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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