# The Development and Evaluation of a Training Monitoring System for Amateur Rugby Union
## 3 Results
### Evaluation of the Training Monitoring System
#### 3.1.1 Coach Interview

Table 2: Higher order themes identified from strength and conditioning coaches’ responses to questions regarding the effectiveness of the training monitoring system. As part of the survey, the S&C coaches were asked to rate seven aspects of their experience using the TMS on a 1-5 Likert scale (1 = the most negative response, 5 = the most positive response). The mean responses (\(\pm\)SD) are represented in Table 4.  
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**Theme** & **Representative Quotes** & **No. of Responses** \\ \hline \multirow{8}{*}{Lack of player compliance} & _“Even after the presentation they didn’t all see the value in it even though it was well explained_ to them. 1 _know that was a problem and 1 heard players mentioned that.”_ (Coach 1) _\"I'm not sure the players understood that the reason are never collecting the data has to help_ _them, it wasn’t to keep ourselves busy. I suppose it’s about changing their bidj system and_ _taching them that monitoring is important for injury prevention and increasing their performance._ (Coach 2) _\"I think maybe the unknown was probably an issue. Some of the players just aren’t used to it, no fault on their part, they have just never been exposed to it... Then after a while my encouragement to get them to use it stopped because it was becoming too much work.\"_ (Coach 4) _\"For the first couple of weeks there was good buy-in but then a lot of the players that were using it dropped off when they saw the other players not using it... I suppose us not acting on the data caused players to drop out but again that was because we never’t getting consistent data. We never't able to get a clear picture of the whole squad so we don’t find’t decide the data to the players as much as we should have and take action on the data.\"_ (Coach 1) _\"Getting them to do it consistently is key even if it mounts you don’t get all the measures you want. If it becomes too much of a theory isn’t do it.\"_ (Coach 2) _\"Because he had such a small group of players who were consistently using the system the data kind of get skewed a little bit. If we had better buy-in across the panel the weekly training report would have been really unsful.\"_ (Coach 3) _\"Getting the players to get data on much days was a disaster. There are so many psychoactical factors going to 1 didn't like asking them to think about their state pre-game because it might highlight something negative in them... I just felt it was impractical as I wasn’t even going to be doing anything with the data that state of jugg.\"_ (Coach 1) _\"Getting things to fill out where S&P offer a match is nightmaker. It’s a challenge because that is going to be the most difficult session of the week and probably the most important data to get.\"_ (Coach 3) _\"It's must impossible. It is very difficult to approach them before a game and 1 wouldn't dare approach them asking them to fill in their data after a game if we lost. They don’t want to talk about it.\"_ (Coach 6) _\"The amateur game, you can give them all the guidelines you want but because there are so many other factors, nov't, home life etc. that you can't be guaranteed they’ll follow them... There are too many variables in the amateur game to control for. I think there's a tendency to think that what works in the top game transfers to the amateur game and that we should try to do exactly what they are doing but a lot of the time it doesn’t work.\"_ (Coach 1) _\"I think it didn't matter what we did this year just wasn’t going to work. This year nothing was right; eating, drinking, their behaviour of the field, nothing using right compared to the previous years. You could have said till my way a grand school to use the system and I don’t know if it would have made any difference.\"_ (Coach 2) _\"We've quite a few gu gu guos are in college but have part-time jobs at night, a lot of them in_ _Pubs. On Whatshops they could be working until 3 in the morning and then getting up for a let's at 9.