Steve Sly, a Dean Court director, was very emotional after the game on Saturday - like a few others, and was quoted in the Bournemouth Evening Echo as saying: "It's much better for me going up automatically than via the play-offs. Although the Millennium Stadium in 2003 was a great day out, here you have your true supporter base - the ones who go every week. There were 30,000 people at Cardiff and probably 20,000 of them had never been to a Bournemouth game. I don't want to do anything a discredit because we want all the support we can get, but these people do the miles up north every other week and they will be able to knock a few miles off the speedometer next season now! I can't thank the fans enough. They have been fantastic. We've seen these supporters at Grimsby, Darlington, Accrington and everywhere else - the same faces every other week. They mean so much to the board and so much to Eddie Howe and the players. They make the difference".