Robert Saxton

Staff

Staff record

staff is the non-playing subtype of person: people this export decoded as staff rather than as players. It is only one of the three places a career can live. Plenty of well-known managers have no staff row at all — some are stored as players, and many sit in person_unclassified, whose subtype the decoder could not determine. Whichever table a person is in, their jobs come from staff_history joined to job_type, which is the table below.

Current ability
80
Potential ability
130
Home reputation
50
Current reputation
50
World reputation
10
International appearances
0
Coaching qualification
—

Ability and the three reputations are the raw game figures, which run to roughly 200 rather than to 20 — they are printed exactly as stored and nothing is converted. coaching_qualification is a badge level with no lookup table in the export, so it is shown as the stored number and no name is invented for it.

Calculated at game start

Age at game start
66
Reputation
National 0.0 / 5 stars
Coaching style
Tactical
Preferred mentality
Balanced
Preferred playing style
Long
Preferred pressing style
—
Coaching category scores calculated by the game
CategoryScoreStars
Overall47 / 1002.5 / 5

Football Manager's own game-start calculations from the attributes above, ported from the game's rules by the enriched overlay (method in each value's tooltip). Coaching scores use the game's FM22 training categories applied to every release and leave out the secondary-job and injury reductions; a dash is a value the rule had no input for, and board members have no reputation label.

Appearance

Ethnicity code
0
Hair colour code
0
Skin tone code
0

Raw codes from the source. The export carries no lookup table for any of them, so they are shown as stored and are not given names.

Non-playing ability

Judging player ability 10
Judging player potential 14
Tactical knowledge 3
Coaching 11
Youngsters 6
Motivating 15
People management 2
Discipline 18

8 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging staff ability, Judging team data, Analysing data, Presenting data, Coaching technique, Hardness of training, Physiotherapy, Injury management, Mind games, Patience, Determination, Eccentricity, Versatility, Buying players, Negotiating, Business, Resources, Interference.

Coaching

Coaching Coaching: 6 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale. Coaching: 6 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale.
6 of 6 recorded
Coaching — every value plotted above, plus the ones that are not recorded.
AttributeValue
Attacking 7
Defending 10
Technical 6
Tactical 13
Mental 11
Fitness 3
Attacking 7
Defending 10
Technical 6
Tactical 13
Mental 11
Fitness 3

6 of 6 values recorded from staff_coaching.

Goalkeeping coaching

Goalkeeper shot stopping 1

1 of 3 values recorded from staff_coaching. Not recorded: Goalkeeper handling, Goalkeeper distribution.

Tactical style

The tactical preferences this person brings to a side, on the same 1 to 20 scale.

Attacking 10
Directness 19
Marking 11
Offside 10
Free roles 9

5 of 17 values recorded from staff_tactical_style. Not recorded: Tempo, Width, Depth, Pressing, Sitting back, Use of playmaker, Use of subs, Flexibility, Flamboyancy, Squad rotation, Set pieces, Dirtiness allowance.

Career spells

Marked current: 3 of 14 spells. A spell counts as current when date_left is empty or falls in the future — the source records plenty of long-finished spells with no end date, so more than one spell can carry the mark.

Career spells from staff_history, in the order the export wrote them.
ClubRoleFromToStatus
Gainsborough Trinity Player — — Current
— Player — 1968-01-01 Ended
Plymouth Argyle Player — — Current
Exeter City Player — — Current
Exeter City Player / Manager 1975-06-01 1977-12-01 Ended
Exeter City Manager 1977-12-01 1979-01-05 Ended
Plymouth Argyle Manager 1979-01-05 1981-05-31 Ended
Blackburn Rovers Manager 1979-05-31 1986-12-30 Ended
York City Manager 1987-06-09 1988-09-30 Ended
Sunderland Assistant Manager 1995-06-01 2002-05-31 Ended
Bolton Wanderers Scout 2002-06-01 2005-05-30 Ended
Sunderland Assistant Manager 2006-06-01 2006-06-28 Ended
Sunderland Scout 2006-06-28 2006-10-01 Ended
Newcastle United Scout 2007-05-31 2008-01-01 Ended

National-team spells

No national-team spells are recorded in person_nation_contract for this person.

Club contract

Team
—
Joined
—
Contract start
—
Expires
—
Weekly wage
—

Languages

No languages are recorded in person_language for this person.

Retirement

Retirement facts from person_retirement.
TypeDate
None 2009-07-01

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

ClubRating
Sunderland 75
Plymouth Argyle 50
Exeter City 40

Liked people

PersonRating
Peter Reid 75
Adrian Heath 50
Sam Allardyce 40

Disliked people

PersonRating
Lilian Laslandes 75
— 75
Nicky Summerbee 75
Roy Keane 25

Personal information

Date of birth
1943-09-06
Nationality
England
Birth city
—

Personality

Personality is stored on the same 1–20 scale as the attributes, and is shown exactly as recorded. A dash is a value the export did not record, which is not a zero.

Adaptability —
Ambition 12
Controversy —
Loyalty 13
Pressure —
Professionalism 5
Sportsmanship 3
Temperament 5