Mark Venus
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
- 130
- Potential ability
- 145
- Home reputation
- 110
- Current reputation
- 130
- World reputation
- 40
- International appearances
- 0
- Coaching qualification
- 3
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
- 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
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, Mind games, Patience, Eccentricity, Negotiating, Business, Resources, Interference.
Coaching
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Attacking | 16 |
| Defending | 13 |
| Technical | 13 |
| Tactical | 11 |
| Mental | 15 |
| Fitness | 12 |
6 of 6 values recorded from staff_coaching.
Goalkeeping coaching
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.
2 of 17 values recorded from staff_tactical_style.
Not recorded: Directness, Width, Depth, Pressing, Sitting back, Marking, Offside, Use of playmaker, Use of subs, Free roles, Flexibility, Flamboyancy, Squad rotation, Set pieces, Dirtiness allowance.
Career spells
Marked current: 4 of 16 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.
| Club | Role | From | To | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hartlepool United | Player | 1984-07-01 | 1985-07-01 | Ended |
| Leicester City | Player | 1985-07-01 | — | Current |
| Wolverhampton Wanderers | Player | 1988-01-02 | — | Current |
| Ipswich Town | Player | 1997-07-01 | — | Current |
| Cambridge United | Player | 2004-01-01 | 2004-06-22 | Ended |
| Dagenham & Redbridge | Player | 2004-01-01 | 2004-07-01 | Ended |
| Hibernian | Player | 2004-06-22 | — | Current |
| Hibernian | Assistant Manager | 2004-06-22 | 2006-10-17 | Ended |
| West Bromwich Albion | Assistant Manager | 2006-10-17 | 2009-06-16 | Ended |
| Celtic | Assistant Manager | 2009-06-16 | 2010-03-25 | Ended |
| Middlesbrough | Assistant Manager | 2010-10-26 | 2013-10-21 | Ended |
| Middlesbrough | Manager | 2013-10-21 | 2013-11-13 | Ended |
| Coventry City | Director of Football | 2015-06-01 | 2017-03-31 | Ended |
| Blackburn Rovers | Assistant Manager | 2017-06-02 | 2022-06-30 | Ended |
| Sunderland | Assistant Manager | 2022-09-04 | 2023-12-04 | Ended |
| Birmingham City | Assistant Manager | 2024-01-08 | 2024-06-04 | 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
| Language | First language | Proficiency |
|---|---|---|
| English | Yes | — |
Relations and preferences
Liked clubs
| Club | Rating |
|---|---|
| Ipswich Town | 95 |
| Hartlepool United | 75 |
| Middlesbrough | 90 |
Liked people
| Person | Rating |
|---|---|
| Anthony Mark Mowbray | 90 |
Personal information
- Date of birth
- 1967-04-06
- Nationality
- England
- Birth city
- Hartlepool
- Joined current club
- 2024-06-04
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.