Alan Quinlan
speaker
866 appearances
16 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 8 Sep
Alan Quinlan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But yeah, it's been wonderful and I've been very, very lucky.
But didn't you think when you were coming out of playing that coaching was going to be where you were going?
There's so many.
Bernard Jackman was a colleague.
He's a coach.
Paul O'Connell.
All these guys who I played with, against, they're all involved in rugby.
And I kind of wanted that role for myself, but the media stuff just kind of, I stumbled across it.
It wasn't this master plan that I had when I retired.
It's done okay.
I've done okay and I've enjoyed it and I feel very lucky.
I think when you sit in the middle of a stadium, an Irelander playing or Munster or Leinster or somebody and you have the privilege to hold a microphone and talk to the nation, really, you're going into everybody's sitting room.
Essentially, that is a privileged position.
So I never take it for granted and I really enjoy it.
I think he has to make changes, obviously.
You're not going to play the same team three weeks on the bounce.
The team that's selected at the weekend, the vast majority of them you feel will start against New Zealand.
So yes, you have to.
And it could be eight or ten changes, but I think you certainly have to...
have a little bit of quality and people and that know-how on the bench that would be important.
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