Keith Long

  • Republic of 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
100
Potential ability
112
Home reputation
85
Current reputation
85
World reputation
30
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.

Calculated at game start

Age at game start
51
Reputation
National 0.0 / 5 stars
Coaching style
Attacking
Preferred mentality
Adventurous
Preferred playing style
Standard
Preferred pressing style
Balanced
Coaching category scores calculated by the game
CategoryScoreStars
Quickness48 / 1002.5 / 5
Strength48 / 1002.5 / 5
Defending (tactical)53 / 1003.0 / 5
Defending (technical)53 / 1003.0 / 5
Possession (tactical)54 / 1003.0 / 5
Possession (technical)54 / 1003.0 / 5
Attacking (tactical)57 / 1003.0 / 5
Attacking (technical)57 / 1003.0 / 5
Overall52 / 1003.0 / 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
15
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

Judging player ability 11
Judging player potential 11
Hardness of training 15
Youngsters 14
Motivating 11
People management 16
Discipline 11
Mind games 8
Determination 14
Versatility 8
Buying players 10

11 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging staff ability, Judging team data, Analysing data, Presenting data, Tactical knowledge, Coaching, Coaching technique, Physiotherapy, Injury management, Patience, Eccentricity, 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 12
Defending 10
Technical 9
Tactical 9
Mental 12
Fitness 8
Attacking 12
Defending 10
Technical 9
Tactical 9
Mental 12
Fitness 8

6 of 6 values recorded from staff_coaching.

Tactical style

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

Attacking 13
Directness 10
Tempo 13
Width 14
Depth 10
Pressing 13
Flexibility 2
Squad rotation 13
Dirtiness allowance 13

9 of 17 values recorded from staff_tactical_style. Not recorded: Sitting back, Marking, Offside, Use of playmaker, Use of subs, Free roles, Flamboyancy, Set pieces.

Career spells

Marked current: 1 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
Stoke City Player 1990-07-01 1993-06-30 Ended
Dundalk F.C. Player 1993-07-01 1996-05-31 Ended
St. Patrick's Athletic Player 1996-06-01 2000-08-01 Ended
Bray Wanderers FC Player 2000-08-01 — Current
Bray Wanderers FC Assistant Manager 2006-09-22 2006-11-30 Ended
Bray Wanderers FC Assistant Manager 2007-06-14 2008-10-28 Ended
Bray Wanderers FC Assistant Manager 2010-01-04 2013-12-31 Ended
Athlone Town Manager 2014-04-28 2014-10-30 Ended
Bohemian F.C. Manager 2014-10-30 2022-08-30 Ended
Waterford F.C. Manager 2023-03-29 2025-04-19 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 2005-12-30

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

Liked people

PersonRating
— 100
Garry Zambra 100
— 100
Pat Devlin 80
— 50
Kevin Paul Knight 50

Disliked people

PersonRating
Paul Skinner 50

Personal information

Date of birth
1973-11-14
Birth city
Dublin
Joined current club
2025-04-19

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 2
Ambition 12
Controversy 5
Loyalty 7
Pressure 8
Professionalism 10
Sportsmanship 10
Temperament 7