 I'm just going to share my screen before I get started. Thank you very much for attending this evening. I know that we are all attending in circumstances that we would prefer not to be. It's a difficult time, we acknowledge that. But hopefully we can have a look at how we can help the most important members of our community, our children through this difficult time. There are a lot of people on here, so hopefully the technology is going to cope with having so many. We honestly weren't expecting as many as this. So again, I just want to say thank you for making the time this evening, this afternoon, or whatever time of the day it is. So, just a quick introduction to myself. My name is Terry Barton. I am a grassroots coach. I'm a father. I am the chief executive of the coaching manual. The coaching manual is the parent of Top Techers, which is our newest product. And we've built this because we love the game. Because we love trying to help children also fall in love with the game. So that is ultimately where we're coming from. The Top Techers is, for most people, brand new. But we are a business with nine years of track record in this industry. So by now, hopefully, we don't always get it right, but we kind of hope that we gradually are starting to look like we know what we're doing. So anybody, just before we get started, and I give an introduction, I just want to kind of, we are in unprecedented times. It's a phrase that we hear an awful lot at the moment. And I actually just wanted to anybody who works in the healthcare industry, to anybody who is on the front line of what's happening globally at the moment. And I don't mean business people like myself who are in the thick of things in many other ways. But those who are actually fighting on the front line, if you have made time tonight, then all I can say is that I admire so much for what you're doing. And I admire the fight that you're going to take to this virus. So apologies if there are full dropouts in any of the technology. It might be just purely down to the large number of people who are here. So a little bit about us, a little bit about the coaching manual top techers and why we've done what we've done. And then we'll get into what am I doing for my players throughout this period. It's eight minutes past seven on Wednesday evening in the UK. Every other Wednesday evening for the past six months, I've been on a football pitch at this time, coaching my boys. We took the decision at the end of last week that we would have to stop doing that now. The advice that we were given by the Football Association was to stop doing it for until the beginning of April. But I think that we're now starting to understand that this is going to be quite a long process. And I think that we are in it for the long haul. So let's stick together in that process and let's make sure that our players, our coaches, if we run clubs, are still able to learn, still able to love this wonderful game during this very difficult time. The coaching manual is a family business. It was founded by me and my younger brother and my older brother, which is usually a recipe for disaster. And on many occasions, I suppose you could say it has been. But we founded this business because we love football. We grew up in a small rural part of the northwest of England called the Lake District. And as soon as we were able to walk, we were playing with a ball. It was definitely a passion that was passed down to us by our father. It was something that gave us a great deal of comfort in difficult times in our life. Times that most children shouldn't face. The loss of parents and things like that. The solace that we took from football is something that is lifelong and will always be lifelong. And here we are in a difficult time that none of our children should have faced and hopefully they can find some solace in the game as well. I have a son myself, the video that I showed you at the beginning, which I may go back to for those who didn't see it, or actually I'll probably play it again at the end. That features my own son, Jones, who is 10 years old, loves football. The one thing that gives me great pride is that I've passed down this passion that I inherited from my father to him and he loves the game. And Jones will feature, although not personally tonight, he's going to feature in some of the stuff that we talk about. So the passion for football, the passion for practice and our real desire to pass that passion on to players is something that is fundamental to everything that we do at the coaching manual. And I want to make sure that we try and pass this passion on to other children. And if we can do that on a global basis, then these three boys from a town of 3,000 people in Cumbria have done an amazing thing. And in order to get there, we have to thank all of our customers, all of the people who are part of this journey with us. So to you guys who are attending tonight, we give our thanks. We also hope that you're all safe and that we get through this particularly difficult time. So let's talk about Top Tech as what am I doing with my players? Well, they are in lockdown. The schools it was announced today in the UK will close at the end of this week. There is no time limit on when those schools will reopen. It's an indefinite closure until further notice. So we are in a position where it's almost impossible to try and think about what's going to happen in the coming times. But we are going to do everything that we possibly can to minimise the impact on children. And in this particular instance to minimise the impact that it could have on their development, not just as young soccer players, but as people who love this game, because if we can impact them at this time, then it might be something that they carry on through the rest of their life. So Top Tech as was founded, well it was actually launched in November of last year, we developed it to create a platform that would help children fall in love with practicing the basic skills that are fundamental to any young soccer player. So I'm logged in as a coach now. If I log out again, there are three ways that we can log in. We can log in as a coach, as a parent or as a child. I'll log back into my coach account. Now again, apologies for anyone who's having issues with the sound. So I'm going to go to full screen, I've turned my camera off and hopefully this will help the thing play. So just bear with me and I'll try and make a few changes. So I've logged in as a coach. How do I use it as a coach? This is an important thing. The other thing that's probably important at this stage to say is that coaches will never have to pay for this. So we're always going to make it available for coaches for free. And that's a reason that we've taken as a business and as people because we actually believe that coaches, especially volunteer coaches, give so much of their time to children that if there's anything that we can do to remove the financial burden from coaches, then we're willing to do that. So the coaches portal is free and that doesn't mean that we're not going to build great functionality in it, we are, but we are going to make sure that you can use it without having to pay for it. So the coaches portal, you can see the players that I've set up, but the first place probably to look is into my account. So inside here, I can go and look at my first name, last name, email address, password. A good thing is there's no billing details. Like I said, it's not going to be paid for. The other elements of my account are the connections and the requests part. So if we onboard your team as a business, then all of the connections to your players will be automatically created when we onboard you. And that's just via an Excel sheet that you send over with your players' parent email addresses on. But if you are an individual coach and you're getting your players to sign up separately, then you need to connect to them so that you can start to build a team. So you just go into here, request a new connection, put the child's name in and the email address, and then that will send the parent an email address saying that you've requested a connection. You'll then be able to see all of your connections in here so you can work with those connections if a player leaves for whatever reason, you can remove them. So requests is where you add or request new connections with parents. Connections is where you manage those connections. When we do an onboarding, you'll see that the connections are either bold or they are in greyed out. So if they are greyed out, not involved, that means that they are not currently connected to you. So you maybe need to give those parents a bit of a nudge. Back into account details is this part of the platform is just password is the main thing there. So my dashboard, my teams, I can build as many teams as I want in here. It can be my development squad, my different teams for the age group. It could be a team that I'm building for a bit of fun so that we can actually compete as grown-ups within the business. So it can be however we want to do it, but if I build a team, it means that when we release the scoreboards feature, then the team will be able to see each other's scores. So all I do to build it is add new team, choose a team name, choose a colour, URL if I need it and away we go. Once I've created the team I need to go and add my players. So I can go into the team when I click manage players and if I scroll down to the bottom I've got an option to add. I just need to go and choose a player from my list of players that are connected to me to add those in there. So I've got my team built here and the other thing that I can do as a coach inside here is actually manage an individual learning plan for those players. So if I go into my son's account and I choose to edit his development plan, I just go in, select edit and then I can remove a skill or remove all the skills. And then I just need to go and add the techniques back in. So if he's doing a, say I want him to do some fitness, let's get him doing some push-ups. So some of the skills you might not know what the actual skill is because everybody's got slightly different definitions. So what we have here is a really nice little pop-out where you can watch the video. Hopefully we all know what push-ups are. It's a basic technique in the video so that we know that the children are getting the right techniques. So I'm happy that I know what push-ups are. I add that in and save it. And then that gets pushed straight to his child account. Let's add a third technique for him. Let's have a look at turning and let's give him the croiff turn. I think we all know what that one is as well. So there you go. That's his development plan set up for an individual basis. So I've looked at some things that, one, I think you're going to be fun for him to work on. Two, things that I think he needs to get better at. And three, things that are going to challenge him. It's not just about the football skills, top-techers. It's about a bit more than that. It is about things like movement, so fundamental movement. It's about fitness. It's about all of the different components of the game. Really focusing on the physical and the technical sides at the moment at launch. And like I said, this is fairly new. So we've got quite a long way to go with this. We only launched it properly in November. So I'll go back in and add his last technique. So that's his individual learning plan done. He can now go and log into the app and he'll be able to access that plan. So what does it look like from a team's perspective? Well this is really a cool piece of technology that we added relatively recently. It's only been around for about a week and a half or two weeks. This is a way of helping your team in a quick way. So not every coach has got time to go through 13 players and add individual learning plans. And to be quite honest, not every coach has got the experience to do that. I mean, I consider myself to be relatively knowledgeable, but at the end of the day I'm a grassroots coach. I'm not an expert in child development. I don't profess to be any kind of expert in knowing how all of those things that kids need to do in order to become whatever they're going to become. But what I do know is that they need to practice and they need to find things that are going to be fun for them. So the edit team plan is just a really quick and simple way for a coach to just create a learning plan for the whole team. It's a great way to inspire competition because they're all working on the same thing. So they'll all see how their scores change in the scoreboards. But all I do is I go and select the techniques from the learning plan. So if I'm looking at dribbling, I can look at the different dribbling techniques that are in here and I can choose one to add for them. The thing that's worth pointing out in the coach's portal here is the ability to change the difficulty level of the techniques when you're adding a team plan only. Each player has their own difficulty level which is set by their parent and I'll show you that a little bit later. So I can choose difficulty levels for the players within the team learning plan. So I'm going to keep it at the higher level of difficulty. I think we know what running with the ball is. We've kept the information really simple for kids. So there's only a few things that they can look at. I can again have a quick look at the video. Yeah, big touches. We know what running with the ball is. I'm going to add that into my team plan. I'm going to save it at level three. If I've already added it in. So let's do diamond dribbling instead. And there we go. So they've got a team learning plan now, my team. I'm going to go and have a look into my son's account and I'll just show you how that looks from his perspective. Now the you can log into top tech is like I said in three different ways. But I'm logging in. There's actually a different kind of way into terms of technology to log in. So I'm logging in on a desktop here. But you can also go and log in on an app. So it's kids that we're targeting with this thing. They spend their life on mobile devices, tablets. They tend not to any more be working on desktop hardware. So let me log in as Jones. Saves his password. And I can go and have a look at his account. So he's got his top training. So this is how it looks for the players. It's fun. It's colourful. It's not heavy in text because kids don't like to read loads and loads of different bits of text. If he wants to go and discover techniques himself, he can. You can go and watch the videos. See what the what the technique is. There is some stuff telling him about the basic coaching points that he needs to think about. But the video is really self kind of explanatory for him in terms of the technique. So when we designed this platform, it wasn't just to get kids practicing. We don't want kids to just have a thousand bad touches of the ball or a thousand pointless touches of the ball. We are really, really strong on having the right technique and doing things in the right way in soccer. I never went particularly far as a player, but my younger brother Chris did. He went and played in the professional game at Carlisle. So the difference between me and Chris, if you like, was that I was never as thorough on learning technique as he was. I was never as committed and the major difference was that he just practiced relentlessly to perfect his technique. So when children watch these videos, we don't want them to just watch it and do it in the wrong way. We really are trying to use technology to teach children the right techniques. And for parents and for grassroots coaches who maybe don't know the techniques inside out, and I would count myself in this, watching these videos is such a great way for a coach or for a parent to learn about the things that are going to help their child get better. From a, we're going to be in an issue at the moment with, where we can't go and see other people. We might want to do one-to-one coaching with our child, but we can't go to the one-to-one coach. This is perfect because the parent and the technology can become the best one-to-one coach that there is, because all of a sudden I've got the right information to give to my child. So techniques dead important. Child can watch the video and learn the technique and then go and take the challenge. So the child gets a really simple video telling them how to take the challenge and it tells them how many they can do in 20 seconds. So they have to go and try and score a bronze, silver or gold. So you go in here and you enter your score. I can put 60 in because I know that it's his best score. So it just gives them a bit of a pat on the back for doing that. And that's how children can browse the content and find things that they are interested in. But also importantly for kids in here is where all of their data is kept. So we can look at all of the different colour trophies that he's won. He can also go and have a look at his scores. So one of my favourites is juggling. And this is why I know that Top Tekkers is so good because when my son, when Joan started working with this platform when we were kind of in a soft beat phase in September his top score for juggling was about 25 to 30. He was doing really well on the others but his juggling wasn't so great. And he said to me, Dad, I'm going to set a target that by the end of January or February I'm going to have got over 100 juggles and I'm going to hit the gold for the three star challenge. He was two star when he started, he's now three star. So he practiced and practiced, got close on a few occasions when he took challenges but he could see that he was getting better. So he kept going, kept going, kept motivated and eventually ended up getting 116 which is just tremendous because juggling is really hard. You can't get good at it if you don't practice. It's just not one of those things that comes naturally like striking a ball or something like that. You really do have to work at moving your feet, getting your balance, controlling the ball in the right way to get good at it. So he did and good for him, he's set his juggling. Now he may go back down beneath that score now because obviously development isn't completely linear so he'll just keep motivated to keep changing. We will add more difficulty levels in so I'm really looking forward to the time when I had gold as 150 and he's got to go after that again. So all of his scores are kept in there dead easy for him to navigate around, it's built for him. When it comes to his account what can he do? Well actually he can't do anything. We've really locked down the security of this. So there is no social media element to this. There is no internal communication element for this. We know that that's really dangerous for child protection. We are working with children under the age of 13 so it's obviously illegal to provide a social media platform for children of that age and I know that there are other platforms that do that. I completely disagree with it as a parent. There's enough pressure on children at the moment without them going into something where information they get might be incorrect. So it's dead safe. He can't even change his username. All he can do is browse content, take challenges and check his scores out. We are going to add in a scoreboard feature very soon and that will be a great way for him to compete with his teammates in the beginning. But the other important thing for him as a player is his training. So these are the things that his coaches have given him. As I showed you earlier we did the foot control volley, croiff, turn and shuttle run. So he can go and practice those. He can see that he's done those. Now as a coach I typically set learning plans for players to last a week. There is absolutely nothing wrong with leaving them for two weeks. There's equally nothing wrong with changing them every other day if you want. It gives children variety. You can let the parents know in the team WhatsApps that you've added some new skills, get the kids on there, get them working hard. So he can go and see that his top training and there's his team's top training. So these are the skills that are a bit more demanding for him and his teammates, but that's all kept in there. Again, sorry for anybody with the issues around the quality and some of the technical issues but I'm going to make sure that I'm recording all of this anyway so we'll have a good copy of it hopefully and we'll share that. So I'm going to go back out of here and I'm going to log out of his parent account. So the last login type to show you and I'm assuming that a lot of people on this are parents. So the last thing that I want to show you is how you log in as a parent. It's vital really that parents have got control over this and this is really what makes us unique as a business is the security that we've built in for this for your children. There is nothing out there that's anywhere near as secure. So I can go in and look at my children. I can go and check out their scores so I can go and see that he's been active. I can go and see when he was last using it. Oh, so he's been using it recently which is terrific. I can go and check out his trophies. Like I said, I can go and look at his scores. So let me just check on his juggling. Yeah, still 116 way to go Jones. So that's the overview that I get as a parent but the really important stuff is his account. So I can look at his activity, the number of trophies and just a bit of a summary. But then I have real control over everything that he does. So when you log in and create an account as a parent you get to add the first and last name. You get to add the username and you get to set the password. Passwords are simpler for children. They're not difficult. The thing about them is them. So if a child forgets his password which believe me, it happens all the time you can just go in there. You don't have to remember what the last password was that you set for that child. So it's not awkward in that sense. You can just go and share a new password in there. So the other thing that you can do as a parent is add the child's year of birth. We give a recommended difficulty level for that birth year but I actually have changed it because he was finding it a little bit too easy when he was doing it before that. Now that is pretty much the product. We've got three types of login on the same platform. You can log in as a player, coach or parent. I know that most people here are coaches. So that's where I would start. You can register quite easily. So if you've already got a parent account and you want a coach's account that's simple, you just need to go and create your coach's account. It'll recognise your emails already in the system as a parent and it'll just say, hey do you want to create a parent account and a coach's account and away you go. So yeah, we will share this. I know that there were technical difficulties. We will rectify that and chop in a decent video so that we've got everything that we need. I'm going to play the video again as we kind of go out of this in a moment but I just wanted to say one more time that I really appreciate everybody's time. We are working round the clock to try and make sure that this platform serves children in the best possible way at this time. They're going to get stressed out. They're going to get frustrated. My kids found out that the schools were getting closed on Friday so they were thinking it's really exciting but they don't really understand what's coming. That they're going to be locked down in the house and it's going to get really boring for them. So if it was just juggling and that's all they were doing, I think that they'd get really bored really quickly. The great thing about top techers is that there's loads of things for them to get stuck into. It can be fitness, it can be juggling which we have got in there but it can be a whole range of other things. We're going to be capturing more content in the next, hopefully by the end of next week we'll have released a whole load of new stuff that kids can do in the house and actually stuff that children can do on their own or with friends. But I would urge any parent here, we're going to be locked in with them. Just do some of the challenges with them because they're really good fun as a parent. They really are good fun. That's why we set up the group between a few of the guys in work because whilst we're all unable to see each other we're going to see who can score the most. We do have the offer that people are asking about, the offer that we've got. It is five dollars, five pounds, five euros to get us through to the end of July. So five, five per player but through to the end of July. It's normally three ninety nine a month. So as a business we basically cut it down as close as we could to cost because we just know how much pressure everybody's under and we don't want to kind of be seen to be taking liberties with people. But at the same time we've kind of got a guidance from the government about when things are going to change and that's why we've gone for end of July because by then we're hoping that some of the football activities in groups will start to have picked up again. But just want to say again thank you so much for attending and from everybody at the coaching manual from everybody in all parts of our business all over the world. If there's anything that we can do to help we're always here. We just hope that all of our customers all of our friends stay really safe during this period. And we all get through it together that we stick together and that we come out of it stronger, better and hopefully with the children technically improve their football skills. So thanks again and I'm going to play out this video at the end. Thank you very much.