Graeme Close

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532 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 5 May

Graeme Close’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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And that's a real skill in itself.

Yeah, I just thought he was, it's hard to, you said it again, it's really hard to put your finger on it.

He doesn't rant.

I don't remember many raised voices, but when he speaks, like I say, you sit back and you listen.

And I remember one of his talks quite early on, real cliched, but you're at that point where you actually want to go on that field.

You're like, I want to go out and I want to wear that shirt.

And then absolutely inspirational.

So, you know, I thought that my days on the road with teams were gone.

So I stopped after England, the last World Cup, to concentrate back on my university job.

And then I got the phone call from Andy himself.

You know, Andy gave me a call to say, do you fancy this Lions trip?

Um, and the opportunity to learn from him was just something that was not, not just because of Lions, but of course.

And do you know what?

Yeah.

Every, um,

it surpassed every expectation I would have had.

I've got to be careful how I word this.

You fucking better be, because if you're slagging us off, man.

For the opposite reason than what you're possibly thinking.

You guys at Munster, I remember saying there was something really special about that team.

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