West Brom 2 - 0 Bradford City
Over to you, Mr Chairman. Having done his bit by guiding West Bromwich Albion back to the Premiership at the first time of asking, Gary Megson's message to Jeremy Peace was unequivocal.
"We now know what it's like to have been there and we fell down on quality," said the manager. "We have done what has been asked of us; now it's up to other people to decide what the football club is to do.
"We need to change the club even more than it has [been] changed now. It's a big ask. There were people in the dressing room who were good lads - and I don't want this to sound harsh - but [they] could not do it in the Premiership last time we were there."
Megson stopped short of suggesting that some of his squad would similarly struggle, but Albion are the classic example of a team who are greater than the sum of their parts. Few players - Jason Koumas, Thomas Gaardsoe and the goalkeeper Russell Hoult excepted - would get a place at Wolves, for instance, and they are set to swap places with their neighbours.
All of which emphasises Megson's pivotal role. Not only has he succeeded where so many counterparts have failed by returning a relegated club to the top flight, he has done so on a shoestring budget and to the accompanying rumble of back stage unrest. "I'm not stupid, I hear some of the things going around the club," he admitted.
Megson, more than most, knows that hard work is not enough to survive in the Premiership, and he needs assistance of the financial kind if Albion are not to become a yo-yo club.
"For the second time in three years we are a Premiership club," he said. "What we have to decide is where we take it. I don't think we would be able to recover in the manner we have after being relegated. There may be a glass ceiling that we have got to get through. We cannot keep bouncing up there. There may be a time when we are good enough not to come back down."
Such issues will be addressed at the end of the season; in the meantime Megson and his players plan to enjoy their promotion which, due to Sunderland's earlier failure to defeat Wigan, was confirmed before a ball was kicked at The Hawthorns.
Albion's fervent supporters played their part; as did the PA announcer. "The boys are back in town," thundered the Tannoy. Yet until Koumas was able to impose himself on proceedings after the interval, it was more like the boys had been on the town.
Their celebratory pre-kick-off huddle became a muddle and, with Koumas resembling a man trying to hitch a lift on the last lap of a grand prix as his defenders humped the ball for Geoff Horsfield and Lee Hughes to chase, they lacked spark.
Inevitably it was Koumas who injected some much-needed finesse into the encounter, and his vision resulted in their first goal. The midfielder, spotting that Mark Paston had strayed off his line, saw his chip clear the goalkeeper and rebound off the crossbar for Horsfield to nod the ball home.
Hughes, put clear by Gaardsoe, added a second to seal a day to remember and give already relegated Bradford City another to forget.
Earlier, Lewis Emanuel has threatened to poop the party with a shot that was well saved by Hoult, and Danny Cadamarteri also caused a scare with a shot that whistled past Hoult's left-hand post.
But Bryan Robson their manager and a former Hawthorns hero, was in no mood to be churlish. "This is West Bromwich Albion's day and there's no way I'm going to gatecrash their party," he said. "They deserve their success and I'm very pleased for them."