Guides

How a club actually gets run, without relying on anyone’s memory

What we have learned building Squadra with real clubs: how to organise a call-up, how to keep a playbook, and how to get the season out of the spreadsheet. Useful with Squadra or without it.

• Club call-ups without the WhatsApp chain

  A group is a conversation. A call-up is a list. Confusing the two is why, at ten on Friday night, nobody knows how many are turning up tomorrow.

• Building a digital playbook in an amateur team

  The hard part of a playbook is not drawing it. It is getting it to land, getting it understood, and knowing who has opened it before Saturday.

• Getting the club out of the treasurer’s spreadsheet

  The problem with the club spreadsheet is not the spreadsheet. It is that only the person who built it understands it, and that person steps down in June.