James Edward McInally

  • Scotland
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
75
Potential ability
100
Home reputation
100
Current reputation
100
World reputation
80
International appearances
10
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

The enriched overlay is not loaded for this version, so Football Manager's calculated values are not available.

Appearance

Ethnicity code
0
Hair colour code
6
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 5
Judging player potential 8
Judging staff ability 6
Tactical knowledge 5
Youngsters 5
Motivating 5
People management 3
Discipline 12
Mind games 15
Determination 10
Versatility 3
Buying players 10
Negotiating 8

13 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging team data, Analysing data, Presenting data, Coaching, Coaching technique, Hardness of training, Physiotherapy, Injury management, Patience, Eccentricity, Business, Resources, Interference.

Coaching

Coaching Coaching: 5 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale. Axes omitted because the value is not recorded: Fitness. Coaching: 5 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale. Axes omitted because the value is not recorded: Fitness.
5 of 6 recorded Not recorded: Fitness
Coaching — every value plotted above, plus the ones that are not recorded.
AttributeValue
Attacking 5
Defending 5
Technical 5
Tactical 6
Mental 5
Fitness Not recorded
Attacking 5
Defending 5
Technical 5
Tactical 6
Mental 5

5 of 6 values recorded from staff_coaching. Not recorded: Fitness.

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 5
Directness 18
Tempo 10
Pressing 13
Flexibility 5
Squad rotation 1
Dirtiness allowance 12

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

Career spells

Career spells from staff_history, in the order the export wrote them.
ClubRoleFromToStatus
Celtic Player 1980-10-09 1984-05-18 Ended
Dundee Player 1984-03-28 1984-05-18 Ended
Nottingham Forest Player 1984-05-18 1986-01-23 Ended
Coventry City Player 1986-01-23 1986-05-21 Ended
Dundee United Player 1986-05-21 1995-07-05 Ended
Raith Rovers Player 1995-07-05 1996-10-03 Ended
Raith Rovers Player / Coach 1995-07-05 1996-10-03 Ended
Dundee United Player 1996-10-03 1997-06-03 Ended
Dundee Player 1997-06-03 1999-05-11 Ended
Dundee Player / Coach 1997-06-03 1999-05-11 Ended
Sligo Rovers Player 1999-05-12 1999-11-05 Ended
Sligo Rovers Player / Manager 1999-05-12 1999-11-05 Ended
Celtic Coach 2000-07-01 2004-10-21 Ended
Greenock Morton Manager 2004-10-21 2008-02-11 Ended
East Stirlingshire Manager 2008-03-12 2011-05-16 Ended
Peterhead Manager 2011-10-07 2022-11-14 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 —

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

ClubRating
Peterhead 75
Celtic 50
Dundee United 50

Liked people

PersonRating
— 100
— 100
— 100
Davie Nicholls 100
Rodger Morrison 100
Simon Ferry 90
— 70

Disliked people

PersonRating
Stefan McCluskey 70

Personal information

Date of birth
1964-02-19
Nationality
Scotland
Birth city
Glasgow
Joined current club
2022-11-14

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 4
Controversy 15
Loyalty 20
Pressure 8
Professionalism 4
Sportsmanship 4
Temperament 3