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In your club info, you can find details of all your backroom staff. You are able to hire or fire these staff at your discretion from here. Before you do though, it may be useful to understand what each one will do for you.

The following are involved in improving the psychical attributes and technical skills of your players (Stamina, Batting, Bowling, Keeping and Fielding). You can read more on how training is organised in the Nets section.

Bowling Coaches - specialist coaches for bowlers. Each bowling coach will provide you with one bowling training spot for the week.

Batting Coaches - specialist coaches for batsmen. Each batting coach will provide you with one batting training spot for the week.

Fielding Coaches - specialist coaches for fielding. Each fielding coach will provide you with one fielding training spot for the week.

Keeping Coaches - specialist coaches for wicket keepers. Each keeping coach will provide you with one keeping training spot for the week.

Fitness Coaches - specialist coaches for all player’s stamina. Each fitness coach will provide you with one fitness training spot for the week.

There is no limit as to how many of each of these coaches you can hire, but there is a limit as to their effectiveness.
As there are only 10 training spots available each week it would be pointless to hire more than a total of 10 of the five types of coaches listed above. If you did, you would only be getting use out of the first 10 – the rest would just sit around collecting their wages!
Coaches generally with be as effective as each other, but there is a situation where this isn't the case. Again you can read about this in the Nets section.

The other types of staff you can recruit are as follows:

Sports Psychologists - multipurpose specialists. They will help with your teams morale, keeping it up even when you are losing. They are also used in conjunction with the bowling, batting and fielding coaches to help improve the concentration and consistency of your players being trained.

PR Officers - these chaps (and chapesses) are the voice of your club. They will woo the sponsors and help keep your club high profile, all with the intention of improving the mood of your sponsors, simply so that they give you more money.

Financial Advisors - they can help you with the management of your club finances. If you are in debt, they can help arrange a lower interest rate, and similarly, if you are in profit, they will also get you a higher interest rate.

For the these staff members, the more you hire, the less effective the additional staff will be. (ie the second coach hired will not add as much benefit as the first, nor the third as much as the second, and so on…)

In terms of cost, coaches will collect a salary of £2,500 each per week, whilst the others will only ask for £1,500 each per week.

Finally, if you decide you have too many of any of these fellows around, then you are free to terminate their contract, although you will have to give them a redundancy payment to the value of a weeks wages.