Melbourne Rebels 2024

[dru]

lol it’s common practice for sports clubs

Professional sports clubs?

 

[GoMelbRebels]

Er, no… this is not working the sausage sizzle.

Anyone who offers “experience” instead of renumeration for significant skills based work is a joke, to put it politely.

You sound like a millennial. Probably screw up your “work / life balance” too I would guess.

 

[LevitatingSocks]

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/rugby/sporting-supremos-woes-threaten-rebels/news-story/9b1d3ef24770471db68a6f32271d50c0

It's behind a paywall ... in part: "
The chairman of Melbourne Rebels Super Rugby club Paul Docherty is the director of 10 companies that have lost at least $70 million.

The Harvard Business School graduate is also the club’s major sponsor, raising questions about the Rebels’ future.

Insiders claim the Rebels was considering handing back its licence to Rugby Australia because it could not pay its bills, including up to $1 million owed to AAMI Park where it plays."

Oddly funny how they've emphasized his alma mater here, as if a 2 year gentleman's course in networking makes an alumnus incapable of poor decisions.

 

[Highlander35]

Regardless of the issue of remuneration (it 100% sounds like there's enough independent specialist work that there should be a paid component) but surely this is something that they should be working with La Trobe on as part of a Data/Sports Science, or Film & Television/Communications Education rather than throwing out into the general public to see what they can get?

 

[The Ghost of Raelene]

They can do it because they know someone will take the chance to put it on their resume. Is it dated? Absolutely, and you'll get what you pay(not pay) for.

 

[Slim 293]

You sound like a millennial. Probably screw up your “work / life balance” too I would guess.

No, I sound like a professional with many years industry experience who recognises this as a major red flag:

https://ugc.production.linktr.ee/d5ec417e-fb77-4172-a200-806b0c6ba802_Rebels-Video-Analysis-Volunteer-2024.pdf

That’s quite a job description for an unpaid volunteer…

I would not advise anyone to take that up when you can get a similar entry level position in other professional sporting or broadcast organisations for at least $30p/h.

 

[GoMelbRebels]

No, I sound like a professional with many years industry experience who recognises this as a major red flag:

Anyway, the sun will come up tomorrow. Life is good.

 

[Slim 293]

Anyway, the sun will come up tomorrow. Life is good.

Cost of living… what now?

 

[Rebel man]

Professional sports clubs?

Yep all the AFL clubs relied on volunteers all the way up until the covid season in game day roles and they still have a network of volunteers working in talent identification.

I get it is hard for the Rebels to find volunteers as their network is so much smaller

 

[Wallaby Ways]

Agreed. You see it all the time.

 

[Slim 293]

Yep all the AFL clubs relied on volunteers all the way up until the covid season in game day roles and they still have a network of volunteers working in talent identification.

I get it is hard for the Rebels to find volunteers as their network is so much smaller

All the AFL clubs have professional media units who do the work the Rebels are asking for…

 

[Rebel man]

All the AFL clubs have professional media units who do the work the Rebels are asking for…

Cool champ

 

[Slim 293]

Cool champ

It is cool, actually...

 

[Members Section]

We really have to stop comparing Super Rugby clubs with afl clubs its comparing your local corner iga with Coles

 

[Derpus]

lol it’s common practice for sports clubs

Its predatory, unethical and should be illegal.

 

[LeCheese]

Even disregarding the lack of remuneration, the filming, coding, and analysis of training and match footage sounds like a lot more than 1-2 days (plus matches) work per week...

 

[Dctarget]

At least we know when the Rebels play as if they haven't studied their opposition at all that they have, in fact, not studied their opposition at all.

 

[Derpus]

You sound like a millennial. Probably screw up your “work / life balance” too I would guess.

Just because you didn't want to spend time with your friends and family doesn't mean the rest of society has to be a miserable fluffybunny.

(edit: yes yes ironic coming from me)

 

[Slim 293]

Those damn millennials, wanting to be compensated for work...

It's not like they'll ever own their own home anyways.

 

[LeCheese]

I believe even at QPR level, there is a paid (casual) pool of individuals who code footage prior to it being upload to Hudl. While they're employed by Double Take, you'd think that's the minimum expectation.