The kids trashed our Harmony 650 two days ago which controlled the tv, home cinema and WDTV live. Most royally cross with them.

I decided to go with a like for like replacement as it would be easier. I went to PCWorld to pick one up this pm. The sales guy gave me the full spiell trying to get me to buy one of the more expensive ones The Harmony Touch at £139.99. I was swaying towards it when I noticed he started fiddling with the labels next to it. I jumped in when I realised the problem. They had two prices tags on it both with the same model number and bar code. One read £139.99 the other read £89.99. I immediately grabbed the model of the shelf and asked they guy to show me the label he was trying to hide. After a while he did so I called the manager over and said I had seen it on display at that price and expected them to honour it.

Lets say the manager wasn't best pleased, but gave in eventually. 

I think the poor sales guy is in for a talking too when he comes off shift!!!

Expensive I know for a remote, but for cutting out all the remotes I was trying to juggle last night its definitely worth it. Plus this one has a screen lock on it so only an adult can use it!!!

The Board of Directors of Notts County can confirm a major restructure behind the scenes here at Meadow Lane ahead of the new campaign…

The first notable change is a new addition to the Board of Directors.  

 

Luke Negus-Hill joins the Board as Chief Operations Officer (COO) and will have hands on role in assisting Aileen Trew in the day-to-day management of the business.  

 

There will be further additions to the Board over the coming weeks, as the Club want to strengthen both teams on and off the pitch, in an attempt to regain its League 1 status at the first attempt.

 

Notts County Chairman Ray Trew added: “We are delighted to welcome Luke on to the Board of Directors here at Meadow Lane.  

 

“Luke has worked alongside me since 1997 and he is CEO in a number of my other business interests. He will be a valuable addition to the Board.â€

 

In addition, the club would like to welcome Richard Cokayne into a new role of Head of Commercial and Events.  

 

Richard has stepped up into this position following the departure of Damian Irvine.  

 

The Board has felt for a long time now that these two departments should be amalgamated and they feel that Richard has the credentials to lead this team onwards and upwards.   

 

As a direct result of this change, Patrick Conway also steps up from being one of the clubs duty managers into now Head of Catering & Events. Patrick has shown that he is now ready for this new challenge. There will also be further additions to Commercial and Events Team over the pursuing weeks.

 

The club can also confirm that both Mark Huckerby and Trevor Hutchinson, will take on much more responsibility around Meadow Lane.  Mark who is currently the Clubs Senior Fire Officer will now also take on the responsibility of stadium maintenance and compliance, whilst Trevor will take up the role of Head Groundsman following the recent resignation of Greg Smith. The Club is also looking to recruit a number of new staff in these key areas.

 

The club would like to wish all five members of staff well in their new roles, as we look to work together to continue to move Notts County forwards both on and off the pitch. 

 

 

To try and take the positives, the bit in bold sounds decent. 

Not so sure about appointing another Trew-ite into the club. 

After listening to the latest PONcast, I agree with @notts-joe that Bajner, Thompson and Jones need to decide on their future sooner rather than later. It does not send the right message out, if they are on holiday, get their agents to discuss terms.

If Carroll's signing was a sign of intent, what would you call this?

Thoughts?

If you have a Windows 10 machine, this includes tablets, you can this yourself. I did today!

Hi all and welcome to the sixth episode of Pride of Nottingham’s PONcast.

In today’s instalment we begin by discussing Notts County’s second new signing of the close season – Derby County youngster Rhys Sharpe. We also touch on the changes behind the scenes, including the creation of several new positions and the promotion of key Notts staff to these roles.

The PONcast then goes on to discuss the international exploits of goalkeeper Roy Carroll, former loanee Jack Grealish's FA Cup final appearance and Ashleigh Plumptre's call-up to the England Under-17 squad.

Finally we interview SuperRam, a key member of the PON community, and find out his Magpie memories.

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Hello, I am BESTpie.

My real name is Luke and I'm 17 years old. I have only been going to matches for the past two seasons but I had started going down on and off with my uncle around the 2008.

Being from Nottingham, I could not bring myself to support Forest.

The only option was Notts or Mansfield, obviously Notts won hands down.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33015657

Something has to give, however I am not sure the coverage is fair because it makes it seem that all clubs avoid hiring managers based on the colour of their skin, rather than the merits each manager processes. That said, I really hope it does pave way for managers to given a fair shot and hopefully we will see some black players progress into management.

I do think we have to avoid the 'we must' hire, because it will should be down to the talent and CV, which I just think that if someone like Paul Ince doesn't get a job - he will end up crying wolf and then the game will be into dispute.

Overall I am keen to see the changes because some managers are very unlucky not to have a fair chance and it does seem that some clubs aren't very forward thinking.

I am thankful that Notts look at things differently.

How will this work? What happens if managers complain?

A quick question and please give an honest answer, I'm not looking to judge anyone, I'm just curious.

Would you buy something if you suspected it was stolen. Would you be tempted to buy a brand new TV for instance if it was a massive saving on shop price but you suspected it was stolen.

I'll give my opinion and experiences later, don't forget be honest with your answer.

Police are becoming more concerned for a missing 13 year old girl in Mansfield, it's every parents nightmare, I really hope she is found safe and well.

Notts County are delighted to confirm the signing of left-back Rhys Sharpe from Derby County…

Read more at http://www.nottscountyfc.co.uk/news/article/notts-county-rhys-sharpe-derby-county-2478301.aspx#yxpXl2oAy2A0jpq0.99

Seems promising, but how many 'young' left backs do we need to try? So we have Adams, Cranston, got rid of Newton and now Sharpe?

I would have thought right back and another centre back would have been more of an issue!

If you have a season ticket for this year you are on the bench and as such can get access to the exclusive twitter account for bench members, they've just added me @Fanofbigtone so if you want to get access all you have to do is click this link.

https://twitter.com/TheBench_NCFC

Welcome, welcome, welcome.

Welcome @Joshua, hope you enjoy the site and thanks for joining us here on the Pride of Nottingham.

Hello @SixFootTwo and welcome to the Pride of Nottingham. I have to say I love the username, I think you will be a promising capture by self and a weclome addition to the PON squad. I just hope you can work alongside our regular goalscorer @tonyhateley.

See you around the community and please do let us know a little bit about yourself.

The temperatures are rising, the sun is coming out, it looks like we are in for a settled spell of weather at last.

Summer to me means, lots of trips in our camper van, holidays, sitting in the garden relaxing with a cool drink, barbecuing, wearing summer clothes like shorts T-shirt etc.

I love summer.

What's your favourite thing about summer?

Having recently experienced IMAX for the first time I was wondering how other people felt about it.

For me, it is definitely something to be experienced. We saw San Andreas, which in a normal cinema would have been a no because, lets face it, the rock is fronting the film! But in IMAX it was unbelievable! Sound great, 3D wow. It made a disaster movie really have some ooomphhh!

Thoughts and opinions?

So, when I first logged in online the first thing which greeted me was Facebook informing me of another pre-season friendly. I thought it may be an home tie, however no, it's not. It's a tie with our former link-up side Arnold Town - where Notts had been using as a training base for both the first team and youth team.

I don't think it's a good idea, some of their players took the game way too seriously and of course it's where Jimmy became injured.

What do you folks think? Good idea? One off? Discuss...

Simple enough is there anyone out there that you think would fit into our style of play?

To start with I'll go with Dayle Southwell & Jeff Hughes. Anyone who can remember any of these style threads will know that I have wanted us to sign Dayle for a long long time, he scored 30 goals for Boston last season, he's only 21, very quick and a natural finisher. He would cost a bit but trust me he is well worth the money. I would love to see the quality of Jeff Hughes back at Notts, his natural ability would suit Ricardo's master plan I reckon.

So come on then who would you like to see wearing the b&w stripes next season.

Which do you use when buying goods. I use debit card a lot but when possible I use credit card which gives me points and cash back. I have a direct debit set up to pay the full amount every month so that I don't have any interest payments.

I rarely use cash these days.

What's your preference?

Did anyone see the final on Sunday?

Apparently the dog doing the trick walking on a tightrope wasn't actually Mattisse (the dog that won) but a look a like called Chase.

The show are claiming they knew nothing about it but I can't believe that, they surely have rehearsals?

What do you think? Have the public been hoodwinked? Should the £250,000 prize be taken away?

Thousands of love locks are being taken off a bridge in Paris because it is in danger of collapsing.

Apparently you put a padlock on a bridge and throw the key into the river to symbolise your undying love. I'd not heard of this craze until very recently, have you heard of it? Have you ever done it?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32955400

Well what a fun day I've had, I spent all morning trying to get through on the phone to renew my season ticket and kept getting through to some poor bloke in another department who tried to put me through to the ticket office only after a long time ringing out it went back to him again, he kept apologising and saying how busy they were etc. I felt sorry for him I bet he got lots of calls like that.

I vented my frustration on twitter to the Notts County and they suggested sending my phone number via email and someone would ring me back, I'm still waiting.

I've tried renewing on line, the first time I tried I put in my membership number and post code as requested and it didn't work, I tried again later and this time it found my seat, gave me a price and when I clicked continue everything vanished and the seat number and price had gone, so I've had to give up on that too.

Unless they extend the deadline it looks like I won't be getting a season ticket at the cheaper price! I know it's difficult for them but surely they could have laid on a few extra staff to cope with the demand on the last couple of days, they must know everyone leaves it until the last minute!

OK...Its time for my renewal of my contract (well at beg of August) so trying to sort out the best option.

Currently have a 2 yr with 3 on their old one plan (everything unlimited)

Dont need anywhere near that in real terms and basically I have been paying for the phone, not the plan, which is fiar enough.

Have now Galaxy S4. Battery is knackered and cant make it through the day now so I'm thinking about going for a newer phone.

The biggest minefield for me is the provider. I talked to 3 and their deal is ok, but I think changing to ee might be a good idea with the integrated wifi calling. (on 3 it is a seperate app)

The stumbling block is ...carphone warehouse. Their deals are obviously better than the provider, BUT

when I play devils advocate with the actual provider they give me the big speill about check the terms and conditions. 3 even said they stopped working with cpwh because cpwh had the power to put the prices up themslves above the provider during the contract. When I questioned the 3 guy on why then 3 were going into partnership network with cpwh on their new provider id, they clammed up.

So...

Anyone had dealings with carphone warehouse good or bad?

Anyone recommend a better battery phone from the latest crop S6 or HTC1m9?

Adice more on the network provider if poss please.

Thanks all

A warm PoN welcome to two new members, @David Burkey and Yoop_eyes.Please join in and enjoy your time with us.

Hi all and welcome to the fifth episode of Pride of Nottingham’s PONcast.

In today’s instalment we begin by discussing Notts County’s first new signing of the close season – Exeter City captain Scot Bennett. Is he the right fit for the Magpies? We then move onto rumours relating a link-up between Notts and Liverpool – how did the speculation come about, and what do people think of this potential twinning?

The PONcast also touches on the recent departure of the commercial executive Damian Irvine.

Finally we interview an inspirational Notts fan who is to take part in a charity bike ride in aid of Prostrate Cancer UK.

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PONcast Extra (All-Stars Special) - Link
PONcast Episode 4 - Link