Joe-Max Moore

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Hello there.

I'm writing an article about Joe-Max Moore (it's a kind of Where Are They Now? thing) and I want to get fans' memories about him as a player. Any memories/stories you have - good or bad - please post them here. Doesn't even have to be a story/memory as such, could just be your general view on his time at Goodison. Also any personal memories/anecdotes you have of meeting him/seeing him around town - stuff like that.

I'd want to use some of your quotes for the article, which will appear on the Yahoo Football website next week. So if you don't want your comments to be used then let me know, and they won't be.

I should point out I'm not an Everton fan, I'm actually a Hammer. Feel free to abuse me for this!

Cheers,
Kevin
 

Jo max moore when i was younger was brilliant! Not sure if he scored as many as i like to think he did but at my young age he was the answer to all our problems.....until he got onto the pitch. Still think he left far too early! haha
 

OK, serious answer.

When he signed, I remember he looked like he should be a Sunny Delight commercial and barely looked like a footballer. That, combined with the Cobi Jones level of quality we equated with US football, I expected nothing from him.

That was... well, sort of what we got, but he beat expectations generally - especially for the first few games where he basically scored with every touch. He was a "ratter" of a striker who made a nuisance of himself and worked hard, and at the time we as a club were up diarrhoea creek without a paddle and that was what we needed from him. He was like the smaller, American version of Denis Stracqualursi a generation earlier.

Unfortunately, his goalscoring dried up quicker than the enthusiasm for a ijjysmith match preview and he became more and more... well, useless. He went with the best wishes of Evertonians with not many having a bad word to say about him.

Basically, he was a player who wasn't the quality we wanted but had the quality we needed at the time to contribute. I thought he'd be good enough for an upper end Championship side when he left, but he went back across the pond. The next American to come over, Brian McBride, made a bigger impact over here.
 
My lasting memory of him was disappointment. At a time when he was the only fit striker we had, Walter Smith chose to play Steve Watson ( a right back) up front and left Joe-Max on the bench.

Could never get my head around the fact his first name was Joe-Max and his surname was Moore. Joe first name, Max - Moore surname just sounds better
 
i had his name on the back of my shirt, despite the fact i'd never heard of him and didn't know anything about him. it was purely because we didn't sign many foreigners and i liked new signings as a kid.

i don't remember him doing much.
 
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"Let's see... we've got soda, purple stuff... ahh, Sunny D, ALRIGHT!"​
 

Tubey said:
OK, serious answer.

When he signed, I remember he looked like he should be a Sunny Delight commercial and barely looked like a footballer. That, combined with the Cobi Jones level of quality we equated with US football, I expected nothing from him.

That was... well, sort of what we got, but he beat expectations generally - especially for the first few games where he basically scored with every touch. He was a "ratter" of a striker who made a nuisance of himself and worked hard, and at the time we as a club were up diarrhoea creek without a paddle and that was what we needed from him. He was like the smaller, American version of Denis Stracqualursi a generation earlier.

Unfortunately, his goalscoring dried up quicker than the enthusiasm for a ijjysmith match preview and he became more and more... well, useless. He went with the best wishes of Evertonians with not many having a bad word to say about him.

Basically, he was a player who wasn't the quality we wanted but had the quality we needed at the time to contribute. I thought he'd be good enough for an upper end Championship side when he left, but he went back across the pond. The next American to come over, Brian McBride, made a bigger impact over here.
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wow
 
He got called Joe Max-Moore a lot and had a streak of games in which he scored.

However it was during one of the most painfully dull periods in Everton's history so I've tried to wipe it completely from my memory. Looks like I've pretty much succeeded.
 
Tubey said:
OK, serious answer.

When he signed, I remember he looked like he should be a Sunny Delight commercial and barely looked like a footballer. That, combined with the Cobi Jones level of quality we equated with US football, I expected nothing from him.

That was... well, sort of what we got, but he beat expectations generally - especially for the first few games where he basically scored with every touch. He was a "ratter" of a striker who made a nuisance of himself and worked hard, and at the time we as a club were up diarrhoea creek without a paddle and that was what we needed from him. He was like the smaller, American version of Denis Stracqualursi a generation earlier.

Unfortunately, his goalscoring dried up quicker than the enthusiasm for a ijjysmith match preview and he became more and more... well, useless. He went with the best wishes of Evertonians with not many having a bad word to say about him.

Basically, he was a player who wasn't the quality we wanted but had the quality we needed at the time to contribute. I thought he'd be good enough for an upper end Championship side when he left, but he went back across the pond. The next American to come over, Brian McBride, made a bigger impact over here.
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