Well known Sky sports pundit and SMU Receivers Coach Jeff Reinebold flew into Dublin Sun Jul 19th to bed in with the IAFA over the 3 days that followed.
On Monday evening,Coach Reinebold spent 4 hours giving clinics to IAFCA coaches, giving full access to the run and shoot concepts used at SMU, where along with June Jones he was part of a resurgence that led to a Hawaii bowl victory where SMU demolished the heavily favoured Nevada.
Tues morning,Coach Reinebold and his wife were keen to take in Dublin,and visited Kilmainham Goal to take in some Irish history. Coach O’Toole then took them on a tour of Trinity College Dublin and Coach Reinebold and his wife got to visit The Book of Kells aswell as The Long Hall of TCD. On Tuesday evening, more coaches joined the returning ones to hear Coach Reinebold continue his series of excellent clinic talks on a variety of topics on all sides of the ball.
Wed evening was a great day for IAFA players as they got to join in on the fun. Player from all IAFL teams turned up to Castleknock College to take part in a field clinic led by Coach Reinebold.Coach Reinebold worked alongside IAFL Coaches Lawless,O’Toole,Andrews,Loughran and Naylor in teaching the IAFL players how to practise to an elite level.
After the 3 days, Coach Reinebold said “I am really impressed with the level of play in Ireland,if players got a weightroom mentality and focused Ireland could have some big time players”.On the coaching front Coach Reinebold said “The coaches are some really tuned in guys,who have a thorough understanding of football”.Coach Reinebold also stated he looks forward to the inevitable re-emergence of Team Ireland and seeing how it progresses.
IAFCA Technical Director Darrin O’Toole said “This visit by Coach Reinebold has really shown that Ireland is starting to knock on the door of the worldwide football commuunity.Coach Reinebold really liked 2 of our players and it shows that if we can develop our players from a young enough age, the sky really is the limit for some of them”.