A team is your club’s side in a competition somebody else runs, like the county league or a squash league. This is one fixture, from the ask to the result.
- Weeks outCaptain Ask who can play. A month of fixtures in one ask, or one fixture at a time.
- Weeks outPlayers Yes, no or maybe. One tap, in the app or straight from the email.
- In the weekCaptain Pick the side. Whoever is picked is told, and so is a reserve.
- In the weekCaptain Hold the courts for a home fixture. Tick them once and they stay on the diary.
- Any timePlayers Cannot make it? Say so on the fixture. The captain is told and has a job on Home.
- Night beforePlayers A reminder, to the people playing.
- AfterCaptain Put the result in. Whoever played is told how the side got on.
Clayside does not run the competition and never talks to the other club: the opposition is a name you type.
The screen
Your sides are on the left and every fixture is on the right (on a phone, the sides are chips above the list). What is waiting on a result comes first, then what is coming up, then the record. Tap a fixture to open it: every step above is there.
The fixture list goes in once
Add fixtures takes a paste or one typed in. Paste it straight off the league’s email or its website, one fixture a line, in whatever shape they sent it. We read the dates and who is at home, and show you what we made of it before anything is saved. A line we cannot read comes back with its text, so nothing is quietly dropped.
One paste can cover several of your sides. A county list with a column saying Men’s 1st or Ladies 2nd lands on the right sides. Where a line names no side we ask which. Typing one in, Save and add another moves the day on a week.
Asking who can play
Ask about a month of fixtures at once. Ask who can play sits beside Add fixtures. The dates coming up soonest arrive ticked, and you can tick more. Tick the people, and press Ask them. Each person gets one message naming every date, and answers each date on its own. Two of your sides out on one Saturday is one question.
The answers come back as a grid: people down the side, dates across the top, and how many said yes under each date. A date short of players is lit. Tap a date to pick its side. Ask more about a short date asks somebody new, and another button asks only the ones who have not replied. A date you have just asked about cannot be ticked again yet, and says when it can.
Or ask one fixture at a time, from the fixture. There is no squad list to keep up to date. Whoever you asked last time is ticked for the next fixture, and you can tick anybody else in the club.
They get a notification in the app, and an email with the three answers in it, so somebody who never opens the app taps Yes from their inbox. We only email an address somebody has confirmed, and the screen says how many that is before you send. Nothing is binding, and changing your mind is the same tap.
Then the screen shows who said what, and a button asks only the ones who have not replied. Copy a message for the group writes the sentence for your WhatsApp. Copy the link opens that fixture with Yes, No and Maybe on it, and shows a stranger nothing.
Three sides out on one Saturday is one question, not three. That day’s heading in the fixture list has an ask everyone button. It sends one message each, naming every side out, and the answer counts for all of them.
Picking the side
Fill with the strongest yeses puts a side on the sheet, and you move a name if you want to. Tap a name to drop it in the next empty slot, and the × takes it out.
Anybody in the club can be picked, asked or not, because a captain short on the Friday rings whoever is about. They are told and can stand down. The one thing we refuse is somebody already playing for another of your sides that day, and we say which side.
The courts look after themselves
A home fixture holds its courts, named for the match, so nobody books over them. Move the fixture and the courts move with it. Call it off and they go back.
Nobody is ever cancelled. If a member has already booked one of those courts you are told whose, and their booking stands.
What happened
Each match goes in on the same score screen the rest of the app uses, with your players already on the row off the team sheet. Type who they played and the score, and the fixture adds itself up. The first score asks how the league scores a match, and the rest follow it. If you only know the final total, type just that.
The side’s season reads back on its own card, and each player’s record says what they played and won for which side.
Who sees what
Every member sees the fixtures and the team sheet, and how many are available. Only whoever runs the side sees the answers: who said no, who said maybe and who has not replied.
A member’s level orders the names when a captain is picking, and is used nowhere else. It is never on the team sheet, never in a notification, and never on anything a member reads.
Changing things
A side can be renamed, reshaped or removed from the pencil beside it. If it has played a fixture we keep it in the record and take it off the list instead.
A fixture can be postponed or called off, which keeps it on the list. Remove is for a line that should never have been there. Anybody picked is told either way.
Captains
Captain is a job you hand out from Club then Roles, and you name which sides. What a captain can and cannot do is a page of its own, and so is what a member sees when they are asked to play.