Three Big Weeks of Football

With The Emirates Western Force having 3 home games at nib in a row, was a big and overwhelming 3 weeks for myself. This now also leads us already to half way through the super rugby season. The way things fly by when you're having fun hey...

This definitely was a testing time with everything I had learnt through RugbyWA since I first started back in February & remembering and putting it into practice on my own. As I work along the branding and marketing sectionsnfor each event, I was given more responsibilities and in charge of certain activities through out the game without being told where to be at what time. The run sheet for the day and night being my bible! Examples of these were knowing exactly where signs are meant to be up and taken down, preparing half time activities with signed balls given out and monitoring the teams mascot Westy.

Unfortunately we had 2 losses the last 2 weeks against the Chiefs on Friday 6th April (family day) and a loss to The Waratahs on Friday 13th April. (This being quite a devastating one...it's so interesting how involved you become with the game after only working with them for a short period).

I have been in The RugbyWA offices on a weekly basis preparing for each home game, the tasks have been just as important as the ones on game day. Some of these include;

• Ticket allocations (organizing tickets for charities, promotional winners & force fanatics etc)
• Preparing word documents to be placed on the emirates western force website.
• Putting together prize winner packs including hats, jerseys, mini rugby balls, stickers and posters.
• Setting up spreadsheets for competition entrants and mailing out letters for winners e.g. The West Win a membership competition. Office filing from previous office and years of documents for rugbyWA.
• Being apart of captains run at nib a day before game day (clients invitations, final training day for players, morning tea, tour of change rooms, team photos etc
• Phoning and congratulating competition winners (also notifying them of winner details, eg where to pick up their tickets for the game.
• Email out going to all competition entries. Putting away western force merchandise (hats, jerseys etc).
• Help loading up cars with merchandise for game days (signage, prize packs, ticket allocations)
• Pre day organizing and set up for game day at the stadium.

 Thats it for my update half way through the season and I hope you enjoy reading about my little escapades.