Cover match day as medical staff
Where to find every kick-off, what the coach’s selection screen enforces from your board, and why the injuries you assess at the ground still go on the board the same day.
Match day is where the week's medical decisions get tested. The availability you set decides who a coach can pick, the restrictions you wrote appear on their selection screen, and whatever happens at the ground comes back to your board. This page covers the weekend as the app runs it: where to look, what's enforced and what's advice, and the one habit that keeps the injury register honest.
Matches in your sidebar is the club-wide view: every programme's fixtures, results and ladders in one place, because medical cover doesn't stop at a programme's edge. Use the Program filter to switch between squads, and the Live tab shows a red dot while a match is in progress. Open a round for the kick-offs, venues and squad availability across that day's fixtures, and open a fixture for the match itself, including the live score once it kicks off.
Your match view is read-only, on purpose. The coach or team manager runs the live match tracker, and your work lives on the injury board. What the fixture view gives you is awareness: who's playing where, which of your players are in a squad today, and how a match is going while you're at a different ground.
When a coach picks a side, your board is behind the screen:
- A player whose injury makes them Injured counts as absent. They can't be picked as available, full stop.
- Modified and Chronic players can still be picked, with your restrictions printed next to their name: body region, expected return and, for a modified player, the drill level and speed cap. It reads like
Right ankle · Return 22 Jun · Drills: Low · Speed: 60%.
That split is deliberate. Being unavailable is enforced; a managed return is advice with the numbers attached. Picking a modified player is the coach's call, made with your exact recommendation in front of them. That's why keeping drill levels and return dates current matters more on Friday than any other day.
The rest of the club reads your board the same way. The coach, team manager, goalkeeping and S&C dashboards each carry a Medical card with unavailable, modified and monitoring counts, who's back training, and a purple HIA label on any concussion. The people making the weekend's decisions see the caseload without opening the medical portal.
Your own portal shows it back to you. An upcoming fixture's Match Info tab has availability tiles (Available and Unavailable, plus Checked in and Watch list for squads doing wellness check-ins) with the players grouped underneath. For Saturday's game against Bayside United it reads 13 available, 2 unavailable, 12 of 15 checked in and 1 on the watch list. It's the Friday view of exactly what the coach will be held to on Saturday.
Note: A concussion return-to-play plan books Step 8, the return to match, against a real fixture, and any earlier step can be booked against one too. On Friday, check those bookings still stand. A postponed or rescheduled fixture is exactly what the Replan needed warning on the injury is there to catch. See the concussion page.
There's no separate match-day injury form. An injury you assess at the ground goes in the same way as any other: Active Injuries, then Log New Injury, with the match noted in the onset details. For a head knock, set the body region to Head and tick Suspected concussion. That one tick starts the whole concussion protocol, so it's the one that matters most all weekend.
During the match, the coach's live tracker deals with the immediate consequence: taking a player off injured there removes them from that fixture. That's match administration, not a clinical record, and it doesn't put an injury on your board. The register only knows what you log, which is why the habit is same day, at the ground. A Monday-morning catch-up is where the mechanism gets vague and the onset date drifts.
Warning: If you suspect a concussion on the sideline, the decision for the day is already made: the player doesn't return, whatever the score. Football Australia's April 2025 guidelines are explicit, and every minimum in the app's return-to-play protocol counts from the incident date you log. Log it before you leave the ground.
Ten minutes on Friday covers the weekend:
- Returning this week on the board. Is everyone on that list genuinely ready, and does the coach know which of them are on a modified return?
- Concussion match returns. Is any Step 8 booked for this weekend, and is Step 7 signed off?
- The wellness watch list. A flagged player carrying a heavy week into a match is a conversation for Friday, not a discovery on Saturday.
- Expected return dates. The coach picks the team from these, and a stale date means a wrong team sheet.
- You can name every ground you're covering this weekend from Matches, without asking in a group chat.
- Coaches pick modified players with your drill level and speed cap in front of them, and have stopped ringing you to ask.
- Every injury assessed at a ground is on the board the same day, with the match noted.
- No suspected concussion has ever waited until Monday to be logged.
Last reviewed 6 Oct 2026
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