Coaching Staff

Coaching staff are the back-room personnel who do the legwork for a team: devising gameplans, patching players up between and during matches, handling the team's expenses, and generally doing what they can to keep the team afloat despite the best efforts of its owners and players.

This page lists these unsung heroes past and present. Any non-players on a team's payroll are counted as coaching staff for these purposes, even if their job is not strictly coaching-related.

Assistant Coaches[]

These are usually specialist coaches brought in by a team to focus on a particular aspect of play or to work with a particular group of players. Many of them are former players themselves. It's been suggested that some teams employ family members or friends for tax avoidance purposes, and that some players are only retained on a coaching salary to avoid their being poached by rival outfits. Needless to say, all these rumours are completely baseless.

Apothecaries[]

These are healers wise in the ways of medicine and magic; their job is to deal with the injuries that a team's players suffer during a game. Although it's falling out of fashion, it's traditional for medics joining a team to swear the Apothecaries' Oath:

'I do swear, in the name of my deity, my liege and my employer, that I will uphold the sacred duties of my vocation and my profession. I shall never send a player out into the arena who is sick in mind or spirit, unless he hasn't paid his bill or has threatened me personally with grievous bodily harm. Nor shall I tamper with the natural workings of the humanoid body, except for a little chemical fine tuning. And I shall adhere at all times to the ethics of my profession, such as they are. I swear all of this and, herewith, my expensively retained lawyer does so bear witness to this fact.'^[1]

Cheerleaders[]

Other Coaching Staff[]