Stefan Moore

[Ron Manager]

If my memory serves me well it was Liam Ridgewell marking Rooney that day. Did a good job as well.

[SoccerHQ]

Stefan Moore never convinced me despite his wonder goal v Charlton. Didn't expect him to drop right down the leagues though.

Luke Moore should've been a decent prem striker for us, feck me he scored a premier league hattrick for us and a couple of times v Chelsea remember in 05/06....but mentality is as important as talent to be a top level player and he didn't have it sadly.

[Comrade Blitz]

I had tears in my eyes and chills up my spine at the end of the 2nd leg - it was a great day at Villa Park. 

[pauliewalnuts]

Luke Moore should've been a decent prem striker for us, feck me he scored a premier league hattrick for us and a couple of times v Chelsea remember in 05/06....but mentality is as important as talent to be a top level player and he didn't have it sadly.

I thought Luke Moore did quite well in the first MON year when he had him and Gabby either side of JPA. I always thought MON did quite well when he was - for reasons of timing - forced to make do and mend, ie he'd arrived with no time to do anything other than sign Petrov and pick up a few out of contract bodies.

[pauliewalnuts]

Crikey, I just noticed Luke Moore is still only 28. Fucking hell. That's surely not right?

[dave.woodhall]

Crikey, I just noticed Luke Moore is still only 28. Fucking hell. That's surely not right?

What year did we win the Youth Cup?

[pauliewalnuts]

Crikey, I just noticed Luke Moore is still only 28. Fucking hell. That's surely not right?

What year did we win the Youth Cup?

2002

Says wikipedia, not my memory, which is sheeeeyite.

[dave.woodhall]

Crikey, I just noticed Luke Moore is still only 28. Fucking hell. That's surely not right?

What year did we win the Youth Cup?

2002

Says wikipedia, not my memory, which is sheeeeyite.

It was just after Sir Graham became manager, so 2002. Luke was the younger of the brothers so would probably have been 16 or 17 at the oldest. 12 years later quite likely makes him 28.

[adrenachrome]

I remember DoL running onto the pitch without official permission when Luke was heavily tackled at VP.   

Under DoL and early MoN, he did a very good job out wide and tracking back as pauliewalnuts has said. 

I believe that if they were born in an earlier era before they could command 10K to 20K just by breaking into the squad, both brothers would have got a lot further. Pure conjecture on my part, of course. 

[Mister E]

Crikey, I just noticed Luke Moore is still only 28. Fucking hell. That's surely not right?

How old is Gabby?! Same age (in fact 28 tomorrow). So, not really surprising that LM is only 28.

LM is obviously still doing okay - he's earning at Toronto, I think, so not doing badly.

Just a shame he never applied himself better when he was younger, he had more footballing talent than Gabby but without the end product.

[Holte L2]

So was I.

[supertom]

It was a shame for Luke. He'd had a fairly successful first full season in O Leary's final year. One of the brighter spots of an otherwise shite season. He started well under O Neill. Some of our best football under O Neill was when we had Moore and Gabby either side of JPA.
Unfortunately for Luke, he got that shoulder injury and that really put the skids on the momentum he was building. He was never the same for us after that.

[SoccerHQ]

Both managers he played well under for a spell and then fell out of favour which lead me to believe his attitude in training wasn't the best.

05/06 he had that great scoring spell in the second half of the season but wasn't even making the bench in the final few games, didn't make the 18 for the SHA Cahill game as an example.

Did his shoulder under MON but he struggled to get much of a chance when he came back although Gabby's emergence in that period probably contributed to that also.

[eamonn]

Luke had more than enough talent, got a winner for Swansea against Man City only a couple of seasons ago but I think that disinterested demeanour he had hinted at someone who didn't want it badly enough.

[paul_e]

As others have said, Luke looked very good early on under Mon, but then he did his shoulder and we signed Young before he was fit again, I think the 'attitude' that people mention was probably related to that more than anything, spend 2-3 seasons on the verge of a breakthrough, finally get a run and do pretty well only to pick up an injury and see the manager sign someone for a club record fee in the position you'd been playing.  He got 4 in 13 that year and looked capable of pushing on but whilst everything went right for Gabby it all went the other way for Moore.  I take his story as showing just how important a bit of luck at the right time is.