The case
for ARM.
Six pages on what club admin is costing you, what changes, what it costs, and how quickly you'd be live. Built to be printed and put in front of a committee.
Volunteers run the club.
Admin runs them down.
Nobody leaves a club because of the rugby. They leave because of the Wednesday nights: chasing replies, rebuilding a list someone else was holding, and finding out on Saturday morning that you're a hooker short.
23 messages for 15 names
Availability lives in a group chat, gets buried by banter, and has to be counted by hand every single week.
One person holds the season
Who played, who's carrying a knock, who hasn't turned up since round three. All of it in one volunteer's head.
Teams named too late
Selection lands Friday night, so nobody trains knowing their role and the bench finds out in the car park.
No view across the club
The 2nd XV borrows a colt, the colts coach never hears, and two teams count the same player twice.
A five-team club spends the better part of two working months a season assembling information it already has. ARM doesn't make volunteers work faster. It removes the work.
The volunteer risk
When the person who holds it all steps down, the club restarts from zero. Records should belong to the club, not to a phone.
The player risk
Players who never hear where they stand quietly stop replying. Selection is a retention tool if they can see it.
The committee risk
You can't govern what you can't see. Numbers per squad, week to week, are the club's early warning system.
Availability, selection and the season in one place.
ARM is club management built only for rugby. Not a generic team app with a rugby skin, positions, XVs, benches, squads and grades are how it thinks.
The club
One licence covers every squad. The club owns the record: who played, how often, and where the numbers are thin.
Committee & RDOThe coach
Opens Wednesday, sees who's in, names the team on the board, and the sheet goes out. Minutes, not evenings.
Coach & managerThe player
One link by text. Fixture, note from the coach, three buttons: In, Maybe, Out. No app, no password, no account.
Every playerAvailability
Rounds go out to the squad, replies come back to you, and the grid shows the week at a glance: counts, notes and a chase list for the ones who've gone quiet.
Selection board
Drag players into slots, order sets the shirt numbers, bench underneath, captain flagged. Availability is right there, so you never pick someone who's away.
Playbook & sessions
Draw moves, animate them, and send them as a link the squad can watch before training. Drills and session plans sit alongside.
The club's record
Caps, appearances, positions, history per player and per squad, all kept by the club, carried into next season regardless of who's running the team.
What it isn't
It isn't another chat app, and it doesn't ask players to download anything. The group chat can stay exactly where it is. ARM just takes the admin out of it.
A match week, start to finish.
The same week your club already runs, with the chasing taken out and the deadline moved forward by two days.
The round opens itself
Next week's fixture goes out to the squad automatically. Players get one link: fixture, kick-off, and the coach's note.
Replies come to you
Answers land in the grid as they arrive. In, Maybe, Out, plus a note if a player needs to explain a Maybe.
Chase the quiet ones
The non-responder list is one tap. Export it, drop it in the group chat, or nudge them. No scrolling back through 200 messages.
Name the team
Selection board, availability alongside every name. Slots set the numbers, bench underneath, captain flagged. Saved as you go.
Train knowing your role
The sheet is out before the last run. Players train in the shirt they're wearing on Saturday, and the moves for the week are on their phone.
Play the game
Result and appearances go on the record. Caps tick over, the season history builds itself, and Sunday starts the next round.
Start free. Grow when you're ready.
One squad is free for a full season, no card. Nothing here is per-player, and coaches and managers are always unlimited.
| Plan | Price | Covers | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0forever | One squad, up to two teams. Availability, selection, team sheets, unlimited coaches. One season of history. |
A single team trying it for a season before the club commits. |
| Coach | $50per month · $42 annual | One squad, unlimited teams. Everything in Free plus playbook, drills, session planner, decks and full history. | A coach running a squad properly, week in week out. |
| Programme | $100per month · $83 annual | Every squad in the club on one licence, plus the RDO Command Centre: readiness across squads, shared player pool and reporting. | The club. One number, whole programme covered. |
What it replaces
- Availability spreadsheets and their fifteen versions
- The team sheet rebuilt by hand every Friday
- Player records held in one person's phone
- Manual counts before every committee meeting
What it doesn't cost you
- No per-player fee, however big the squad gets
- No charge for coaches, managers or committee logins
- No app for players to download or pay for
- No setup fee, and your data leaves with you
Live in three weeks.
No IT project, no migration weekend. Most clubs are sending their first availability round the same week they sign up.
Set up
We load your squads, teams and player list with you on one call. You send the first availability round that evening.
Run a real week
One squad goes end to end: round, chase list, selection board, team sheet out on Thursday. Nothing else changes.
Open it up
The other squads come on, the RDO view switches on, and the committee gets numbers per squad without asking a coach.
"Our players won't use another app."
They don't have to. A player gets a text with one link, taps In, Maybe or Out, and they're done. No download, no login, no password to forget.
"Our older coaches aren't technical."
If they can use a group chat they can use ARM. Selection is drag a name into a slot. We do the setup call and stay on the end of an email.
"What if the volunteer running it leaves?"
That's the point. The record sits with the club, not the person. The next manager logs in and the whole season is already there.
"Can we try it before committing budget?"
Yes. One squad is free for a full season. Run it, see what a Wednesday looks like, then bring the numbers back to this committee.
The ask: one squad,
one season, free.
Approve a single squad on ARM for this season and review it at the next meeting. If it hasn't given the club back its Wednesday nights, we've cost you nothing.