Selling 49% of the franchise seems popular in The Hundred. Why are people willing to spend 10s of millions without full control?

I presume the Hundred must be very popular in India as the franchises seem to be valued at ridiculous prices. How can a team playing at Lords be worth 300 million when Middlesex seem to be in danger of going bust?

I know that, Swiggy 😀

My comment was regarding his journalism and nothing more

Just read Liddle's Wiki page. Can't comment on his writing prowess, but he does seem to have been a deeply unpleasant person in his private life.

Did I say hero RK?

Yeah think Egil Olsen copied the welly wearing style:-)

Never heard of him. I’ve heard of Jimmy Cricket.

Paedo and wife-beater but being unwoke makes him a hero !

Rod Liddle once beat up his pregnant girlfriend and also said if he’d become a teacher he’d have been unable to stop himself from shagging the children - definitely unwoke… Weirdo, but yes 66 is too young…

If someone from the Club or even DTb is lurking can we please have water refill points on Saturday? Forecast Sunny 25c will only get hotter. You are limiting fans to 500ml bottles, which for some, has to last more than the game duration so please be mindful of elderly and those impacted by health issues ;-/

RIP Jimmy Cricket

A brilliant and amusing unwoke journalist ... God Bless

A great and amusing journalist ... God Bless

RIP Rod Liddle - I hated him but 66 is too young to die.

Haha that’s true Trigg - the river is obviously much cleaner now than it used to be, and most of the brown is literally just silt. You still have to be careful on the foreshore, but more for needles and the occasional dead rat…

Yeah I kinda figured it would have been date/time specific.

Trigg - partly true, although it’s impossible to know whether the tide was heading upstream or downstream when the Google maps images were taken, and the river can definitely be murky and filled with sediment up to Hammersmith and beyond.

Sorry if AR, but interesting to see Olusanya winning the injury time penalty that led to Aberdeen beating Hearts… [Link] Scroll down a little for the iplayer highlights…

Bromley have made 12 signings so far this summer and are expecting more, apparently.

You can see via satellite view on Google maps where the tidal forces in The Thames stop being sufficient to churn up the sediment - it's at Wandsworth. East of Wandsworth the river is brown and by the time you get to Putney it's, well, not brown.

6M - as a mudlark, tides are pretty critical for my hobby, and I regularly find myself explaining to unsuspecting tourists on the foreshore that there’s a 7 metre (23 feet) tidal range in central London, so they need to watch when it turns…. I’d always teach the kids at school that the amount of water on the planet (including the atmosphere) is always the same - what varies is whereabouts it is distributed, and what state it’s in (frozen, vapour, surface, underground, etc…). Although some places are under a hosepipe ban, that’s more through the ineptitude and profiteering of the monopolised water companies than anything else - by the end of October everyone will be moaning that it’s too wet…

We've still got loads of birds, RK. Cooler by the coast, of course. It's a particularly good year for swifts, although I can't imagine where they are getting water from up there.

Noel Edmonds buying lobsters from a tank in a restaruant on the Isle of Man. Releases them in the sea! Batship bonkers Britain. Now the owner of the Restaraunt Has taken them off the menu and the supplier has lost a customer. Well done Edmonds

Padd, I leave a tray out, the water does go but maybe that's largely evaporation? Only rarely seen birds drinking, maybe they're all expired