Stephen Small

  • Northern Ireland
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
67
Potential ability
84
Home reputation
76
Current reputation
76
World reputation
10
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
1

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

A staff_ability row exists, but none of its 26 values are recorded.

Coaching

A staff_coaching row exists, but none of its 6 values are recorded.

Tactical style

A staff_tactical_style row exists, but none of its 17 values are recorded.

Career spells

Marked current: 3 of 10 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
Lisburn Distillery Player 1993-07-01 — Current
Cliftonville Player 1996-07-01 — Current
Cliftonville Assistant Manager 2002-06-01 2004-05-30 Ended
Larne Player 2005-01-02 2006-04-26 Ended
Carrick Rangers Assistant Manager 2006-01-01 2006-04-26 Ended
Carrick Rangers Player 2006-04-26 — Current
Carrick Rangers Manager 2006-04-26 2011-12-13 Ended
Donegal Celtic Manager 2012-01-27 2012-09-30 Ended
Cliftonville Coach 2017-05-10 2018-10-22 Ended
Ballyclare Comrades Manager 2022-03-10 2024-12-30 Ended

National-team spells

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

Club contract

No club contract is recorded in person_club_contract for this person.

Languages

Languages from person_language.
LanguageFirst languageProficiency
English Yes —

Retirement

Retirement facts from person_retirement.
TypeDate
Total player retirement 2009-08-01

Relations and preferences

Liked people

PersonRating
Conal McWilliams-Small 100

Disliked people

PersonRating
Graeme Philson 50

Personal information

Date of birth
1969-05-28
Nationality
Northern Ireland
Birth city
Belfast
Joined current club
2024-12-30

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 7
Ambition 15
Controversy 11
Loyalty 12
Pressure 14
Professionalism 10
Sportsmanship 13
Temperament 14