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Ronald David "Ronnie" Moore (born 29 January 1953 in Liverpool) is an English football manager and former player, currently manager of Tranmere. He is considered one of the greatest Rotherham United players of all time, and went on to manage the Millers for seven years. His time in charge saw unprecedented success, gaining two successive promotions and maintaining Championship football for three years. After spells at Oldham and Tranmere, he made his return to Rotherham United on 24 September 2009 - this ended on 21 March 2011 when he was reported to have "left by mutual consent". He is also the father of former Rotherham United striker Ian Thomas-Moore.

Playing career[link]

Ronnie Moore was born in Liverpool and he began his playing career with local side Tranmere Rovers as a centre-half, before making a successful switch to centre-forward.

In the summer of 1977, Moore had a stint with the Chigago Sting, where he scored 5 in one match equalling the division's all time record and also scoring a winner in front of 70,000 fans against the New York Cosmos in which he played against Pele.

He later played for Rotherham United in a promotion winning season. Where he was prolific in front of goal linking with Tony 'Tiger' Towner very well. He also played for Charlton Athletic and Rochdale, before returning to Tranmere, where he finished his career.

In a recent poll, Moore was voted as Rotherham's greatest ever player, beating the likes of Tony Towner and Paul Hurst.^{[citation needed]}

Managerial career[link]

Moore's first managerial post was a two-month caretaker spell at Tranmere, while still acting as a player. After later acting as assistant manager to John King, he replaced Steve Joel as the manager of Conference side Southport in the 1996–1997 season. He lasted only a year at Southport before taking up the vacant managers position at Rotherham United.

After his first spell at Rotherham, Moore then joined Oldham Athletic in March 2005, and the club did enough to avoid relegation in his first season. He achieved a mid-table place the following year but parted company with Oldham because of poor season ticket sales.^[1] Moore soon returned to management with former club Tranmere Rovers in June 2006, just eight days after leaving Oldham.^[2]

He started in charge of Rovers by bringing in nine players in the close season, including Chris Shuker and Paul McLaren. In his first year at Rovers he guided his team to a 9th-place finish in League One, after looking set for a playoff place for most of the year. Again he shuffled things around in the summer with Kevn Ellison and Jason McAteer amongst the departures. In came goalkeeper Danny Coyne, defenders Antony Kay and Ben Chorley and midfielder Adnan Ahmed. In his second year it was another near miss, this time Rovers finished 11th after being top in mid-October. He earned a new contract in May 2007. His first signing of the summer was Gareth Edds, a midfielder from MK Dons, who signed on 10 June 2008.

After spending most of the 2008–09 season in mid-table, Tranmere made a late surge and went to Scunthorpe in their final match, needing a win to reach the play-offs. They led 1-0 until conceding an equaliser two minutes fron time. Scunthorpe went on to win the play-offs and earn promotion to the Championship. Moore was sacked by Tranmere on 5 June 2009 – again due to falling attendances. Moore was affectionatly known as Ronnie Raw by many Rovers fans due to his extreme sense of humour.^[3]

A press conference was called for 10.30 am, 25 September 2009 to confirm Moore's return as Rotherham United manager, assisted by former teammate Jimmy Mullen.^[4] The following day, Ronnie was unveiled to the Millers faithful at the home game against Barnet, to a massive standing ovation. This inspired a 3–0 victory, which saw the South Yorkshire side dominate from start to finish. His first win came just a week later against Crewe, after a defeat at the hands of Northampton Town midweek.

He had a mixed time at Rotherham, taking the club to Wembley in the League Two Playoff Final, where the Millers lost 3-2 with Ryan Taylor scoring twice, and his second season (2010–2011) being full of promise, with the club 6th in the table as of 19 March 2011. Yet on 21 March he left the club "by mutual consent" after 1) the defeat that his team suffered at the hands of the League 2 runaway leaders, Chesterfield, 5-0, 2) his failure to get the club into the automatic promotion spots.^[5]

On 5 March 2012, following the sacking of Les Parry, Ronnie was re-appointed manager of Tranmere Rovers until the end of the 2011-2012 season.^[6]

Honours[link]

As a manager[link]

Promotions[link]

• 1999–00: Division 3 Runner Up (promotion to Division 2) - Rotherham United
• 2000–01: Division 2 Runner-up (promotion to Division 1) - Rotherham United

References[link]

External links[link]

• Manager stats at Soccerbase.com

Richard Andrew 'Andy' Robinson OBE (born 3 April 1964) is an English rugby union coach and retired player. He is currently the head coach of Scotland.

Robinson played as an openside flanker for Bath, England and the British and Irish Lions. He was head coach of England from October 2004 until November 2006, then coach of Edinburgh Rugby and joint coach of Scotland A between October 2007 and June 2009. On 4 June 2009 Robinson was named the new head coach of Scotland.

Playing career[link]

Born in Taunton, Somerset, Robinson made his England debut against Australia on 12 June 1988, and gained eight caps, playing his last match on 18 November 1995 against South Africa. Robinson was quite small for a back row forward, being only 5 ft 9in (1.75 m), and weighing 13 st 12 lb (88 kg). He played 6 non-international games for the British and Irish Lions on their 1989 tour of Australia.

Teaching[link]

Whilst playing for Bath, Robinson taught mathematics, physical education and rugby at Writhlington School, King Edward's School, Bath and later Colston's Collegiate School in Bristol, where he and Alan Martinovic masterminded the school's Daily Mail Cup wins in 1995 and 1996. 'Robbo' then left to play rugby professionally with Bath.

Coaching[link]

Robinson later coached Bath before being appointed forwards coach of England and was deputy to Clive Woodward with the World Cup-winning England side in 2003. When Woodward resigned from the role of England coach in September 2004, Robinson was named as acting coach before being confirmed in the position. He was also a coach on the Lions tours to Australia in 2001 and New Zealand in 2005.

Robinson won just nine of his twenty two matches in charge of England. In November 2006, it was confirmed that Robinson would remain Head Coach with the position reviewed after the two tests against South Africa. Defeat in the second test ^[1] increased demands from supporters that he should be replaced. On 29 November his resignation as head coach was announced, with Robinson blaming his lack of support from the RFU.^[2]

In the summer of 2007, the Scottish Rugby Union appointed Robinson the new head coach of Edinburgh Rugby, as well as joint coach of Scotland A with Glasgow coach Sean Lineen. In his first season as coach, he guided Edinburgh to the highest ever finish by a Scottish side in the Magners League (joint 3rd), despite numerous international players leaving the previous summer for more lucrative contracts in England and France. The following season (2008–09) Edinburgh leap-frogged Leinster and the Ospreys on the final day of the competition to finish runners-up behind Munster. Edinburgh also finished highest points scorers. He stepped down in June 2009 to take up the role of head coach of Scotland, replacing Frank Hadden.

Personal life[link]

Robinson is a vegetarian.^[3][4]

Career record[link]

Record as England player: Games played 8, Won 4, Lost 3, Drawn 1; 1 try (vs France)^[5]

Record as England head coach: Games coached 22, Won 9, Lost 13, Drawn: 0

• Biggest Win: Canada 70–0 (November 2004)
• Biggest Loss (home or away): Australia 34–3 (June 2006)
• Biggest Loss (home): New Zealand 20–41 (November 2006)

Record as Scotland head coach: Games coached 20, Won 10, Lost 9, Drawn 1

External links[link]

• Planet-rugby stats
• Sporting Heroes

References[link]