Glossary

Whilst we've tried to make toepoke as easy to use as we possibly can, there might be a few terms kicking around you may not have come across before. This page is to clear anything up.

As you can see we've borrowed a few terms from the football world and applied them to the site. Think we've got one wrong, or have a better term in mind? Why not tell us and help improve the site for everyone!

Avatar

An avatar is a way of sharing an image of yourself on websites, blogs and forums.

We use avatars on the site so you can see who you're playing your matches against (toepoke.co.uk has an appalling memory). We use another site to manage our avatars.

For more information, and to create your own avatar to use on toepoke, visit en.gravatar.com. Once you've signed up, remember to come back and tell us what it is.

Beta

toepoke.co.uk is currently in beta. In essence what this means is we've gone through as much testing as we can without having real people use the site.

For a more in-depth look at the term beta, please refer to Wikipedia.

Bench

When setting the sides for your match you may find you've got too many players, in which case you can leave some on the bench.

If one of your players drops out, you can promote someone from the bench to take the spare place.

Block Booking

Typically a venue (or pitch) where you have to pay a fee, you can either phone up on spec and book a pitch, or have an arrangement with the venue where the pitch is booked, and you only phone up to cancel. This is a block booking.

Cached Content

If you need to find something on the internet, you use a search engine like Google, Bing or Yahoo.

When you ask the engine to search it doesn't go off and look at sites on the internet. The search engine will look at an index of sites on the internet, and report this in it's search results. The index is kind of like a second copy of the internet.

When we talk of cached content it's this index we're talking about. For instance if you decide to delete your account in the future we will remove any mention of you on the site. However we can't do anything about content already cached by search engines.

Deadline

Where I play I have to cancel the pitch the day before if I don't have enough players (otherwise I still get charged). In toepoke.co.uk world we refer to this as the deadline.

When your deadline is hit (see your match dashboard for when this happens) we'll send your manager an e-mail saying how many players you have in case you need to cancel the match.

In addition, once the deadline has passed we'll tell the manager(s) whenever someone drops out, or puts their name down. That way you can keep on top of things in the run up to the match.

Future Football Matches

Managers have certain privileges over regular members. These include being able to see upto 3 football matches in the future.

This means your manager can add registrations for people who are on holiday, or cancel matches over Christmas and Bank Holidays.

Game

The game(s) you setup define how all your future football matches will be run. For instance you can use reminders to say when invites to your squad are sent out, or how often you play your game.

Invitation Code

If one of your mates sends you an invitation to join their game we'll e-mail at unique code. You can use this to join their squad.

Manager

Each football game has at least one manager.

The manager is responsible for booking pitches, picking sides for matches and adding players into the squad.

Match

A match is one your football games. So if your game is "every thursday at 6pm", then your next match will be Thu, 31st May and the following match will be on Thu, 7th Jun.

Member

A member is someone who is in your squad and gets invites to your football matches.

Nominator

A Nominator is someone who has invited someone else to your football game. So if you (as manager) invite Fred, then Fred invites Barney to your matches, then Fred has nominated Barney.

This just means that if you get someone wanting to play, you know who invited them so you can speak to the nominator in advance of accepting the new member, if you feel you need to.

Public Game(s)

Managers can elect to have their game public or private. A Public game means that the game is visible on the internet for people to find games to join.

Naturally anyone wishing to join your game would have to get permission from the game manager first!

Private Game(s)

Managers can elect to have their game public or private. A Private game means that the game can only be seen by those who have been invited.

Permalink

A permalink is a link to your game where the URL does not change.

You can change the venue, or how often you play, but link will always remain the same, unless you delete the game of course!

The advantage of a permalink is you can safely bookmark your game permalink and always have your games just a click away!

Registration

A Registration is basically someome in your squad saying whether they are able to play or not.

Reminder

A reminder is kind of what it says on the tin! When organising a game you need to do certain things at certain times. For instance if your game is on a Thursday night, you may send invites to the game on the Friday before. If you pay for your pitch you may need to send out an e-mail out reminding people that we'll be charged if the game doesn't go ahead and they should drop out if necessary. Finally of course you'll need to send out the teams for the game (unless you make them up on the night).

One of the ways toepoke.co.uk takes away the faff is by sending all these e-mails out. However we don't know when you want them sending out, this is where the reminders come in.

Small-Sided football

small sided football is a collective term for 5-a-side, 6-a-side, 7-a-side ... well basically anything under 11-a-side.

Social Network

toepoke.co.uk supports social networks like Twitter and Facebook.

You can use your social network account to sign into your account (or link your existing account) and to choose an avatar.

Squad

Your squad is a list of everyone who's joined your game and gets an invite to each match.

Team Sheet

Once you have enough players for your match you'll use the team sheet to set the sides for your match (or just let toepoke.co.uk pick them for you).

If you tend to decide the sides when you get to your match you can just put everyone on the same side and work it out when you get there.

Testing

As with any new creation, be it a building, a car or a website like toepoke.co.uk we need to make sure the thing works as we expect. As always Wikipedia is a good resource for a fuller explanation ... if you're really that interested .

Timetable

toepoke.co.uk uses reminders to well ... reminder you to do something. This could be to put your name down for a match, or to book a pitch for next week.

The timetable screen shows when all your reminders are due to go out for your match. You can change them to, so they're more in line with what you need.

Venue

Facility where your football games are played, local schools for instance often hire out their facilities during the evening when the children no longer need the facilities.

If you can't a venue near you in our database (which is quite likely given we're quite a new site!), then the Football Foundation Pitch Finder is an excellent resource for finding venues.

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