Solution
Who starts, who comes on each quarter, who covers every place and how much of the match each player gets, worked out the night before. The coach keeps the plan. Each player gets a brief with only their own part.
Two Views
The substitution plan is the coach's business. What a player needs is their own part, and nothing to worry about beyond it.
Coach’s view
Only the staff running the match see it. Nothing on it is sent to anyone.
Player’s view
On the family’s own page, for their child only, and only once you publish.
Coach’s View
Between periods you read out who comes on, where, and who they replace. The thinking was done before the match, so on the touchline you watch the game.
Coach’s view
Every period as a lineup and a pitch, shirt numbers on the dots, and beside every place who steps in if that player comes off.
Coach’s view
Each period names its substitutions by the place taken, with the bench underneath.
Coach’s view
Everyone gets at least the share you set. The table shows it, with each player’s main position and the others they can play.
Pick a formation for your side size, halves or quarters, and the least everyone plays: half a match, or one period.
Half only, more, the full match, or not today. Change a player’s positions for the day without touching their record.
Move a right back to right wing mid-match: swap two players’ places, bring someone on, or drag one player onto another on the pitch.
Keep a 4-4-2 beside the 3-5-2, or the plan without a player who might not make it. Load the one you are going with on the day.
The plan saves on your phone and sends itself when the signal comes back. Print it, pitches and all, if you would rather hold paper.
Share sends the list of who is in the match squad, with shirt numbers. The list, never the plan.
Player’s View
A player told everything spends the morning thinking about it. The brief gives them one job, so they think less and arrive fresh.
Player’s view
The day, the meet time beside the kick-off, the full address and Directions in Google Maps, Apple Maps or Waze.
Player’s view
Their shirt, where they start, one thing to focus on, and the formation with their own place lit.
You can hide positions too. The brief then says they will be confirmed at the team talk.
The eye beside each player shows exactly what that family will get, before anything is published.
Families see the brief as you published it. Change the plan afterwards and your page says so until you publish again.
Send brief opens the email with the brief’s players selected. Nothing is sent until you press Send.
From The Squad
New Session or New Match puts the whole squad, or the players you tick, on an invite-only event. Nobody applies.
Each family accepts or declines from their own link, with no app to install and no account to create.
Generate the plan, leaving out anyone who has declined, publish the briefs, and check everyone in on the day.
Every Sport
Football by side size, netball’s seven, basketball’s five, hockey, lacrosse, futsal, volleyball’s six, rugby union’s fifteen and sevens, rugby league’s thirteen.
Halves, quarters, thirds or sets, named as the sport names them.
Rolling where the sport rolls. In rugby union a player who comes off stays off, and the plan respects it.
FAQ
No. The match plan is the coach’s view: the lineups for every period, who comes on for whom, the cover, the bench and how much each player gets. None of it is sent to families. A player sees only their own brief, and only once the coach publishes it.
Their shirt number, where they start or the period they come on, one thing to focus on, the formation and how the team wants to play. Nothing about any other player, and the coach can hide positions altogether until the team talk.
Yes. Families keep seeing the brief as it was published. The coach’s page says the plan has changed since it was published until the coach publishes again, and a published brief can be withdrawn.
No. Create a squad, add your players, and make a session or a match from it. Trials are optional.
Football, futsal, netball, hockey, basketball, lacrosse, rugby union, rugby league and volleyball each have their own formations, periods and substitution rules. Cricket has no rotation plan.
Ready When You Are
Plan this weekend’s match tonight, and turn up with the thinking already done.