The short answer: not if you enjoy spending Sunday night chasing eleven people for a fiver each. For everyone else running a club on goodwill and group chats, yes. And here’s the honest version of why… Some research from GoCardless landed this July: 44% of grassroots football officials said they’d considered packing it in over…
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Let’s be honest about the current state of padel in Britain: you could fling a racket out of your clubhouse window and hit a waiting list. The sport has gone from niche import to national obsession in about the time it takes to lose a tie-break, and if you run a padel club right now,…
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This afternoon I am looking at AppBuild.diy vs Spond in the grassroots land. Spond has earned a lot of goodwill, and rightly so. It is a properly free, ad-free team management app: scheduling, attendance, messaging and payments, with no monthly charge and no member cap. For a coach who just needs to organise a team,…
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Today we are talking grassroots and two big players; AppBuild.diy vs Pitchero! Pitchero is a genuinely impressive piece of kit for grassroots sport. It runs the club website, the team management, the fixtures, the membership CRM and the online payments, all in one place, and over twelve thousand clubs rely on it. So I want…
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