Does SetPiece come with rugby drills already?

Yes — SetPiece ships with a starter library across handling, contact, set-piece, defence, kicking and fitness. Meant as a launchpad, not a replacement for your own drills.

Can I add my own drills?

Yes. Adding a drill is a 30-second form. Attach a play from the playbook if it needs one, save once, drop into any session forever.

Are the drills age-grade specific?

Drills are tagged by intensity and focus rather than fixed age groups — a contact drill is the same shape at U16 as for adults, the contact is just dialled down. You can tag your own drills with age notes and filter.

Do drills play as animations?

If a play is attached, yes — animation plays inline when you run that drill in Run mode.

Can I share drills with assistants?

Assistants on the same squad share the library by default. Individual drills can be shared as read-only links to coaches outside your club.

Rugby drill library

A rugby drill library that builds your sessions for you.

SetPiece's rugby drill library treats drills as structured data — minutes, intensity, focus tag, optional play diagram — not YouTube links. Save a drill once. Drop it into any session in one tap. Watch the animation play on the touchline. The library is the engine that makes the rest of SetPiece work.

Free to start. No card needed.

The SetPiece Playbook on an iPhone: a New play button beside the Plays heading, a search bar and filter chips, then the team's plays — Scrum strike, with 2 options, first — each with a pitch thumbnail of its starting shape.

How it works

Drills are data, not links.

Most coaches' drill libraries are a folder of YouTube bookmarks, a PDF, or a notes app with hand-drawn diagrams. SetPiece treats a drill as a record — so it can flow through the rest of your week without retyping.

Every drill carries minutes, intensity, focus, notes

A drill in SetPiece isn't a link to a video. It's a record with the fields a session planner actually needs: how long, how hard, what it's training, what the coaching points are. That's why the session planner can show you a running total in minutes — because the drills know their minutes.

Minutes (drag-stepper, no typing).
Intensity: low / med / high — three pips.
Focus tag: handling, contact, set-piece, defence, kick, fitness.
Notes: coaching points, equipment list, group split.

The Scrum strike play's page on an iPhone: the animated play on its pitch with option and view pickers, and Edit play and Share above it.

One tap into a session

From the library, the most common action is 'add to a session.' SetPiece makes that one tap — pick the destination session, drill drops into the bottom of the stack, minutes auto-sum. The same drill can live in twenty sessions; editing the drill master record updates the next time you run it, not the past.

Add to today's session, this week, or any session in a list.
Drills can carry an attached play from the playbook — the play comes with the drill.
Versioned: edit the master record, future sessions get the change, past sessions stay frozen for the record.

The 'Add a drill' sheet over the session planner on an iPhone: a Multi-station block card at the top, then a 'From your drill library' section with All and Contact block filter chips and the team's drills — Contact Ladder (12 min, High) and Kick-chase re-load (8 min, Medium).

Animations on the touchline

If a drill has a play attached, the animation plays inline in Run mode when that drill starts — looped, so the next group sees it without you cueing up a video. The same library record drives both the planner stack on Tuesday and the big screen on Wednesday.

Looped playback during the drill — show, don't tell.
The play keeps its pace, holds and options from the Playbook.
Works offline once the session has loaded.

Run mode on an iPhone: the Phase-play patterns drill with its clock, its coaching points in large type, and the attached play animating on a pitch below.

Why a structured drill library, not a folder of links

If your drill library can't add itself to a session, it isn't a library.

YouTube bookmarks

No minutes, no intensity, no focus.
Can't drop into a session.
Half the links rot inside a season.

PDF drill book

Read-only — can't customise to your squad.
Doesn't know about your training week.
Same problem next Saturday.

Notes app

Text-only. No animation.
Search works, planning doesn't.
Easy to write, hard to use mid-training.

SetPiece

Drills as structured records: minutes, intensity, focus, play.
One tap into a session.
Animations play inline during training.
Edit once, future sessions update.

Common questions

Rugby drill library FAQ

Does SetPiece come with rugby drills already?: Yes — SetPiece ships with a starter library across handling, contact, set-piece, defence, kicking and fitness. Meant as a launchpad, not a replacement for your own drills.
Can I add my own drills?: Yes. Adding a drill is a 30-second form. Attach a play from the playbook if it needs one, save once, drop into any session forever.
Are the drills age-grade specific?: Drills are tagged by intensity and focus rather than fixed age groups — a contact drill is the same shape at U16 as for adults, the contact is just dialled down. You can tag your own drills with age notes and filter.
Do drills play as animations?: If a play is attached, yes — animation plays inline when you run that drill in Run mode.
Can I share drills with assistants?: Assistants on the same squad share the library by default. Individual drills can be shared as read-only links to coaches outside your club.

A library that builds your week.

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