Plan a block on the season grid

A block's emphasis only reaches the players if it reaches every training night in it. The season grid is where you make that happen: one row per age group, one cell per night that squad actually trains, and your sessions placed on them. Coaches open the night and find your plan ready. When they change it, you see what changed and why, so the curriculum stays something you steer rather than something you hope is happening.

• Open Session Planner in your programme's part of the sidebar. It has five tabs: Season, Sessions, Drills, Set pieces and Library. Season is where it opens.
• Library is the Clubhouse library, to browse and add from. Drills, Sessions and Set pieces are your club's own.
• The Methodology button beside the tabs opens your programme's methodology, the document coaches read before they plan. See Read your programme methodology for the coach's side of it.
• The grid takes its blocks from your Season Plan and its nights from each squad's weekly training pattern. Change either and the grid follows.
• Only a published session can go on a night.

A new season usually opens with nothing to plan against yet, and that is normal. Until every squad has training nights the grid has no columns to draw, so the Season tab shows What this grid needs instead, with a tick or a gap against each of Season Plan blocks, Training nights, Published sessions and Methodology. Each gap carries its own link: Shape the season, Set up training nights, Build a session or Open the methodology.

Once nights exist the grid appears, even if blocks or sessions are still to come. A squad whose schedule isn't set yet keeps its row with No training nights yet and a Set up link beside it. With no published sessions, a band across the top says Build a session, then put it on a night. With sessions but an empty grid, it says Nothing is on the grid yet.

Everything on the tab sits in one card, top to bottom, so you read the season before you change it.

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The summary line. Up to three short measures: how many nights in the next seven days are planned, how many coach submissions are waiting for you (with Review › to go straight to them), and how many nights in the last 30 days have been evaluated. A measure with nothing to report is left out, so an empty line means there is nothing to chase.

The block strip. The whole season as a row of tiles, each block as wide as its weeks and labelled with its name and dates. Pre-season blocks are a lighter shade than competition blocks. Weeks no block covers are dashed outlines, so a gap in the Season Plan is obvious. The heading above the strip shows today's date. Click a tile to jump the grid to that block's first week; the ring follows whichever block the grid is showing. Edit in Season Plan › takes you to the blocks themselves.

The block line. Under the strip, the block you are looking at: its name, its dates and its length, then its emphasis as chips. Add a theme with Emphasis and remove one with the cross on its chip. When one age group needs a different emphasis, open Per age group and use Override for an age group. On a phone the chips fold into a single row reading the emphasis, or Set an emphasis when there isn't one, which opens the same editor.

The emphasis is what the library drawer suggests for each night, and what Fill from emphasis fills from.

The grid. One row per age group, with its development phase under its name, and columns for each week's nights. The grid is ragged on purpose: a cell exists only where that squad trains that night, so an Under 13 side that trains Tuesday and Thursday shows two cells a week while one training three nights shows three. In the grid's own words, Blank = no training that night. A planned cell shows its session; a tick means the coach evaluated it as having gone to plan, and an amber arrow means the coach adapted your plan. The grid scrolls through the whole season, and opens on the block you are in.

On a phone the grid gives way to one week at a time. Use the arrows to move between weeks, and tap a night to plan it.

Planning cell by cell is how you set the tone for a block's first weeks, before you let a pattern fill the rest.

1. Click a night. The library drawer opens on the right, already filtered to that age group's phase, with the block's emphasis as one-tap Emphasis filters.
2. Search or filter, then pick a session.
3. Add Notes for the coach (optional) if there is something they should know on the night.
4. Tick other nights under Also this week, or Repeat for the remaining weeks in the block, if the same session belongs there too.
5. Press Allocate 1 (Replace 1 if the night already had a session). When you have ticked more nights, the button reads Check and allocate and shows what it would write first.

On a laptop you can also drag a session from the drawer straight onto any cell. No session fits? New session for this slot starts one.

Several nights at once. Shift-click a second night to select the range between them, or Cmd-click (Ctrl-click on Windows) to add single nights. Allocate with the count then opens the drawer for all of them. Range selection, dragging and Apply are laptop and desktop only.

Sometimes you start from the session, not the night: you have just built a strong finishing session and want it on every Thursday of the block. Open the session from Sessions. Its details include Allocated to, listing every block, age group and weekday it already sits on, and an Allocate… button.

The panel offers two kinds of target:

• To curriculum slots: pick the Block, then under each age group choose which of its training weekdays take the session. Each age group only offers the nights it trains, so applying by weekday follows every squad's own schedule.
• To specific nights: the next four weeks' nights, one by one. Pinning a night overrides its slot for that night only.

Press Check what this writes first. Clubhouse shows how many nights it would fill, how many already-planned nights it would replace, and anything it would skip. Only then does the button change to the count, such as Allocate with a number, and write it.

A block is often four to eight weeks of the same shape. Apply, at the right of the block line, fills it from a pattern instead of night by night. It always works on the block the grid is showing.

• Copy one age group across: choose Copy from, map its weekdays to the other squads' nights under Weekday mapping if they train on different days, and choose who to Copy to.
• Repeat a fortnight: choose the Fortnight to repeat and its pattern is stamped over the rest of the block.
• Fill from emphasis: each night gets a published session matching its block's emphasis. Choose This block or Rest of season.
• Clear slots: removes the block's sessions for the age groups you pick.

Every pattern starts with Check what this writes and only writes when you press the counted button. Clearing confirms in red, and nights a coach has already planned keep their plans.

The check lists every night it won't touch, with the reason. None of them is an error. They are the pattern meeting the real calendar:

• no training that night: the mapped weekday isn't one that squad trains.
• the night had already started or the night is cancelled.
• the coach’s own plan stays: a coach planned that night themselves, and Clubhouse never writes over it. These are counted as nights kept.
• the block has no emphasis for that age group or no published session matches the emphasis, from Fill from emphasis.
• nothing in the matching fortnight week to repeat, from Repeat a fortnight.

The grid is only as good as what is on the shelves.

• Sessions. New session builds one. Publish it from the editor with Publish (Publish changes once it is live). Publishing doesn't put it in the club library; the next step offers Move to club library. Each row's menu has Edit, Duplicate and Move to club library or Make private.
• Drills and Set pieces. The same menu, plus Feature on a published drill in the club library, which puts it first wherever coaches search. Unfeature takes it back off.
• Library. Browse the Clubhouse library and use Add to club drills or Add to club set pieces to make a copy that is yours to change.

Coaches build their own drills and sessions, and the good ones belong to everyone. A coach sends one with Submit to club library, and it waits for you at the top of the tab it would land in, Sessions, Drills or Set pieces, under Submitted for review. Each tab's badge counts what is waiting.

The decision is where it lives, not a mark out of ten:

• Add to club library puts it on the shelf for every coach in the programme.
• Leave with and the coach's name keeps it on their own shelf to keep using. Pick a reason such as Not needed club-wide or write your own one line in Note to the coach, which they see against it. Not yet backs out.

A drill opens in a side panel with both buttons at the bottom; on a keyboard, J and K move through the list, A adds and L leaves it. A session opens in the builder, and its decision is in the row's menu.

The plan you set is the start of the conversation. Under the review inbox on Sessions, What coaches ran lists every night a coach changed your plan or planned a night you left open, with a Window (This week, Last 2 weeks, Last 4 weeks) and a Squad filter.

Changed from your plan comes first, since those are yours to read: each row shows the night, the squad, the coach, how many changes and how it went. Planned by the coach follows. Open a row to see TD plan and the Coach version side by side, each changed block marked. Underneath are the coach's reason (Why:) and their evaluation: Went to plan, Changed on the night or Didn’t work, with their note.

Open coach version goes to the night itself. If the change doesn't serve the block, Reset to plan asks Reset to your plan?: the coach's changes are deleted and the night runs your plan again, and your library is untouched. Keep the coach’s version backs out. A night the coach planned from scratch has no plan of yours to go back to, so it has no reset.

• The block line names the block you meant, with its emphasis set.
• The nights you planned show your session's name, and the summary line's next-seven-days count has gone up.
• After Apply, the result matches the check, and every skipped night has a reason you recognise.
• A submission you decided has left Submitted for review.
• After Reset to plan, the night has left Changed from your plan.

Before an FNSW visit, the same plans become your evidence: see Prepare the session evidence for a visit.