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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Greater Western Sydney

After a season that will have left you as flat as a Pommy beer, 2020 is sure to have raised more questions than it answered for the Giants fanbase.

Queries such as ‘what happened? Is Leon the right man for the job? Is Jeremy staying? And what happened to the ‘big, big sound'?' are likely to be uttered at the sparsely attended members' Christmas party.

Now I don't have the answer to any of these questions (at least not any that don't end with salt in your wounds), but should the Giants retain their Coleman winning spearhead and enough talent around him, then a return to the eight seems likely.

Although, if the talent flees the western suburbs of the harbour city like rats from a sinking ship, then it is a different story.

Should a mass exodus take place and the downward trend of results continue, then like the Demons, GWS won't be expected to pay Leon Cameron's contract out in full.

However, I'm choosing to see my glass as near full.

The list is still stacked. Their best is good enough. Leon Cameron has proven himself. The Giants will play finals next year.

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