Run keeper development plans
A keeper-only development plan inbox that lists what needs you (self-assessments to build from, check-ins to answer, concerns to address) and the shared plan page where the work happens.
Development plans are where goalkeeping stops being a weekly session and becomes a pathway. IDPs opens the club's development plans filtered to your keepers: the same plans the squad coaches work on, so a keeper's plan reads the same to both of you.
- Development plans are switched on club by club. Until yours is, the page says "IDPs are coming soon", and nothing needs fixing. "Couldn't load your plans" with Try again is different: that's a connection problem.
- A keeper's age group has to be in the club's plan programme before they have a plan. Those who aren't yet are listed separately, so you can see who's coming.
- The goalkeeping goals keepers work towards come from the curriculum. If you haven't looked at it yet, start with Shape the goalkeeping curriculum.
Development Plans opens on To do and Players.
To do is your inbox. Everything that needs a coach lands here, with open concerns always first:
- Open concerns a family has raised about their keeper's plan.
- Action needed on a plan your technical director sent back with changes.
- Needs your reply where a keeper or their family has logged a check-in.
- Ready to build where a keeper's self-assessment is in and the plan can be written.
When more than one kind is waiting, chips across the top narrow the list: All, Concerns, Action needed, Needs reply and To build, each with its count. An empty inbox reads "You're all caught up", which is the aim.
Players is your cohort with where each plan is up to, and a Squad filter when your keepers play in more than one squad. Keepers whose age group hasn't joined the plan programme sit under "Not yet in the IDP programme". That's the club's rollout, not a fault.
In Harbourview's picture, Oscar Rahman, Max Kowalski, Jack Bright and Noah Ricci are all waiting on their age groups joining, so To do is empty.
Tap an inbox item or a keeper to open the plan itself. It's the same plan page the squad coach uses, so the keeper, their family, their squad coach and you are all looking at one plan. From there the work is the usual loop: read the self-assessment, set the focus areas and goals, send the plan for approval, then keep it going through the season by answering check-ins and recording outcomes.
The keeper's player profile has a Development Plan tab too, but it's a summary: status, strengths and current goals. View full plan takes you to the plan page, which is where goals and replies are edited.
Once you've talked a concern through with the keeper or family, tap Addressed on it in the inbox. Before anything is sent, a check opens: Mark concern as addressed?, with the keeper's name, who in the family will hear, and the message itself. The button reads Mark addressed and notify followed by the number of people. If nobody in the family can be reached in Clubhouse, it reads Mark addressed and the concern is still closed.
The family receives, for example:
Daniel addressed your concern Discussed with Oscar Rahman on 3 Sep.
A sent message can't be taken back, so mark it addressed after the conversation, not before.
When a self-assessment arrives, Clubhouse notifies the head and assistant coaches of the keeper's squad. When a family logs a check-in, it notifies the coach who wrote the plan. As goalkeeping coach you're often neither, so To do is where keeper work reaches you. Open it before each cohort session; the counts on the tabs tell you at a glance whether tonight has plan work attached.
- The To do tab gets opened before every cohort session, and no concern sits there for more than a day.
- Every keeper on the Players tab has a plan, or is waiting on their age group joining.
- Your check-in replies mention what you saw at training, so the plan and the sessions are one conversation.
Last reviewed 14 Oct 2026
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