""(Thank heavans they didnt get the chance to take us...

""(Thank heavans they didnt get the chance to take us over.
(whether through choice or circumstance).)""

It wasn't that they didn't get the chance to take us over BRETTO. It was just that they didn't want us. For, if they, and with the sentiments of many at the time, they would have gobbled us up as quick as they wanted to. I have saved a few posts at the time that we reached that bottom, and they can confirm my thoughts. Plus, don't forget that all the posts after that dreadful day are still on record for everyone to see.
None of them from before, but all of the others afterwards.

It is also amazing to notice how many TU's I used to get on those days even after the club members were hard at work trying their hardest in negating some of them.

But now we are going mining, and all we have to do is to wait and see if they did the right decision of not making the move on us back then, or not. Only time will tell.