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Tracking training attendance

Two minutes at the start of the session that are worth a whole conversation with coordination by season end. And if every team records it the same way, they are worth a whole coordination meeting.

  1. 01

    The five states

    Present, absent, excused, injured and late. The difference between absent and excused is what makes the figure useful: without it, the rate is not something you can show anyone.

  2. 02

    How each one counts

    Whoever arrives late counts as present in their individual rate, but not in the session rate. Injured does not penalise the player, but it does lower that session rate.

  3. 03

    Take it on the pitch, not afterwards

    The list is ticked from your phone as the session starts. Anything left for the next day gets filled in from memory, and from memory everybody turned up.

  4. 04

    Players on trial

    Someone on trial appears in sessions from the day they join onwards, not before: it would distort the team history.

  5. 05

    Where to check it

    The rate per player is in the statistics dashboard, and the session-by-session detail in the attendance report, which exports to Excel.

  6. 06

    Attendance across the club

    Because every team records with the same five states, the attendance of an under-12 side and an under-16 side are comparable. My Club shows each team rate side by side.

  7. 07

    Cross-referenced with minutes

    Attendance and minutes played, on the same screen, explain most of a season complaints before they arrive.

Frequently asked questions

Sessions attended divided by sessions the player was called to, within the club active season. Whoever arrived late counts as present in their individual rate; injured or excused does not count as an unexcused absence, but still shows in the report with its state.

Yes. That is why the states are a closed list and not free text: every team records the same thing, so the rates can be placed side by side. The team-by-team comparison lives in My Club, open read-only to the whole club.

The session is left with no record and does not count towards anyone rate, for or against. That is better than filling it in from memory three days later, which is the fastest way to make the statistic useless.

It can, and for a single team it works. It stops working with eight teams, eight spreadsheets and eight laptops: that no longer compares, and comparing is exactly what coordination needs.

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