RUGBYeNEWS.com reports a recent interview in which Moffett said that the professional sport will be dead in the Celtic nation within five years and that major problems are in store for England and France.
"The biggest disappointment of my time here is the refusal to change the structure in Europe," he says. "England and France are blocking it but they follow the soccer model, which is fundamentally flawed. How many soccer clubs make money?
"English and French clubs will continue to rape and pillage the world's best players and in a few years they'll discover they have no-one left to play. You look at the make-up of the teams in the Heineken Cup from France and England - how many local players do they have? English and French clubs are intent on doing what they think is right for them - they have no interest in the wider game at all.
"The club owners think that more games equals more money, but the most valuable tournament in the northern hemisphere is the Six Nations, which generates £45million a year over seven weeks before gates and sponsorship.
"Less is more. The most valuable sports competition in the world is the NFL in American Football - they play 13 weeks.
"If rugby keeps going the way it is it will be played professionally in only five countries - England, France, New Zealand, South Africa and Australia."
Moffett suggests a pan-European league divided into conferences, organised by European Rugby Cup, who currently run the Heineken Cup and Challenge Cup.






