David Wright

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
125
Potential ability
145
Home reputation
132
Current reputation
132
World reputation
25
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
5

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 13
Judging player potential 15
Tactical knowledge 13
Hardness of training 16
Youngsters 20
Motivating 14
People management 14
Discipline 8
Determination 14

9 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, Versatility, Buying players, 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 10
Defending 13
Technical 12
Tactical 12
Mental 8
Fitness 7
Attacking 10
Defending 13
Technical 12
Tactical 12
Mental 8
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 14
Directness 3
Tempo 11
Width 13
Depth 8
Pressing 14
Flexibility 12
Squad rotation 7

8 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, Dirtiness allowance.

Career spells

Marked current: 2 of 15 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
Crewe Alexandra Player 1996-07-01 2004-06-27 Ended
Wigan Athletic Player 2004-06-27 2007-01-11 Ended
Norwich City Player 2005-11-17 2005-12-18 Ended
Ipswich Town Player 2007-01-11 2010-06-30 Ended
Crystal Palace Player 2010-07-01 2013-01-25 Ended
Gillingham Player 2012-09-12 2012-11-22 Ended
Colchester United Player 2013-01-25 — Current
Colchester United Assistant Manager — 2016-06-30 Ended
Ipswich Town Youth Coach 2014-11-25 2015-06-17 Ended
Colchester United Manager 2016-07-01 2016-11-08 Ended
Norwich City Manager 2016-11-08 2018-12-10 Ended
Norwich City Manager 2018-12-11 2021-08-16 Ended
Milton Keynes Dons Assistant Manager 2021-08-17 2022-12-11 Ended
Ipswich Town Manager 2023-01-23 2026-01-06 Ended
Ipswich Town Manager 2026-01-06 — Current

National-team spells

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

Club contract

Joined
2026-01-06
Contract start
2026-01-06
Expires
2026-06-30
Weekly wage
£800

Squad numbers

Squad numbers from club_squad_number, keyed on team_uid.
TeamNumber
Team 2000173677 —

Languages

Languages from person_language.
LanguageFirst languageProficiency
English Yes —

Retirement

Retirement facts from person_retirement.
TypeDate
Total player retirement 2014-11-25

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

ClubRating
Crewe Alexandra 75
Ipswich Town 80

Liked people

PersonRating
— 80

Personal information

Date of birth
1980-05-01
Nationality
England
Birth city
Warrington
Joined current club
2026-01-06

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 7
Loyalty 16
Pressure 12
Professionalism 16
Sportsmanship 12
Temperament 16