Graeme Close

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The Offload · British and Irish Lions Head of Performance Graeme Close – THE DRESSING ROOM: Unlocked | The Offload · 5 May 2026 podcast

Have they got the opportunity and have they got the motivation?

Now with the jockeys, often they didn't have the opportunity.

And that's because the food at the racetrack was pie and chips.

So they just weren't eating anything.

So one of the big thing we did was change all the catering guidance for all the race courses.

And we came up with a set of minimum standards.

So suddenly now at the weighing rooms, instead of pie and chips, there was things like omelets and salads and fresh salmon and some really top food.

It's a little bit, again, go back to when I first got to Munster and, you know,

It was one thing saying you must eat good food after training, but the opportunity wasn't there.

Yeah, it was, you know, nipping for a cover.

I was nipping in the student canteen at UL, weren't we, for a while.

So sometimes we always think with behavior change, it's about education.

It's that C side of it, the capability.

But we often forget that sometimes changing the environment, changing, increasing the opportunity to make good choices can be just as important as the education piece.

Yeah, he's an incredible human being.

You're exactly right.

And I'm very lucky that, you know, we go back a long way, myself and Andy, without really...

ever touching.

So his dad used to coach me for a start.

So Peter Farrell was a very good amateur rugby league coach back in the day.

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