank you for your support.

Friday 29 July - Dixon Park Surf Club from 5 pm - no food [beer & bullshit only]
Saturday 30 July at the Greenroom - games against Hamilton

Please see Steve Gill if you would like any more information.

Also any old boys who aren’t sure if we have their contact details can send name,address,email and phone to mcoldboys@gmail.com and we will add them onto our contact list.