"Never Let Me Go"

I have read the book, but never watched the film of Sir Kazuo Ishiguru's dystopian novel about a class of people cloned to satisfy a demand for organ harvesting. It is a disturbing and in some ways dispiriting book, with eerie echoes of truths that have already partly come to pass (I suppose in a similar way to some of the themes of Blade Runner).

I can't help but think of this work when I look at the current orientation of BFC. When the new owners came in, a lot of us thought that the years of 'austerity' and always having to sell our best players was over. Potts is a long way short of the best midfield players we have had in the last 20 years or so. But he is close to the forefront of the creative midfielders we have at present ( or did have until the last few days). That he has seemingly been sold without reference to the head coach suggests that we have learnt nothing from the loss of our best head coach since Danny Wilson (v.1.0). It now seems that the prime requirement for our head coach is that "thou shall not question the CEO's judgement." GG has presented a fantastic image for the club, and has responded dutifully to the needs of particular supporters. But he can not be the judge of what the squads' needs are - only the resources which are available to fulfil them.

I can understand the attitude of the previous owner, who was not a rich man by the standards of football club owners. But I am at a loss to understand why the new owners have bought into the club if they are not willing to invest in keeping the better players, let alone hiring ones who would help achieve our return to the second tier or beyond. The owners will not attract the 'floating voters' (upon whom extra revenue depends) unless they become more convincing about their realistic ambitions for the club. In the absence of explanation, the rumour mill will no doubt fill the vacuum.

 

Cloning would be an interesting new venture for Chien, Conway et al. Just imagine reproducing future Glavins, Redfearns, Hignetts and Hourihanes. We wouldn't care as much if someone was sold.

 

For balance, we tied our best creative midfielder down to a new contract only a couple of weeks ago

 

Ya but he may now have a get out clause lol

 

Which is more, £1.5 million or £350 from the bloke who won't renew because Potts was sold? Kinda sinks the extra revenue argument.

Let me lay it all out here, the club do not need you, me, or anybody else. You buy a ticket to watch a game, not to be involved in every conversation the owners have. I'm always amused by quite how entitled some people (not specifically you) are, and how important they believe themselves to be to the function of the club. The club is in the entertainment business. The Spice Girls reunited without Posh, and people decided for themselves if they still wanted to go or not.

If, as somebody said in another thread, you cannot see the point of it all, don't go. You (again, speaking generally) won't be missed.

 

Go or don’t go. It’s as simple as that. I don’t care if you don’t go and you don’t care if I don’t go. We’ve all been going or not going for as long as we’ve been going or not going so to not go if you don’t fancy not going or to go if you do fancy going makes not a hapenny difference to thee, me, the players or the owners.
Hope I’ve cleared that up, now I’m going to go

 

Maybe that's what Ganaye meant when he said "we've maintained an interest in his future". I thought it meant they'd included a sell-on clause in the contract, when in fact they just snipped off some of his hair and sealed it in a test tube.

 

The club don't need supporters? Without supporters there is no club.

Name one club in the history of football which has existed without supporters

 

There’s always going to be supporters of BFC, there just might be a few more or less. Tickets sales pale in comparison to the millions you can make from selling players, that’s just how it is.

 

Monaco

 

If there were no supporters....there would be no football clubs.....as there would be no interest....if there was no interest.....no sky money.....if there was no sky money......there would be no silly transfer fees.
Supporters are THE main ingredient into any football club.

 

Donny Rovers

 

That’s true but equally season tickets would pay for a years wages of the entire playing squad(if on less than £3k a week).
So at this level it is a fine balance

 

North Korea ?

 

This thread as proper made me chuckle

 

I feel personally responsible for the whole bloody mess now

 

I thought he designed the first Mini.

 

Have you watched 'Altered carbon' on Netflix or read the novel by Richard Morgan? ....

Human personalities can be stored digitally and downloaded into new bodies, called "sleeves". Most people have cortical stacks in their spinal columns that store their consciousness. If their body dies, their stack can be stored indefinitely. . Only the wealthy are able to acquire replacement bodies on a continual basis. The long-lived are called Meths, a reference to the Biblical figure Methuselah. The very rich are also able to keep copies of their minds in remote storage, which they update regularly. This ensures that even if their stack is destroyed, they can be resleeved.

The advantage over cloning is that you don't have to wait for the clone to 'grow up'. When the bodies of your Glavins, Redfearns, Hignetts and Hourihanes are knackered you just move the stack to a new replacement body (The super rich illegally 'grow' replacement bodies for that purpose in the series) The rest of us grow old and die! It's the future I tell ya!!

 

Eating plenty of veggies keeps me going