Every coach knows the Tuesday-afternoon feeling: fifteen thumbs-up in the group chat, nine bodies at the pitch, and a session planned for a full backline that now has two wingers. Rugby Football Club Finder’s practice board replaces the thumbs-up with a question every member is asked the night before, and a count the coach can trust when they walk out to set up cones.
Switch the season on
A club’s practice days and times already live on its profile, so the board needs one more thing: to know the season is on. The manager or a coach flips the season switch, and from then on, every evening, the app looks at the next day. If it is a training day, it creates that session, copying the time and place from the profile, and asks every approved active member the same question: are you in? Flip the switch off at the end of the season and the questions stop.
A club with several sides sets the season and the practice slot per side. The men’s team training Tuesdays and the women’s team training Wednesdays each get their own session, and only that side’s players are asked about it.
One tap for the player
On the player’s profile the question appears as a card: tomorrow’s session, its time, and two buttons, yes and no. There is no “maybe”. A maybe reads as attendance to a coach counting bodies, and the point of the board is a number the coach can plan around. A player can change their answer up to the session, and an unanswered question stays visibly unanswered rather than quietly counting either way.
The board the coach sees
Coaches and the club manager open the board and see tomorrow’s session with three lists: who is in, who is out, and who has not replied yet. Beneath it sit the recent sessions with their in-and-out tallies, so a pattern shows up: a squad that says yes on Tuesdays and drifts on Thursdays, or a player whose answers have gone quiet.
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Plan the session for the players who are actually coming, not the number who might.
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Spot who has stopped answering and check in with them before they drift away.
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See at a glance whether the numbers justify two groups or one.
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Compare sides, if the club has several, from the same screen.
Who can run the board
The board belongs to the club’s manager and to anyone the club has approved as a coach. A coach filed under one side runs that side’s board; a club-wide coach runs them all. Coaching a club through the app deliberately does not hand over the club’s public profile, so a club can give every coach the board without giving every coach the keys. The membership side of that is covered in
our guide to player profiles.
Fixtures in the same place
Alongside practice, a club keeps its internal season calendar: games, named by the opponent and marked home or away, and one-off club events. Managers and coaches add them from the dashboard, and every approved member sees the upcoming ones on their own profile, so the fixture list and the training count live where players already look. The public profile is untouched; the calendar is for the people who play, not for visitors.
To get started, a club needs a claimed profile with practice days set, and a roster of approved members to ask. Both are free:
claim your club, invite the squad to join, and flip the season on.
Frequently asked questions
Does the attendance question go out automatically?
Yes. While the season is switched on, the app checks every evening whether tomorrow is one of the club’s practice days, creates the session, and asks every approved active member. Nobody has to send the question.
Can players answer “maybe”?
No. Answers are yes or no, and an unanswered question stays visibly unanswered. A maybe counts as attendance to a coach planning a session, which is the problem the board exists to remove.
Can a coach see the board without being the club manager?
Yes. A club approves a coach through membership, and that coach gets the practice board and the fixture list. Editing the public profile stays with the manager.