Speaking to the Bournemouth Evening Echo, Moss is quoted as saying: "The surgeon said there was nothing he could do. He could have tried the same operation but there was a zero chance of it working, so that was that. Steve Hard is the best physio I've worked with and Simon Richards did two faultless operations, but it's the nature of the injury. It's a bad thing to heal even for a person in everyday life, but for a goalkeeper, it's 10-fold. My aim now is to get the wrist back so I can at least use it for the simple things - that will be a hard process in itself. Sometimes when you retire, you think you can go out there and play semi-professional or do coaching. But I know, in no uncertain terms, that it would be foolish to do any sort of goalkeeping. To be told you can't do the thing you have loved doing for all these years was a double blow and probably as hard to take as telling the manager I couldn't play for Bournemouth any more ..... It's been up and down over my 17 years in the game. My best times certainly came at Bournemouth".
Neil Moss made 216 League appearances spanning 3 clubs (AFC Bournemouth, Southampton and Gillingham), signing for the Cherries in January 1993.