Martin's Rugby Coaching Forum

All good questions!

Duration: the test length depends on the fitness of your team of course. My experience is to make two groups of 15 players, with their warm-up and all that makes up the 90 minutes.

With the software you can devote more attention to the players rather than looking up and down the list on your clipboard and run the test perhaps with more players.

You want to test a large group, perhaps it is a good idea to have somebody focussing on the how the players perform the test and make the beeps. He can call out the name to another person just focussing on the clicking the software buttons.

The paring up is an interesting idea! Never heard of this before. The idea of the software is that no seperate paperwork needs to be done.

Please let me know if you have other questions,

I am looking into purchasing this software to use with our team testing. I just have a couple questions in regards to how the test is administered.

On the site it says it will take about 90 minutes to test an entire team. Why is it that it takes so long? How is it that you've set up the test? Are you only doing a couple players at a time? We're looking at running this as part of our initial testing trials with a large number of players trying out and being tested. I want to know how exactly our increased number of players would affect the time it takes to administer the test. We currently have the players go in two different groups with each player paired up with another one who keeps track of the level achieved and reports to the coaching staff who record the results on a spreadsheet. I just want to make sure this isn't any less efficient than what we currently have in place.

Thanks!