As a fan, missing the finals is never fun.

You're left ruing what might have been as others celebrate on the precipice of success.

Countless hours are spent calculating the losses that left your team outside of the eight or worse yet, scouring draft boards to see which teenager will be tasked with resurrecting your club.

However, it doesn't have to be all doom and gloom. Every cloud supposedly has a silver lining and it is always darkest before the dawn.

Cliches aside, here's why the fanbases of the bottom ten teams should be excited about 2021.

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Carlton

Now we all know that it doesn't take much for you Carlton fans to get bullish about the future, but this time they you may have a point.

Now boasting a playing list that is far more wheat than chaff, your Blues presented themselves as contenders on multiple occasions this season. With so many of said list still lightyears away from the autumn's of their careers, bluebaggers the country over should be preparing themselves for charts to continue trending upwards.

Having spent the majority of the 2020 season in a hub, the players will have doubtlessly become more familiar with not only the abilities of those in the lockers around them, but also the men that fill them.

With the impending arrival of Zac Williams to Princes Park (one of just a plethora of names mooted), Patrick Cripps may finally have someone to help bear the midfield burden with him and an opportunity to give his weary shoulders a deserved break.

Next season may still prove to be a bit early for a finals berth, but rest assured Carlton fans the future is sure to be filled with more days of the Salad variety.

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