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Probably we have passed the lowest point. Unfortunately I keep buying bank shares thinking the same thing.

Excuse me. I edited it first!

Ambrose Bierce: HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. E. L. Doctorow: History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth. George Bernard Shaw: We learn from history that we learn nothing from history. Gerda Lerner: What we do about history matters. The often repeated saying that those who forget the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them has a lot of truth in it. But what are 'the lessons of history'? The very attempt at definition furnishes ground for new conflicts. History is not a recipe book; past events are never replicated in the present in quite the same way. Historical events are infinitely variable and their interpretations are a constantly shifting process. There are no certainties to be found in the past. Henry Ford: History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today. Jane Haddam: People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half. Karl Marx: History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this Paul Valery: History is the science of what never happens twice. Percy Bysshe Shelley: Fear not for the future, weep not for the past. Peter Berger: The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened. Thomas Carlyle: History, a distillation of rumour.

After just one weeks and two wins this forum is recapturing some of what was great about it. Long may it continue.

Six points in two games against promotion chasing sides? Possibly.

Back to back home wins. Wooot!!

Relax. Its called winning at home. Quite painless, when you get used to it really

Those other 15 games and 45 points dont count then?

You wouldnt swap an injured AM for a fresh DM when you are 1-0 up with 15 minutes to go and are under pressure? hmmmm

Schneiderlin for Lallana suggest hes chosen keeping what we have. Right move IMO.

That sounds good, except we were in different divisons for nearly all of that time.

Didnt someone post at the start of the season we needed to average 22,000? Don't know if that still the case (or if it ever was).

I think its savaged not saved. Small difference when its Geoffrey Howe.

Nah. Need to wait for Plymouth to go behind first.

Is that a euphemism for 'Stanley'?

You can only promise and deliver on your own actions. Still as two of the forums most respected clairvoyants, please dont let me get in the way of your ****ing contest.

Years ago my Volvo 340 died on the M27 going to a Saints match. I heard a bang and looked out of the rear view mirror to see red hot bits of exhaust valve flying through the air. I'd only just bought it from my sister. It wasnt until last week her son told me she knew it was on the way out and I was only person who was prepared to buy it from her. Moral - trust strangers in dark alleys, not your sister.

Lowe has always delivered what he promised. Fair enough you may not like what he has done and it often hasnt worked out well - but he has been honest and upfront. Wilde promised and didnt deliver. He staged a takover on the back of those promises. That for me is a big difference. All that said the time for reform / reviews / changes is at the end of the season. Not now.

Prawn sandwiches and warm chardonnay IMO.

Jersey Cream and Gloucester Tangy?

Jersey Cream and Gloucester Tangy?

Au contraire. Never rated him particularly, but we did make a profit when we sold him - which is rarity nowadays.

Au contraire. Never rated him particularly, but we did make a profit when we sold him - which is rarity nowadays.

Lowe and Wilde. Who were the other two?

Lowe and Wilde. Who were the other two?