John Patrick Ward

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
108
Potential ability
110
Home reputation
95
Current reputation
95
World reputation
50
International appearances
0
Coaching qualification
1

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.

Appearance

Ethnicity code
0
Hair colour code
6
Hair length code
5
Skin tone code
5

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 12
Judging player potential 14
Tactical knowledge 12
Coaching 18
Hardness of training 8
Youngsters 17
Motivating 8
People management 12
Discipline 10
Mind games 6
Determination 13
Buying players 9

12 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging staff ability, Judging team data, Analysing data, Presenting data, Coaching technique, Physiotherapy, Injury management, Patience, Eccentricity, Versatility, 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 10
Defending 12
Technical 11
Tactical 10
Mental 10
Fitness 10
Attacking 10
Defending 12
Technical 11
Tactical 10
Mental 10
Fitness 10

6 of 6 values recorded from staff_coaching.

Goalkeeping coaching

Goalkeeper shot stopping 3
Goalkeeper handling 3
Goalkeeper distribution 3

3 of 3 values recorded from staff_coaching.

Tactical style

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

Attacking 10
Directness 12
Tempo 13
Width 13
Depth 6
Pressing 12
Sitting back 12
Marking 15
Offside 10
Use of playmaker 4
Use of subs 12
Free roles 5
Flexibility 11
Flamboyancy 10
Squad rotation 4
Dirtiness allowance 5

16 of 17 values recorded from staff_tactical_style. Not recorded: Set pieces.

Career spells

Marked current: 5 of 25 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
Lincoln City Player — — Current
Workington Player — — Current
Watford Player 1979-07-01 1981-06-01 Ended
Grimsby Town Player 1981-06-01 — Current
Lincoln City Player 1982-03-01 1982-07-01 Ended
Watford Assistant Manager 1982-07-01 1987-06-30 Ended
Aston Villa Assistant Manager 1987-07-01 1991-09-30 Ended
York City Manager 1991-10-01 1993-03-01 Ended
Bristol Rovers Manager 1993-08-01 1996-05-10 Ended
Burnley Assistant Manager 1996-07-01 1997-03-26 Ended
Bristol City Manager 1997-03-27 1998-10-28 Ended
Wolverhampton Wanderers Assistant Manager 1998-11-01 2000-12-18 Ended
Wolverhampton Wanderers Manager 2000-12-18 2001-01-03 Ended
Wolverhampton Wanderers Assistant Manager 2001-01-03 2003-06-30 Ended
Carlisle United Assistant Manager 2003-07-01 2003-10-01 Ended
Cheltenham Town Manager 2003-11-06 2007-10-02 Ended
Carlisle United Manager 2007-10-02 2008-11-03 Ended
Stockport County Assistant Manager 2009-07-09 2009-09-04 Ended
Colchester United Assistant Manager 2009-09-04 2010-05-31 Ended
Colchester United Manager 2010-05-31 2012-09-24 Ended
Bristol Rovers Manager 2012-12-17 2014-03-28 Ended
Bristol Rovers Director of Football 2014-03-28 2014-05-08 Ended
Kettering Town Coach 2015-07-01 2015-09-17 Ended
Walsall Coach 2015-09-17 — Current
Walsall Manager 2015-09-17 — Current

National-team spells

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

Club contract

Club
Walsall
Joined
2015-09-17
Contract start
2015-09-17
Expires
2018-06-30
Weekly wage
£800

Squad numbers

Squad numbers from club_squad_number, keyed on team_uid.
TeamNumber
Team 731 —

Languages

Languages from person_language.
LanguageFirst languageProficiency
English Yes —

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

Disliked clubs

ClubRating
Northampton Town 75

Liked people

PersonRating
— 100
Adrian Neil Boothroyd 85
— 80
— 75
— 60

Personal information

Date of birth
1951-04-07
Nationality
England
Birth city
Lincoln
Joined current club
2015-09-17

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 10
Ambition 10
Controversy 5
Loyalty 15
Pressure 11
Professionalism 16
Sportsmanship 18
Temperament 14