Read your programme’s methodology

A programme's methodology is how its coaches coach: the principles of play, the corners a player develops across, what matters at each stage, the families of practice a session is built from and how a session is structured. It has a page of its own, one tap from the planner, and every principle, family and structure on it opens the drills filed under it.

• Your technical director or a club admin writes the methodology. Write your programme's methodology walks through it.
• A programme with nothing of its own shows the club's methodology, and says so.

• As a coach, open Training, then Planner, and choose Methodology at the top of the page. On a phone it's the book at the top right.
• In a programme's planner, choose Methodology at the top of the Session Planner, on any tab.
• From a drill or a session, What these mean beside a drill's principles and families, and What each structure means under a session's structure, open the methodology in a new tab, so nothing you're writing is lost.

The page is titled with the programme's name, such as Mixed JDL Methodology, with a line of facts under it: how many principles and practice families it has, and when it was last updated. If any of it comes from the club's methodology rather than the programme's own, the foot of the page says so. Where you can change it, Edit at the top opens it for editing on the same page, and Done takes you back.

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The page is one card. It opens with a row of figures: how many Principles, Practice families and Session structures the programme has, and under each how many drills or sessions in the planner carry them. A part nobody has written yet is left out, and so is its figure.

Below the figures, the card reads in the order a coach reaches for it:

• How we play: the principles of play, grouped under a coloured band for each moment: In possession, Out of possession, Transition and Set pieces. The band says how many drills carry that moment's principles.
• Who we develop: the four corners, then a line for each stage the programme fields, such as Discovery or Skill acquisition, with the age groups it covers.
• How we coach: the practice families, session structures and CHANGE IT levers, side by side on a wide screen and one under another on a phone. The families and structures headings say how many drills or sessions they cover between them.
• Model sessions: sessions your technical director has featured, ready to open.

Each principle, family, structure and lever is one row, with its name on the left and, for principles, families and structures, how many drills or sessions carry it on the right. A bar beside the count shows how it compares with the others in the list.

• Tap the row to read what the club wrote about it, in place under the name. The arrow beside the name turns to show it's open. Only one row is open at a time, so opening another closes the first; tap it again to close it.
• Tap a count of drills or sessions to open the planner with them already filtered.

A row with nothing written under its name, such as a lever the club has only named, doesn't open. Levers are how you adapt a practice, so they have no count.

• Methodology opens a page titled with your programme's name.
• The principles match the ones in Settings, grouped by the moment of the game.
• Tapping a principle opens what the club wrote about it, and tapping its count shows the drills filed under it.