[5] He took up his post at the WRU on 2 December 2002 having beaten off over 100 other applicants to the job, and immediately set about controlling the WRU's finances who were by this time heavily in debt (around £55 million) due to poor management of funds and expenditure on facilities such as the Millennium Stadium.
Moffett created an 18-man board of directors, replacing a 27-man committee as part of his streamlining of administration at the Union.
During the 2003–04 season 50% of the ownership of the Celtic Warriors region was given to the WRU by Leighton Samuel who had acquired the Pontypridd share because that club was effectively bankrupt.
Moffett was able to dissolve the Celtic Warriors with the help of WRU Chairman David Pickering by getting the remaining four regions to give £312,500 each to buy off Leighton Samuel.
As part of this deal with Barclays, the WRU Group cleared its debt to BT for the land on which the stadium was built.
"[12][9] These tweets, along attacks on other politicians such as Angela Merkel, received coverage in New Zealand and Britain due to his rugby profile.
[2] Moffett's time in the board appears to have been short; by September 2019 the New Conservative's website no longer listed him as a part of the leadership team.
Journalist Alex Braae described the New NZ party in May 2019 as "a vehicle for David Moffett which is at this stage is unregistered, and mainly appears to consist of aggressive social media posting."
[14][15] According to its website, the party's policies included opposing "open borders, interference by the UN, Government excess, waste and interference, far left and right ideologies, the PC brigade, tyranny by minorities, unlawful religious beliefs and terrorism".
[5][19] It follows his frequent criticism of modern rugby, both the rules of the game and the structure of professional competitions.