Open sessions

Sessions other coaches cannot work, or the club has opened, for you to take if you are free.

Do this

  1. Read the line under the heading: it says how your club hands sessions over.
  2. Find a session you can cover. A greyed one says why you cannot take it.
  3. Press Take it.
  4. Put one up yourself by mistake? Press Take it off the board beside it.

How your club does cover

The line under the heading is your club's rule.

  • First to take it gets it. It is yours the moment you press.
  • Ask for one and the club will confirm it. It is not yours until they do.
  • If the club staffs its own sessions, nothing here is yours to pick up.

Some clubs confirm every change of coach, even first come, first served. The line then adds The club confirms every change before it takes effect.

Each session

Its name and time, and how it got here. Either a coach cannot work it, a coach wants to trade it for another session, or The club has opened it. Any note they left is shown.

A session somebody has already asked for says so.

Nothing going spare. means the board is empty.

Take it

Take it either gives you the session at once, and it appears on Today, or asks the club. The message says which.

The coach who put it up stays on it until it settles, so it is never left uncovered.

"Somebody got there first." means another coach took it a moment before you.

Coaches who could take a session, being free then and allowed to take sessions, are emailed when it goes up.

Why you cannot take one

A greyed session says why:

  • you are on another session at the same time
  • you marked yourself away
  • it is outside the hours you said you can work
  • it would take you over the club's weekly cap
  • paperwork the club needs is missing or has run out

Only the club can put you on a session past one of these, from the session on its schedule.

Your own sessions on the board

A session you put up says This one is already yours. Take it off the board brings it back down, and you stay on it.

Once somebody has taken it, it can no longer come down.

Common questions

Is the session mine as soon as I press Take it?

Only if your club works first come, first served. Otherwise the club confirms it, and it is not yours until they do.

Why is a session with no coach not on the board?

Only sessions somebody has put up are shown. A session with nobody on it is the club's to staff, until they put it on the board.

Why does it say it is outside the hours I can work?

You have added I can work windows under My hours, and this session is outside them. Add a window that covers it.