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After a month spent mainly on the road, with three away games and only one home match since 24 January, Bournemouth's supporters are ready to enjoy home comforts – with three of their next four games at Vitality Stadium, including two in the next week against Sunderland and Brentford.
However, for those looking further ahead, Monday's club announcement relating to the redevelopment of Vitality Stadium has put some flesh on the bones of how the ground is likely to look next season.
After the enabling developments were approved by Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Council in January, work has begun at the southern end of the ground.
The full planning application has now been submitted to BCP Council and is at the consultation phase, with the council planning committee due to rule on it in May.
That will leave a reasonably tight timescale for work (if approved) to take place over the summer, when the current Ted MacDougall Stand – surely one of the longest-standing "temporary" stands in football, having been in place since 2013 – will be removed and work on a new South Stand begun.
The club now plans to construct the lower tier of the new South Stand, and fill in two of the corners, before the start of next season, which will initially increase capacity by over 1,500 seats, and should still allow the largest attendance of Dean Court's current configuration, since the pitch was turned through 90 degrees in 2001.
So 2026-27 will be a "work in progress" season as construction of the upper tier of the South Stand – which will eventually dwarf the other stands in height and size – will continue during the campaign.
Then, if all goes to plan, further work in the close season in 2027 will fill in the other two corners, which coupled with extensions to the North and East Stands, and the completion of the South, will raise capacity to more than 20,000.
While Dean Court's record attendance looks likely, for now, to remain the 28,799 fans who somehow packed into the old ground for the 1957 FA Cup quarter-final against Manchester United, expansion of the current ground feels long overdue as Bournemouth prepare for what will be their 10th season in the Premier League.
The Cherries Trust has encouraged fans to comment on the plans, which can be found on the BCP Council website under the planning application P/25/04900/FUL.