The stuff you do
on a Tuesday.

What is in here

Availability and selection get you to Saturday. This lot is the rest of the week, and it sits on the Coach and Programme plans.

None of it is compulsory. Plenty of clubs run a full season on availability alone and add these when they are ready. Pick up one at a time.

Playbook

Build a move once and it exists forever. Draw on a real pitch: runs, passes, kicks, and the players who make them.

A move is a sequence of frames. Position the players, add the lines, then add the next frame and move them on. What you are building is the thing you would otherwise draw on a whiteboard and rub out.

Name moves the way your squad says them out loud, not the way they are written in your notebook. If the call is "Bluff", the move is called Bluff.

Presenting a move

Step the squad through it frame by frame on the screen, which is the difference between a diagram and a thing people understand. It runs on a phone in a clubroom, so it works where your coaching actually happens.

Decks

A deck is a set of moves and glossary terms in one running order, shared as a link. That is your Tuesday night presentation, without a file to attach or a version anybody can lose.

Because it is a link, updating the deck updates what everybody sees. Nobody is presenting last month's shape.

Drill library

Your own drills, in one place, with the clips attached. Pin a video from Instagram or TikTok straight onto a drill so the thing you saved at midnight is still findable in June.

Write down the coaching points as well as the setup. The setup is the bit you remember anyway; the coaching points are the bit you forget.

It is the club's library, not one coach's camera roll, which matters most when that coach stops coaching.

Session planner

Pull drills and moves into a run sheet with minutes against each, and share it with your other coaches before training rather than explaining it in the car park.

It remembers what you ran last week, which is the useful part. Most sessions drift without anybody deciding to, and a written record of the last four weeks is the quickest way to notice you have not touched your lineout since April.

Attendance

Mark who turned up at training. It takes a minute and it builds a picture nobody can argue with.

Attendance is the other half of the selection conversation. When a player asks why they are not being picked, the answer is much easier when it is a record and not an impression.

Glossary

Your club's language, written down: calls, shapes, the words your coaches use that a new player has never heard. Terms can be attached to decks so a move and its name arrive together.

The people it helps most are the ones who will not ask: new players, colts moving up, and anybody who joined in the middle of a season.

Results and history

Record the result each week and the season writes itself. Caps, minutes, appearances and attendance build from what you already did in the app, ready for the AGM without a spreadsheet.

Good habits

• Add one tool at a time. Clubs that try to adopt all of it in one week adopt none of it.
• Build moves as you actually coach them, not as a pre-season project.
• Mark attendance on the night. It never gets done later.
• Put the glossary in front of new players in their first fortnight.