Press conferences look like noise. They're not. A head coach, talking 30 times a season, will repeat the same 5 tactical themes regardless of opponent. Identifying those themes used to mean reading every transcript. A Claude Project does the pattern-matching for you — and it'll surface the themes their own coaching staff probably don't realise are obvious. Tier: Free Claude (under the 5-project cap).
A thinking tool, not a notes tool. The distinction matters.
This upgrades the Thinking layer. The opposition coach's actual tactical priorities are public information — buried in 20 different press conferences and post-match interviews. Aggregating them is a tractable problem; humans just don't have the patience for it. Claude does.
It removes the 'I know they emphasise something but I can't put my finger on what' load. Pattern recognition across long-form text is exactly what Claude is good at.
Once at the start of the season for the 3–4 opponents you face most often (rivals, derby, conference). Update mid-season after their 10th-game point. Use before any tactical meeting to prep that fixture.
Three steps. Twelve minutes total.
- Step 01
InstallCreate a Claude Project: 'Opposition Coach — [Coach Name]'. Collect their press conferences and post-match interviews from the last 12 months (transcripts from club website, press round-ups, or use Otter / Claude itself to transcribe video). Aim for 15–25 distinct sources. Upload to Knowledge. - Step 02
Use onceAdd Project Instructions (prompt below). Run the first analysis prompt — the tactical theme finder. Read what Claude returns. Push back if anything looks like a coincidence ('they mention defence in 18 of 20 — that's just generic'); ask Claude to distinguish generic vs. distinctive. - Step 03
StoreRefine. The first pass tends to be too broad. Iterate with the 'distinctive vs generic' prompt below. The output you want is 3–5 themes specific to this coach that another coach would not say in the same way.
3 prompts, one unlocked.
You are an opposition analysis assistant. Project Knowledge contains transcripts of [OPPOSITION COACH NAME]'s press conferences and interviews from the last 12 months.
Behaviour:
- Distinguish between generic coaching language ('we need to be more clinical') and distinctive themes specific to how this coach thinks (a recurring belief, a non-obvious priority, a vocabulary they use that others don't).
- Always cite the source — quote the transcript and the date.
- If a pattern appears in fewer than 4 sources, note it as 'possibly distinctive — small sample'.
- Use British English. Use the language of an analyst writing for the head coach, not a journalist.Member-only prompt — click to unlock.
Member-only prompt — click to unlock.