Moffett is struggling to implement change in Welsh club rugby

Moffett, who arrived in Wales last November with the unenviable task of reorganising Welsh rugby, says he was offered the chief executive job at the Football Association.

The FA has been searching for a replacement since Adam Crozier resigned last October.

Accepting the FA's offer would have secured him a 50% pay rise from his current �200,000 salary at the WRU.

"I was minding my own business when I had a call from some head-hunters who asked me if I would be interested in being chief executive of the English FA," said Moffett.

"I did decline, although I have to admit the increase in salary was very tempting.

I am here for the long term and have a job to do WRU chief executive David Moffett

"I was very flattered but my job is here and I will stay doing the best I can for Welsh rugby."

Moffett boasts a wealth of experience as a top sporting administrator having worked for the New Zealand Rugby Football Union, Australian Rugby League and Sport England.

He has earned a reputation of forcing change and cutting through the "bureaucracy and arrogance" of major sporting bodies.

But his current brief of restructuring the archaic Welsh club rugby structure is proving to be one of his toughest challenges yet.

Moffett's blueprint of four provinces, with one based in north Wales, has been rejected by the top clubs.

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He has until 2 April to get the clubs to agree on a new five-team structure or else face the prospect of no change whatsoever for next season.

"After the pressure they exerted I did contemplate reconsidering my position," admitted Moffett.

"But I am here for the long term and have a job to do."

Former communications director David Davies is the acting chief executive while the FA searches for Crozier's successor.