THIS is a football club showing its teeth. And not before time.

Even with the Premier League's millions fluttering around in the Dean Court bank account, the sale and leaseback of Cherries' home in 2005 continues to hamper the club's progress off the field.

An ongoing tale of two stubborn beasts, the AFC Bournemouth boardroom and landlords Structadene refusing to budge, refusing to give an inch.

Now, thankfully, the football club has seen the light. Developing a stadium it doesn't own was never going to work, not to mention the King's Park site being far too residential to house a Premier League standard facility.

The future is away from Dean Court, but there will be tears when the day comes. The AFC Bournemouth story has unfolded in the most unlikely of arenas, a compact cauldron that has seen the penniless pain of the Winter Gardens in 1997 and administration in 2008 mixed with the box office of English football's top flight.

The memories will never fade. Milton Graham in 1984, Steve Fletcher in 2009, Marc Pugh, Callum Wilson and Matt Ritchie against Bolton in 2015, proving that dreams do sometimes come true.

But deep down in their red and black hearts, the Cherries faithful will know a life away from the little tree-lined stadium in King's Park is the only option. It's the only way more memories can be made.