With the recent announcement that American Football Ireland will be hosting the IFAF European Flag Championships in August 2023, we sat down with the newly appointed head coach of Wolfhounds Flag Dan Shaw to discuss his plan's for the squad, his approach to player selection and the road to Limerick 2023.

Dan first stepped into football in Ireland as the Head Coach of the Coleraine Elks Flag Team in 2016. He spent 3 years with the Belfast Trojans as a DB coach and also ran their flag team in his time there. After leaving the Trojans, he assisted the foundation of the Belfast City Lions and spent their first year as chairperson.

At national level, he was previously DC with the Wolfhounds Flag team. Episode Content Correction:

On reflection, it came across that we were collectively saying that there was a bias in player selection on the previous Wolfhound Flag team. We’d like to be clear that was not the case.

We were simply addressing the public/common knowledge that some clubs *felt* there was a bias. We apologise to Coach Guillaume Polanski for the error. GP is intrinsically passionate about the development of Flag Football in Ireland. As HC, GP’s goal was to build a steady growing national structure to prepare for future competitions.

Given the strength that Wolfhounds Flag grew to, the future competitions on the horizon and how the team continues to grow from strength-to-strength under Coach Dan Shaw, we would say goal accomplished!

Coach GP continues his good work in AFI as our Director of Flag Football.