Background
Moore grew up in Wallangarra, Queensland. He was born in Tenterfield (NSW), due to the hospital there being closer than the one in Stanthorpe (QLD).
Moore grew up in Wallangarra, Queensland. He was born in Tenterfield (NSW), due to the hospital there being closer than the one in Stanthorpe (QLD).
Usually playing at lock or in the second-row, he played representative football for both Queensland and Australia. Moore was quoted as saying "My Mum assures me I was rushed back to the Channel Country before the oxygen had time to affect my lungs."
Moore represented Queensland under-17s while in high school at Betoota, Qld. He moved to the North Sydney Bears in 1989 and played in the club"s reserve grade premiership side.
Moore was first selected in Queensland"s State of Origin side in 1992.
Moore was a regular selection for the maroon jersey for three seasons and famously yelled "Queenslander! Queenslander!" in an attempt to motivate an underdog Maroons team on their way out of the tunnel in 1995. Moore was reacting to the fact that New South Wales players had said they would belt the first person that said he was a Queenslander.
He made one appearance in the competition, against South Africa, before playing further Association of Research Libraries Tests against Fiji (1996) and Rest of the World (1997) in consecutive years. He continued to play for his club in subsequent semi-final campaigns but his representative career ended when he was left out of the Queensland team for the 1998 series.
At the end of 1999, Moore failed to secure a contract with the merged Northern Eagles club and reluctantly retired.
In August, 2006 he was named in the North Sydney Bears" Team of the Century. He now co-owns a restaurant on Queensland"s Sunshine Coast.
With a radical change of the guard the following year, Moore and a number of other players (including long-time back-row partner David Fairleigh) became regular first graders the following year and propelled the club from also-rans in 1989 to finalists in 1991.