Scott Moore (born 23 January 1988) is an English

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footballer who plays as a for the

Swinton Lions The Swinton Lions are a professional rugby league club based in Swinton, Greater Manchester, England, which competes in the Championship. The club has won the Championship six times and three Challenge Cups. Before 1996, the club was known s ...

in the

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. He previously played in the

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for St Helens ( Heritage № 1145),

Huddersfield Giants Huddersfield Giants are an English professional rugby league club from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, the birthplace of rugby league, who play in the Super League competition. They play their home games at the John Smiths Stadium which is sh ...

London Broncos The London Broncos are a professional rugby league club in London, England. The club competes in the RFL Championship. It was a member of Super League from its inaugural season in 1996 until the end of the 2014 season, when they were relegat ...

Castleford Tigers The Castleford Tigers are a professional rugby league club in Castleford, West Yorkshire, England, that compete in the Super League, the top-level professional rugby league club competition in the Northern Hemisphere. The club have competed i ...

( Heritage № 885), and in the

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for the

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. Moore signed for Swinton in the

, after starting the season at the

Rochdale Hornets The Rochdale Hornets are a professional rugby league club from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, competing in the Championship, the second tier of European rugby league. The Rochdale Hornets are one of the original twenty-two rugby clubs ...

for the 2019 season, following his release from prison.

Playing career

Club career

St Helens

Moore was the youngest ever Super League player when he made his debut for Saints at the

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aged only 16.

Castleford Tigers

Moore spent 2008 on loan at

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Huddersfield Giants

He spent 2009 on loan at Huddersfield whilst playing hooker. In 2009, Moore was named in the Super League team of the year at Hooker.

St Helens - Return from loans

Moore returned to St Helens for the start of the 2010 season. Moore played in the

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defeat against

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Widnes Vikings

On 11 October 2011, it was announced that Moore has signed a three-year deal commencing in 2012 with English Super League side

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. On Friday 17 February 2012, Widnes Vikings announced they had suspended Moore,

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and

Simon Finnigan Simon Finnigan (born 8 December 1981) is a rugby league coach and former player who was most recently the head coach of the Widnes Vikings in Betfred Championship and was previously head coach at Newcastle Thunder and an assistant coach at the ...

for an unspecified breach of club discipline, so missing the match against Salford City Reds on Sunday 19 February 2012. On 12 April 2012, Moore was sacked by Widnes for a further breach of discipline.

Huddersfield Giants

On 17 April 2012, Scott signed for Huddersfield until the end of the season.

North Queensland Cowboys

In early November 2012 it was announced that Moore had signed a two-year-contract with the

London Broncos

In mid January 2014, the

announced they signed Moore for the 2014 season where he was their starting hooker.

Castleford Tigers

Following the Broncos relegation from Super League he signed a deal with the Castleford from the 2015 season.

Wakefield Trinity Wildcats loan

Moore was loaned to

Wakefield Trinity Wildcats Wakefield Trinity is a professional rugby league club in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, that plays in the Super League. One of the original twenty-two clubs that formed the Northern Rugby Football Union in 1895, between 1999 and 2016 the c ...

in 2015, with Paul McShane going in the opposite direction.

Wakefield Trinity permanent

He later signed a permanent deal for the 2016 season with

Wakefield Trinity Wakefield Trinity is a professional rugby league club in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, that plays in the Super League. One of the original twenty-two clubs that formed the Northern Rugby Football Union in 1895, between 1999 and 2016 the c ...

Bradford Bulls

Moore signed for

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on a four-game trial. This turned into a year full time deal. However at the end of the season Moore was released.

Swinton Lions

On 19 June 2019 it was reported that he had signed for Swinton in the

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in a swap deal with

Kyle Shelford Kyle Shelford (born 13 September 1996) is an English professional rugby league footballer who plays as a and for the Warrington Wolves in the Super League. He previously played for the Swinton Lions in the Betfred Championship. Background S ...

International career

Moore made his test début for England in 2009, playing two games.

Personal life

On 6 March 2018 Moore was jailed for 23 months at

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for dangerous driving and assaulting three police officers.

Playing career

Club career

St Helens

Castleford Tigers

Huddersfield Giants

St Helens - Return from loans

Widnes Vikings

Huddersfield Giants

North Queensland Cowboys

London Broncos

Castleford Tigers

Wakefield Trinity Wildcats loan

Wakefield Trinity permanent

Bradford Bulls

Swinton Lions

International career

Personal life

References

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