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.
North Melbourne
Look I can't lie, this one was challenging as well.
My only advice is to trust in Rhyce Shaw.
Trust that he and your list managers know what they are doing.
Trust that the fleet of players they've already let go won't bob up elsewhere and hurt you in the future.
Trust that in a competition designed socialistically, it won't be too long before you're back in contention.
Trust that young gun Luke Davies-Uniacke will become another Chris Judd.
As D:Ream said 27 years ago, things can only get better.
