As club officials from around the country continue to talk through the final details of a new schedule for the domestic football season, don't be surprised if the representatives of the new league champions suddenly seem keen on a late break of about a month every year from now on.
You have to go back to mid-September to find a time when Bohemians were not in the top three of this year's title race but it is Roddy Collins's team's remarkable run of form since the foot-and-mouth crisis struck at the start of March that finally set the club up for their first league success since 1978.
Yesterday's hammering of Kilkenny brought their run to seven wins in eight games since the enforced lay-off and it is consistency as the league race moved into the home straight that enabled them to close what had looked to be an unbridgeable gap to Shelbourne at the top of the table.
Down at Tolka Park they may point to the fact that their rivals had only to beat teams with nothing to play for over the course of the last week but Collins and Co will reflect with satisfaction on the home wins over Bray and St Patrick's over the past few weeks as well as the victories at Derry and, of course, Shelbourne that really set them up for yesterday's triumph.
The run, at a time when they were also making their way safely into their second successive cup final, leaves little question about their right to be regarded as worthy champions.
Over the course of the year as a whole, their success owed much to a consistently attacking brand of football that, when they pulled it off, made them the most entertaining team in the country to watch.
Needless to say Glen Crowe's tremendous strike rate up front went a long way towards establishing the Phibsboro club as serious contenders again this season - three hat-tricks and 25 league goals have marked him out as by far the most prolific goalscorer in the domestic game and the two he got yesterday means that his total is a record for the league in its current form. But there has been more to the Bohemians gameplan. Collins has shown a knack for picking up players that are unwanted at other clubs and making them fit into a team that, at the end of last season, he willingly dismantled and then heavily reconstructed.
Dave Hill was brought in after being released by Cork, Paul Byrne returned at the transfer deadline from St Patrick's and Mark Rutherford was recruited from Newry Town. All have had considerable impacts over the past few months at Dalymount Park.
When the goals, briefly, proved harder to come by before Christmas, the manager didn't have any hesitation about providing additional competition for last summer's record signing from St Patrick's, Trevor Molloy. In came Alex Nesovic after being let go by Finn Harps. Almost immediately he, too, was making his presence felt in the attack.
When the club's supporters reflect on their long awaited title winning campaign, it will be hard for them to overlook the day Nesovic scored his first league goal for the club, the afternoon in late January when they fought their way back from 4-1 down against Shamrock Rovers to win 6-4.
It may have been a turning point, for from then on the team steadily gathered momentum with more established players like Tony O'Connor, Kevin Hunt and Shaun Maher all performing strongly in a side that increasingly played as though they had nothing to lose.
As they improved in recent weeks, Shelbourne's form dipped and ultimately Bohemians, having punched a gift-horse in the mouth once before back in 1993 when the title appeared to be within their grasp, showed wonderful composure to make amends this time.
