For the pain that we have suffered every day since 2016... we deserve to celebrate as hard as we want to come trophy day.

I voiced my opinion on East Football.  A site I used to frequent more often until it got full of non-football stuff which hacked me off.
Might be an age thing, but I don't particularly feel like celebrating.  Perhaps its because we are actually so far ahead.  Or maybe with that fact in play, and us not exactly being wonderful, its been embarrassing that we've been down for so long. 
So whilst I'll be delighted that we have finally restored ourselves to where we should be, I won't be getting overly excited.  Certainly not something to 'savour'.  I didn't 'savour' our last return although the play-off win was celebrated at the time, briefly.

PatReilly wrote:

I'm probably closer to Finn's outlook above, will be happy to win the league but not particularly excited or enthused by it. 

The Thistle play off in 1996 I celebrated, but mind leaving the ground before most and being a bit surprised there was hardly anyone else on the streets departing: we really shouldn't have got in the state to be relegated in the first place was my thought then, and now.

Also, I've enjoyed visiting different grounds down in this league, and truth be told having a chance of winning a league too. A return to the top league means most matches, and mind this is only my view, are 'dead rubbers'. We cannot win the Scottish Premiership, and most teams are there as cannon fodder, truth be told. The Premiership is a very different beast from the one we departed as well. 

The focus is more than ever almost wholly on two sides, to a far greater level than before, and next season will only be about '10 in a row' or 'Going for 55', the second of which is an impossibility for a club which has hasn't won one yet.

Thus I'll be pleased to some extent to be back in the top league, as it creates more financial stability for the club and we should be able to attract better quality players  to Tannadice, but I'm also very apprehensive about being involved in that set up.

 
While I respect everyone's view of course, there is another way to look at it.
As a top flight club we will undoubtedly have a better quality of players available to us. This will increase our chances of cup runs I'd like to think, and possible cup finals hopefully. Also I remember how devastated I was when we were finally relegated. I'd also prefer to be disappointed coming away from Pittodrie and Easter Road for example with a 1-0 defeat than from Alloa, Arbroath and Dumbarton. Just my view of course.

PatReilly wrote:

Arabdownsouth wrote:

While I respect everyone's view of course, there is another way to look at it.
As a top flight club we will undoubtedly have a better quality of players available to us. This will increase our chances of cup runs I'd like to think, and possible cup finals hopefully. Also I remember how devastated I was when we were finally relegated. I'd also prefer to be disappointed coming away from Pittodrie and Easter Road for example with a 1-0 defeat than from Alloa, Arbroath and Dumbarton. Just my view of course.

Don't think we are disagreeing at all Arabdownsouth. But you've not mentioned the Celtic/the Rangers factor, which is what I've had just about enough of.

 
Yeah I get you. I'd still rather be back in the top league however, I guess we can always pray that The Rangers die again 😋

All the players and staff will celebrate winning the league and quite rightly so. As a supporter of the club I will celebrate for the same reason. My team has worked hard over the course of a season to achieve their goal and deserve all the plaudits coming their way from the fans and others. Each to their own though.
 

In my own case, Yes.

I hope that I dont put anybody's nose out of joint, by saying that I expect each and every 1 of us to
celebrate in their own way.

TheShed wrote:

Footballs about winning things, it doesn’t happen often and winning things should be celebrated.  It in no way will be celebrated like a Scottish cup win, but there will be celebrations.  There will be kids watching United win something for the first time, to them it will mean a helluva lot.

 
Spot on, my wee lad still goes on about the irn bru Cup and has been counting down the point required since Xmas.

It will also be the first time I've seen us win a league title and the guard of honour at dens should be a hoot.

Anybody able to post the points difference the Championship leaders won the Title by, in the Seasons we've been down here?

Billy_Hainey wrote:

Anybody able to post the points difference the Championship leaders won the Title by, in the Seasons we've been down here?

 
17: Hibs - Falkirk (9 points)
18: St Mirren - Livi (12 points)
19: County - Utd (6 points)

Billy_Hainey wrote:

Cheers Lars.

 
Still mental that we were only 6 points away last year...

I will celebrate, yes. But my joy will in no way be comparable with the utter elation, joy and sheer ecstacy i felt when we won the Scottish Cups in '94 and 2010. I won't celebrate wildly and into the next day as i did in 2010. More the case probably that i'll have a few beers and probably rewatch the match /post match celebrations that night.

I will , if i'm honest, feel no real pride in us winning the Championship. Just mostly relief of some kind that the club is back where it belongs in my opinion. Which is the Premier League of Scottish Football.

I will applaud the players and Management on the day for their achievement over the season (of course). As it's (mostly) been a job well done. It will also be nice to see us actually hold aloft a trophy at Tannadice as that's something i've never actually seen us do. Never even seen an archived pic of Utd holding up silverware won at Tannadice, come to think of it, so there will be the novelty factor of that for the entire support to enjoy.

On next season and the Rangers/Celtic element. I get the point Pat and some others make. It is a depressing prospect of playing in what seems an unwinnable competition. But i guess the majority of teams in the top flights all over Europe feel the same to a degree. Do supporters of say (for arguements sake) Levante go into a La Liga season thinking they can break the monopoly of Real and Barca? Course they don't.

I guess it's 'just the way things' are for the most part if you're a provincial sized club in your respective country. That is why when a magical season like Leicester winning the EPL in 15/16 comes around EVERYONE across several countries 'celebrate' it, as football is all about escapism and magic and these type of Underdog stories are few and far between sadly.

The last thing i will say is that on the occasions we beat Rangers (and even rarer occasions Celtic) it was always invariably the best feelings i had after a match following Utd. Those nights i really did celebrate and will do so again.

Better to stand up and embrace the challenge of doing so again rather than be afraid or depressed about it.

Just my two cents worth.

I'll definitely celebrate. Getting relegated was depressing, so putting that right is worthy of celebrating. Ideally we'd clinch it with a win at Tannadice in front of a full house.