[1] The club trains and plays its home games at Charles Court Reserve located on the banks of the Swan River in Nedlands.

Nedlands RUFC was formed at a meeting in Alec E Davies’ tearooms on the corner of Broadway and The Esplanade called by Cliff Stark, at 7:45 pm on 5 April 1934.

It’s interesting to note that captain Laurie Simmonds’ son Ken featured in the club’s third A Grade premiership team thirty years later in 1970.

Today, 80 years after their great grandfather led Neddies, another generation of Simmonds are turning out for the juniors, proudly wearing the blue and gold.

He introduced a “kiwi connection” to the club and in the ensuing years served in a wide range of roles from player to coach to President, in the process building the foundations of the powerhouse that Nedlands has become.

Many of the people who were to contribute to and lead the Club in the next 40 years were nurtured by Bailey, including Steve Takiari, Terry Bradbury, Peter Shaw, Dave Walsh and Chris Lowson, together with great clubmen Rex Julian and Garry Ash who started the Thursday night dinners from the then tiny kitchen.

With excellent coaches like Viv Booker, Wayne Hill, Dave McKnight and Fearn guiding them, these men were successful in what was arguably the best quality A Grade competition ever known in Perth – in today’s world they would be highly paid professionals plying their trade in Europe.

The key administrator to emerge from these times was long standing patron Richard Vaughan who has contributed to the Club in a myriad of ways.

Many members of these colts teams have gone on to play hundreds of games for the club, with the leader in this regard being great rugby man George Forster-Jones who turned out in the blue and gold an incredible 500 times – and then went on to a successful refereeing career!

In 2017, the club was proud to have three members of our 1st grade team – Michael Ruru, Anaru Rangi and Jermaine Ainsley offered contracts with the Western Force.

Many Neddies administrators, including Sauer, Takiari, Lowson and Josh Aislabie have gone on to serve on the board of Rugby WA and in other capacities, with Bradbury and Bailey being awarded Life Membership of that organisation for their great service.