Former NRL, SANZAAR and Wales boss launches his vision for a radical new version of rugby

Press Release from Rugby Rules

Rugby Rules is being launched today as an alternative to all the major full contact sports - Rugby Union, Australian Football and Rugby League.

It’s been designed as a safe, exciting, dynamic, fast and fun sport which can be enjoyed by coaches, players, referees, spectators, sponsors and media.

Rugby Rules is the brainchild of two people with a huge interest and involvement in Rugby over 120 years in total, both from different backgrounds - David Moffett and Enrique Rodriguez.

Together they own Rugby Rules Limited and have offices in Australia and New Zealand.

‘Topo’ Rodriguez, an Argentine and Wallabies international, is still regarded as one of the finest exponents of loose head scrummaging the world has seen.

He is a Triple Rugby Union International (Argentina, Tahiti, Australia), Wallabies captain (1987), Australian U21s Forward and Scrum Coach (Southern Hemisphere Championship, Buenos Aires 1995).

Moffett is a former player, referee and administrator.

Moffett has been the CEO of SANZAR, NZ Rugby, Welsh Rugby, the NRL and started his career as the Executive Director of NSW Rugby.

Importantly they are both fans, supporters and spectators who have become disillusioned with the current state of Rugby.

Over the past two months they have found much in common and both agreed that the solutions lay, not in tinkering with the current laws of Rugby, but to devise a completely new game which has its roots in Rugby, League and Aussie Rules.

Moffett set about writing the rules for this new game and ‘Topo’ provided the perfect sounding board and astute observations and recommendations.

In many respects Rugby Rules is similar to Rugby but at the same time completely different. It was born out of a dissatisfaction with Rugby and its administrators at the apex of the game.