Read your squad’s wellness

Players rarely tell you they've slept badly all week or have been flat since the weekend. They will tell a phone, in under a minute each morning. In squads with daily check-ins, every player rates their sleep, freshness, soreness, stress and overall mood out of five, and Clubhouse turns those answers into a picture of your squad you can read in thirty seconds before you plan the session.

• Wellness appears in your menu only when the squad selected in the header has daily check-ins switched on. If you coach several squads, switch squads to see each one's check-ins.
• Whether a squad checks in is a club decision. If yours should be and isn't, raise it with your technical director or a club admin.
• In a squad's first week the grid is mostly grey (No check-in) while players get into the habit. That's normal, and the patterns worth reading build up over the first fortnight.
• You see scores, never the player's written note. Notes go to the staff who look after players' health and welfare, so players can be honest without worrying the coach who picks the team is reading over their shoulder.

The Wellness — Today card on your Home screen gives you the morning's headline. Check-ins today shows how many players have answered, with a count of who's missing, and Active flags lists anyone on the watch list, or says No active flags today when nobody is. Tap a player to open their wellness history, or All wellness for the full page.

The red number next to Wellness in your menu counts the same players.

Open Wellness. The Check-ins tab shows the last 14 days with the most recent on the left: one row per player, one cell per day. Each cell is that day's average of the five answers.

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Read patterns, not single cells. A row sliding from amber to red over three days (1) is a player to talk to at the next session. A run of grey is a player who has stopped answering, which is worth a word too. A whole column of red the morning after a double session is your training load showing up in how the squad feels.

The Watch list tab holds the players whose answers crossed one of these lines. The longest-standing sits at the top.

Each line clears itself once the reason goes away, and the medical team can also clear a player once they've followed up. You can't clear anyone from the watch list yourself. When nobody is on it, the tab reads Everyone's doing well.

Tap any player, on either tab, to open their coach view: their check-in rate over the last 30 days, their latest score, anything that has put them on the watch list, a 30-day trend, and their latest answers question by question. It closes with Notes & full case history are in the clinical view., which is the medical team's side.

The same information follows you into the session. On a training roster, a player on the watch list shows the reason under their name, such as 3 days low mood, and stays in their usual group. It's there to prompt a conversation, not to take them out of the session.

The Trends tab shows your squad's check-in rate and its average score over the last 30 days. The check-in rate is marked On track at 85% or more, Watch from 60% and Low below that.

When the rate slides, the cause is rarely the questions. Players stop answering when they stop believing anyone reads them. Mentioning Tuesday's answers at Thursday's session does more for the rate than any reminder.

• You look at Wellness — Today before you plan a session, and nothing on the watch list surprises you at training.
• You know who's on the watch list right now, and you've spoken with them rather than about them.
• Your squad's check-in rate is holding because players can hear their answers in your coaching.