Plenty Moore to come from Hornets signing
RUGBY League star Scott Moore says the chance to have friends playing alongside him after a difficult period of his life was what convinced him to join Rochdale Hornets.
Moore is back in the sport following a prison sentence for dangerous driving and assault.
His arrest resulted in a police chase and fight with officers, which saw him Tasered six times.
With that incident now firmly behind him, the 30-year-old wants to get back to doing what he does best – and he’s looking forward to having the chance to do that in the same team as some players he knows well at the Crown Oil Arena.
“I spoke to a few clubs. Swinton were up there with Stu Littler – who’s another good mate of mine – and Workington with Pryce, but this is one of the closest clubs bar Swinton and a few of my mates are here.
“I just wanted to play some rugby with my mates really,” Moore said.
“A lot of prison is ‘if you can deal with your own self and your self-worth, it’s not as hard a place.’
“People struggle when they can’t deal with themselves, their own people, and they resort to drugs and things that are floating around inside.
“I was quite happy to be on my own, it was a bit of soul-searching after everything that had happened.
“In a way it was quite like a rehab. In Risley where I ended up, it was a nightmare to book visits so I was lucky to get one a week.
“It was mainly my girlfriend because she was pregnant, and whoever of my mates wanted to come.
“You find out who your mates are and luckily I’ve got some really good friends and family around me.
“My partner was pregnant, so that was hard from that perspective. I couldn’t help her while she was struggling.
“I missed the birth of my child, so I definitely paid some prices for being in there. The only time I’d meet her was in visits, so just having her on my own when I was released was amazing.
“We’re good and solid and happy. She’s made up I’m on a curfew and I can’t go out of the house after a certain time. It means she keeps an eye on me.
“We’re fine, I’m happy to be a dad, which was something I’d never really thought about.
“I have to be home for 10pm on training nights, and other nights it’s 8pm – I got special dispensation because of my job.
“[When I was inside] I didn’t want to look at a rugby ball, it made me sick to realise what I was missing.
“The first two months I had a cell-mate, we used to play games, play cards, watch telly.
“Probably after about six weeks you get used to how things are and you become detached from the outside world, you know how everything operates and you just get on with it.”