We've been building an app for you

The rugby the mainstream ignores — from someone building it

If you only read one thing from us this fortnight, make it this.

Xhino Drangu is building Albanian rugby from the ground up — the coaching pipeline, the domestic league, the fixture calendar that didn't exist five years ago. If you want to know what rebuilding a rugby culture from nearly scratch actually looks like, his conversation with us is the closest you'll get without being there.

We've built an app for you — here's what's in it

For the last few weeks we've been quietly rolling out Rugby TTL as a proper app — one you install on your phone home screen and use like any other native app. It's called rugbyttl.app and it's the flagship of everything we're doing now.

Everything below lives in the app. Install it once, sign in as a Member (free, passwordless), and you're set.

SAVE — see a clip, an article or an episode you don't want to lose? Tap the heart. Saved to your account, every device, forever. No more scrolling to find the thing you half-remember.

WATCH LATER — line up the videos you want to watch, come back on your own time. Built for people who follow the game around work, family and everything else.

(Both are the phone-screen features you'll have seen us posting about — that's them in action, in the app.)

What's coming next in the app

We're not done. Over the next two weeks:

NOTIFICATIONS — choose exactly which alerts reach you, topic by topic. Match results on, everything else off, or however you want it. You decide, not an algorithm.

OFFLINE — download articles and newsletters on wifi and read them anywhere. Plane, tube, motorway, touchline. No signal required.

Both live in the app. Members-only. Free.

How to get the app

Two-step, 30 seconds:

1. Install: Open rugbyttl.app on your phone. Tap the browser menu → "Add to Home Screen" (iPhone) or "Install app" (Android). Rugby TTL now lives on your home screen like any other app.

2. Sign in as a Member: Free, passwordless — just your email + a verification code. Do it in the app, or on web at rugbyttl.com/members. Same account either way.

That's it. You'll have SAVE and WATCH LATER instantly, and NOTIFICATIONS + OFFLINE as soon as they roll out.

Cheers,
Rugby TTL