John Robertson

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
105
Potential ability
115
Home reputation
115
Current reputation
115
World reputation
35
International appearances
16
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
60
Reputation
National 0.0 / 5 stars
Coaching style
Attacking
Preferred mentality
Adventurous
Preferred playing style
Direct
Preferred pressing style
More Urgent
Coaching category scores calculated by the game
CategoryScoreStars
Quickness57 / 1003.0 / 5
Strength57 / 1003.0 / 5
GK shot stopping30 / 1002.0 / 5
Defending (tactical)49 / 1002.5 / 5
Defending (technical)47 / 1002.5 / 5
Possession (tactical)62 / 1003.5 / 5
Possession (technical)58 / 1003.0 / 5
Attacking (tactical)67 / 1003.5 / 5
Attacking (technical)65 / 1003.5 / 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
9
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 12
Judging player potential 11
Judging staff ability 10
Tactical knowledge 11
Hardness of training 14
Youngsters 17
Physiotherapy 4
Motivating 13
People management 15
Discipline 13
Mind games 12
Determination 15
Eccentricity 11
Versatility 10
Buying players 13
Negotiating 11

16 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging team data, Analysing data, Presenting data, Coaching, Coaching technique, Injury management, Patience, 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 5
Technical 10
Tactical 12
Mental 11
Fitness 10
Attacking 14
Defending 5
Technical 10
Tactical 12
Mental 11
Fitness 10

6 of 6 values recorded from staff_coaching.

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 13
Directness 15
Tempo 12
Width 14
Depth 12
Pressing 15
Flexibility 13
Squad rotation 9
Dirtiness allowance 10

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: 3 of 19 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
Heart Of Midlothian Player 1980-07-01 1987-07-01 Ended
Newcastle United Player 1987-07-01 1988-07-01 Ended
Heart Of Midlothian Player 1988-07-01 1998-07-01 Ended
Dundee Player 1997-07-01 1998-01-01 Ended
Livingston Player 1998-07-01 — Current
Inverness Caledonian Thistle Manager 2002-12-26 2004-11-03 Ended
Heart Of Midlothian Manager 2004-11-03 2005-05-09 Ended
Ross County Manager 2005-06-21 2005-10-24 Ended
Livingston Manager 2006-02-15 2007-04-15 Ended
Derry City Manager 2007-07-02 2007-12-11 Ended
East Fife Manager 2010-10-27 2012-03-01 Ended
Heart Of Midlothian Coach 2013-07-11 2014-05-13 Ended
Heart Of Midlothian Scout 2015-07-01 2017-05-31 Ended
Inverness Caledonian Thistle Manager 2017-06-14 2021-05-13 Ended
Inverness Caledonian Thistle Technical Director 2021-05-13 2023-11-09 Ended
Ross County Assistant Manager 2025-06-02 2025-09-10 Ended
Ross County Manager 2025-08-26 2025-09-03 Ended
Ross County Coach 2025-09-10 — Current
Ross County Coach 2025-09-10 — Current

National-team spells

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

Club contract

Joined
2025-06-02
Contract start
2025-09-10
Expires
—
Weekly wage
£1,250

Squad numbers

Squad numbers from club_squad_number, keyed on team_uid.
TeamNumber
Team 1593 —

Languages

Languages from person_language.
LanguageFirst languageProficiency
English Yes —

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

Liked people

PersonRating
Liam Robertson 100
— 75
Craig Levein 50

Personal information

Date of birth
1964-10-02
Nationality
Scotland
Birth city
Edinburgh
Joined current club
2025-06-02

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 8
Ambition 17
Controversy 11
Loyalty 17
Pressure 13
Professionalism 15
Sportsmanship 13
Temperament 12