Gregory Stephen Abbott

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
95
Potential ability
110
Home reputation
90
Current reputation
90
World reputation
50
International appearances
0
Coaching qualification
2

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
8

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 9
Hardness of training 10
Youngsters 14
Motivating 9
People management 8
Discipline 12
Mind games 4
Determination 16
Buying players 9

11 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, Patience, Eccentricity, Versatility, 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 9
Defending 9
Technical 14
Tactical 9
Mental 12
Fitness 5
Attacking 9
Defending 9
Technical 14
Tactical 9
Mental 12
Fitness 5

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 9
Directness 12
Tempo 14
Width 12
Depth 8
Pressing 7
Flexibility 11
Squad rotation 5
Dirtiness allowance 8

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
Coventry City Player 1981-07-01 1982-07-01 Ended
Bradford City Player 1982-07-01 — Current
Halifax Town Player 1991-01-01 1992-07-01 Ended
Hull City Player 1992-07-01 — Current
Carlisle United Assistant Manager 2006-06-30 2007-08-13 Ended
Carlisle United Manager 2007-08-13 2007-10-03 Ended
Carlisle United Assistant Manager 2007-10-03 2008-11-03 Ended
Carlisle United Manager 2008-11-03 2008-12-05 Ended
Carlisle United Manager 2008-12-05 2013-09-09 Ended
Notts County Assistant Manager 2014-11-06 2015-03-23 Ended
Milton Keynes Dons Scout 2015-07-01 2016-04-21 Ended
Cambridge United Chief Scout 2016-04-21 2016-07-05 Ended
Bradford City Chief Scout 2016-07-05 2018-11-16 Ended
Bradford City Coach 2018-06-18 2018-11-16 Ended
Mansfield Town Director of Football 2018-12-28 2019-05-14 Ended
Notts County Assistant Manager 2020-08-19 2021-03-24 Ended
Solihull Moors Chief Scout 2021-06-12 2022-05-09 Ended
Carlisle United Chief Scout 2022-05-09 2025-05-19 Ended
Harrogate Town Coach 2025-08-13 — Current

National-team spells

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

Club contract

Joined
2025-08-14
Contract start
2025-08-14
Expires
—
Weekly wage
£600

Squad numbers

Squad numbers from club_squad_number, keyed on team_uid.
TeamNumber
Team 5100047 —

Languages

Languages from person_language.
LanguageFirst languageProficiency
English Yes —

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

Liked people

Personal information

Date of birth
1963-12-14
Nationality
England
Birth city
Coventry
Joined current club
2025-08-14

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 8
Ambition 13
Controversy 10
Loyalty 18
Pressure 12
Professionalism 15
Sportsmanship 16
Temperament 19