John Mark Eustace

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
126
Potential ability
145
Home reputation
122
Current reputation
122
World reputation
45
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

Judging player ability 12
Judging player potential 14
Judging staff ability 11
Tactical knowledge 14
Hardness of training 15
Youngsters 16
Physiotherapy 2
Motivating 13
People management 13
Discipline 7
Mind games 5
Determination 15
Eccentricity 8
Versatility 5
Buying players 5
Negotiating 5

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 11
Defending 12
Technical 12
Tactical 13
Mental 10
Fitness 7
Attacking 11
Defending 12
Technical 12
Tactical 13
Mental 10
Fitness 7

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 9
Depth 12
Pressing 10
Flexibility 15
Squad rotation 12
Set pieces 10
Dirtiness allowance 14

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

Career spells

Marked current: 1 of 14 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 1996-07-01 2003-08-04 Ended
Dundee United Player 1999-02-17 1999-05-31 Ended
Middlesbrough Player 2003-01-17 2003-02-17 Ended
Stoke City Player 2003-08-04 2008-01-31 Ended
Hereford United Player 2006-10-13 2006-12-14 Ended
Watford Player 2008-01-31 2013-06-30 Ended
Derby County Player 2009-03-09 2009-05-31 Ended
Derby County Player 2013-07-24 2015-06-30 Ended
Kidderminster Harriers Manager 2016-04-21 2018-05-25 Ended
Queens Park Rangers Assistant Manager 2018-05-25 2022-06-30 Ended
Queens Park Rangers Manager 2019-04-01 2019-05-07 Ended
Birmingham City Manager 2022-07-03 2023-10-09 Ended
Blackburn Rovers Manager 2024-02-09 2025-02-13 Ended
Derby County Manager 2025-02-13 — Current

National-team spells

National-team spells from person_nation_contract.
NationRoleFromToStatus
Republic of Ireland Assistant Manager 2022-03-21 2022-07-03 Ended

Club contract

Joined
2025-02-13
Contract start
2025-02-13
Expires
2028-06-30
Weekly wage
£15,000

Squad numbers

Squad numbers from club_squad_number, keyed on team_uid.
TeamNumber
Team 645 —

Languages

Languages from person_language.
LanguageFirst languageProficiency
English Yes —

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

Liked people

Disliked people

Personal information

Date of birth
1979-11-03
Nationality
England
Birth city
Solihull
Joined current club
2025-02-13

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 14
Controversy 8
Loyalty 15
Pressure 14
Professionalism 18
Sportsmanship 12
Temperament 14