Brendan McClements
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307 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 10 Sep
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And th and the the message came back is, no, no, we're looking at Australia perhaps in a way we haven't in the past.
And then I got to spend about an hour with the commissioner, um, uh at his hotel where we just talked about his vision and what he thought and talked about Melbourne and what I thought.
Um wasn't really a negotiation, wasn't really anything just
a discussion more than anything.
We've we've been to the ultra a couple of times with some other sports.
Um
I would
long time ago now, but it disappointed the e the Premier League had envisioned uh what they called a thirty ninth round.
Um
And Melbourne had done a deal with the Premier League to host two Premier League games in the case of a thirty ninth round.
That was sort of twenty teams, ten games, five cities, one round.
Yeah.
Um and it hadn't quite um
I'm sure Richard Scootermore, who was in charge at that stage, would say he hadn't quite lined up some of the internal stakeholders.
So, you know, to do that you need FIFA and UAFA and your clubs and the sport.
So it sort of it didn't quite come off, but we were obviously excited about the thought of hosting two for four points Premier League games.
And um MLB we had a similar moment where we'd had an agreement um but they'd locked the play.
Um
to get the players back on the field
in the collective barving agreement they were working through the players advised that uh international expansion wasn't really on their radar.
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