Forget all the chatter about the Championship being the place to be next season.
That is utter nonsense when you look at it from Dundee’s perspective.
It is the Premiership that is the promised land for the Dark Blues and now they are back.
They have escaped from Scottish football’s second tier as champions and deservedly so after an often emotionally exhausting season.
Of course, the next Championship campaign will be intriguing and exciting.
Rangers will be there looking to continue their progress back to where the Dens men have just reached, while Hearts are emerging as many people’s favourites to finish ahead of the Light Blues.
There could, depending on the play-off result, be another side dropping down.
Let’s not forget, either, the rest of the Championship clubs who will enjoy trying to shoot down the big two.
Nevertheless, it just wouldn’t do for Dundee who will now willingly dismiss all that and instead look forward to trips to Celtic Park, Pittodrie, McDiarmid Park and, of course, that most unique of fixtures, the Dundee derby.
There is something special about the meetings between the Dark Blues and their neighbours United.
In any list of what makes people proud to be Dundonian, the ability of the city to deliver a good-natured but intensely-contested game of football should be high on the list because it means so much than just sport
Pals and siblings gather in pubs before parting company on street corners and heading for different ends of the ground only to meet up later, usually one happy fan commiserating with the other.
Let’s remember, too, that it will be the only true derby in the Premiership next season, with the Glasgow and Edinburgh versions now no more.
While the wider community will benefit from this promotion, the most important thing is what it will mean to the club itself and their fans.
Dundee’s supporters have rightly earned a reputation for sticking by their team through thick and, mostly, thin since the spectre of administration first haunted them back in 2003.
The big travelling support will be welcomed every other week with open arms by directors who were probably dreading the, by comparison, poorly-supported Hamilton Accies taking their place.
Try telling any Dundee supporter this morning that the Championship will be great next season.
I am sure they will answer, “Aye but I’ll get by with Dundee derbies, trips to Aberdeen, Perth and Parkhead thank you very much!”