gingerjon

That's been the case for a long time - decades. People just dumping bags of stuff by the front door that then is either sent to landfill or sold to rags - because, again, capacity and resources, let alone whether it could actually ever sell.

I thought it wasn't - they just had a set number? Hence why it wasn't included in the initial plans for the season but went in after the success of the Everton Ashes test?

Come to Hastings. Our charity shops are mostly old school. A couple of boutique ones but the majority very much not.

I say this to you every time you get the hump that charity shops have policies. You always need to check in advance. Not every shop takes everything. Checking and pricing. Not every shop will be able to check and price every possible thing they could sell so they select what they know they can work with. Storage. This is the real one. Every shop has limited space and many many many more things donated that it can ever put out or sell. Yes, they want donations all the time but, no, that doesn't mean they can take everything and then, TARDIS like, keep it until there is space to display and it will then sell. The ones I am aware of end up landfilling a lot of stuff even though they never want to. That said, if they were rude to you then that isn't right either.

Tonight is one of those nights where anyone with even a mainstream subscription (say Sky and TNT only) has more football matches to watch live than it is actually possible to count. I'm going with England Women v Greece as I'm intrigued to see if the Lionesses can put it in two decent performances in a row.

I'll take that as a positive.

Widnes was just a pointless answer on, erm, Pointless

That's what it looks like. £500k from the council, £500k from the RFL. So a purchase value (I guess) of £1m.

I suspect there is an element of complacency on the London/NRL side here. It's just a hunch but it wouldn't surprise me if they thought, from their perspective, it was so obvious that London would be elevated to Super League - and let's not pretend there isn't precedent for weird changes to get preferred teams into things - that there was no need to make it a requirement. Why get hung up on something that is going to happen anyway?

Yes - there's a DAZN app on Fire TVs.

Yeah. None of that is relevant. City have been found guilty on 114 charges relating to widespread financial cheating and outright fraud. That's the relevant bit.

That would, and I didn't think this before this weekend, irreparably damage the Premier League.

Yes, this bit has been explained multiple times.

It's a non threat. The NRL do not have £100m a year, for ten years, lying around to pump into a from scratch rugby league competition on the other side of the world.

I'm just concerned that not enough of them will have firm opinions about pitch markings.