Stephen Robert Purches

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
132
Potential ability
140
Home reputation
122
Current reputation
122
World reputation
75
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
11
Hair length code
6
Skin tone code
6

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 11
Judging player potential 12
Tactical knowledge 12
Hardness of training 10
Youngsters 14
Motivating 12
People management 14
Determination 13

8 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging staff ability, Judging team data, Analysing data, Presenting data, Coaching, Coaching technique, Physiotherapy, Injury management, Discipline, Mind games, Patience, 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 14
Defending 13
Technical 12
Tactical 12
Mental 11
Fitness 7
Attacking 14
Defending 13
Technical 12
Tactical 12
Mental 11
Fitness 7

6 of 6 values recorded from staff_coaching.

Goalkeeping coaching

Goalkeeper shot stopping 1
Goalkeeper handling 1
Goalkeeper distribution 1

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 5
Tempo 13
Width 12
Depth 8
Pressing 10
Flexibility 8
Flamboyancy 11
Squad rotation 11
Set pieces 14

10 of 17 values recorded from staff_tactical_style. Not recorded: Sitting back, Marking, Offside, Use of playmaker, Use of subs, Free roles, Dirtiness allowance.

Career spells

Marked current: 2 of 8 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
West Ham United Player 1998-07-01 2000-06-30 Ended
AFC Bournemouth Player 2000-07-04 2007-06-30 Ended
Leyton Orient Player 2007-07-01 2010-06-07 Ended
AFC Bournemouth Player 2010-06-07 — Current
AFC Bournemouth Manager 2014-07-01 2017-12-01 Ended
AFC Bournemouth Coach 2017-12-01 2020-08-18 Ended
AFC Bournemouth Assistant Manager 2020-08-18 2021-06-30 Ended
Newcastle United Coach 2021-11-08 — Current

National-team spells

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

Club contract

Joined
2021-11-08
Contract start
2021-11-08
Expires
2024-06-30
Weekly wage
£8,000

Squad numbers

Squad numbers from club_squad_number, keyed on team_uid.
TeamNumber
Team 688 —

Languages

Languages from person_language.
LanguageFirst languageProficiency
English Yes —

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

Liked people

Personal information

Date of birth
1980-01-14
Nationality
England
Birth city
Ilford
Joined current club
2021-11-08

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 13
Ambition 12
Controversy 8
Loyalty 15
Pressure 11
Professionalism 16
Sportsmanship 16
Temperament 11