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.
[5] When the Wallangarra Bulls club folded, Moore began playing for the Tenterfield Tigers, where he was selected to represent New South Wales under-17s in 1988.
in an attempt to motivate an underdog Maroons team on their way out of the tunnel in 1995[9] 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.
While Moore was initially overlooked for Test duty against New Zealand, he won a place in Australia's World Cup squad at the end of the year.
He made one appearance in the competition, against South Africa, before playing further ARL 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.
As part of the South Sydney Rabbitohs push to be reinstated in first grade, Moore played for the club in promotional games to raise money and awareness and to gain support of the rugby league community for a readmission into the NRL which was ultimately successful in 2002.