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Reading your programme's season plan
Season plan shows the shape of the year for the programmes you work across: the phases the season runs in, what each one is for, and the key dates around them. It's the same plan your technical director authors, read-only.
On a phone it sits under More at the end of the bottom bar. (Coaches of an Australian Championship campaign squad won't see it — a short tournament doesn't run on a season plan, so the entry stays out of a campaign portal's navigation.)
One card per programme. A coach working across two programmes gets two cards, each with its own timeline, because the two seasons can be shaped quite differently.
Down each card runs the season in order, week by week from the season start:
| Row | What it means |
|---|---|
| Pre-season | The build-up before round 1 |
| In-season block | A training and competition cycle. Player plan reviews anchor to these |
| Break | A deliberate gap — school holidays, a mid-season break |
| Finals | The finals period |
| Key dates | Trials, grading, registration, season launch, parent-meeting windows |
| Coach development | The weeks of your three development conversations with your technical director (pre-season plan, mid-season review, end-of-season review). Marked staff only in a teal diamond: families never see them |
Where your technical director has written a focus for a phase ("ball mastery and 1v1s"), it shows against that phase — that's the clearest signal of what the block is meant to achieve.
Today's position is marked on the timeline, so "which block are we in" is a glance rather than a calculation.
Key dates are planned as a week, not a day. That's deliberate: the exact afternoon of a grading session or a parent meeting usually settles later, and families are told "Week of" until it does. A window on this page is the programme's intent, not a booking.
Parent-meeting windows are the one kind that becomes something concrete. When your technical director opens the real bookable meetings for a window, families see the actual meetings and the planned window steps aside.
Nothing on this page is editable from a coach portal. The season plan is set per programme by the technical director, and every surface that reads it — your calendar's key dates, a family's season timeline, the review cycles in player plans — reads the same plan. If a phase or date looks wrong, raise it with your technical director rather than working around it.
If the club changes the season's start date, every phase and key date re-anchors automatically. The week numbers always count from the season start.
The page only shows programmes you're staffed on that have a season plan set up. A programme with no plan yet shows nothing for that year — there's nothing to read until the technical director builds it. If a programme you coach is absent altogether, your squad assignment is what determines the list, so check with a club administrator that you're assigned to the right squads.
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