{"id":57535,"date":"2019-09-05T17:26:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T07:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afl.draftcentral.localhost\/?p=57535"},"modified":"2020-04-23T06:37:01","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T20:37:01","slug":"injury-leads-moore-to-the-footy-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/2019\/09\/05\/injury-leads-moore-to-the-footy-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Injury leads Moore to the footy field"},"content":{"rendered":"

QUEENSLAND’S Hayley Moore<\/a><\/strong> had a different start to her Aussie Rules career, eventually finding her way to the sport after a brief stint at netball.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was playing netball and then girls from school that were in my netball academy started to play AFL. One time the team just needed an extra player and they asked me to come along to the club and play,\u201d Moore said. <\/p>\n

While netball had its benefits, Moore says the opportunities and love she has found playing footy outweighed her enjoyment of netball, especially after facing injury that sidelined her for a period.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s solely footy now because I played netball for six years and then I had a knee injury from playing both the sports at once and then I just kind of stopped playing netball and continued with football,” Moore said. \u201cI think because it\u2019s such a bigger playing space and just the community of football is a lot and I enjoy that a lot more than I did with netball \u2026 just using the facilities with football as well, I guess the people that are around football are really hands on with injuries and stuff so they helped me a lot with aspects of it.”<\/p>\n

The composed defender pulled on the Queensland jersey once again this year after emerging on the scene in 2018, keen to get on the field and do what she does best – kick with accuracy and mark cleanly.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a really big experience, putting on the big Q with all the girls it\u2019s like a massive family taking the field,” Moore said. “Everyone runs around with pride it\u2019s just an unreal type of thing and experience. \u201cUnder pressure I have pretty good composure, I have my kicking skills and overhead marking also come into play \u2026 maybe just (improve) my tackling pressure, being able to hit a bit harder than what I currently do. There\u2019s always room for improvement overall but the main thing I want to work on is my tackling pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n

While it was her netball friends that convinced Moore to give footy a go, it was ultimately something she had wanted to do for a long while. <\/p>\n

\u201cDad came from footy so it\u2019s kind of – not in my blood, but you know what I mean. He\u2019d already played it before so it was kind of like, when I had the opportunity arise he was pushing for it whereas mum was a bit like \u2018I don\u2019t want you to get hurt\u2019. But I guess dad put in a lot of effort with me to be able to have the skills and stuff,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

Though her dad provided much of the spark to get into the sport, Moore says she\u2019s continually inspired by her Coorparoo teammates and AFL Women\u2019s players, especially those who play with the Brisbane Lions.<\/p>\n

“I play at Coorparoo, having all the AFLW girls there it\u2019s really big \u2026 you train with them so it\u2019s a really cool experience to have that type of elite level with you. So when they\u2019re not training with the Lions and whatnot we have the girls around at the club level,\u201d Moore said. \u201cThey run with Coorparoo, like quite a lot of the sessions and their intensity brings up all the trainings. Yeah it\u2019s crazy, like it\u2019s good seeing where you need to be to get to that level.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be an unreal thing to be picked up by an AFLW team. Words wouldn\u2019t be able to describe what an experience that would be to be able to play at that level.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

QUEENSLAND’S Hayley Moore had a different start to her Aussie Rules career, eventually finding her way to the sport after a brief stint at netball. \u201cI was playing netball and then girls from school that were in my netball academy started to play AFL. One time the team just needed an extra player and they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":57827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5603,11616,278,8,137],"tags":[9812,74,6078,9599,9813],"class_list":["post-57535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aflw-national-championships","category-brisbane-lions-academy","category-feature-articles","category-news","category-womens","tag-aflq-hayley-moore","tag-brisbane-lions-academy","tag-hayley-moore","tag-queensland-features","tag-queensland-hayley-moore"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}