Ronnie Moore
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Ronnie Moore | ||
Personal information | ||
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Full name | Ronald David Moore | |
Date of birth | January 29, 1953 | |
Place of birth | Liverpool, England | |
Playing position | Striker/Central defender | |
Club information | ||
Current club | Tranmere Rovers (manager) | |
Senior clubs1 | ||
Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
1971–1979 1977 1979–1980 1980–1983 1983–1985 1985–1986 1986–1989 |
Tranmere Rovers Chicago Sting (loan) Cardiff City Rotherham United Charlton Athletic Rochdale Tranmere Rovers |
249 (72) ? (?) 56 (6) 125 (52) 62 (13) 43 (9) 75 (6) |
Teams managed | ||
1987 1997–2005 2005–2006 2006– |
Tranmere Rovers (caretaker) Rotherham United Oldham Athletic Tranmere Rovers |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
Ronald David "Ronnie" Moore (born 29 January 1953 in Liverpool) is an English football manager and former player. He is currently manager of Tranmere Rovers. He is also the father of Tranmere Rovers striker Ian Moore.
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[edit] Playing career
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. He also played for Cardiff City where his somewhat disappointing goalscoring record of six goals led some fans to sport badges bearing the legend "I Saw Ronnie Moore Score". He later played for Rotherham United, 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 Mark Robins and Paul Hurst.
[edit] Managerial career
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 began his first full-time managerial role in 1997 at former club Rotherham United. He proved a success at Millmoor, taking the club from the Third Division to the First Division in successive seasons. Moore helped keep Rotherham at this level for three years but left the club early in 2005.
Moore then joined Oldham Athletic in March 2005, and saved the club from 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 in June 2006, just eight days after leaving Oldham..[2]
He started in charge of Rovers by buying 9 players in the close season, quality players like Chris Shuker and Paul McLaren. In his first year at Rovers he guided his team to a 9th place finish, after looking set for a play off 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 & Ben Chorley and midielder Adnan Ahmed. Inhis second year it was another near miss, this time Rovers finished 11th after being top in mid-october. Injuries seemed to be against Ronnie also as his two key wingers Chris Shuker & Steve Davies were ruled out for long spells. He did enough in his first two years at the club to earn a new contract in May 2007. His first signing of the summer was Gareth Edds a midfielder from MK Dons who signed on the 10th June 2008.
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