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Rotate a table in SQL Server 2005 to contain the same column multiple times

I need to rotate the following table named tblGameRoleName -

Game Role Name
VolleyBall Coach Sujatha
VolleyBall Player Rajendran
VolleyBall Player Juno
VolleyBall Player Indira
VolleyBall Player Ganesh
VolleyBall Player Vasanth
Tennis Coach Rajeshkumar
Tennis Player Vivek
Tennis Player Rubala

to the following table, which has the column "Player" several times -

Game Coach Player1 Player2 Player3 Player4 Player5
VolleyBall Sujatha Rajendran Juno Indira Ganesh Vasanth
Tennis Rajeshkumar Vivek Rubala NULL NULL NULL

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Cricket Coach   Gary
Cricket Player  Viru
Cricket Player  Gauti
Cricket Player  Sachin
Cricket Player  Mahi
Cricket Player  Yuvi
Cricket Player  Suresh
Cricket Player  Virat
Cricket Player  Bhajji
Cricket Player  Zaheer
Cricket Player  Ishant
Cricket Player  Ashish

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set ansi_warnings off
set nocount on
create table #t (Game varchar(20), Role varchar(15), [Name] varchar(20))
insert #t
          select 'VolleyBall', 'Coach', 'Sujatha'
union all select 'VolleyBall', 'Player', 'Rajendran'
union all select 'VolleyBall', 'Player', 'Juno'
union all select 'VolleyBall', 'Player', 'Indira'
union all select 'VolleyBall', 'Player', 'Ganesh'
union all select 'VolleyBall', 'Player', 'Vasanth'
union all select 'Tennis', 'Coach', 'Rajeshkumar'
union all select 'Tennis', 'Player', 'Vivek'
union all select 'Tennis', 'Player', 'Rubala'
union all select 'Cricket', 'Coach', 'Gary'
union all select 'Cricket', 'Player', 'Viru'
union all select 'Cricket', 'Player', 'Gauti'
union all select 'Cricket', 'Player', 'Sachin'
union all select 'Cricket', 'Player', 'Mahi'
union all select 'Cricket', 'Player', 'Yuvi'
union all select 'Cricket', 'Player', 'Suresh'
union all select 'Cricket', 'Player', 'Virat'
union all select 'Cricket', 'Player', 'Bhajji'
union all select 'Cricket', 'Player', 'Zaheer'
union all select 'Cricket', 'Player', 'Ishant'
union all select 'Cricket', 'Player', 'Ashish'

SELECT PIVOT EXEC'd

declare @max int
select top 1 @max = count(*)
from #t 
where role = 'player' 
group by game 
order by count(*) desc

declare @sel varchar(2000)
       ,@piv varchar(2000)

;with nos (n) as (select 1 union all select n+1 from nos where n < @max)
select @sel = coalesce(@sel + ', ' 
       + 'max([' + convert(varchar(2), n) + ']) as player' + convert(varchar(2), n)
       , 'max([' + convert(varchar(2), n) + ']) as player' + convert(varchar(2), n)
       )

       ,@piv = coalesce(@piv + ',[' + convert(varchar(2), n) + ']', '[' + convert(varchar(2), n) + ']')
from   nos
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

exec('
select p.game
       ,max(p.coach) as coach
       ,' + @sel + '
from   (
       select game
              ,case when role = ''coach'' then [name] end as coach
              ,case when role = ''player'' then [name] end as player
              ,row_number() over (partition by game, role order by name) as seq
       from   #t
       ) d
pivot (max(player) for seq in (' + @piv + ')) p
group by p.game
')

go
drop table #t

:

game                 coach                player1              player2              player3              player4              player5              player6              player7              player8              player9              player10             player11
-------------------- -------------------- -------------------- -------------------- -------------------- -------------------- -------------------- -------------------- -------------------- -------------------- -------------------- -------------------- --------------------
Cricket              Gary                 Ashish               Bhajji               Gauti                Ishant               Mahi                 Sachin               Suresh               Virat                Viru                 Yuvi                 Zaheer
Tennis               Rajeshkumar          Rubala               Vivek                NULL                 NULL                 NULL                 NULL                 NULL                 NULL                 NULL                 NULL                 NULL
VolleyBall           Sujatha              Ganesh               Indira               Juno                 Rajendran            Vasanth              NULL                 NULL                 NULL                 NULL                 NULL                 NULL
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