Mark Patterson

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
110
Potential ability
120
Home reputation
110
Current reputation
110
World reputation
40
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
2

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

Hardness of training 14
Youngsters 15
Motivating 11
People management 11
Discipline 16
Mind games 3
Determination 15

7 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging player ability, Judging player potential, Judging staff ability, Judging team data, Analysing data, Presenting data, Tactical knowledge, Coaching, Coaching technique, Physiotherapy, Injury management, Patience, Eccentricity, Versatility, Buying players, Negotiating, Business, Resources, Interference.

Coaching

No coaching chart: 3 of 6 values are recorded. A chart needs at least 3 values and 60% of the group.

3 of 6 recorded Not recorded: Technical, Mental, Fitness
Coaching — every value, including the ones that are not recorded.
AttributeValue
Attacking 9
Defending 13
Technical Not recorded
Tactical 10
Mental Not recorded
Fitness Not recorded
Attacking 9
Defending 13
Tactical 10

3 of 6 values recorded from staff_coaching. Not recorded: Technical, Mental, Fitness.

Goalkeeping coaching

Goalkeeper shot stopping 1

1 of 3 values recorded from staff_coaching. Not recorded: Goalkeeper handling, Goalkeeper distribution.

Tactical style

A staff_tactical_style row exists, but none of its 17 values are recorded.

Career spells

Marked current: 6 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
Carlisle United Player 1986-07-01 1988-01-02 Ended
Derby County Player 1988-01-02 — Current
Plymouth Argyle Player 1993-07-01 — Current
Gillingham Player 1998-01-02 — Current
Dover Athletic Player 2002-12-17 — Current
Folkestone Invicta Player 2006-01-05 — Current
Gillingham Coach 2007-12-01 2010-03-01 Ended
Gillingham Manager 2012-01-01 2016-06-30 Ended
Gillingham Manager 2016-07-01 2018-01-01 Ended
Gillingham Assistant Manager 2018-01-01 2019-06-30 Ended
Gillingham Coach 2019-07-01 2019-07-08 Ended
Southend United Head of Youth Development 2022-07-15 2023-04-30 Ended
Leyton Orient Head of Youth Development 2023-07-01 2025-07-01 Ended
Gillingham Coach 2025-07-01 — Current

National-team spells

National-team spells from person_nation_contract.
NationRoleFromToStatus
Northern Ireland Coach 2020-07-01 2023-02-01 Ended

Club contract

Joined
2025-05-31
Contract start
2025-05-31
Expires
—
Weekly wage
£800

Squad numbers

Squad numbers from club_squad_number, keyed on team_uid.
TeamNumber
Team 656 —

Languages

Languages from person_language.
LanguageFirst languageProficiency
English Yes —

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

Personal information

Date of birth
1968-09-13
Nationality
England
Birth city
Leeds
Joined current club
2025-05-31

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 18
Ambition 6
Controversy 6
Loyalty 16
Pressure 9
Professionalism 14
Sportsmanship 14
Temperament 14